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CD Accessories - Space-Saving CD Sleeves CD
Another type of CD sleeve that also holds booklet and rear tray card. From only $0.15 per sleeve.
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JewelSleeve - The world’s finest CD storage device!
Wondering about shifting all my CDs from jewel cases into space-efficient sleeves. These hold the booklet and the rear tray card too. From $0.48 per sleeve.
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Clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal: Hallelujah
2007 article about Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and its covers. Also good on ‘The OC’. More decent writing about TV please. (via Blech)
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Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
One more online backup solution. Heard good things about this in the past I think. [UPDATE: Cool Tools readers gave it the thumbs down.]
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CrashPlan – Automatic Offsite Backup » Features - Tech Specs
Another online backup thing, to backup to your own machine elsewhere or (for a subscription) to their server.
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TidBITS Safe Computing: Backblaze Launches Mac Beta of Online Backup Service
Looks like a great online backup service, currently in private beta. (via Daring Fireball)
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STACK independent magazine subscription and delivery
Subscribe to a mixture of magazines. Lovely idea. The limited selection is a bit too “style” for my taste, but still. (via Russell Davies)
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Michal Kosakowski » films
Very, very good silent film about the hours before 9/11 made entirely from clips of movies made before 9/11. Set aside a few minutes and watch. (via Kottke)
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Home — genetify — GitHub
For testing how different ways of doing things on your site are used by people. Sounds good. (via Yoz)
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Jacob Borshard - A Glow In The Dark
His new, third, still FREE album. Usual stuff: twee, ukelele, love, Star Trek references.
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Home is where the heart is
Another weblog by someone at LISPA, currently doing the second year. Still odd to read about people doing what I did exactly one or two years ago.
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How does it feel to be loved? - london club night playing indie pop, northern soul, tamla motown, girl groups, sixties heartbreak
Sounds like an awesome club. Not that I ever go to clubs.
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The Grid System
Nice resource on designing web sites using a grid. All we need now is a resource on designing web sites with DECENT LINK STYLES.
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Realm Crafter
Makes MMORPG style games.
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Haddock Events
We’ll be using a Upcoming group (private membership, publicly viewable) to collate interesting events. Feel free to let me know if we miss something.
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)
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Outlet PHP ORM - Welcome
I’ve just started using this. I needed something simple and lightweight and I think I like this. Still a little rough, but getting there.
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Remember to breathe: Catching up a bit
I’m loving Eric’s account of being at LISPA. Nicely written and very reflective. He’s the father of someone I was there with until July, and is now doing the course himself!
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Friday’s Newspaper Front Pages | UK News | Sky News
Gallery of (some) UK newspapers, with permalink to the day. (For current day go to UK News, then see link under ‘UK News in Pictures’ on right.
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PressDisplay.com - Newspapers From Around the World
Browsable versions of newspapers from around the world (click country links in left column). Costs money to see much though.
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Sounds Familiar?
More listenable accents and dialects, British, old and new, from the British Library.
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Feedback Army - Home [Website Feedback Service]
Get feedback on your website from Mechanical Turk users. Ten responses $7. (via Waxy)
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YouTube - Hitler’s BNP membership gets leaked
Best use of the ‘Downfall’ video meme yet. (via Haddock)
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BBC - Voices - The Voices Recordings
Recordings of different accents from around the UK.
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Philayres’ timeline on Swurl
An example of a Swurl timeline, aggregating a person’s feeds etc. Interesting, although apart from photos it still all looks too similar.
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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo
The latest version of the happy, happy dancing Matt video. Still makes me unusually happy.