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Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com
Yes. It should be easier to access our old online stuff. We should archive it more often. There should be better ways to explore archives. I am interested. (via Blech)
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Coffee Drinks Illustrated « Lokesh Dhakar
Different types of coffee made clear. I’d seen this before but didn’t bookmark it and had to… Google it! Never again.
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Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To
For next time I need to do this to my frying pan. (via Chrisdodo)
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The inhumane detention conditions of Bradley Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
I increasingly find myself thinking that if the USA were a country that was mainly, say, Muslim, or full of dark-skinned, non-English-speaking people, the “West” would be deploring its behaviour, talking about sanctions, etc.
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Digress.it
A WordPress plugin (and more) that adds the ability to comment on paragraphs of a text (like CommentPress I guess?). The UI feels a little clunky.
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the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages
Frames a web page and lets you highlight arbitrary sections of text and add sticky notes. You can’t seem to add notes to highlighted sections though.
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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
Conversations around pages of a book.
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BBC - Barnsley girl’s account of violence at fees protest
Sometimes I can’t believe I wanted to be a policeman when I was a kid. So angry. (via @stml)
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Michael Mace on What’s Wrong With RIM
Really good and clear description of why RIM could be in big trouble, despite currently good financial results. Ignoring the RIM/Blackberry specifics, well worth a read for general diffusion of innovation and R&D type stuff. (via Daring Fireball)
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Cognitive Cities Conference, 26. & 27. February, Berlin
Could be interesting, and is in Berlin, and has Hammersley, Greenfield, Voss and others I don’t know. (via @mattb)
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Vintage British Argos 1985 Catalogue - a set on Flickr
Fantastic nostalgia. But also, backs up my “scan and upload any pre-Internet artefact and people will go ‘Wow!’” theory. (via @antimega)
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Kohana: The Swift PHP Framework
I hadn’t even heard of this before, a PHP framework that originally came from CodeIgniter, now quite different. Sounds good, although the docs don’t look as good as CI’s.
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File:Wardour St Name Changes since 1585.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had no idea Wardour Street had been so variable over the years. (via gwire’s Tumblr)
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Wikileaks and the Long Haul
Yes. I’m unsure about the Wikileaks thing too, but the US’s government’s reaction to it is the thing that scares me.
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Lu.ma - LoopIt
Nice camera strap for small cameras. I’ll forget what this is called if/when I ever want one. (via Daring Fireball)
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FOODTUBES
“GOODS-IN and WASTE-OUT computer-guided, lightweight capsules, travelling through dozens of interlinking 150 km circuits.” Property crazy-looking 1990s style website too. Brilliant. (via @tomtaylor)
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Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Hint Fiction — Short Evocations of Larger Stories
“Fictional stories done in 25 words or less.” I’d just been thinking recently about writing future scenarios that are one sentence long.
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Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Hint Fiction — Short Evocations of Larger Stories
“Fictional stories done in 25 words or less.” I’d just been thinking recently about writing future scenarios that are one sentence long.
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Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
Interesting post on Assange’s ideas behind the leaks and, whether you agree with him or not, there’s more to it than simply publicising specific secret acts.
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Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
Interesting post on Assange’s ideas behind the leaks and, whether you agree with him or not, there’s more to it than simply publicising specific secret acts.
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Utopia - Charlie’s Diary
Charlie Stross on why we need more utopian visions of the future. Not being very up with science fiction, I’ve been wondering recently if there is some of this around. Maybe not, yet. (via Magical Nihilism)
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Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac
“The most powerful Git client for Mac.” Looks good I think. Might be less scary for doing some out-of-the-ordinary things. (via Lee)
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Delicious blog » Changes to Save and Share
I usually don’t mind changes to sites that get lots of users stupidly riled up but, a few nice details aside, the new Delicious ‘Save’ window does seem a step backward in several ways. And, ouch, that’s a lot of unhappy users. (via Blech)
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LukeW | “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
Redesigning a form to a “Mad Libs”, sentence style increased conversion 25-40%.
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Momento Is Perhaps The Perfect Passive Diary App
A few people have mentioned this (article via Blech). It really is a very, very good iPhone app — aggregates your feeds from many services, displays them nicely in a diary, lets you export all the aggregated data. More than worth £1.19.
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Perch - A really little content management system (CMS)
I’ll forget what this is called if I need to find it again. Sounds like it could be handy, and a shiny blue and pink site always makes things seem even nicer. (via Mildlydiverting)
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Ge.tt | gett sharing
Looks like a good way to share files with people. You can share even before you’ve finished uploading. (via Haddock)
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Optimistontour.com - Pragmatic Idealism for the future
‘An Optimist’s Tour of the Future’ sounds like an interesting book. Today’s future needs more optimism. (via @thestory2011)
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PDAWG | Digital Curation Exchange
New to me, the Personal Digital Archives Working Group: “addresses opportunities and challenges associated with the stewardship of born-digital materials that are created or received by individuals.”
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2010 Videos
Videos of sessions from the Personal Digital Archiving 2010 conference. Haven’t watched anything yet. Did anyone reading this go? How was it?
