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  1. HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript

    Nice, clear, simple summary of making websites work more like apps when viewed on iPhone/iPad.

  2. Crowd-sourcing the office stereo, using Twitter and Spotify

    Python script to enable sending Spotify URLs @ a Twitter account which then queue and play, and also scrobble to Last.fm.

  3. Woe db

    Searchable index of the Where On Earth ID location database, very nicely done.

  4. Scared To Dance

    Sounds very good: “a monthly club night in London playing indie pop, post-punk, C86, jangle pop, Sarah, Postcard, new wave and protopunk.”

  5. This column will change your life: Are you an Asker or a Guesser? | Life and style | The Guardian

    Yes, Askers vs Guessers. I’m such a Guesser. See also the Metafilter post linked to here. (via Kottke)

  6. Apple - Support - Discussions - Import iPhoto Title as Aperture Version …

    Importing iPhoto library into Aperture and hanging on to your photos’ titles. (I used the iPhoto Browser, not Import iPhoto Library, although this can cause Faces and Places data to be lost.)

  7. Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine - The Atlantic

    Fantastic article about what introverts are like. Hello. “We tend to think before talking, whereas extroverts tend to think *by* talking.” (via Kottke)

  8. Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: macuser-2009-11-20-nov.pdf

    Dodgy copy of an issue of MacUser (UK) from last year which includes a longer version of Leigh McMullen’s ‘Moving from Aperture to Lightroom’ article.

  9. How To: Moving from Aperture to Lightroom | Cult of Mac

    I can’t believe there’s no standard way to transfer libraries between the two apps. This method sounds good, but you lose your projects/folders.

  10. What happened at the end of Flesh and Stone was sexual assault: Q&A « Reconcile

    About Doctor Who. Interesting. That scene did seem odd, if only because the show doesn’t usually refer so directly to sex but, also, if the situation was reversed the unpleasantness would have been more obvious. (via Yoz)

  11. House of Compliance « LRB blog

    Edward Pearce on the nonsense of the government consulting “The People” about everything. “The People are not stupid, but by and large, they are wonderfully under-informed. And as sure as hell, they are not very interested.”

  12. YouTube - A Sunday afternoon at home, part 1 of 3 - Tony Hancock

    If you ever need to explain to someone what an English Sunday afternoon is like, play this. We listened to it a lot when I was little.

  13. iPhoto Export - The Possibilities (Google Translate)

    iPhoto to Aperture to Lightroom seems like the most promising way to move to Lightroom and keep your metadata. Can’t believe it’s this hard.

  14. 750 Words

    Nice idea, from the afore-linked Buster Benson. Write 750 words a day, privately, online, to get your creative juices flowing.

  15. Buster Benson

    A nice data-rich “summary of now” homepage. (via @tomcoates)

  16. Burn - Home

    Really nice and easy Mac app for burning files to different kinds of disc. Also, free. (via Infovore)

  17. TV drama: The Shield versus The Wire | Television & radio | The Guardian

    Chris Petit from 2008, for the bit on The Shield. “The Shield is reprobate, founded on moral ambiguity, driven by violence, lacking the core of good guys who police Homicide and The Wire … [it] is more like science fiction in its prediction of anarchic alienation and breakdown.”

  18. Help me help my friend in DC. | Ask MetaFilter

    Blimey. I’m all teary. Internet is good.

  19. Retro-futurist techno hyperstasis | Beyond The Beyond

    Bruce Sterling (again) annotating Simon Reynolds on the music of Now. Woof.

  20. The voices of liberty have triumphed and Britain is better for it | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer

    I feel pleasantly confused about being relieved at the death of a Labour government and the repeal of some of their laws. (via Chrisdodo)

  21. Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In - Peter Serafinowicz - Gizmodo

    Yes. Why do media companies make it so hard to watch/listen to/buy their stuff if they want to sell it? (via Waxy)

  22. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation - World on a Wire

    Three hour German TV science fiction film from 1973, which sounds great, re-released on DVD. (via an article in June 2010 ‘Sight & Sound’)

  23. Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

    I also finally finished this, and it was the least scary thing about version control systems I’ve ever read. Is there something as un-scary for git/github?

  24. Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

    Finally got round to reading this. Is good and interesting like everyone said in February.

  25. Flash Crash | Beyond The Beyond

    Sterling: “why do these microsecond-trading enterprises even exist? … Even a casino would disallow this kind of techno-”innovation”. … Enron was innovative. Enron was super-innovative.”

  26. Warren Ellis » Want/Get/Do

    Nice and simple advice about getting a basic thread for a story from a rough idea.

  27. ImageOptim – a PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X

    Good. To get my PNGs to be the same colour as CSS backgrounds in FF/IE I had to use the PNGCrush optimiser to remove gAMA, sRGB, ICCP and cHRM. Now you know.

  28. LRB · Gareth Peirce · America’s Non-Compliance

    Good description of quite how scary America is in terms of lack of civil rights for those accused of crimes (never mind convicted), whether in America or not.

  29. HTML5 Readiness

    Handy (HTML5/CSS3) diagram of which HTML5/CSS3 features are in which browsers. (Upshot: I can’t use any of it yet for production sites.) (via Daring Fireball)

  30. Live blogging the general election | Media | The Guardian

    I think this was the most useful, interesting, to-the-point, immediate, high-signal, and simply best news media I’ve experienced in a long, long time. (via Simon Willison)