Links
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Wahaca - Mexican market eating
New Mexican place on Chandos Place in Covent Garden. Haven’t been. Yet.
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Swear-engine from Ben Hammersley
“An entire episode of Deadwood, with everything but the swearing taken out.” Even more than I expected. I miss Deadwood.
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Using a Company to Save Tax
Very handy guide to the pros and cons of sole trader vs limited company. Better at explaining things than my accountant and well worth the cash.
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Hubjub—Fixed gear in the UK
Recommended on londonfgss.com.
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Worldwide Cycling Mail Order Specialists & Consultants - Parker International
Recommended on londonfgss.com.
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Europes largest Online Bike store - Buy Online.
Recommended on londonfgss.com.
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How Top Bloggers Earn Money
I’m fascinated by people making decent amounts of money from this stuff, particularly when it happens almost accidentally. (via Daring Fireball)
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Tong Family Blog: Lame switches
Modern equivalents for LAME switches (I’ve been using ‘—alt-preset standard’ all this time).
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iLAS
Almost identical to iTunes-LAME, except it works. And with a newer version of LAME. What I’m now using.
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StuMoD - freight train of wit and cleverosity
NMP3 Ripper is another alternative for encoding MP3s using LAME, but I haven’t tried it.
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Max from sbooth.org
Blacktree’s iTunes-LAME script for encoding MP3s with LAME malfunctions with recent versions of iTunes. Max is an alternative, but seems a bit overkill just for this job.
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LRB | Rosemary Hill : Keep Calm
An account of the Co-operative Correspondence Club (early 20C women’s letter-writing distribution network). Also rather moving as the century continues and the women age.
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Starting out: Creatives clued in to ‘Generation C’ | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph
Schulze & Webb getting some press coverage. I can’t even imagine what Matt and Jack will be doing in years to come.
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Memoryshare
The Time When, which I built as an prototype for the BBC, has now been re-done internally as Memoryshare.
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Mucho Mas: the finest hand-rolled burritos - new Mexican restaurant in Islington, London
Yay, opening on Upper Street in August. I also need to check out the Mexican place on Exmouth Market.
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Flickr: rawprints’ photos tagged with waltononthenaze
Some awesome shots of Walton-on-the-Naze (and other places if you click around). Inspiring for next time I go there.
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Runstoppable Running Log
Nice looking free set of tools for runners: mileage of your route, logging, statistics, elevation graphs, sharing, groups.
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Infovore » The CSS Redundancy Checker
Checks your CSS file for all the selectors that aren’t used in the list of HTML files or URLs you feed it. Clever Tom.
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Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com
Python thing. Point it at some HTML files and it will make a template with holes for the unique strings in the pages. (via Daring Fireball)
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Copy Provided Agreement Form (PDF)
An example form to use if you’re going to act in a no/low budget film and want to use footage for a showreel.
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For Actors Homepage
Lots of really good, practical advice for newbie actors, with an emphasis on screen acting.
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Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
Apparently definitive version of why mindlessly doing sites as XHTML is wrong. (via Dotcode)
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OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot
Looks prettier than the three mediocre wireframe palettes I grudgingly use. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Alluc.org - Watch Movies/Cartoons/TV-shows/Animes online!
Links to TV/movies watchable online elsewhere. I keep forgetting the URL.
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The new 7digital
MP3s from EMI, cheaper than those from iTunes Music Store. (via Boing Boing)
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How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail
Interesting graphic showing one family’s increasing restrictions on their children’s freedom, over four generations. I wonder how child abduction rates have changed over a similar period. (via Boing Boing)
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LISPA - Naropa Alumni
People who were at the college I’m now at.
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : bgcolor follies
Over a couple of years I’ve collected a folder full of links to sites that make this careless mistake with the aim of writing just such a post. Now no need. (via Daring Fireball)
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MyspaceMP3.org - Download Music from MySpace
Creates links to mp3s of songs in a MySpace page’s music player. Try, for example, ‘georgepringle’.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Now Would Be a Good Time.
They’re having a big sale to try and make up for the $130,000 they lost when a distributor went bankrupt. Buy nice stuff! (via Said the Gramophone)