Links
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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.
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The Netizen
I’ve been digitising VHS tapes. I found this 1996/7 TV show from the then soon to be defunct Wired TV. It’s quite dull.
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Boundaries
Completely awesome thing from Tom Taylor. Shows the shapes of areas based on how people have tagged their geo-located Flickr photos.
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Digital Pianos UK Piano Page Forum Free Advice on Pianos.
Another piano forum.
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ThemBid.com » Blog Archive » Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd
What they did to set up their server and software.
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Cornerstone vs. Versions, Again
Comparing Mac Subversion clients. (via Daring Fireball)
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Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline
I think they started going downhill after 1986. Entirely coincidentally, that’s when I stopped buying them. (via Chris Heathcote)
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How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare
Presentation on a company’s user testing with iPhones. One thing not mentioned: although some people made mistakes, did they immediately learn from them, or did they keep making the same mistakes? Big difference I think. (via Chris Heathcote)
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Main Page - John Peel Wiki - a Wikia wiki
More Peel info than you could ever need. I had no idea there were quite so many tapes (now MP3s) of complete Peel shows in existence. (via Ted Mills)
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Alex is blogging, too: Tumblr Friendfeed Theme Release
A theme for Tumblr that incorporates your Friendfeed stuff into a sidebar.
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Sprint: Plug into Now.
Quite absorbing “dashboard” about the state of the world. Some of it’s obviously whizzy and not entirely factual. But I want one for me. (via Russell Davies)
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The Ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
There’s been a ladder perched on a balcony at the church since at least 1835. Fascinating story. (via Haddock)
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Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
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TruSim :: Division of Blitz Games Studios Ltd
Saw these videos of CGI humans at Playful. Very impressive. The second one was very unsettling — I’ve never had an emotional reaction like that to computer graphics.
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Changing the short username in Leopard | Macworld
This was very useful after Migration Assistant insisted I couldn’t have the same username on my new MacBook as on my old PowerBook. Grrrr.
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Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs
Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
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YouTube - The Day Today - Britain in Crisis
Always worth a watch when it looks like things are tanking. “This is Britain and everything’s alright. Everything’s alright. It’s OK. It’s fine.”
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Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Great practical advice for building a website for iPhones. (via Infovore)
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SS09 Piers Atkinson
Amazing (and sometimes scary) “hats” by my friend Piers.
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LRB · Mark Greif: You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel
Great article on ‘Mad Men’, nailing some (but not all) of the things that annoy me about it. But so many people rave about it, despite all this, that we’re going to try again…
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Jackets from Scottevest - Vests and Jackets by SeV - Men’s and Women’s Jacket Store
Good looking jackets designed for geeks with requirements for many, many pockets. Shame it’s mail order only. (via TUAW)
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Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face
Hosted Subversion. Looks very nice. (via TUAW)
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Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN)
Nice looking Subversion client for the Mac (er, like it says). (via TUAW)
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Back to the Garden: 1958 TV show on Global Warming!
It’s more than a little galling to see a TV programme from 1958 explaining global warming. We’re only doing something about it now!? (via Boing Boing)
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Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software
Self-hosted aggregation of things you do elsewhere on the web. Not convinced about the design of the example. You have to sign up to find out more. Oh well.
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ReBlog by Eyebeam R&D
A way of aggregating RSS feeds and publishing them through weblog software. All a bit vague.
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Urban Sketchers
I’m very much enjoying this so far. A group weblog from dozens of sketching people in cities around the world. Some inspiring stuff.