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  1. Visualizing empires decline on Vimeo

    Lovely visualisation of the expansion and contraction of four empires over 200 years. (via Long Now)

  2. Useful temporal functions & queries | code.openark.org

    Some handy little techniques in there for calculating time and date things in MySQL. (via Infovore)

  3. Detainee 063

    Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys’ Diary style. (via Kottke)

  4. The Stars Look Down – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

    I’m not hugely bothered whether Favrd exists or not, but I like Dean Allen’s comment here, especially the first major paragraph. (via Daring Fireball)

  5. Modern Clix

    Another clean and nicely-done WordPress theme.

  6. Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2009

    I’ve failed to keep up with music blogs this year, so this is a lovely catch-up. I’d like more variety of genre, but maybe I should look further afield.

  7. Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris : George Drapeau’s Weblog

    Could also be useful.

  8. Install Movable Type on a Mac - Adventures in Movable Type

    This is always more pain than it should be. A handy guide.

  9. The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine

    Ignore the stupid title as it’s worth a read. About people who do custom page designs for every blog post.

  10. Open Rights Group | The Digital Economy Bill - a first critical look

    Good, and alarming, summary of that bloody bill.

  11. Duct Tape And Turing Machines » python-mysql under Snow Leopard

    Might need this soon.

  12. Royal Society - Trailblazing

    A little thin in content so far, and overly flashy for me, and the original articles are all but hidden. But otherwise a good start on making this old material more accessible.

  13. Mr Bojangles: Worshipping workshops

    I enjoy brainstorming workshoppy things but they always feel like a sport that I’m doing badly at, watching the sporty boys have fun.

  14. Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com

    All good, but mainly for “I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? … My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper … That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”

  15. Visiting Bernal Heights and Glen Canyon in San Francisco - NYTimes.com

    (via Chrisdodo)

  16. Augmented Reality Does Time Travel Tourism | Singularity Hub

    I remember 20ish years ago walking round my home town wanting something like this (only portable, and working everywhere).

  17. Copy©unts

    Showing where advertisers steal their ideas from. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t still claim to be innovative. (via Haddock)

  18. Channelography

    “Creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions.” Like the start of a way to search the “text” of programmes.

  19. Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework

    Looks very interesting as a basis from which to build. (via Haddock)

  20. An elegant, flexible WordPress theme · Tarski

    Not bad, not sure about the serif subheads myself, but a good base. (via Haddock)

  21. Carrington - The CMS Theme Framework for WordPress

    (via Haddock)

  22. Basic Maths | A new theme for WordPress designed and developed by Khoi Vinh with Allan Cole.

    Somehow both simple and busy at the same time. (via Daring Fireball)

  23. IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Contractor Job Market

    Tracks rates offered for different categories of IT jobs in the UK (permanent as well as contract).

  24. Ie6-upgrade-warning - Project Hosting on Google Code

    Easy-to-slot-in warning to users of Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade. Please.

  25. The Space Elevator Games

    $4,000,000(?) up for grabs at the current games. The beginnings of a possible bit of future right here.

  26. Giving What We Can

    A pledge to give 10% of one’s income to what they reckon are the most cost-effective charities. (via Preoccupations)

  27. Cool Tools: Printed Space

    You too can have your own Hilda Ogden style mural. Apparently that’s “cool” now.

  28. Word Spy - parahawking

    “A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft.”

  29. Techtech2009

    I was never hugely into techno, but I’m enjoying this mp3 blog. Great for working to. (via Haddock)

  30. What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging « Design By Gravity

    This kind of stuff scares me, but this is a technique that’s supposed to work.