Links
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Deathwatch - Archiveteam
“a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down, or to serve as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.” (via Haddock)
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The Google Maps Image Cutter (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)
“An application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map.”
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YouTube - NHS - Marr’s Modern Britain
Andrew Marr on the introduction of the wonderful NHS.
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Linking Facebook Connect - Stack Overflow
“how do I make it so I can store the facebook user ID into my MySQL database as part of the current users information?”
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Cars parked illegally in bike lanes in London - MyBikeLane.com
It’s vehicles stopping in the advance cycle boxes that annoy me most, because it’s so easy not to do.
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Fujinon Binoculars
View Source. Scroll down. The HTML is something else. (via Haddock)
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County of london plan 1945 - a set on Flickr
“excerpts from a small booklet explaining the ideas behind the official County of London Plan.” Lovely.
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Muse: Ununited Eurasia
Something I made recently with Six to Start, which went very well. It was a busy week.
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Preoccupations: Berlin
I keep meaning to go to Berlin, and David’s collected some great tips and links and background.
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Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight - the transcript | Technology | guardian.co.uk
What’s more depressing: The bored inanity of the Newsnight interview? That an event this unimportant is reported by the Guardian? Or the Guardian’s relentlessly anti-Twitter commenters? Tough call.
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Free Movies: Watch movies online legally
A bunch of full “indie” movies to watch online. Looks like there might be some good stuff.
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Senator Charles Grassley on the costs of health care (C-SPAN video)
In case you missed the clips on The Daily Show, here’s the full video of Grassley’s bizarre cartoon-powered Arthurian mixed metaphors. It’s stunning that this nonsense happens in government.
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Netflix - Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture
Interesting readable presentation about Netflix’s culture. Although I haven’t worked in a company for years, I’m fascinated by this kind of thing. (via Kottke)
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New ways to save the newspaper - azeem.azhar
Interesting thoughts from Azeem about what things it’s worth the Observer (or a similar newspaper) doing.
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Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X - Ryan Parman
I’ve avoided IE 8 so far, but guess I’ll need to give it a whirl soon. Harrumph. (via Tom Taylor)
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Op-Ed Columnist - Swan Songs? - NYTimes.com
On the changing state of the recorded music industry, mostly for the fascinating ‘Music Sales’ graphic on the left. (via Daring Fireball)
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Paul Morley’s showing off … Classical | Music | guardian.co.uk
Somehow I was unaware of the BBC programme and now it’s off iPlayer. Grrr. Sounds awesome and I’ve only read ‘Critic to Composer’ so far. (via Blackbeltjones)
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SWFUpload jQuery Plugin : Adam Royle
A nice jQuery way to implement the SWFUpload thingummy. (via Yoz)
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Letter posters
Embroidery doesn’t usually do much for me, but combine with typography and CMYK screens and it’s all geek friendly! (via Haddock)
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Søren Vind >> pc_user
“A lightweight authentication library for CodeIgniter. It focuses on simplicity and security.” I used this recently and, like the CodeIgniter PHP framework, it just worked.
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jQuery slideViewer 1.1
Wonderfully simple looking javascript slideshow thing. (via Infovore)
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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Seems so obvious now it’s been put into words. If I have a meeting in a morning or afternoon I know that half of the day will be a right-off for all other useful work. (via Daring Fireball)
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Spotify playlist: Chart Hits 83
I made a playlist of that K-Tel double cassette compilation I was banging on about a while back. A few omissions, but otherwise it’s all there.
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Spotify + sharemyplaylists.com = good
I had exactly the same problem with Spotify — unsure what to listen to. ShareMyPlaylists does seem like a good way in.
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IanVisits London Events Guide
Fantastic guide of interesting things going on in London. I’d like an iCal file, but otherwise, handy stuff. (via Simon Willison)
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Developer Color Picker
Quite handy, although I wish it gave the option to display the Color Values in CSS friendly hex too. (via Daring Fireball)
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Mattb’s git and workflow Bookmarks on Delicious
Links to examples of how people use Git. I still find it hard to get my head round this kind of stuff, and reading things like this helps.
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Cufón - fonts for the people
A way to do pretty fonts nicely in web pages other than sIFR. (I haven’t tried it.)
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100 Years of Design Manifestos — Social Design Notes
I wish there were more early twentieth century manifestos (there must be more, right?) but a good list otherwise. (via Kottke)
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Facebook | News Feed and Wall Privacy
Opt out of having your photos appear in advertisements shown to your friends. YOUR PHOTOS APPEAR IN ADVERTISEMENTS SHOWN TO YOUR FRIENDS. ffs. (via Haddock)