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Washing Machine for Men
A good response to that overly simplistic redesign of a washing machine UI. I like the emphasis on reliability over whizzy electronic UIs, which I often think about, say, fancy modern car dashboards too. (via Paul Mison)
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Sea Level Rise Maps | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
Worst case for 2100 is estimated to be up to 1 metre of sea level rise. Which puts several nice bits of the UK coast (never mind Netherlands and Belgium) permanently under water. (via Paul Mison)
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Grid
A very nice step-by-step guide to a simple CSS grid system for responsive websites. Everyone will end up with something more complex, but it’s a nice intro. (via @felix_cohen)
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ACCURAT
Interesting-looking information design agency, based in Milan and New York. (via The Functional Art)
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How to buy my first bespoke suit – reader question - Permanent Style
Some good advice, but also for the interesting comments, especially from a couple of guys talking about do’s and dont’s in City firms.
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Top 10 budget restaurants and bistros in Paris | Travel | theguardian.com
For future reference. I forget, but probably via Chris.
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Lottie Dexter should quit - and take the Year of Code board with her - Adrian Short
This all sounds like such a horrible, shallow farce led by people who feel “entrepreneurship” is the sole thing that should be encouraged in children. Fuck that.
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Two big announcements.
Aside from the news itself, this is such a nice, human, down-to-earth piece about the company (37 Signals) and its news future. Also, doing their best to keep existing products supported, no job losses, etc. So un-Valley. (via @waxpancake)
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russell davies: NewsNarrativeStream Q1.1
I do like this audio news thing Russell made. Hearing it context-free, if you had no idea where it came from, would be good.
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Susy: Responsive grids for Compass
Looks like a very nice way to do CSS grids if SASS and Compass are your thing. (via Infovore)
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AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Some handy tips for securing and using Amazon Web Services better. (via @simonw)
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Good Postcard Club
A nice thing from Giles Turnbull - send and receive nice postcards. Post is nice.
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Oxford Bags (Put This On)
Blimey, look at the size of some of those 1920s trousers! They make, say, “Madchester” baggy jeans look like drainpipes.
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The relationship between the frequencies of men’s beards and the width of women’s skirts… (Put This On)
…charted over time from 1823 to 1970. Click through to the paper (from 1976) for more beard-related charts. I’d love to see this extended from 1970 to 2014 though.
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Loden top coat from Vergallo
Nice coat (as you’d expect for €2000). I like the idea of lapels that button up like this, but this one looks somehow unfinished when done up.
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Undergrad, Cooper, KABK — One Student’s Route to Learning Type Design
One person’s experience of three typography courses, from a part-time, one term course to a full-time, one year course, Australia, NY and the Hague.
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Kiln = Journalism + Data + Technology + Design
Small London company making interesting looking visualisations, maps, graphs etc. Ex-Guardian folks. (via CreativeJS)
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Which asset allocation is right for you?
Some nice summaries of different balances of passive investment portfolios.
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Bulkr: Backup, download flickr photos, videos, sets & more
For backing up all your Flickr stuff. not sure how the free and pro versions differ. (via @revdancatt)
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Christians aren’t being driven out of public life – they’re just losing their unfair advantages
“Just as some men bleat that they are the oppressed because of feminism, Odone confuses a loss of advantage with an act of oppression. This is the shock of those who are losing their divine right to dominate.” (via @tomstuart)
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Traveller Denim Co. shop visit :: Austin, TX | Carryology
Bespoke jeans, including custom pockets.
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Outside Influences :: Outlier ~ Part 1 | Carryology
Two-part interview with Outlier about clothes and bags, fabrics, etc. Long, but I’d love to read more details about fabrics, patterns, technologies, etc. US-made fabrics are very limited in colours because the manufacturers’ main customers are the military.
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Twelve-Factor WordPress App | Roots
How to develop on and deploy WordPress in a sensible way (eg, no more FTP). Handy, on the day I started a new WordPress site at work. (via Tom Taylor)
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Where will we live? by James Meek (LRB)
Linked to by everyone, for good reason. A good, long piece about the UK’s history of council and social housing, the architecture and planning, and where we are now. As with so many policy areas, I wish one of the main parties wanted to do something bold, different and good.
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Photography, hello — Software ate the camera, but freed the photograph by Craig Mod
So many quotable bits. And it’s about more than cameras. About the uncomfortable but fruitful position of straddling technological shifts. About the value of a new product that simplifies only a tiny number of steps. About the importance of the network to story-telling.
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jeffknupp/sandman · GitHub
Python thing that takes an existing database, creates a REST API for it, and provides you with a nice web admin interface. Handy. (via Infovore)
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Diary by Peter Pomerantsev (London Review of Books)
Starts as a fascinating brief description of sistema, the pervasive Russian corruption, ends up starting to show how London is now a place where this is legitimised. Laundering crookedness.
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Diary by Lynn Visson (London Review of Books)
A shortish piece on being an interpreter at the UN.
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Success by Benjamin Markovits (London Review of Books)
I’m not into sport but love articles like this, which ponders why England/GB has been successful in recent years at some sports. Business, statistics, culture, etc.
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The Logic of Nuremberg by Mahmood Mamdani (London Review of Books)
On the differences between the Nuremberg Trials and the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, and how they compare to the International Criminal Court. Which isn’t really selling it, but I hadn’t thought about these fundamental differences. (Subscribers only)