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  1. Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times

    I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I’ve got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)

  2. Flickr: Archive of Strand Building Hackney’s photos posted to Flickr on 16th July 2006

    The Strand Building, where I used to live, has finally had its central courtyard remodelled (necessary due to leakage into the garage below). Beautifully done, although the fountain looks odd.

  3. LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out

    Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially ‘Look Back in Anger’, Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.

  4. LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye

    Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).

  5. Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch’s Rendezvous

    Fantastic idea, although it stutters horribly and becomes very out of sync for me.

  6. YouTube - The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New

    Nice video for the new, lovely, Mountain Goats single.

  7. Grand Theft Auto III FAQs - Grand Theft Auto III Walkthroughs - Grand Theft Auto III Guides

    Because every few months, when I have a GTA3 stint, I have to go and find this again.

  8. Cool Tool: Adventure Cycling

    The woman cycling across the USA on the Saturday Guardian’s Travel section back page has got me intrigued…

  9. SovMusic.ru - Soviet Music

    Lots of free Soviet MP3s. Hear a choir sing (apparently) ‘Capital Oppresses Us’ and other family favourites. Also, speeches and lots of Soviet posters.

  10. Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang

    Webb recommended this to Coates and it sounds interesting but I hate reading on the screen so maybe I’ll never get round to reading it even so. (via Plasticbag)

  11. Learning Movable Type: A Safe Way to Upgrade to MT 3.3

    In the increasingly unlikely event that I can face upgrading, this will be handy. One day I’ll escape the computer.

  12. Create a Timeline : My Timelines

    Create a timeline from an RSS feed. Not sure how useful it is, but might be interesting for something.

  13. Scout: Find your photographs in Flickr’s Explore

    Read between the ads to find the form that lets you see whether/where your photos appear in Flickr’s magical Explore pages.

  14. MT Hacks FastSearch

    PHP-based replacement for Movable Type’s generally inadequate in-built search tool.

  15. Dicewars - Flash game

    Neatly done, time-wasting Risk-like online game. Must. Resist. (via Haddock)

  16. GogglesBeta09.swf

    Server problems mean I’m probably the last person to link to this. Still fun. (via Haddock)

  17. Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes

    People sharing bike routes in different cities/countries. Using Google Maps. Interesting to see which way people go. (via Blackbeltjones)

  18. The New York Review of Books: Progressive but Not Liberal

    I love stuff like this - moralism, justice, etc. But I can rarely concentrate enough to understand it fully. Subscribers only.

  19. Mallow street skyscraper - a photoset on Flickr

    Ridiculously huge skyscraper planned for right next to Old Street roundabout. Only a few days left to get objections in to the planning people. (via Haddock)

  20. David Hughes Illustration

    I loved his work when I was at college and he’s still going strong and has a new website. Excellent scratchy pen action. (via Drawn!)

  21. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Results for “grange hill”

    Fantastic amounts of time wasting. See especially “grange hill,old ,skool” (the “Just Say No” video).

  22. Afghanistan 2006 - a photoset on Flickr

    Real life Action Man (“with real typing fingers!”) Ben Hammersley is embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and taking some nice pics. Be careful Ben!

  23. LAPL Virtual Photo: Far and Wide

    Wonderful collection of 1920s and 1930s travel posters advertising exotic destinations like California, Bermuda and North Wales. (Click the little ‘Next Page’ link, bottom right.) (via Drawn!)

  24. LRB | letters from Vol. 28 No. 15

    I have a letter in the current London Review of Books. I fear they’ll rumble that my knowledge is based solely on Google and Wikipedia (I’ve never seen ‘Happy Days’).

  25. Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture

    Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven’t tried it).

  26. Martin Wittfooth

    Lovely surreal paintings and drawings. (via Drawn!)

  27. :en Metcalfe Blog » Blog Archive » Finally, BBC Weather RSS and JSON feeds

    What a mess. “Do you know that I have a history of doing this?? It’s expected of me.” This isn’t a successful line of defence in a courtroom and it doesn’t work here either.

  28. 146 miles without a map

    And he’s off! You can still sponsor James Wallis on his walk (click the “How to sponsor me” link). Good luck James!

  29. Sound Effects, Production Music, Royalty Free Music, MP3 AIF WAV Sound Effects

    Lots and lots and lots of pay-for sound effects.

  30. While Supplies Last

    RSS feeds for the refurbished items available at US, UK and Canadian online Apple Stores.