Links
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A Brief History of Money - IEEE Spectrum
Seemed like a good overview.
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The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic
This was good. More about the case for having a discussion about the case for reparations. It was more affecting to me than, say, ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, which was too easily put in the “that’s just history” or “one person’s experience” buckets.
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QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited
“We’re a creative data science agency.” Dataviz type stuff. London.
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Pubstandards.pdf
A chart showing the movement of people in London’s Pub Standards community from one company to another. I was looking for this and couldn’t find it and now it’s here.
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Europe by train made easy | Loco2
For future reference. (via @benhammersley)
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How best to store local copies of third-party Django applications and python modules? : django
I asked this on /r/django - anyone reading this have any thoughts?
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AirPair | World’s Best Software Experts
I like this idea - screenshare and video call with an expert in a particular thing. Not cheap, but possibly cheaper than getting someone in for a whole day. Their d3.js guy has answered most of my Stack Overflow questions very well.
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Put This On • The Custom Shirts Series, Part III: A Quick Primer…
A nice explanation of the varieties of shirt fabrics.
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Met Police encourages Twitter pile-ons (with images, tweets) · anyabike · Storify
Interesting, in an unpleasant way, to see how Twitter etiquette, and tone of voice, and the blurry lines between personal / professional Twitter accounts make this kind of thing get a bit horrible. (via @mildlydiverting)
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Making Tweedy’s “Summer Noon” video (or how I went from designing apps to directing a music video) — Allison House
A really nice description of making a simple animated music video in a week by someone who’d only just started getting to grips with computer animation. (via Waxy)
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A City of London report on potential options for improving Beech Street (PDF)
The phrase “lipstick on a pig” springs to mind, because there’s so little that’s feasible. Making the road more pleasant, somehow, *and* improving access to the podium level, *and* getting rid of the yellow Exhibition Halls tunnel up there, would all be good.
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One Cloth, Four Styles
A nice poacher’s pocket for reading material.
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This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You - D Magazine
Entertaining article about woot.com, which Amazon bought, then meh.com which woot’s founder created next. All new to me. I like the event-ness and novelty. (via Metafilter)
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Archeological Desk Based Assessment of 141-47 Whitecross Street (PDF)
Interesting to see the what they need to assess before redeveloping even quite a small site like this, with information going back to Palaeolithic times.
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Russell Davies: it’s the cardigan that makes it
This is a good 23 minute watch — Russell answering questions sent by students about advertising planning.
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kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
“Bootstrap/386 is a Twitter bootstrap v2 theme to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s.” Nicely done. (via Waxy)
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Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work - meeting report
One photographers’ experiences of successfully chasing down copyright infringers, online and off. (via @mildlydiverting)
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Epoch by Fastly
Looks like a simple-to-use charting library, based on d3.js, with real-time charts.
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Sewing by Alice - Dream fabric
Fabric with the old Netscape broken image icon.
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Building a capsule wardrobe: reader question
Some suggestions for jackets and trousers for a more casual capsule wardrobe.
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Building a New Pants Wardrobe
Pants as in trousers, of course. I don’t plan to do any of this, but I like “building a wardrobe” articles.
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The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why
Really good stuff explaining the many possible theories for why we haven’t heard from any alien races given the (potentially) very large number of intelligent civilisations in the galaxy. (via Kottke)
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The coolest culture hack of all is not hacking your culture » Boyes Club
Good. “If you tell me you want to ‘hack’ your culture, what I hear is, ‘I don’t know how to make the people working for me simultaneously more engaged and more productive, so I’m going to attempt to manipulate them in ways based entirely on my own misunderstanding of human behaviour and hope that gives me the results I’m looking for’.” (via @tomstuart)
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straup/tiny-letter-tools
Of course Aaron has made a handy (python command line) tool for making an RSS feed out of a Tiny Letter archive page.
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Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss — The Message — Medium
Joanne McNeil on the recent rise of email newsletters and how they compare to the old days of blogging. (via @warrenellis)
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The Fall of the Creative Class
On how Richard Florida’s creative class theory doesn’t show causality. Worth reading Florida’s and then Bures’ follow-ups. (via @timoarnall)
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The 1950s Flying Saucer Conventions at an Underground Rock House | Messy Nessy Chic
Lots of great photos from LIFE magazine, and a good story. Very ‘Gods Without Men’. (via @GreatDismal)
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Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus
Open source, self-hosted commenting system. Lovely idea, although my heart sank at the thought of installing a python web application. I can’t help thinking PHP would be more useful for people making otherwise-static web sites. (via Brett Terpstra)
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I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are
One thing learned from writing 3000 Motley Fool columns: “I’ve learned that short-term thinking is at the root of most of our problems, whether it’s in business, politics, investing, or work.” One for the futurists there. (via Kottke)
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The Icon Browser
Loads of little icons collected from 1994 to 1996. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)