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  1. Who is this guy? Mystery man keeps appearing on live news reports | fidgetwith.com

    Quite fascinating. Although the correct reaction these days is probably “Is this an ARG?” (via @megpickard)

  2. Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities

    “We want to help create an historic placename gazetteer for the UK, publish it as Linked Data and link it to other widely-used sources of placename reference information on the semantic web.”

  3. Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

  4. On Danny O’Brien on Shift Run Stop « Enemy of Chaos

    Leila’s reflections on Danny and NTK and geek culture and everything, plus a fascinating exchange between them over the past couple of days in the comments.

  5. Oh I get it, it’s a sci-fi novel! « LRB blog

    Oh, no, David Markson died last month. The Strand Bookstore is selling off his library. Some people are trying to keep it together.

  6. Pay as you go sim with data Wiki

    This could be very handy when going to Abroad.

  7. Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever

    Kevin Kelly is asking people to recommend the best magazine articles ever written. Too much good stuff to read. Excellent.

  8. Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary.

    I must have seen this before, but I stumbled across it again recently. Tasty.

  9. Gridness

    More lovely rigorously grid-based designs than you can shake a very straight stick at.

  10. The Mid-Century Modernist

    Oh. Oh. My. Too many nice things. I must lock my wallet away.

  11. Git Reference

    Ooh, blimey, an actually useful and readable and understandable concise guide to Git. Phew.

  12. Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)

    Good bit about the value of editors for online stuff. In my (sporadic) experience, old media are much, much more rigorous and able to Make (predictable, repetitive) Things Work than new media.

  13. Chapter 10 - Examples (from Digital Restoration 1st-ed) (PDF)

    Fascinating, close to magic. Second edition of the book is out now and I’d love to do this kind of thing. You know, if I managed to double my available time.

  14. Infovore » It’s Better Because It’s Better

    I really, really like that quote.

  15. Gutenkarte » Book Catalog

    “Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta’s GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find.” (via BookTwo)

  16. Volubilis, Morocco (34.090556,-5.554722 - Google Maps)

    Really quite amazed at this aerial photo of the Roman ruins of Volubilis. You can see the streets, outlines of buildings, etc. Incredible.

  17. LRB · Jenny Diski · Toxic Lozenges

    About how common arsenic poisoning (both murder and accidental) was, mainly in the 19th century. Fascinating.

  18. intitle:”anna chapman” inurl:beyond_the_beyond site:www.wired.com - Google Search

    I’m very much enjoying Bruce Sterling’s coverage of Russian spy Anna Chapman. (And, mmm, Google search filters are handy.)

  19. Finsbury market trader wins battle to stop flats and shops grab | Islington Tribune

    From a couple of months ago about the derelict shops on Whitecross Street that are now up for auction for £3 million.

  20. Awkward Stock Photos

    Can’t. Stop. Looking. Just. One. More. Page… (via Kottke)

  21. Django Advent

    Finally finished reading this. Are there other sites that have this kind of writing about Django regularly?

  22. Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin

    A bit clunky, interface-wise, but much more configurable and better than the standard Lightroom 3 Flickr plugin. (via @tomtaylor)

  23. 3 bedroom house for sale in St Pauls, St Pauls, EC1A

    Finally, I didn’t know that Christopher Wren church tower on Newgate Street, near St Paul’s, was a house. Only £4.5 million to you!

  24. 4 bedroom house for sale in 41 Cloth Fair, London, EC1A, EC1A

    I’m also fascinated by this huge £5.5 million house on Cloth Fair, just south of Smithfield Market. So big! So expensive!

  25. Commercial property for sale in 141-157 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JL, EC1Y

    Those derelict shops on Whitecross Street are up for auction, which sounds good. “Only” £3 million…

  26. Playlist by mildlydiverting - Spotify

    Kim made a playlist of that list of bands in that Paul Morley article what I linked to the other day. Thanks Kim!

  27. SuperMe

    Phew, launched! I did the front end development. Congrats to everyone involved!

  28. Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer

    Looks good, configurable, etc. And I’m a sucker for that nice zoomy action.

  29. Historypin | Home

    This is rather nice, especially when you finally get to viewing the historical photos in place in Google Streetview. (via Beyond the Beyond)

  30. IanVisits » London Underground’s “secret” tube station

    A fake tube station used for training staff in an office block. (via @jameswallis)