Links
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Detainee 063
Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys’ Diary style. (via Kottke)
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The Stars Look Down – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
I’m not hugely bothered whether Favrd exists or not, but I like Dean Allen’s comment here, especially the first major paragraph. (via Daring Fireball)
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Modern Clix
Another clean and nicely-done WordPress theme.
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Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2009
I’ve failed to keep up with music blogs this year, so this is a lovely catch-up. I’d like more variety of genre, but maybe I should look further afield.
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Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris : George Drapeau’s Weblog
Could also be useful.
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Install Movable Type on a Mac - Adventures in Movable Type
This is always more pain than it should be. A handy guide.
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The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine
Ignore the stupid title as it’s worth a read. About people who do custom page designs for every blog post.
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Open Rights Group | The Digital Economy Bill - a first critical look
Good, and alarming, summary of that bloody bill.
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Duct Tape And Turing Machines » python-mysql under Snow Leopard
Might need this soon.
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Royal Society - Trailblazing
A little thin in content so far, and overly flashy for me, and the original articles are all but hidden. But otherwise a good start on making this old material more accessible.
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Mr Bojangles: Worshipping workshops
I enjoy brainstorming workshoppy things but they always feel like a sport that I’m doing badly at, watching the sporty boys have fun.
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Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com
All good, but mainly for “I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? … My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper … That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”
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Augmented Reality Does Time Travel Tourism | Singularity Hub
I remember 20ish years ago walking round my home town wanting something like this (only portable, and working everywhere).
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Copy©unts
Showing where advertisers steal their ideas from. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t still claim to be innovative. (via Haddock)
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Channelography
“Creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions.” Like the start of a way to search the “text” of programmes.
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Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework
Looks very interesting as a basis from which to build. (via Haddock)
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An elegant, flexible WordPress theme · Tarski
Not bad, not sure about the serif subheads myself, but a good base. (via Haddock)
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Carrington - The CMS Theme Framework for WordPress
(via Haddock)
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Basic Maths | A new theme for WordPress designed and developed by Khoi Vinh with Allan Cole.
Somehow both simple and busy at the same time. (via Daring Fireball)
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IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Contractor Job Market
Tracks rates offered for different categories of IT jobs in the UK (permanent as well as contract).
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Ie6-upgrade-warning - Project Hosting on Google Code
Easy-to-slot-in warning to users of Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade. Please.
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The Space Elevator Games
$4,000,000(?) up for grabs at the current games. The beginnings of a possible bit of future right here.
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Giving What We Can
A pledge to give 10% of one’s income to what they reckon are the most cost-effective charities. (via Preoccupations)
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Cool Tools: Printed Space
You too can have your own Hilda Ogden style mural. Apparently that’s “cool” now.
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Word Spy - parahawking
“A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft.”
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Techtech2009
I was never hugely into techno, but I’m enjoying this mp3 blog. Great for working to. (via Haddock)
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What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging « Design By Gravity
This kind of stuff scares me, but this is a technique that’s supposed to work.
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Facebook | SAVE THE FOUNDRY CAMPAIGN !!! The Foundry - re-house/re-locate
You can have all the fancy urban theories you like, but I’m increasingly thinking that if you don’t own lots of expensive property, you can’t control anything.
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Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics | Yes to Less | Fast Company
I’ve noticed that most of the more recent helmet designs (eg, Patriots, Buccaneers, Panthers, Jaguars, Ravens) are a bit rubbish. (via Daring Fireball)