Links
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Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus
From the developers of TmyMCE. (via Simon Willison)
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Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
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Coriandr / lottielodge / Handmade socks, realistic price
I love this kind of thing. I’d like to see how much your average mass-produced-in-China garment should cost if the workers were paid UK minimum wage.
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Britain’s “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist
Good article on how many things that you’d think would define “broken Britain” have been improving. Britain’s better.
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Creative Review - The Atlas of the Real World
Some fascinating maps of the world representing stuff about each country… oh, just look. (via Booktwo)
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Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize | Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you buy a Burning Man ticket you assign copyright on any photos you take at the event to the organisers.
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Belgrave Cedar Shoe Tree
Decent, relatively cheap shoe trees. Don’t look quite as smart as the photo in the flesh but seem to do the job.
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Photos of my models
Amazing photos… of *models*… keep watching until you see the little models to scale. (via The Online Photographer)
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PersonalNews
Kind of odd “individual newspaper” that combines your choice of pages from some newspapers.
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The Online Photographer: Old TIME, New TIME
A nice comparison of two copies of Time magazine, from 1968 and today.
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YouTube - Avatar Review (Part 1 of 2)
From the guy who did that long Star Wars review. This is also wonderful. Intelligent, funny, silly. “I haven’t rolled my eyes that much since that demonic possession.”
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Melody: Community Powered Publishing
An in-development open source CMS designed to be compatible with Movable Type. Not sure why, but maybe it’s interesting…?
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Byrnereese’s mt-plugin-profiler at master - GitHub
Hopefully useful Movable Type plugin for working out which bits of your templates are taking ages to rebuild.
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LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts
An article from May 2009 about the @ sign, followed by some fascinating letters about what it’s called in other countries.
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When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books
I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today.
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From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
The start of a series explaining maths to adults. Sounds good. There’s a link to Steven Strogatz’s own RSS feed at the bottom of the right column. (via Kottke)
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Dial 01 for London
Lovely. Isn’t the internet fun sometimes. (via Crackunit)
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LRB · Anne Enright · Diary
I want a current affairs-only newspaper by the LRB full of articles written like this.
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Grange Hill Online - Locations
Amazing: matching up shots from Grange Hill episodes with photos of the real world contemporary locations. The Internet’s fab. (via EnemyOfChaos on Twitter)
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Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - Toki Woki.
An AIR application that generates customised CSS etc files for use with the Blueprint CSS framework. Handy.
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The State of Split-Screen Gaming Article | Eurogamer
A summary of decent games to play with a friend in the same room. (Thanks Tom A.)
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The benbrown website :: daily text
Ben Brown’s 6985 word account of his SXSW 2000 and *that* weblog panel. A lovely piece, still worth a read.
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Comments on 1142 | MetaFilter
A bit more flurry about weblogs and “3000 word” Ben Brown-style essays, post SXSW 2000. Quaint.
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Hack the Planet: Are you sure?
A post-SXSW2000 discussion about weblogs and cliques and oh all those things that now seem so old.
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CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box
Cameron Barrett’s account of SXSW 2000.
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Can’t You Wait - Geographer
I don’t *quite* understand it, but some refreshingly interesting design, not aping print.
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Timeline twins, music and movies
I keep thinking about this old post. I must be getting old. “Listening to Michael Jackson’s Thriller today is equivalent to listening to Elvis Presley’s first album (1956) at the time of Thriller’s release in 1982.”
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Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
I’ve been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)
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Lentil and bean recipes / Nigel Slater | Life and style | The Observer
The Butter Beans With Mustard And Tomato is very easy and very tasty. (via Haddock)
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What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK (from little.red.boat )
Lengthy but clear explanation from Anna Pickard. Hurrah! I’m hoping she does get started on ‘Saturday Night Live’…