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  1. G20: Did police containment cause more trouble than it prevented? | World news | guardian.co.uk

    “…people thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified.” I’m increasingly disliking this country. (via Preoccupations)

  2. Indymedia London | Videos | Show | film of police attack on G20 climate camp

    There have been worse examples of police violence, but this still isn’t good. (via Boing Boing)

  3. Streetphoto :: View topic - G20 riot posed photo

    A good description of how scenes like the two guys smashing the windows of a branch of RBS surrounded by photographers happen. (via Moleitau on Twitter)

  4. April Fool Funeral at Improv Everywhere

    For the clip of the US TV news show lifting an April Fool from the Improv Everywhere site and reporting it as if it was real, without doing any checking.

  5. How To Make Your Own Books From Wikipedia | MakeUseOf.com

    Couldn’t be easier. (1) Create a Wikipedia account. (2) Add pages to your book. (3) Download a PDF or order a bound copy. Very, very good.

  6. Wikibooks

    How have I not seen this before? “Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.” Nice.

  7. Wrong Tomorrow - pundits vs. time

    A fabulous way to record what predictions pundits make and keep track of how often they’re wrong (or right; you never know).

  8. Dave Gorman: When Twitter Gets Weird…

    On how offended some people apparently get if you don’t follow them back on Twitter. Craziness. (via Meg Pickard)

  9. SprogBlog: more than numbers

    My awesome friend Annie on a week shadowing a midwife in Uganda. In case you need to put your life in some perspective.

  10. Home Page | Flat World Knowledge

    Creative Commons licensed textbooks, written by “experts” and peer-reviewed, which are then free to read online (or pay for a printable version). Little available right now, but promising. (via Preoccupations)

  11. Video Game Downloads on FileFront

    Another site wiping oodles (apparently 48 terabytes) of user-generated/uploaded content. The “cloud” is the future you know. (via Waxy)

  12. Daring Fireball: Obsession Times Voice

    This “do the thing that interests you” advice (see also Tim O’Reilly) is all very well, but if you’re interested in lots and lots of things it doesn’t work nearly as well. You get spread too thinly.

  13. Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: the kids are alright

    And while I’m at it, Chris’s post from a few weeks back. What kind of country are we living in now? We’ll need someone to invade the UK and “liberate” us soon.

  14. London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity - Boing Boing

    It’s hard to believe these posters aren’t some kind of parody. And it’s hard to react without using clichés (1984, Orwellian, etc).

  15. The first one’s the hardest | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog

    Nice description of someone designing their first font over eighteen months. I’d love to try this (you know, if I had ten times the time I do). (via Kottke)

  16. London CycleStreets: UK Cycle Journey Planner and Photomap

    A new site for planning your cycle journeys, using OpenStreetMap maps. A great start.

  17. Gallery of covers from the 1990s version of Wired UK | Technology | guardian.co.uk

    I guess all that scanning and stitching together paid off.

  18. Video: Batman Logo Evolution » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

    I like how drastically the logo changes over the years and yet it’s always recognisable (except maybe that Batman Nightfall X-Wing-style logo).

  19. HowTo: EC2 for Poets

    Nice simple instructions from Dave Winer on how to set up an Amazon EC2 virtual web server. (via Preoccupations)

  20. MailSteward

    A pay-for Mac app that archives email into SQLite or MySQL databases. Looks pretty awesome for searchable backups. Need the pro version for large volumes of email (>100,000 messages).

  21. Property search engine for homes for sale & property to rent in the UK - Globrix

    Not a bad interface for property searches. Bookmarking because I like window shopping (or being nosey) and I’ll forget the meaningless URL.

  22. Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com

    This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)

  23. Nylon Backpack for All MacBooks : Incase Product

    I saw a couple of Incase backpacks at the conferences and they look very nice.

  24. BBC News | Entertainment | BBC Two to show US TV’s The Wire

    Showing every night!? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit, why does BBC2 screw up every single decent US show it gets its dumb hands on?

  25. Get Your Walk Score - A Walkability Score For Any Address

    Interesting idea for measuring how walkable the area around an address is. Despite appearances it appears to work with UK addresses too.

  26. BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - Has anyone else received the faulty postal vote forms?

    This all sounds a bit dodgy, in the City of London’s bizarre version of democracy.

  27. A “port” to the US | Ask Metafilter

    A way to convince an internet service you’re accessing it from the US. (via Haddock)

  28. Hot gossip as Pepys and Austen go blogging - Times Online

    Pepys in the Sunday Times. Reads as if it’s only just started, rather than having been around for more than six years. And why do these journalists never get in touch with me?

  29. CR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet Mr Chicken

    Fascinating stuff about the man who designs “90%” of all the signs for fried chicken places in London. (via Chris Heathcote)

  30. Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | A css only dropdown menu

    Sounds good but haven’t explored it thoroughly.