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Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times
Why do people hold irrational, superstitious, religious views, and why does it persist over generations? Is there an evolutionary benefit? (via Kottke)
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NOTBBC - The Comedy Forum - Lee and Herring @ Tedstock
YouTube video of Lee & Herring performing old and new material. “Hello, I’m a Mac.” “It could have been us! Where did it all go wrong!?” Very funny.
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Research | Within Families - The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
How to ensure your child has a happier life, but interesting and valuable for adults too. A shame the references are linked to online resources. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Office Naps: Fresh 45 rpm curios every Monday
Very much enjoying all these 1960s singles (the most recent post is a bit unexciting, but others are fab). And the images look great in iTunes’ Cover Flow view.
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The Fate of the Artist - Alan Moore’s London
Eddie Campbell on the photographic references he used to draw ‘From Hell’. (via Rodcorp)
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Old Photos 1968 - a photoset on Flickr
Anything pre-1990s, like Ted’s photos, look twice as old when displayed on the web where everything is new.
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Vertikal.net > English Version
Crane industry news and discussion. (via Monocle)
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Apple - Pro - Tips - Become the Ultimate Menu Master
I never knew that. If only I could get a Control key working on my non-Apple external keyboard.
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Russell Moccasin Co.
I’m a sucker for American practical clothing. These custom-made shoes and boots sounded good in a glowing Monocle article.
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ABICI
Simply-designed, Italian, old-fashioned looking bikes. Stupid Flash site. (via Monocle)
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Wonderland: LA-LON route
The bit about Helen Mirren sends a happy tingle down my spine. Yay!
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The Monumental Task of Warning Future Generations
Because I’ve looked for stuff like this in the past (having heard about it years ago, offline) and never found it.
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PrintFetish
Weblog about magazines, zines, small press books, etc.
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GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever
Ones I liked, or wish I’d read: Wired (‘93-‘98), Colors, Might, The Face (1980s), Ray Gun (‘92-‘96).
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TV Guide Community: Of Office Emmy Cheers and Acting Careers
Interesting stuff on how to be an actor in LA. Her professor said, “If you can think of anything else you are passionate about besides acting, do that. Your life will be better for it.” (via Kottke)
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Yahoo! Photos - Photos de pvolant - Space Lab
Pierre’s photos from our class in which we had to make a sculpture representing an anodyne Trashcan Sinatras tune.
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Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925
Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)
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New National Office for Arts Council England
Interesting site about the history of offices. (via City Of Sound)
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Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks
Because I’m always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.
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Gwenergy: Stage Fright
A good New Yorker article on stage fright and how it affects different people.
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Mixing It on Resonance FM
The show will be continuing on Resonance FM.
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Mixing It
How ‘Mixing It’ was nastily dropped from Radio 3’s schedules after years and years.
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eBay.co.uk: Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman phone BRAND NEW BOXED (item 180084368793 end time 17-Feb-07 10:06:03 GMT)
The fourth time I’ve tried to sell this. Want a phone? Please bid, unless you’re another Nigerian scammer.
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London Theatre Blog
Looks like good stuff. (via Encore Theatre Magazine)
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uk.media | Google Groups - Wired UK to Cease Publication
Ten years ago. It feels like both yesterday and another life.
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The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen - Review - Fringe Festival - New York Times
A play from 2005. Great idea.
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Art MoCo: “Delete! - Delettering the Public Space”
Art project that blanks out all the signs in a street. Got lots of linkage ages ago but it took me a while to find it again this week.
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The Perfumed Garden
I’ve been very much enjoying this weblog that posts Peel Session MP3s (there’s a long list in the sidebar under ‘Active Sessions’).
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CD/Album Cover Art Search
Might be useful at some point in the future, like so many things. (via Meish)