Links
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BBC - BBC Four Music - Gillian Welch Session
Tonight or tomorrow… if her recentish show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire was anything to go by, this should be awesome.
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Sparkly Trainers | The travels of Mary Loosemore: We’re in!
I’m still stressed. It’ll probably fade soon. Can’t believe we’re there.
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Globalvote 2004 - where non-americans get to vote - have your say in the US election
New from those fabulous folks at Poke (and others).
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Front Page - css-discuss
The wiki for the css-discuss email list, chock full of answers to common questions. Handy.
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IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug - CSS fixes and workarounds
Because I keep hitting this bug and keep forgetting how to work around it.
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Which? - Expert advice from an independent source
Brand new Which? site - I did some of the HTML/CSS. It looks nice.
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Folksongs of America: The Gordon Collection: American Folklife Center
MP3s of music recorded onto wax cylinders in the 1920s with lyrics and extensive liner notes.
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Ninja Tune free music downloads, free video downloads @zonicweb.net
A big bunch of tunes by Ninja Tunes folk for free download (MP3, Real and Windows Media).
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Acting out
Looking at how we react quicker physically than emotionally, and applying that to acting.
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gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum
Ooh, I read this in Borders a few weeks ago - interesting stuff about why some things (like Coke/Pepsi) taste
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Flickr photo tool has it all and more
Why Flickr is better than any other online photo library site.
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cityofsound: The Elephant Vanishes, Barbican, London
Dan’s right, this was stunning. Like a live action performance of the most dreamy and complex music video you’ve ever seen.
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Flickr: Tags in the Fiona and Matt’s Wedding Pool
Flickr keeps finding new ways to tickle my
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Office Photos ~ 1830s-1880s
Photos of old offices.
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The Living Room Candidate
Awesomely comprehensive collection of US presidential campaign TV adverts from 1952 to 2004 (doesn’t seem to work in Firefox).
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Phil Gyford on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Sorry, another photo of me at Matt and Fiona’s wedding, but I love this dark one.
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The New York Times
And maybe, if you’re over there, you can print this out and take it with you when you go to vote.
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Unsweet - Last night Hurricane Ivan slammed the crap out of …
Good to hear Genny’s folks are OK, even though
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | ‘He’s just sleeping, I kept telling myself’
Note to self: Next election, print this out and read it in the voting booth before making my mark.
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From geek to chef - megnut.com
Excellent. I keep a mental list of people who have given up full-time computers for
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The London Noise Map
Click through to the ‘Interactive London Noise Map’. I’m speechless.
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Sunrise over London - a photoset on Flickr
Some lovely shots with little landmarks.
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Francis is - What is Burning Man?
Francis’ first Burning Man. Nice, to the point, description of the indescribable.
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TeledyN: Living with Webservices
How might services like Flickr, Del.icio.us and others link together better?
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Bryan Boyer’s Japan Strips
Lovely vertical photos (click to see another).
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43 Folders - A bunch of tricks, hacks
Loving this weblog about being organised, particularly using OS X. Makes me feel like a woolly-minded scatterbrain by comparison.
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Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Replacing HTML text with Flash-rendered text just to make it look prettier seems like precious designer overkill to me. But it’s very clever and it does work.