Links
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The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
Describing how easy it is to get stuff past US airline security. “Security theatre”: it’s all just for show. (via everywhere)
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Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames
An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it’s hard to believe no one’s thought of it before. Smashing.
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Custom Earphones by Etymotic Research and ACS
Reseller of aforementioned custom earphone sleeves bundled with ER-6is. Which you have to buy via further resellers. I’ll never understand business.
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Advanced Communication Solutions - Custom Earphone Sleeves
Very tempted by these, but not quite tempted enough at the price. Yet.
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BookGlutton
Read books online, annotate them and read the annotations of others. Doesn’t feel *quite* right somehow in the way it works, but close.
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Financial crisis timeline | Business | guardian.co.uk
Handy summary of the past month’s descent into madness. Ideal for someone who’s, say, been travelling through central Asia for four weeks…
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Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. at Aral Balkan
My word, it sounds quite useless really. (via Simon Willison)
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Byroglyphics - news
I love some of these paintings / illustrations. Well-drawn plus splattery! (via Drawn!)
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Debut Productions - Homepage
London theatre showcases.
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YouTube - Daily Show - Federal Bail Out
I could link to the Daily Show every day but here Jon Stewart *really* gets going on Congress. If you only have two minutes to spare, skip to 2:30 for a very fine, and justified, rant. Can we clone him for the UK?
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One hundred push ups
A training program to get you working up to doing one hundred press ups. I love that such focused and detailed things exist.
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Related Entries in Movable Type | Devlounge
How to do a “related entries” block on individual entry archives. Requires that you use tags.
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Billings 3 / journal / hicksdesign
Review of a Mac-based invoicing/time-keeping thing. (via Daring Fireball)
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UUA: Deep Fun
A good source of games to play with groups of people, ideal as ice-breakers. (via Cool Tools)
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William Heath’s blog » A place to live
William Heath is looking for a place to create a “co-housing” project - people living slightly communally. The search is interesting.
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The Official Star Wars Blog » I Left My Star Destroyer in San Francisco
I saw this linked to everywhere and didn’t watch it. Just more Star Wars stuff. But I finally succumbed and it’s *very* good. I love that the footage is so casual and amateur.
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Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware
I had no idea there was open source alternative software for MP3 players, including early iPods. (via Boing Boing)
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Mycrocosm
“A web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs.” Like Daytum? Love it. (via Haddock)
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Gene Expression: Atheists for a Christian Europe?
Has percentages for “no religion” census choices in various countries. (via Oblomovka)
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YouTube - The Late Edition - Britain’s Own War On Christmas
Watch for the first 2 minutes 30 seconds rant about Christians complaining that “Christianity is under attack”. Brilliant. (via Haddock)
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Locating Postboxes - Dracos.co.uk
Matthew Somerville’s new thing — help locate post boxes for OpenStreetMap etc.
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Citadel Miniatures
Proof that large chunks of my memories will sooner or later appear, scanned, online. Fantastic.
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David Foster Wallace (Harper’s Magazine)
Harper’s have put all their DFW writing online. ‘Shipping Out’ is one of my favourite reads. (via Kottke)
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43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders
This post and a couple of other recent ones by Merlin Mann about his refocusing have been really inspiring. Great stuff. (via Kottke and Daring Fireball)
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The School Of Life - Homepage
“A new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life.” A religion without religion? Intriguing. (via Kottke)
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Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData
Oodles of pretty and obsessive charting of personal data. (via Boing Boing)
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Daily Photo Aging Project ( photo-a-day )
(via Kottke)
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HS_LicensedVenueList.pdf (application/pdf Object)
City of London venues licensed for weddings.
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Venues in Islington
Wedding venues
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Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future
“The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game.” Interesting. There’s either a lot more futures stuff around at the moment, or I’m just stumbling across more of it. (via Wonderland)