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  1. BBC News | World | Audio slideshow: Night witches

    About Russia’s World War II female fighter pilots, what I was in a play about three years ago.

  2. The Online Photographer: Panasonic GF1 vs. Olympus E-P1, Part I

    Solely for this quote: “These two [bundled] applications just can’t possibly be as lame and useless as they appear to be … They can’t be—right? Because if faced with a choice of working day in, day out in one of these environments or picking up trash by the side of the freeway with a pointy stick guarded by a fat man with a shotgun and a big wad of tobacco in his cheek, I would need time to decide. They both seem like they’d be torture, but least in a chain gang I’d be outdoors.”

  3. Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose - 8 November 2009

    “Dad, you make it sound like social media is ruining my life! It’s NOT!”

  4. Vintage Posters — SSPL Prints

    Hundreds of old rail posters etc reprinted for the purchasing of. Very tempting.

  5. Flogr - Project Hosting on Google Code

    Looks like a nice way to make a portfolio site from your photos stored on Flickr. Example: http://thecarruthfamily.com/michael/photos/ (via Infovore)

  6. BLDGBLOG: One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik

    On planning nuclear waste disposal, designed to be stable and safe for one million years. Longest-term futures work ever?

  7. Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]

    The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)

  8. Papercraft Self Portrait - Art Portfolio for Eric Testroete

    This looks wonderful.

  9. Illicit filesharing - p2p - government evidence to the culture committee | Tom Watson MP

    Good questioning from Tom Watson. I’m continually gob-smacked by the craven corporate backwardness of the government. I wish there was a Labour party.

  10. Facebook Developers | Platform Live Status

    Current status of the Facebook platform.

  11. K-punk: London litened

    A nice description from 2008 of a London where everyone is reading those bloody free newspapers. (via City of Sound)

  12. Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps

    Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)

  13. Misfits - E4.com

    Click ‘Play’ to see what I’ve been making with Six To Start for the past few weeks.

  14. In which Phil uses his loaf for once « West End Whingers

    (A different Phil.) The National Theatre made out of bread.

  15. Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

    For IE6 or IE7. (via Haddock)

  16. My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage

    More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)

  17. DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer

    Looks useful. (via Haddock)

  18. Playdar - Music Content Resolver

    The idea is to play any song that’s available on your computer or anywhere online. Requires compiling. Oh well.

  19. Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition

    Tool for “diagnosing and preventing AJAX performance issues”. Annoyingly on Windows, for Internet Explorer, but free and could be useful. (via Yoz)

  20. Mu — Mu Connect

    A JavaScript library for making interaction with Facebook Connect easier. Which I somehow didn’t find when it would have been useful to me.

  21. Video Monkey

    “A free video encoding application exclusively for Mac … it borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool.” (via Yoz)

  22. Statistical analysis, data and graphing | Timetric: making data useful

    Datagasm. Loads of data sets available for analysing, exporting, monitoring, fiddling with, etc. (via Blackbeltjones)

  23. Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook | Facebook

    After hearing, a while back, about Yahoo denying access to relatives and then closing accounts of the deceased, this sounds very good. (via Preoccupations)

  24. What Startups Are Really Like

    I love descriptions of start-ups and businesses like this. (via Daring Fireball)

  25. Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities…

    Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading ‘Making of’. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)

  26. Theatricalia

    Matthew Somerville’s new theatre database site. It already features nearly 19,000 productions, and you can add more.

  27. Linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of

    What it says. (via Yoz)

  28. LRB · Bridget Riley: At the End of My Pencil

    Bridget Riley on why she draws and how her paintings developed. Good, although it all sounds more straighforward than I imagine it was.

  29. Click opera - Hanging gardens of Barbican

    Momus on growing to love the Barbican. (via Blackbeltjones)

  30. Is the Magazine Dead? « Jimmy Wales

    Wikipedia’s founder on small groups making their own magazines with a MagCloud/Wikia partnership.