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  1. Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Guantánamo · LRB 15 December 2011

    This month it’s ten years since Guantanamo opened. People are still held there indefinitely. This is one former detainee’s account. Yay America! You must all be so proud.

  2. Futurist-blogs.xls

    A spreadsheet of blogs about the future. (via Houston Futures)

  3. Dead Media Beat: tech blogs | Beyond The Beyond

    Sterling on various blog posts wondering Bout the death of blogging. I read a lot of blogs, but I don’t read any of those “professional” blogs the pundits say are dying. I won’t notice.

  4. Solarized - Ethan Schoonover

    I don’t often think “ooh, that’s a nice colour palette.” Sixteen colours “for use with terminal and gui applications”, lots of thought behind it, and lots of implementations. (via Tecznotes)

  5. Still “forgetting the styles of archaic technologies” | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

    “Professional screen design is all about forgetting. Forgetting and ignoring the browser, the interface, pixels, … We should do something about it in 2012.”

  6. Five Years After Banning Outdoor Ads, Brazil’s Largest City Is More Vibrant Than Ever

    I’d love this in London. Well, any and every city really. (via Blech)

  7. Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2011

    As ever, StG’s top 100 tunes of the year is a lovely listen.

  8. Google Maps Free Alternatives « Fubra

    A nice summary of the alternatives to Google Maps. I don’t do this stuff frequently enough to keep up.

  9. Why (and how) we’ve switched away from Google Maps - Nestoria Blog

    A nice explanation of Nestoria switching from Google Maps to OSM with MapQuest, Leaflet and Mapstraction. Also worth it for the paragraph on Google’s poor salesmanship.

  10. Michael Neill reviews ‘Medicinal Cannibalism…’ … and ‘Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires’ … · LRB 1 December 2011

    About “mummy”, the processed remains of humans that was considered a valuable medicine as recently as the 19th century. (Subscribers only)

  11. WordPress Hosting and Managed WordPress Hosting from WP Engine

    Looks good, with some nice features. But not cheap compared to more generic hosting options. (via Brett Terpstra)

  12. Around City of London in Colour aka London Scenes - British Pathe

    Some nice bits of (silent) colour film of the City of London from 1961. (Thanks Mum!)

  13. Antique pocket watches from Pieces of Time - Worldwide Mail Order

    I love stumbling across old-fashioned sites. Maybe this style could infer well-used, long-lived, authenticity. “To avoid lengthy pauses while the images load a fast modem, at least 14400, should be used.”

  14. Transm.js (javascript programmable image transitions)

    A huge range of transitions that can be added to HTML images. All those things you avoid in PowerPoint.

  15. Close Pixelate · David DeSandro

    JavaScript to pixelate images, in a variety of styles, eg like Chuck Close. Very configurable, multiple layers, pixel shapes, etc.

  16. French expats to get their own MPs | World news | The Guardian

    That’s interesting, dividing the world outside France into 11 constituencies, with an MP for each representing French expats living there.

  17. Fuji X10 EXR camera, suggestions for optimum performance: Digital Photography Review

    Bookmarking because should I get one of these (a big IF) I won’t remember where this article was.

  18. HTML Elements and Attributes

    Very handy-looking reference for HTML5 elements and attributes. (via Brett Terpstra)

  19. Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels — Tech News and Analysis

    A look at the “demands that digital music companies [like Spotify, Rdio, etc] are compelled to agree to” by the major record labels. “Onerous” would be a word. (via Blech)

  20. Crosswords: the meow meow of the 1920s | Crosswords | guardian.co.uk

    A lovely selection of quotes from 1920s newspapers about how the new mania for crosswords was going to destroy society.

  21. Vim: revisited

    Lots of handy, sensible vim tips in here to revisit later. (via Infovore)

  22. Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control < Francis is

    A nice summary of advances in version control systems over the decades. With any technology it’s easy to forget the many incremental changes that make up the current norm.

  23. Once Upon - today and tomorrow

    Lovely reworking of Google+, YouTube and Facebook in the style of the 1997 web. I am always going to love the various looks of the 1990s web. (via Waxy)

  24. Debunking the Cul-de-Sac - Design - The Atlantic Cities

    Looking at the change of US city layouts from grids to increasingly dead-end cul-de-sacs. (via Tom Taylor)

  25. Knyle Style Sheets — Warpspire

    Nice idea, a parseable format for commenting CSS. (via Dotcode)

  26. Types Plugin - Create Custom Post Types and Manage Custom Fields

    From the people behind WPML (so it works well with that) this plugin does both custom post types and fields. Some slightly rough edges (it’s new), and no relationship field, but otherwise good. (And no need to use the accompanying pay-for Views plugin.)

  27. WordPress › Custom Post Type UI « WordPress Plugins

    There are loads of Custom Post Type plugins (or you can do it in manually in code) and this seemed like one of the better ones.

  28. WordPress › Advanced Custom Fields « WordPress Plugins

    From the myriad of WP custom fields plugins this seemed like about the best. Nice UIs and a very handy ‘relationship’ field. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work well with WPML.

  29. WPML - The WordPress Multilingual Plugin

    Comprehensive plugin for translating and managing a multilingual site built on WordPress. Multi-language Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Themes, etc. Inevitably a bit complicated and slightly kludgy, but seems to work well.

  30. A Better Related Posts Plugin – Nicolas Kuttler

    I haven’t fully tested this with lots of real content yet but an initial view suggests this is nicely tweakable, and easy to use. And works with Custom Post Types. And (so far, I think) WPML.