Links
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Pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected)
Webb again on how to charge for freelance and consulting work. Brilliant, without having to mention embarrassing figures.
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Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter
Book mentioned by Matt Webb in his New Puritans piece.
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New puritans are the (26 October 2005, Interconnected)
Matt Webb on the New Puritans being a sign of impending societal collapse (although I lose him a bit towards the end).
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The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’
Scarily close to the bone. I have “no” down to a far-too-instant reflex response. (via Annie Feighery)
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Digitally Distributed Environments: Global Warming - London Flooding
A movie showing the effects of rising sea levels on a model of London.
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Digitally Distributed Environments: Flooding London Panorama
Photoshopped panorama of a flooded Charlotte Street in London. It’ll look much less prettier when/if it really happens! (via Tom Carden)
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Web Services - Audioscrobbler
It’s been a while since I looked - I didn’t realise there was so much juicy data easily accessible.
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Merchandise - OpenStreetMap
Very nice large map of plotted GPS data in London, only ten quid. Even better, raises money for OpenStreetMap. (via Tom Carden)
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MT Extensions: Avoiding Duplicate Comments 3.01
Movable Type hack to solve a problem I’ve been getting a lot recently.
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TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine — The Road Ahead
A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)
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Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: Goodbye…
Simon Roberts on deciding to close his company, and what he’s learned.
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets
Makes me sad, as if a tiny piece of my own posessions have gone up in smoke. Commiserations, Aards folk.
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RichardHerring.com - Warming Up - Friday 7th October 2005
“So George W Bush is saying that God told him to invade Iraq. … The last person I remember who argued that God had told him to do stuff was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.”
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Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times
On how “coolhunters” are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)
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ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines. (via Tim)
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The Believer - Interview with Jonathan Haidt
On whether moral judgements are based on reason. Not sure how much of it I agree with, but it’s interesting.
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Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists
On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender
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TomDispatch - Tomgram: Mike Davis, Has the Age of Chaos Begun?
My only hope is that tipping over into a new ice age happens after I die. (via Boing Boing)
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The Stage Online :: Newsblog
I stumbled across the Stage’s weblog earlier in the week, and it’s very good indeed.
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EZPDO » Comments on “Cross the Divide, Object Persistence in PHP”
Response to some of the criticisms in the previous review.
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Crossing the Divide: Object Persistence in PHP by Theo Spears (PDF)
Review of DB_DataObject, Propel and EZPDO. I’ve been using the first, but the last sounds tempting for PHP 5.
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Ning | Developer : Home
New site that makes it easy to create your own social software apps, from the secretive 24 Hour Laundry. (I did most of the HTML/CSS.)
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Stone Cold Pimpin’: Petracovich - The New Video
My friend Ted’s made a lovely music video for Petracovich’s dreamy track ‘Others’.
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PrimerMovie.com :: View topic - My version of the Primer explanation.
I can’t remember the movie enough to see how much this makes sense, but for next time I see it… (via Tom Coates)
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Candace: even more critical mass
Don’t you love living in a free country? Grrrrr.
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Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code
Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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Royal Festival Hall
I’m not sure when it redesigned, but I’m really liking the RFH’s site. Beautiful.