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Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?
If I ever feel out of touch for not knowing who some young pop star is, I can feel comfort that people who know who young pop stars are often don’t know who Grammy-winning bands are. (via Kottke)
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A List Apart: Articles: A Simpler Page
A bit about the problems of formatting long-form stuff for different screens, and then his solution, Bibiotype, an HTML/CSS/JS template, which is really gorgeous.
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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post - NYTimes.com
“One reason that The Huffington Post gets a lot of criticism for not paying its bloggers is because most people think of it as a publishing company, when really — like Facebook — it is more of a technology company.” (via Daring Fireball)
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File:Bill of Mortality.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grim government statistics for 1665. No pretty graphs.
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Reading Markson Reading
Brilliant: scans of pages of books owned by David Markson which ended up in the Strand bookstore after his death. His annotations are explained and examples of corresponding passages in his own work are given. (via @jamesbridle)
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Testing Multiple Versions of IE on One PC - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Run IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 on one machine by running Windows XP within Windows 7. (via Mildlydiverting)
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LRB · Vol. 33 No. 4 · 17 February 2011 · letters
My second letter in the LRB, this time quoting Yoz.
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Fuck Yeah Free Interns
A hall of shame for (UK?) companies advertising for (possibly illegal) unpaid interns. TechHub and the Telegraph the only culprits listed so far. There must be more…
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How did WordPress win?
Byrne Reese, ex of Six Apart, on why WP has won out over Movable Type. A shame, but then I always start new blog projects in WP these days. (via Waxy)
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Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology : The New Yorker
Long, long article about Scientology, focused on the screenwriter/director Paul Haggis who left after 34 years. Fascinatingly weird.
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[Everyone] COMPULSARY: Very important message to all associates
Important Nokia-esque email to all Pretend Office employees. Excuse the formatting — you’ll need to copy and paste — but their IT department is a bit rubbish.
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IS Parade
Lovely, lovely Flash thing that shoes all your twitter followers following you in a big parade. Charmingly done and you must try it. (via Interconnected)
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Press Complaints Commission >> Adjudicated Complaints >> Adjudicated - Ms Sarah Baskerville v Daily Mail
Things you tweet from a public account are public shock. (via @suegyford)
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BBC - WW2 People’s War
At least one of those BBC sites, a good one, threatened with deletion/archiving/whatever is already archived by the British Library here. I haven’t looked for others.
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Isotope
Blimey, that’s a whizzy bit of jQuery for rearranging things on a page. I’m expecting to see a whole lot of that soon. (via Daring Fireball)
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Collective2 - Find the trading strategy best for you
A site for finding different stock market trading algorithms. Some very nice touches, but still bewildering to me. I could get so lost in this stuff if I had the time. (via Tom Taylor)
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Hangover Lounge
Sunday afternoons at the Lexington on Pentonville Road. Sounds very nice, if I wasn’t already spending Sunday afternoons agonising over having achieved nothing useful yet each weekend.
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Kevin Slavin on Lift 11: Geneva - live streaming video powered by Livestream
We watched Kevin’s talk on how algorithms affect us live in the office. It’s well worth a watch.
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Gimme Shelter | Studio Multitracks
Fascinating to hear the tracks in isolation. Unfortunately most of the other examples on the site only seem to have one isolated track for each song, but still. (via Daring Fireball)
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BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off everywhere
Really, really worth a read, about the nature of young, disparate and distributed protest movements these days. “During the early 20th century people would ride hanging on the undersides of train carriages across borders just to make links like these.” (via Ben Hammersley)
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The Pratfall of Penny Arcade - A Timeline
I love catching up on drawn-out internet cultural events that are huge to a small number of people but of which I’m completely unaware. (via Waxy)
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A Facebook story | A mother’s joy and a family’s sorrow | The Washington Post
An obviously sad story, but actually bookmarked as an example of an annotated set of Facebook updates as a news story.
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Tank Auth authentication library for CodeIgniter
It’s been a while since I looked at CodeIgniter. Still no really obvious winner to the “how do I just authenticate people dammit?” question, but this looks like a front-runner.
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Photo loss blogger to Flickr: You’re f*cking kidding • The Register
In case you need even more reasons why trusting your stuff to even the most well-meaning third-party services is only as good as their ability to never, ever make a mistake. (via Lee)
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The End of Blogging | The New York Observer
Often, as here, the people noticing “the end of blogging” seem to have a very, very narrow definition of what “blogging” is. Thankfully, they’re wrong. (via Waxy)
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On River Maps « somethingaboutmaps
Not so much for the Harry Beck-style interpretation of the Mississippi River System, but for the interesting explanation of the decisions and compromises involved in the exercise. (via Blech)
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Global Village Construction Set - Open Source Ecology
Creating the fifty “tools/technologies for building post-scarcity, resilient communities” and open-sourcing the plans. (via Kottke)
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The difference between the UK, Great Britain, and England [video] - Holy Kaw!
A very good description of the differences, which was an education to me. I can never remember all of this stuff. (via @tomcoates)
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When Should I Visit Science Museum?
What a lovely idea - which museums are most or least likely to be busy today?
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Rawktumblr
“The hunt for the next big thing has become a daily harvest of hundreds of next embarrassingly small things.” A bit more musing about music journalism/blogging today. (via Haddock)
