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  1. How to Do What You Love

    Lovely essay. Worth a pile of ‘What Color is Your Parachute?’s. Although I don’t follow his line about “unpleasant jobs” - no doubt plenty of people have to do whatever job they can get. Other than that: read it.

  2. London Theatre and Concert Venues: What theatregoers tell you, that box office staff do not.

    Loads of info about shows: reviews and loads of detail about the seats to book or avoid. (via Haddock)

  3. DejaPair - news.pair.com Archive

    What it says. Password required.

  4. Barbicansalvage : Barbican Salvage

    There’s now a salvage store for Barbican residents wanting to offload or fix their original fittings. Not sure why it’s a Yahoo! Group, but still. Photos of retro kitchen fittings.

  5. Trading Spouses Margaret freaking out - Google Video

    Very scary video from a US version of “Wife Swap”. Now, this woman vs Richard Dawkins would be interesting… (via Plasticbag.org)

  6. The Popcorn Palace Economy - The thirsty moviegoer fuels the business. By Edward Jay Epstein

    On the balance of food/drink, movies and advertising in the profits of cinemas. (via Kottke)

  7. Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time

    Some of the most commonly repeated functions. (via Tim/twisty)

  8. Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications

    Library for Ajaxy drag-and-drop type stuff, extending prototype.js. (via Tim/twisty)

  9. Drawn! The Illustration Blog

    My new favourite weblog, full of inspiration. (via Boing Boing)

  10. Cityofsound: Savile Row and tailoring urban fabric

    Great post from Dan about how developers/landlords squander centuries of space-specific history and community in favour of short-term profit.

  11. O2b.net » Seedmagazine.com — Lookin’ Good

    On using Movable Type as a CMS for Seed magazine’s website. Mainly because I need the four MT plug-ins mentioned and I’ll forget their names otherwise. (via Kottke)

  12. Welcome to Arty-kid.coms: Arty kids can turn your children’s paintings into lasting masterpieces, purchase a canvasses, framed print or ceramic set

    Kev’s started a new business - one for all you people with oh-so-talented kiddywinks.

  13. Pair Users: FrontPage

    Handy resource for doing stuff on Pair.com servers (password required).

  14. Windows Live Local

    Amazing new angled aerial maps of bits of America. Here’s exactly where I lived in Houston. Rotate the view using the compass. Incredible.

  15. CD WOW! - Welcome to CD WOW!

    Cheap CDs, free delivery. I’ll forget the domain if I don’t put it here…

  16. Advent Calendar 2005 :: Leslie Harpold

    Leslie’s advent calendar begins today. Send her your personal Christmas memories too (and/or click ‘back’ to get to the Calendar itself).

  17. Using prototype.js v1.3.1

    Unofficial documentation for the Prototype Javascript library. (via Tim)

  18. Full-time freelancing: 10 things learned in 180 days ~ Authentic Boredom

    A useful list of things to bear in mind if you’re thinking of, or already, freelancing. (via Tom Coates)

  19. PHP5 Exception Use Guidelines

    Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.

  20. Ludoo » PHP 101 - PEAR error handling

    Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.

  21. Notes on PEAR_Exception - phly, boy, phly

    Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.

  22. Pepys’ Diary: Thursday 27 November 1662

    “But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.” Nice to know we’ve progressed in 343 years. Er…

  23. RailsOnPairNetworks in Ruby on Rails

    How to install Ruby on Rails on a Pair.com shared server. Apparently a bit slow though, as FastCGI or mod_ruby can’t be used.

  24. Sony Bravia - The Advert

    I know it’s been everywhere. But it’s still one of the most beautiful things ever, even if it is an advert.

  25. 와인이 있는 식탁

    Beautiful things made from single sheets of A4 paper. (via Tom Coates)

  26. Edevil’s weblog » Javascript libraries roundup

    Handy collection of Javascript libraries for complicated things for future reference. (via Yoz)

  27. C90 Go: Number 1

    Reminiscing about music taped from 1988/89’s Festive Fifities. Very familiar: I taped the same. I’m an individual like everyone else. (Found when searching for ‘Convenience’ by Bob.)

  28. Tomlab - Final Fantasy

    One of my photos of Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett is now being used by his label Tomlab (image ‘6’).

  29. Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California | Matt Jalbert

    Unreal-looking. Would be great to see this animated over a decade or two. (via Kottke again. He has such good links.)

  30. Flight Patterns

    Gorgeous animations of flights over the US. Better than it sounds. (via Kottke)