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  1. Fascinating (and long) undercover US car salesman tale

  2. Zoom in on zip codes (try 77058 (where I used to live) or 90210)

  3. “Making public the intimately personal is a revolutionary act”

  4. That guy who sold loads of travel books near Waterloo Station and in the City actually stole them all!

    (Scroll down to above ‘The micro chart’)

  5. Interesting Guardian history of the New York Review of Books and its editor

  6. The Barbican’s waste disposal system in great detail

  7. Forum for residents of the Barbican

  8. Collection of 1950s-70s artists’ impressions of the Barbican

  9. Awesomely detailed site about the Barbican as a place to live

  10. Portsmouth’s Tricorn Centre will be demolished in March

    Looks like it was built by Blakes 7 modelmakers. In a good(ish) way.

  11. For three quid my life’s that tiny bit better

  12. My postcode <--> latitude/longitude convertor still works

  13. Free list mapping postcode areas to latitude/longitude

  14. The most recent ‘Archive Hour’ on Radio 4 was a good one about the history of the Post Office

  15. A List Apart on ‘faux columns’ in CSS. I was hoping for a magical solution. Instead: well, duh!

  16. I nearly forgot: I’m a

  17. Oooh, ‘Mapping the Metropolis’ exhibition of historical London maps until Feb 28

  18. It’s the last day for ‘Early Bird’ prices for Emerging Tech

  19. Who reads your RSS feed? Better than nothing.

  20. Simon Hoggart on Christmas circular letters

  21. As the Apple Turns on the birth of a ‘fact’

  22. How to tell Arial, Helvetica and Grotesque apart

  23. USB- and Firewire-powered chargers for mobiles, PDAs, etc.

  24. EyeTV: Turn your Mac into a Freeview PVR

  25. More PVRs for sale than you can shake a remote at

  26. DIY PVR on a Linux box

  27. Good discussion at Azeem’s about PVRs, MP3 servers, etc

  28. Recommended reading order of Michael Moorcock’s ‘Eternal Champion’ series

  29. Pepys’ Diary is best specialist British weblog at the Guardian

  30. The BBC’s guide to courses at cookery schools