Links
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BBC - East Midlands - Tour - Graphics - The Graphics Guy
Every so often I Google for friends I’ve lost touch with. Occasionally they pop up. Hello Harry Whinney!
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Samuel Pepys roughly Photoshopped to be a modern businessman
By a Pepys’ Diary reader.
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Dracos - IE CSS bugs when using floats and background-color
Another nasty Internet Explorer problem I was having the other day.
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Stopdesign | The IE Factor
I wonder how much time has been globally wasted thanks to Internet Explorer’s awful handling of CSS.
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Stopdesign | The New Blogger
Doug Bowman on redesigning Blogger.
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Lineto fonts
Font catalogue demonstrated using live BBC News headlines.
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BooTleg - links to downloadable bootlegs for loads of bands
Some of them are even good.
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Archigram
Their Design Museum exhibition is quite good but mostly like looking at a big coffee table book of 2000AD artwork. Needed more explanation, context and background.
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BBC Radio 3 - Building a Jazz Library
Not as good as the NPR one, and oddly focuses on individual tracks, rather than albums.
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NPR Basic Jazz Record Library
With discussion about each album in audio or transcript form.
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Yahoo! Korea Avatar Shop
Welcome to the future!
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Bush administration strips info on women’s issues from government web sites
Ridiculous wars are bad enough, but somehow the rewriting of science and history seems even more scary.
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Basecamp: Online project management tool from 37signals
Looks lovely. Maybe I need more projects.
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts reviews | Oleanna, Garrick, London
Saw this last night: David Mamet and Julia Stiles… heaven! Although the review’s right about the unfortunate lack of ambiguity.
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HistoryHound - Search web pages you’ve visited in Safari
Builds a more permanent index from your temporary Safari cache. Sounds fantastic. If only I used Safari….
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My Docklands and Greenwich photos
I like the panorama best
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Pepys’ Diary: Tuesday 23 April 1661
The coronation of Charles II makes for an excellent couple of days for Samuel:
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power: Trees for a Green LA
They give free trees to residents because more trees means greater energy savings.
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iCalViewer
Can show your iCal events and to do’s on your desktop, travelling right-to-left as time moves on. Awesome.
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IMDB’s Alternate Interfaces
Nice to see the IMDB still makes its data available. there must be interesting things one could do with this…
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20 years of 4AD records
Coincidentally, I’ve been playing Red House Painters for 8 hours so far today. It’s that kind of day.
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The Spy School
Not-yet-made movie constructed from requested CCTV footage of the director. The plot could use some work I think.
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Topographic page layout
A bookmarklet that uses background colours rather than borders to make a page’s HTML structure clear.
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Mobile Bristol - Queen Square - 1831 Riot!
Walk around the square and a GPS-equipped iPAQ plays location-relevant historical sounds…
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The Early Films of Peter Greenaway
Nice site by the BFI aobut his early shorts, The Draughtsman’s Contract and A Zed
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Film Review - Sight
I believe Mark Kermode could find similarities between The Exorcist and every film ever made.
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Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover by David Carr (NYT, Registration required)
A magazine will customise the covers of its subscribers’ copies with a satellite photo of their individual homes.