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  1. Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper’s Magazine)

    Lovely article that is more a reminiscence of a lost San Francisco and childhood than it is another “we must save newspapers” plea.

  2. Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com

    interesting article on the “Tea Party” Right in America. Also scary. Hadn’t realised how much they had in common with crazy paranoid Patriots.

  3. jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery

    There are lots of things like this, but I’ve used this one and it seems very nice.

  4. Experimental Rockets at the Naze - Windows Live

    There was secret rocket testing going on at Walton on the Naze during World War II.

  5. Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine

    Fascinating account of the process of making an album/track and all the technological stuff that happens to the music these days. (via Tom Taylor)

  6. Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders

    One of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it. Very handy. (via Infovore)

  7. 590Ev.png 1409×521 pixels

    That’s quite good. Off of 4chan.

  8. MoMA | @ at MoMA

    A bit weird, but some nice history of the @ sign. (via Kottke)

  9. The day the music died - Vox

    Simon Wistow on the end of the UK dot.com bubble ten years ago.

  10. Geni - Home

    Quite a nice site for building your family tree. Lots of features, although the tree itself is pretty ugly. Would be nice if you could embed it in another page too. (via Haddock)

  11. You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website » malcolm coles

    The Royal Mail *is* Pretend Office.

  12. Jumblr - Unjumble your life.

    Nice map-based Freecycle-alike. Fun to browse. (via Crackunit)

  13. SitBy.Us

    Simple tool that I think lets you see what your Twitter friends are going to at SXSW. There is way too much to go and see.

  14. Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca

    Handy and nicely-done tool for checking the contrast of colour combinations when designing websites.

  15. Map of Mobile Food Carts and Trailers in Austin Texas | AustinFoodCarts

    Handy. Tasty. (via Chrisdodo)

  16. Foodspotting/What to Eat at SXSW 2010

    Tasty. Handy.

  17. SXSW 2010 for Futurists

    Some interesting things there, some of which might ease the pangs from the end of ETech. (via Tom Taylor)

  18. Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram | News | guardian.co.uk

    Useful to get an overview of where the BBC’s money gets spent. Cutting 6Music and Asian Network doesn’t save much compared to the total.

  19. Burn a playable DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder - Mac OS X Hints

    Just works. I tried a couple of free GUI things, neither of which worked. This command line thing did.

  20. iClarified - Mac OS X - How to Setup Facebook Chat Within iChat

    I didn’t know you could do this. A bit odd having my “Facebook friends” (rather than my usual, “online” friends) there all the time. Plus they think I’m using Facebook *all day*.

  21. LRB · August Kleinzahler · Diary

    I really liked this piece, in which Kleinzahler sells the home he grew up in, and his parents have lived in for decades.

  22. Hidden - Apple Mac theft recovery for just $20

    Annoyingly lower-cased, but sounds good, and cheap. (via Preoccupations)

  23. Free Audio Walks in London - Download free podcast episodes by Robert Wright on iTunes.

    I haven’t tried these but could be good…

  24. MemoryMiner: Digital Storytelling for Macintosh & The Web

    “It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time.” Haven’t tried it, unclear why I should.

  25. The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration | Epicenter | Wired.com

    Wired magazine’s demo of their tablet version. We’re going to end up with a different UI for every single magazine/publisher aren’t we…? Oh dear. Also: “At the bottom we have … the scrubber.” Ha ha!

  26. FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator

    Helps you work out how much you need to charge to cover your expenses and desired profit. Although that doesn’t necessarily bear much relation to the market. (via Haddock)

  27. Capital FM Logos, 1999-2009 | Blog - Gareth53.co.uk

    I didn’t realise they’d been through so many logos so quickly (although the Sunny Day logo was, I’m sure, introduced before 1999).

  28. AnchorFree

    Free, ad-supported VPN. Software for Mac/Windows, and settings for iPhone.

  29. Jilion - SublimeVideo

    That lovely HTML5 video player which I keep seeing and then forgetting the URL of.

  30. Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus

    From the developers of TmyMCE. (via Simon Willison)