Links
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Mapping religion in America (regionsofmind.blog-city.com)
Fascinating and attractive maps showing the percentage of residents of all US counties that belong to different religions. (via Plasticbag)
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2lmc spool - Damn Interesting
I like the spool a lot but “my web-discoverage is pretty organic because I shun memeclouds” is a hilarious phrase. I fear it it’s supposed to be serious.
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Quick guide to somewhat advanced JavaScript
Helping me brush up my entrenched Web 1.0 JavaScript skills.
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André Carrilho
Some fab distorted caricatures here. (But what is it with illustrators’ websites and endless Flash and pop-up windows? Hello, it’s the 21st century, please keep up.) (via Drawn!)
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Kyle Reed Illustration | 905.297.9454
Some of these collage illustrations are great, although I wish he’d use a few more of the original photos’ features rather than, say, making eyes out of black and white paper. (via Drawn!)
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Hotel • Home
I love the design of this site’s pages (designed by Paul Hetherington built by Dorian Moore). I’m not sure if I love it in spite,or because of it looking more like a paper brochure than a website.
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Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor. - Side Job Track
Haven’t tried it, but looks good. Not sure why it’s only for “part-time” contractors.
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Lily Allen
Catchy, wonderful tunes. But can I buy them or legally download them? No. Chance of me being sick of them before I can pay for them? High. How silly is the music industry? Very.
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Haddock Directory
If you were thinking I’ve been keeping the site unusuallly up-to-date over recent weeks, it’s because an anonymous and glamorous assistant has taken over the task for me. Thank you, glamorous assistant!
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“WhatChewLookingAt??!”, The Neck, Saunders Island on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
See me commune with my penguin friends.
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Falkland Islands trip 2005/2006 - a photoset on Flickr
Mary’s finally finished uploading all her photos from our Falklands trip. All 358 of them.
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Classic Cat - the free classical music directory
Directory with links to musicians’ sites with free MP3s of their classical performances.
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Fat Fingers
Searches eBay for mis-spellings of your search term so you can find hidden bargains.
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Falkland Island travel advice | Ask MetaFilter
With a comment from me and, more usefully, my sister. (via ChrisDodo)
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Posterity
Weirdly impenetrable and opaque pay-for site at which you can write your autobiography. As if weblogs never happened.
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SortedTable example
Dynamically sorted and rearranged HTML tables using Javascript.
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pair Networks - World Class Web Hosting - System Notices
Can’t be bothered with the RSS feed any more, but might need to remember where this is sometime.
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Mysql automatic backup script - AutoMySQLBackup
Looks very handy, and better than my too ad hoc approach.
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SourceForge.net: Smarty Gettext
This *seems* like the best of many cobbled-together ways to do language localisation with PHP and Smarty, but I haven’t tried it yet. Any other suggestions…?
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Luke Melia » Installing subversion at pair
Maybe I should finally do this. Before I regret not doing it.
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The Observer | Review | Divine inspiration
Scroll down to various arty types talking about how they get inspired. (via City of Sound)
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John Lewis Partnership - First Openings for Waitrose in Scotland
Our local Somerfield (ex-Morrisons, ex-Safeway) is to change again, in June, into a Waitrose. Much rejoicing among Barbican residents who have clamoured for more middle-class groceries for an amusingly long time.
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BBC News | Entertainment | Cult poet Ivor Cutler dies at 83
I missed this earlier in the week. I’m glad we went to see him a couple of years back, although I feared I wouldn’t see him again. Bye bye Ivor.
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Nev n Dave » Top 10 tips for effective blog reading - part 1
More tips for stopping RSS overwhelming you. Apart from unsubscribing from them all.
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Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers
How to stop RSS feeds overwhelm you. Aside from switching off the computer and doing something else.
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O’Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs
I’m a sucker for lists of start-up rules like this that I’ll probably never need. (via Boing Boing)
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“No input file specified” | jenseng.com
How to generate 404s when using PHP as a CGI binary. Bodgy, but better than the default.
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Peter Maurer - Witch
Application switcher for Mac that lets you switch between windows, not just applications. Very handy for those of us trying to avoid the mouse. Oodles of options.
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Soundstream
If I used a screensaver… Reacts to sounds it hears through your Mac’s microphone. Only appeared on my PowerBook’s screen, not the external monitor, but still nice.
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3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian’s web site | high priority
Mac OS X toolbar to-do list manager. For me to remember if I start using iCal’s to do list. (via plasticbag.org)