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  1. Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software

    Worth reading even if it only included this quote:

  2. Daily Mirror: How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?

    Well, you have to wonder. Something in the water? Cosmic rays? 59,054,087 radio receivers embedded in fillings?

  3. Monolingual

    Mac OS X app for removing un-needed language files, if you forgot to disable them when installing the system. Saved myself a few hundred MB.

  4. Centre Point, 101 New Oxford Street, London, West End, London - photos, history and background

    Be sure to follow the little link to read the history of the site’s planning permission.

  5. CVSTrac - A Web-Based Bug And Patch-Set Tracking System For CVS

    Original CVS-based version of the aforementioned Subversion-based Trac.

  6. The Trac Project - Trac

    Python-based bug-tracking wiki thing that uses Subversion and sounds good which I don’t need now but will forget the name of when I need it if I don’t link to it now.

  7. Cars to Vanish in $50M Tunnel Town

    100 homes, $50 million, all cars underground in a planned development in Russia.

  8. 43 Folders: OSX inventories, tips

    Very handy list of links to peoples’ collections of tips for getting the most from your Mac.

  9. Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Fallen fruit

    Why many varieties of British apples are gone forever. I bet right-wingers who want to

  10. Archinect : School Blog Project

    A collection of weblogs by students at architecture schools around the world, documenting their experiences. Every academic discipline should have this.

  11. Flickr and PHP by Cal Henderson (PDF)

    Interesting presentation… only wish I could see Cal present it.

  12. Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Robots.txt Query Exclusion.

    HotWired launched ten years ago yesterday but you can’t see older versions on archive.org because HotWired have blocked it from archiving their site.

  13. Copy, Right?

    MP3 blog devoted to cover versions. Don’t know why no one did it before!

  14. adaptive path

    Peter Merholz ponders how to make user-added keywords (or

  15. Subterranea Britannica: Sites: Bishopsgate Goods Station (Goodsyard)

    Interesting report on the history and future of the location, and it uses one of my photos (on the fourth page).

  16. About Desktop Manager

    Been using this for a few days now, and it’s invaluable if you only have one screen.

  17. Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools - A Review of Review Sites

    The best sites that review all kinds of things. Useful round-up.

  18. Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

    About interviewing programmers, but useful otherwise too perhaps.

  19. Chalet lounge, catered ski and snowboard accomodation, Chamonix - Cookbook

    Recipes — and some good tips — from Sarah and Tom’s Chalet.

  20. Anti-mega: can we get excited yet?

    Chris is living in the future. And it’s over there.

  21. BBC - BBC Four Music - Gillian Welch Session

    Tonight or tomorrow… if her recentish show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire was anything to go by, this should be awesome.