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  1. Barbican Library online catalogue search (TalisWeb Opac)

  2. RichardHerring.com - Wednesday 16th February 2005

    I had that I-Spy book of Car Numbers. I was a fascinating child, oh yes.

  3. Shakespeare & Lauderdale Towers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    A lovely photo of the Barbican that looks different to all the others for once.

  4. SunKilMoon

    I’m so out of touch - I didn’t know Mark “Red House Painters” Kozelek had a new band. Joy.

  5. DJ History: Archive Interviews - Ian Levine

    Remembrances of Northern/Modern Soul in the 1970s.

  6. So you want to be a consultant…?

    Loads of really solid, useful advice for contractors/consultants.

  7. Underground tokyo guidebook — Tokyo, underground, guide book, punk, hentai, shinjuku, harajuku, tourism, anime, hardcore, japan, akihabara

    One day I’ll need this.

  8. Riverside Studios: Comedy - Richard Herring - The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace

    This was as fun as I’d hoped - go see! On till this Sunday.

  9. Ugandan Discussions: The Covers of Private Eye

    Since 1961, with cover stars indexed.

  10. Photographers’ Rights in the UK (PDF)

    Two sides of A4 on what you can and can’t take photos of in this country.

  11. English Cut

    Utterly fascinating weblog by a bespoke tailor, and a great example of how a simple weblog can promote a business.

  12. Internet Archive: Live Music Archive

    I had no idea archive.org had bootlegs of gigs (I came across it via a Mountain Goats recording in there).

  13. Flickr: FlickrCentral - Visualizing the Flickr social network

    Hot social network analysis action. (I’m nowhere to be seen.)

  14. Black and White Photography: Walking the Circle Line: Barbican to Moorgate

    Lovely pinhole camera shots of the Barbican

  15. As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google - Anonymous comment

    Stitching together a map of the entire USA via Google Maps.

  16. SeaDragon Technology

    Demo of some vague but interesting mapping technology. (Go to Technology > Demos > Map demo. Dumb Flash site.)

  17. As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google

    Roughly how the client-side of Google Maps works.

  18. How to Cut…

    Ultimate vegetable chopping howto, as ChrisDodo says.

  19. FixIt Guide - FixIt Guide Series

    Very clear step-by-step guides to replacing various parts of your PowerBook or iBook.

  20. S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

    Spent ages trying to find this a while back when I couldn’t remember the name. Now I have you.

  21. Gladwell dot com / Big and Bad

    Malcolm Gladwell on SUVs: “feeling safe has become more important than actually being safe”.

  22. Gladwell dot com— The Pitchman

    Malcolm Gladwell makes the story of Ron Popeil and his Showtime Rotisserie more interesting than anyone else could.

  23. Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit - Enterprise Integration Patterns

    Not sure where I got this link from, but interesting.

  24. How to: the bag-packing edition : Lifehacker

    Links to guides on packing bags and backpacks, and living out of a single bag.

  25. Schubert it - PDF Browser Plugin

    View PDFs in your Mac browser (Safari, Firefox…). No more desktop littered with PDF downloads. Excellent.

  26. RichardHerring.com - Saturday 29th January 2005

    Spot on about the wondrous ‘Sideways’ and the good-despite-itself ‘Closer’.

  27. Many-to-Many: Finding Mavens in Usenet

    Hot social network analysis action.

  28. NewtVNC: VNC for the Newton

    Been meaning to get round to trying this for ages now.

  29. HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center - Engadget - www.engadget.com

    As the comments say: pointless, bandwagon-jumping use of a Mac Mini that will be hidden in another room.

  30. PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column - Dethroning King Gillette

    Robert X. Cringely (and correspondents) on the Mac Mini and where it could lead.