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  1. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The unskilled think they’re much better than they are, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities.

  2. Python Package Index : Mezzanine 0.2.2

    “A content management platform built using the Django framework” and with a nice WordPress-style admin interface.

  3. The arrow of WordPress time « Jon Udell

    On trying to do something a little Pepys’ Diary-esque using a standard WordPress.com site.

  4. Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

    Fun look at how so many Hollywood films use very similar computer-adjusted colour palettes these days. (via @matlock)

  5. CSS for iPhone 4 (Retina display) « Thomas Maier – web & communication designer

    Including CSS only for devices with the iPhone 4’s pixel resolution. (This is all getting more complex than all that copying with NS4, IE5, Mac IE5, etc, etc.) (via Daring Fireball)

  6. LRB · Charles Nicholl · ‘A Naughty House’

    Entertaining account of some early 17th century people and places around Whitecross Street, St John Street, Barbican.

  7. A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design

    Good description of making more flexible, multi-device HTML/CSS structures. For those of you not caring about IE support.

  8. Doonesbury Comic Strip, June 22, 2010 on GoComics.com

    “It looks like a limp iPad.” “It’s called a newspaper, Sam! Go ahead, pick it up!”

  9. Niksilver.com » When board leaders fail to grasp technology

    On how company bosses treat IT as an expensive, unnecessary, incomprehensible thing. (via Dan Hon)

  10. Hog Bay Software Blog - PlainText

    An iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app that lets you read/write text files and sync them with Dropbox. (via Preoccupations)

  11. Live map of London Underground trains

    Lovely quick thing from Matthew Somerville, a map of where tube trains are right now. Moving. Live. Magic.

  12. “Login” is not a verb

    I’m forever correcting this when I make other peoples’ designs into web pages.

  13. TouchScroll, a scrolling layer for WebKit mobile [update] « Uxebu.com – the Ajax and JavaScript Experts

    Re-implementing scrolling for WebKit Mobile web browsers. Haven’t looked at the code yet, but the demo seems good.

  14. Search and Replace metadata in Lightroom

    “A Lightroom 2 and 3 plug-in designed for bulk changes to text in Metadata Panel fields.” Could be handy for some tidying up.

  15. Dailymotion - The Daily Show: An Energy-Independent Future - a News & Politics video

    Just in case you were even slightly optimistic after Obama promised US energy independence. They’ve been saying that for at least 36 years. Thirty. Six. Years.

  16. Doubles Guy | Know Your Meme

    I love it when Know Your Meme explains a really specific meme that most of the world is oblivious of, but that people in that niche get really worked up about.

  17. Mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast

    Some handy tips, although some assume you’re building a website *only* for the iPad, and don’t need to worry about other platforms.

  18. Issues with how Apple Aperture 3 writes metadata

    What a mess. Although some of these issues might have been fixed in the just-released 10.6.4 OS X update which “addresses IPTC metadata compatibility issues” in Aperture 3…?

  19. Apple - Support - Discussions - missing faces/places after event import …

    Differences between Aperture’s importing from iPhoto Library and from its iPhoto Browser.

  20. Gangsinlondon

    Apparently the creator of those Google Maps of gangs, according to a Daily Telegraph article. Fascinating.

  21. Google Maps - englandgangs

    Maps of gang territories in London. No idea how accurate it is, etc. Interesting if it’s at all accurate. (via Tom Taylor)

  22. Dealinium - jSlideTouch for Ipad & Iphone/Ipod using jQuery for content sliding

    Sliding content in a fixed-size element left/right or up/down on web pages on iPhone, iPad etc.

  23. iScroll | Matteo Spinelli’s Cubiq.org

    A way to do scrolling content in a webpage in a fixed size element on iPhone. eg, lists of things.

  24. Lessons learned from 13 failed software products « Successful Software

    I’ve only read the first two so far, and it’s interesting to see people reflecting on why projects they’ve invested time in eventually failed. (via Beyond the Beyond)

  25. On Bookmarking, Dog Ears and Marginalia | booktwo.org

    James Bridle, and commenters, on bookmarking, taking notes, etc while reading.

  26. LRB · Keith Thomas · Diary

    About taking notes from books, keeping commonplace books, etc. Interesting to read about his laborious technique.

  27. Rabble.rule: Detecting a swipe in WebKit

    Handy Javascript for using gestures on websites for the iPhone/iPad etc. (via Haddock)

  28. HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript

    Nice, clear, simple summary of making websites work more like apps when viewed on iPhone/iPad.

  29. Crowd-sourcing the office stereo, using Twitter and Spotify

    Python script to enable sending Spotify URLs @ a Twitter account which then queue and play, and also scrobble to Last.fm.

  30. Woe db

    Searchable index of the Where On Earth ID location database, very nicely done.