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  1. Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter

    Book mentioned by Matt Webb in his New Puritans piece.

  2. New puritans are the (26 October 2005, Interconnected)

    Matt Webb on the New Puritans being a sign of impending societal collapse (although I lose him a bit towards the end).

  3. The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’

    Scarily close to the bone. I have “no” down to a far-too-instant reflex response. (via Annie Feighery)

  4. Digitally Distributed Environments: Global Warming - London Flooding

    A movie showing the effects of rising sea levels on a model of London.

  5. Digitally Distributed Environments: Flooding London Panorama

    Photoshopped panorama of a flooded Charlotte Street in London. It’ll look much less prettier when/if it really happens! (via Tom Carden)

  6. Web Services - Audioscrobbler

    It’s been a while since I looked - I didn’t realise there was so much juicy data easily accessible.

  7. Merchandise - OpenStreetMap

    Very nice large map of plotted GPS data in London, only ten quid. Even better, raises money for OpenStreetMap. (via Tom Carden)

  8. MT Extensions: Avoiding Duplicate Comments 3.01

    Movable Type hack to solve a problem I’ve been getting a lot recently.

  9. TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine — The Road Ahead

    A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)

  10. Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: Goodbye…

    Simon Roberts on deciding to close his company, and what he’s learned.

  11. BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets

    Makes me sad, as if a tiny piece of my own posessions have gone up in smoke. Commiserations, Aards folk.

  12. RichardHerring.com - Warming Up - Friday 7th October 2005

    “So George W Bush is saying that God told him to invade Iraq. … The last person I remember who argued that God had told him to do stuff was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.”

  13. Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times

    On how “coolhunters” are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)

  14. ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion

    Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines. (via Tim)

  15. The Believer - Interview with Jonathan Haidt

    On whether moral judgements are based on reason. Not sure how much of it I agree with, but it’s interesting.

  16. Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists

    On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)

  17. ColorMatch 5K :: the original

    complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)

  18. Color Blender

    Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender

  19. Slayeroffice | tools | color palette creator v1.6

    (via Tim)

  20. TomDispatch - Tomgram: Mike Davis, Has the Age of Chaos Begun?

    My only hope is that tipping over into a new ice age happens after I die. (via Boing Boing)

  21. The Stage Online :: Newsblog

    I stumbled across the Stage’s weblog earlier in the week, and it’s very good indeed.

  22. EZPDO » Comments on “Cross the Divide, Object Persistence in PHP”

    Response to some of the criticisms in the previous review.

  23. Crossing the Divide: Object Persistence in PHP by Theo Spears (PDF)

    Review of DB_DataObject, Propel and EZPDO. I’ve been using the first, but the last sounds tempting for PHP 5.

  24. Ning | Developer : Home

    New site that makes it easy to create your own social software apps, from the secretive 24 Hour Laundry. (I did most of the HTML/CSS.)

  25. Stone Cold Pimpin’: Petracovich - The New Video

    My friend Ted’s made a lovely music video for Petracovich’s dreamy track ‘Others’.

  26. PrimerMovie.com :: View topic - My version of the Primer explanation.

    I can’t remember the movie enough to see how much this makes sense, but for next time I see it… (via Tom Coates)

  27. Candace: even more critical mass

    Don’t you love living in a free country? Grrrrr.

  28. Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code

    Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.

  29. Royal Festival Hall

    I’m not sure when it redesigned, but I’m really liking the RFH’s site. Beautiful.

  30. Old Walton Pictures Index

    Loads and loads of old photos of Walton-on-Naze, where I often go on holiday.