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  1. Charlie Brooker: To politicians, we’re little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor | Comment is free | The Guardian

    I’m going through that periodic “who can I bring myself to vote for?” dilemma and this just makes it worse. Just one good party would be enough. (via Lee)

  2. The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Gears of War 2

    Quite enjoying these animated games reviews, although this is the only game I’ve played much, so far. Kind of sounds like old Victor Lewis Smith.

  3. Big Tent Atheism - Boing Boing

    I often wonder what a really populist atheism would look like. Could it exist? If so, would it look like anything?

  4. In Pictures: Secret Bits Of The Barbican - Londonist

    Not that secret - only two or three photos are from inside the building that’s currently being turned into flats, but still interesting.

  5. Government Information Services:…: 23 Feb 2009: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)

  6. The Unstandard Demo

    Another nice WordPress theme. Uses images for the front page.

  7. Grid Focus Demo

    Nice clean WordPress template (with slightly annoying slidy social bookmarking panel).

  8. Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 - Crave at CNET UK

    Shockingly bad bar charts. 3D bars drawn in perspective don’t help with comparisons.

  9. Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog

    Nice “lessons learned” piece (via Simon Willison)

  10. Magical times at the picture palace - Evening Star 24

    Second part (of two, I think) of my grandad’s memories of growing up in Ipswich in the early 1900s.

  11. How-to style WordPress author comments - Derek Punsalan - 5ThirtyOne

  12. Great ideas generator - Dracos.co.uk

    Prepare for the next dotcom boom.

  13. Wiki-Up that Drupal site | Patrick Teglia

    More on adding a wiki to Drupal.

  14. How to: create a wiki with Drupal | Cwgordon7’s blog

    Drupal was quite lovely and easy to install, if complicated. But the wiki still felt a bit “not quite right” somehow.

  15. The Dead - a free survival-horror role-playing game.

    Looks like fun. Interesting stuff about relationships. Nice illustrations too.

  16. HOWTO/Install MoinMoin On Dreamhost - Mitch’s Wiki

    The official MoinMoin wiki installation instructions are a confusing nightmare and failed me. These, on the other hand, just worked (even on a non-Dreamhost shared host). Still seems much, much more complex than an install should be.

  17. WikiMatrix - Compare them all

    Compare loads of features of loads of wikis.

  18. Main Page - Lyrics from LyricWiki

    Never trawl through those oodles of banner-ad and ringtone laden sites filled with scraped and inaccurate lyrics again. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before.

  19. Big L Radio Times Feature | Big L

    Article from the ‘Radio Times’ from last year describing life in the Frinton-on-Sea house that radio DJs Mike Read, David “Diddy” Hamilton and Adrian John share five days a week. Those wacky guys!

  20. The Demon-Haunted World

    Matt Jones’ thought-provoking presentation on urbanisation and digitalisation: practical city magic. Great stuff.

  21. Click opera - Art students (called Brian) observed

    The student days of Brian Eno. (via Blackbeltjones)

  22. William Heath’s blog » Blog Archive » Who wants to live in our new hamlet, just outside London?

    William Heath and co have found a great place for their co-housing project. Exciting.

  23. AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel

    A way for people to rent out rooms or apartments. More formal arrangements for paying than Craig’s List, a step up from Couch Surfing. Got a nice (I hope) place for SXSW here.

  24. Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)

    (via Dotcode)

  25. Article Skimmer

    NY Time’s prototype news viewer. Nice idea but it equalises the importance of all but one of the stories. I want a newspaper to tell me what it thinks is important (even if it’s wrong). Otherwise it’s not a newspaper, it’s a database.

  26. Datamoshing

    This stuff is awesome… ten years ago we wouldn’t be able to see this as anything but an ugly mistake. In a couple more years it’ll look really dated. It’s now, yesterday’s future here.

  27. Child’s-eye view of Edwardian Ipswich - Evening Star 24

    Part one of my grandad’s memories of growing up in Ipswich in the early 1900s.

  28. Jacobian’s jellyroll at master - GitHub

    “You keep personal data in all sorts of places on the internets. Jellyroll brings them together onto your own site.” Sounds good, but haven’t tried it. (via Blech)

  29. Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing

    Sounds nice and some lovely little features like saving info about the weather, etc when it automatically checks your files in. Contextual backup.

  30. Husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.

    “Is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site?” Yes. Maybe even a WordPress plugin…?