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  1. Revised Font Stack | A Way Back

    More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)

  2. Coriandr / lottielodge / Handmade socks, realistic price

    I love this kind of thing. I’d like to see how much your average mass-produced-in-China garment should cost if the workers were paid UK minimum wage.

  3. Britain’s “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist

    Good article on how many things that you’d think would define “broken Britain” have been improving. Britain’s better.

  4. Creative Review - The Atlas of the Real World

    Some fascinating maps of the world representing stuff about each country… oh, just look. (via Booktwo)

  5. Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize | Electronic Frontier Foundation

    If you buy a Burning Man ticket you assign copyright on any photos you take at the event to the organisers.

  6. Belgrave Cedar Shoe Tree

    Decent, relatively cheap shoe trees. Don’t look quite as smart as the photo in the flesh but seem to do the job.

  7. Photos of my models

    Amazing photos… of *models*… keep watching until you see the little models to scale. (via The Online Photographer)

  8. PersonalNews

    Kind of odd “individual newspaper” that combines your choice of pages from some newspapers.

  9. The Online Photographer: Old TIME, New TIME

    A nice comparison of two copies of Time magazine, from 1968 and today.

  10. YouTube - Avatar Review (Part 1 of 2)

    From the guy who did that long Star Wars review. This is also wonderful. Intelligent, funny, silly. “I haven’t rolled my eyes that much since that demonic possession.”

  11. Melody: Community Powered Publishing

    An in-development open source CMS designed to be compatible with Movable Type. Not sure why, but maybe it’s interesting…?

  12. Byrnereese’s mt-plugin-profiler at master - GitHub

    Hopefully useful Movable Type plugin for working out which bits of your templates are taking ages to rebuild.

  13. LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts

    An article from May 2009 about the @ sign, followed by some fascinating letters about what it’s called in other countries.

  14. When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books

    I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today.

  15. From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

    The start of a series explaining maths to adults. Sounds good. There’s a link to Steven Strogatz’s own RSS feed at the bottom of the right column. (via Kottke)

  16. Dial 01 for London

    Lovely. Isn’t the internet fun sometimes. (via Crackunit)

  17. LRB · Anne Enright · Diary

    I want a current affairs-only newspaper by the LRB full of articles written like this.

  18. Grange Hill Online - Locations

    Amazing: matching up shots from Grange Hill episodes with photos of the real world contemporary locations. The Internet’s fab. (via EnemyOfChaos on Twitter)

  19. Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - Toki Woki.

    An AIR application that generates customised CSS etc files for use with the Blueprint CSS framework. Handy.

  20. The State of Split-Screen Gaming Article | Eurogamer

    A summary of decent games to play with a friend in the same room. (Thanks Tom A.)

  21. The benbrown website :: daily text

    Ben Brown’s 6985 word account of his SXSW 2000 and *that* weblog panel. A lovely piece, still worth a read.

  22. Comments on 1142 | MetaFilter

    A bit more flurry about weblogs and “3000 word” Ben Brown-style essays, post SXSW 2000. Quaint.

  23. Hack the Planet: Are you sure?

    A post-SXSW2000 discussion about weblogs and cliques and oh all those things that now seem so old.

  24. CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box

    Cameron Barrett’s account of SXSW 2000.

  25. Can’t You Wait - Geographer

    I don’t *quite* understand it, but some refreshingly interesting design, not aping print.

  26. Timeline twins, music and movies

    I keep thinking about this old post. I must be getting old. “Listening to Michael Jackson’s Thriller today is equivalent to listening to Elvis Presley’s first album (1956) at the time of Thriller’s release in 1982.”

  27. Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

    I’ve been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)

  28. Lentil and bean recipes / Nigel Slater | Life and style | The Observer

    The Butter Beans With Mustard And Tomato is very easy and very tasty. (via Haddock)

  29. What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK (from little.red.boat )

    Lengthy but clear explanation from Anna Pickard. Hurrah! I’m hoping she does get started on ‘Saturday Night Live’…

  30. LRB · David Runciman · I Could Fix That

    All interesting, but I particularly like the bits where Bill Clinton gets obsessed with details of things like Hubble and Dolly the sheep.