Links
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Shift Run Stop – Episode 7: New Year’s Special – Adam Curtis and Avery Edison
Not to put down Avery Edison, but the Adam Curtis bits of this are fascinating and really worth a listen.
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Express & Star
“Britain’s biggest selling evening newspaper”, their website now powered by WordPress.
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Robhudson’s django-debug-toolbar at master - GitHub
Looks very handy for showing what’s happening under the hood on your Django pages.
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Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django « SaltyCrane Blog
A handy guide. What am I getting into…
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Tools of Pro Django developer – aka What powers dinette and almost every app we write.
Some useful things to have a look into.
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Dallas Clayton - An Awesome Book
If you need a little inspiring, this is like a lovely “think something big!” pill. (via Haddock)
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Flat rate VAT « Online accounting software news from Xero
Xero added support for the Flat Rate Scheme for VAT last month. I don’t use Xero, but this is another reason to try it.
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John Graham-Cumming: Utter crap reporting from The Daily Telegraph
Also read the previous post about the CNN story. Come *on* journalists — it’s not difficult to at least be adequate at your job.
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Flights - Search Data from Hundreds of Travel Sites for Cheap Flights at KAYAK
A good way to filter lots of flight search results.
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Whole Earth Discipline
Online, annotated version of Stewart Brand’s book. Annotations aside, seems to Instapaper quite well.
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Schneier on Security: The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
Some examples of how many Americans will die from different causes each day. eg, 50 murders, 85 suicides, 120 in traffic accidents. Every day.
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HomeAway Vacation Rentals: Beach Houses, Condos, Cabins, Villas & Vacation Rental Homes
Could do with “sort by distance from a given point” and better maps of each place’s location, but handy otherwise.
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TinEye Reverse Image Search
Supply it with an image and it will look for other uses of that image on the web. (via Meish)
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The Jane
Cheap West Village / Greenwich Village hotel in New York. Small but cute-looking rooms like ship’s cabins.
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Walking Off the Big Apple
“A strolling guide to New York City.” I’m planning a few days there in March, and I like walking around cities. Looks like a good place to start.
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Why Leslie Harpold’s Sites Disappeared | Workbench
Sad-making. For the record, I would love it if everything I’ve ever put online remains available after my death. (via Haddock)
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Dave’s Mechanical Pencils: Uni Kuru Toga
A pencil in which the lead rotates when you press down so you don’t get a sloping point. Plus: a blog about mechanical pencils! (via Crackunit)
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Knitwear from House of Bruar
Also recommended in some forum for Scottish wool jumpers.
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Pakeman Catto and Carter
Recommended in some forum for Scottish wool sweaters.
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Incentra Village House - Official Homepage - Incentra Village House, built in 1841, occupies two red brick landmark townhouses in New York’s Greenwich Village Historic District.
Not too expensive Greenwich Village hotel/rooms, good Guardian review.
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Hotel 414 | Official Website
Cheapish Midtown West New York hotel, recommended by Leslie.
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Manhattan New York City Budget Hotels - Hotel 31 - Hotels in Manhattan, NY
Cheapish Lower East Side, recommended by Leslie.
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Chelsea Lodge - Official Home Page - Budget Hotel in New York City, cheap lodging/rooms and budget accommodations for budget minded travellers.
Cheapish Chelsea hotel, New York. Recommended in a Guardian review.
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Design 1968 Journal - VADS: the online resource for visual arts
A favourable period review of Britannic House, since revamped as City Point.
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BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere
Wow. Amazing to think this could be part of suburbs - I visited in 1997 and it was in the middle of nowhere.
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Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade | Music | guardian.co.uk
The 200 best albums of the noughties weren’t as good as the best 200 of the 1960s. But the 2,000 best albums were better than the 2,000 best of the 1960s.