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  1. Tamrac - Adventure Series photo backpacks

    Holds SLR and laptop. For when I need to replace my ageing backpack.

  2. Hide & Seek

    Pervasive gaming weekend based on the South Bank this weekend. Sounds a lot of fun; I’d go if I was in town. (via Haddock)

  3. Why the BBC Trust’s decision on iPlayer sells us all short from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

    If Cory’s too much for you, Bobbie’s more English in his disgust. Gahhh. 86% of the public respondents are obviously far less important than the precious “industry stakeholders”. Angry. (via Wonderland)

  4. Boing Boing: BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM

    I often find Cory’s anti-DRM rants too much. But sometimes I feel as angry as he does and it all seems quite appropriate. I like the BBC and I don’t want to see idiots slowly destroy it.

  5. Beth’s Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies - Allrecipes

    Made these last night. Very, very tasty. They did, finally, just about set enough to not fall apart.

  6. Neighbourhood Fix-It

    I keep forgetting the name of this. “Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting.” Reports go straight to the council concerned. Excellent. (via Tomski)

  7. PlanningAlerts.com | Email alerts of planning applications near you

    New to me. It just works. I even get direct links to the council website to comment on each application. Wonderful. This is how council websites should work. (via Tomski)

  8. Beast

    Lightweight, not-quite-finished Rails-based forum system.

  9. Twitter

    Twitter’s new mobile interface, a boon for those who don’t want umpteen texts to their phone about their friend’s lunch decisions (but still, at some point, want to know the decisions).

  10. Russell davies: interesting speakers

    I’ll be speaking for five minutes at Interesting 2007 on “something to do with acting.” Bet you can’t wait.

  11. Living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP

    One-click install of Apache, MySQL, PHP for running sites locally on your Mac without all the httpd.conf etc malarkey.

  12. Latitude/longitude lookup (geocoding-geolocator)

    Thing from Cameron Marlowe and Yahoo! Maps which shows you the lat/long of a place you point at. Simple and could be handy. (via Plasticbag)

  13. Henry Woolf

    My suspicions confirmed: Harold Pinter’s lifelong friend and collaborator was also the man from 1980s education show ‘Words and Pictures’. He could have spiced things up a bit more…

  14. Samuel Pepys Award 2007

    Hmm, a shame this is only for printed paper books. How quaint.

  15. MTV Labs: The New HTML MTV.com

    MTV.com has ditched its Flash site for an HTML version after user feedback. (via Blackbeltjones over Twitter)

  16. São Paulo No Logo - a photoset on Flickr

    Advertising on large outdoor hoardings has been banned. When I rule the world this will happen in London. Oh, and everywhere else, seeing as I’ll rule the world. (via Haddock)

  17. BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page

    Very handy for finding clips of animals moving for thespian research purposes. And probably other things.

  18. Launch (Ftrain.com)

    Paul Ford, excellent on the inevitable public responses to a site launch and one’s reaction to them.

  19. BBC On This Day | 24 | 1956: Plans unveiled for homes in Barbican

    Wonderful video from 1956 showing the site now occupied by the Barbican, and a gentleman demonstrating an incomprehensible perspex model of an early plan.

  20. Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes - Proper English Title Capitalization

    Fantastic. A script for anyone who, like me, gets annoyed by the American Tendency To Capitalise Every Word In A Track’s Title And Album Name.

  21. Building - 4861 - Milton Court - London

    Current plan: destroy unique building (even if its beauty is debatable) and replace with dull glass tower. At least it’s residential and Guildhall School rooms, but still, it hugely annoys me.

  22. This time, only world class will do - Building Design

    “If Milton Court on the Barbican Estate must go, its replacement has to be much, much better.” Current plans are very dull and, worse, destroy the current walkway link to the Barbican and surrounding buildings.

  23. Will-self.com » Blog Archive » Will Self’s Writing Room - A 360 Degree View In 71 Photos

    More photos of Will Self’s room. I’d like to see the “Hockney-esque fractured portrait of the room”.

  24. Writers’ rooms: Will Self | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books

    I love this series. As someone else said, they’ve mostly looked like typical taken-over spare rooms. Comfortable. Almost not like work rooms. Self’s is reassuringly different.

  25. Stewartlee.co.uk - reviews and writing - English Hecklers in New Zealand - May 2005

    “In the 90s, Baddiel and Skinner let the thugs have our comedy. And then Oasis and The Happy Mondays let the thugs have our music. Now there are lads at indie rock gigs and lads at comedy. Where is our space? What belongs to us?” (via Oblinks)

  26. House of Commons, Journal | British History Online

    Going back to 1547 (and House of Lords), could be handy for Pepys. But, annoyingly, very un-guessable URLs for the daily archives. Hmm.

  27. No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

    Wonderful site that shows breaking all the rules can work if you do it with a flourish. (via Daring Fireball)

  28. Noisy Decent Graphics: Interesting 2007

    Fantastic ideas for doing all the supporting graphic/ product/ identity design around the Interesting 2007 mini conference. Lots of re-use of materials, very nice. (via Blackbeltjones)

  29. Bible Study for Atheists

    A chapter of the Bible per weblog entry, with commentary. Wish I’d heard about this when it started, as I’d like to know more of the Bible.

  30. What do you do when your success … sucks? (Skrentablog)

    A look at how Topix worked out why the site didn’t work and what they did about it. (via Haddock)