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  1. Chez pim: Pad Thai for beginners

    Sounds tasty and feasible. (via MegP)

  2. A Low Impact Woodland Home

    The houses are a bit cutesy for my liking, but working on them (or something similarly self-buildy) over the summer would be interesting. If, you know, one didn’t have to work.

  3. Review: iDefrag for OS X - PaulStamatiou.com

    Raves for a disk defragging tool for Macs, and discussion about the fact it is needed despite what many think.

  4. 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine

    Handy to have so many in one place. (via Daring Fireball)

  5. The Stage | Newsblog | The play(wright)’s the thing….

    About group-devised theatre vs theatre written by a playwright, which made some things floating in my head solidify a bit. (Plus my comment beneath it.)

  6. Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components

    Makes QuickTime work with all the video formats you’re actually likely to use. Free. (via Haddock)

  7. Correo - a new mail client for OS X

    Thunderbird-based email client from the people who do Camino. (via Blech)

  8. EO Newsroom: New Images - San Francisco Skyline

    Fantastic aerial photo, especially if you view the full image. Not that I’m envious of so many people I know moving there or anything, oh no. (via Pulse Laser)

  9. WWOOF (UK)

    World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in the UK.

  10. WWOOF Independents - home page

    World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for people who want to volunteer for a “holiday”.

  11. Trevorlittle.com - nyc photos » Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.

    Wow. Shows how dirty some New York buildings have become over the years. The difference is incredible. (via Kottke)

  12. YouTube - Silent Star Wars

    Beautifully done. Makes me unsuitably happy. (via Boing Boing)

  13. Zf-twitter - Google Code

    Tim’s PHP class for reading Twitter data. Uses the Zend Framework.

  14. Telegraph | News | London-on-Sea: the future of a city in decay

    Map of how much of London may flood. Run for the hills. (via Haddock)

  15. Isabelkate: long time no write

    Descriptions of my LISPA teachers by Isabel who’s in the afternoon group. Probably more enthusiastic than I’d be, but isn’t that always the case.

  16. John Sentamu: Face to faith | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited

    The Archbishop of York on how ethics are not the same as feelings, law, social norms or religion, and how ethics in business are important. Also, I hadn’t noticed comments on Guardian articles before (in tiny tiny text).

  17. How to Backup Your DVD Movies

    Excellent screencast on how to back up DVDs on your Mac. (via Daring Fireball)

  18. Xmas card shoot :o) - a photoset on Flickr

    Sam’s very good and scary Christmas photos.

  19. YouTube - A Charlie Brown Christmas (full length)

    Joy! I love the internet and I now feel Christmassy. And I think Charlie Brown grows up to become Jon Ronson.

  20. Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O’Rourke - Slate Magazine

    Interesting interview. Sees the show “as a 66-hour movie” and “a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it’s the Postmodern institutions that are the gods” (via Kottke)

  21. ColourLovers Coup.0 :: Colour Lovers

    Odd but interesting and useful site for sharing colour palettes, marred only by over-busy design and annoying Flash. (via Haddock)

  22. Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1650

    Guide to what was happening in different fields in consecutive decades through history. Good if you ignore that knowledge changes with geography and social position. (via Kottke)

  23. MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Downloads

    Really nice Mac application for organising photos from your past around people and places. (via Haddock)

  24. Running Movable Type 3.3 with LightTPD and FastCGI (Tapirtype Blog)

    Detailed instructions for doing this on TextDrive hosting.

  25. FLV Online Converter - vixy.net

    Free online Flash video converter, can convert YouTube videos into something usable. (via Daring Fireball)

  26. The Taiyo Yuden FAQ - Blank Media - Club CD Freaks

    How to identify which CDs/DVDs were made by Taiyo Yuden. (via Daring Fireball)

  27. How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera

    Use DVD+R discs manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, if you can identify it. (via Daring Fireball)

  28. Caring for Your Introvert

    Meet me. Scarily excellent description of being an introvert and why they/we find extroverts frustrating.

  29. Apophenia: suckage explained

    Having no spare time, not wanting any more email, microfame, attention. (via Haddock)

  30. Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

    “Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.”