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  1. LRB · Roy Mayall: Diary

    A good day to finally read this report from a pseudonymous postman. “Figures are down” but volumes are up; companies are important, ordinary people aren’t.

  2. Thomas Dolby’s Blog » Blog Archive » ‘Gig’ announcement!

    I’m unreasonably excited about this.

  3. Warren Ellis » Paper Nets

    “I keep wondering. What can a one-writer magazine look like?” Me too.

  4. Cadence | your music. your motion.

    Mainly for Cadence Desktop, which claims to apply BPM values to your iTunes songs. I’ve heard that before, but you never know. (via Lee)

  5. gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library

    That looks very nice indeed. (via Infovore)

  6. Equinux - Mac software to watch, chat and record digital TV

    The Tube. Looks like an interesting alternative to something like EyeTV for watching and recording TV, if you have a tuner. Plus social gubbins.

  7. 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica

    How companies have complained that new technologies will destroy content industries over the past century. Like when home taping killed music. Wasn’t that terrible. (via Kottke)

  8. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

    Sounds like an interesting, free, online book for those of us unlikely to learn real programming any time soon. (via Infovore)

  9. CityEngine

    I love watching this kind of stuff. “And… generate the buildings.” (via City of Sound)

  10. British Airways

    Best ‘Title’ field in a registration form ever. (via Haddock)

  11. Flickr for busy people

    Which of your contacts have added photos recently?

  12. Tutorial for Flash MP3 Player

    Nice, simple embedded MP3 player.

  13. Rescuing The Reporters « Clay Shirky

    On how much of a local newspaper is actual news, and suggesting that they should be non-profit organisations.

  14. Wired Scenarios: - Global Neighborhood Watch Neal Stephenson

    For blech, Neal Stephenson in 1995, imagining people watching CCTV cameras over the internet, like the new ‘Internet Eyes’ scheme starting in Britain.

  15. The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)

    “An engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.” (via Haddock)

  16. How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 — PaulStamatiou.com

    A good intro to EC2, which I’d like to get know better. (via Infovore)

  17. iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor

    Need to try this out. I’d like an archive of my SMSes and this might help me extract them.

  18. Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript redux using the Flickr Services API | d’bug

    I’ve read oodles of JavaScript examples on weblogs recently and it’s so nice to occasionally find one that explains things well, has good working examples, and inspires confidence. Shouldn’t be rare, but is.

  19. philgyford TrueAchievements

    I’ll forget the name of the site if I don’t put it here.

  20. Fader | iPlayer Grabber, the iPlayer downloader for Mac OS X

    iPlayer has ceased to function on my G4 PowerBook - it gets about one frame per second. But iPlayer Grabber lets me watch things on it. Hurrah!

  21. Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: Saving Britain’s Past

    This really is a good programme, with a nice balance of old and modern. And no struggling to make stories over-dramatic, like too many documentaries these days.

  22. The Online Photographer: Tips for Finding ‘1000 True Fans’

    A photographer, six months after starting to fund himself by getting people to subscribe to his work.

  23. Stacey, Simplified portfolios

    “Stacey is an easier way to create a portfolio site. No database setup or installation files, simply drop the application on a server and it runs. Your content is managed by creating folders and editing text files.” Looks lovely. (via Infovore)

  24. Historical Blogging

    Pretty fantastic. Students from The Anderson School in New York created blogs, IM chats and blog comments for American Civil War-era characters. Have a read.

  25. zSHARE - Jaguar Skills x Kid Potential - 30 Years Of Hip-Hop In 60 Minutes.mp3

    If you haven’t already, you want that inconspicuous “Download this File” link. 538 tracks in an hour.

  26. Legally required paid annual leave around the world, in days (05wwln.400.690.jpg)

    Although some US states do have legal minimums apparently (via Haddock)

  27. Test Accounts - Facebook Developer Wiki

    For when developing and testing Apps. Because I’ll need this again

  28. Internet Archaeology

    Some lovely “old” fragments of the web.

  29. BBC News | Magazine | Five consumer laws you really ought to know

    A nice summary of some British consumer law.

  30. Dandelion Radio - Festive 50

    Don’t know how I missed that someone had been continuing Peel’s Festive Fifties. I’m loving the radio too.