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  1. Barbican - Images | Jamie Smith

    Some nice photos of the Barbican by a student who’s doing a project on it. They’d be even nicer if they didn’t have a copyright statement stamped across their middles though.

  2. A (Complete) Guide to Running Django on Joyent Shared Accelerators using Virtualenv, pip, git, and NginX | ecarmi.org

    Brilliant. I’ve been waiting a long, long time for instructions like this.

  3. Grenson | Men’s Shoes, Men’s Brogues, Mens Boots, Handmade Shoes, British Shoes

    Some nice shoes, the name of which I’ll forget. (via Antimega)

  4. LRB · Iain Sinclair · The Raging Peloton

    He has a nice turn of phrase but Iain Sinclair is a gloomy, misanthropic reactionary who thinks the only people who can ride bikes authentically are the 1950s working class and eccentric poets. One wonders why he still lives in London.

  5. Little Big Details

    Examples of nice little UI touches. Some a bit obvious but others that are lovely. (via @paulpod)

  6. Trustworthy Digital Repository - Chronicle of Life

    Really interesting description of an organisation to keep peoples’ data safe forever. This organisational stuff must be at least half the battle, aside from technical things. Rest of site seems a bit… clunky though. (via Haddock)

  7. Implementing a Fixed Position iOS Web Application - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code

    Brilliant: how to (a) make page elements fixed on iOS Safari (which doesn’t acknowledge position:fixed, grrrr) and (b) do scrolling with momentum. Gmail in iOS Safari is very swish.

  8. In English « Haluan nähdä muutakin

    1458 people donated money to keep 21 bus and tram stops in Helsinki free of advertising for a week. A shame the posters still had big text on though. (via @antimega)

  9. Vice Style » News » Riot Girls, Literally

    Wondering if VICE’s next fashion shoot will be in a war zone. Or maybe, yeah, like in Africa, you know, like with all the famines and that? Amazing light! (via @benhammersley)

  10. iPad View Source Bookmarklet - Ravelrumba

    What it says. Could be handy. (via Daring Fireball)

  11. Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It Later Blog

    Interesting graphs of when ReadItLater users read stuff online, whether on desktop, iPhone or iPad. I definitely read less on my computer now I have an iPad. (via Kottke)

  12. Philgyford | Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com

    Here are my Spotify playlists, in case anything takes your fancy. i’ll update it when I make new ones worth sharing.

  13. Exquisite Tweets from @candicecbailey…

    Whoops! One careless word and suddenly people think there’s a shooting in Oxford Circus. @candicecbailey appears to have deleted her original tweet now, although it’s not really her fault. (via @abscond)

  14. Irvinebrown » Music for Shuffle

    I’m listening to this now. It’s lovely. Little snippets of music that can be played in any order. Clever Matt.

  15. Pepys’ Shows: Samuel Pepys’ Theatre Reviews

    The remarkable Matthew Somerville and Clare Lovell made a lovely little thing at Culture Hack Day: a random review of a play as seen by Samuel Pepys, also linking to Theatricalia.

  16. Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

    For future arguing reference. But also, I don’t understand why monospaced typewriter folk wanted two spaces either; I still type emails monospaced, and two spaces looks ugly. (via Preoccupations)

  17. Avatron Software: Air Display

    Six quid for this, but I had to give it a go (two screens aren’t enough!). Feels like magic: a wireless screen! But updating (eg, dragging windows) is pretty jerky and it can use 10-25% of my MacBook’s CPU when I’m dragging stuff on it, 15% if something is updating frequently (like Activity Monitor). Around 2% when idle. But could be very handy for some things.

  18. Requiem for a Dream

    Still one of my favourite websites promoting a film. Tries to convert the feeling of the film into something more about the web (of ten years ago) (in Flash). Also, it’s great to see that it’s still online.

  19. YouTube - “Fuck you” Sign language performance

    You know the song, and it’s just a girl in a classroom doing sign language, how good can it be… Watch it! It’s my favourite thing I’ve seen in a while and makes me all smiley. Brilliant!

  20. In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek

    Wonderful essay about science fiction movie corridors, with lots of pictures. The internet gives generously. (via @moleitau)

  21. Movieos - London again

    Tom Insam, ex of Dopplr, is back in London and looking for a job. You should try to hire him, because he is good.

  22. trendwatching.com: Join our team

    TrendWatching have two full-time jobs going in London. A decade ago I expect I would have been super keen on these.

  23. The Online Photographer: OT: The Worst Remuddling Job in the History of the Universe

    Amazing that someone could prefer the second over the first, but a reminder of how very different people are to what seems “normal” to me/you/whoever. But even so. (Also, click through “the ‘Ouch’ post”.)

  24. Oops on Vimeo

    Found footage of video cameras being dropped. So much more absorbing than you’d imagine. Beautifully done. (via Waxy)

  25. Matt Webb’s Interconnected (it’s all confused and beautiful.)

    Like very year, I meant to start blogging more frequently. Webb’s actually doing it. I just caught up on his January over lunch and feel like I’ve eaten too well.

  26. LRB · job

    Now that’s a job advert. No faffing. “The ‘London Review of Books’ is looking for an editor, preferably one with an interest in politics and history. Would suit a young, disaffected academic.”

  27. New Lightroom plug-in – CaptureTime to Exif - John Beardsworth

    Bascially a Lightroom-plugin front-end for Exiftool. Lets you easily update the Date Time Original EXIF field (eg, for setting the date a scanned photo was taken) but also add other arguments manually.

  28. Who killed the Intel microprocessor? | asymco

    I never knew about the difference between Intel (who design, manufacture and sell microprocessors) and ARM (who license microprocessors which designers use as part of a chip which is then manufactured by a fabricator).

  29. Obama London: Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page

    It’s fascinating how quickly Palin’s team remove comments (and fair enough; it’s their page). It’s annoying how many people shout that this is “censorship”, as if they wouldn’t do the same if the tables were turned.

  30. Exquisite Tweets

    Really handy way of being able to point at an entire Twitter conversation, or a hand-curated selection of tweets, from James Wheare.