Links
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Lighthouse - Beautifully Simple Issue Tracking
Another simple, pretty bug tracking web app thingummy.
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Simple Bug and Issue Tracking | Sifter
Looks pretty and simple which is always a bonus.
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The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
I was sceptical about this — “I don’t have time to listen to sounds!” “I live in London, I don’t need to hear it through a computer!” — but it’s really quite lovely in its framing of brief moments of life. Would like to overhear more conversations, but I’m nosey.
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Hacker News | The BBC’s Glow effort has always confused me. They were using jQuery on the main…
John Resig, the chap behind jQuery, wondering (like many people I imagine) why the BBC wrote its own bespoke JavaScript framework. (via Haddock)
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Taking a walk in the clouds - Times Online
An article from 2004 by Bob Stanley on London’s raised pedestrian walkways. (via Blech)
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Piwik - Web analytics - Open source
An open source, locally-installable alternative to Google Analytics. Looks rather good. (via Yoz)
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Emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco
How to make the most of living in SF. Wouldn’t that be very lovely? Anyway, I think these could probably be generalised as to how to enjoy any city. (via Kottke)
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Notes.husk.org. The City Of London Highwalks.
Paul Mison’s starting some writing about the raised pedestrian walkways in the City of London. Good stuff.
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Last.fm + Spotify + Find new albums
Find albums by your top artists on Last.fm that have recently been added to Spotify. Although many are albums I already have, which is how I’ve listened to them on Last.fm… (via Tom Taylor)
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Jorn Barger, the NewsPage Network, and the Emergence of the Weblog Community | Tawawa.org
Fascinating history of the early days of weblogs, with a prominent place for Dave Winer’s NewsPage stuff, which I remember being important to me (the Haddock Directory started on Userland Frontier in 1997). (via Preoccupations)
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John Harris asks whether the best writing about pop music hails from a different era | Music | The Guardian
While I’m at it, I enjoyed this too, about whether music writing isn’t as good as it used to be. It never was. Or maybe it’s always moving so it’s not where you left it.
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Potlatch: what’s going on with the music formerly known as ‘indie’?
A nice piece about how mixed up music is today and what counts as “timeless”. I need to read more good music writing. Maybe I can NewspaperClub my own NME/MM. (via Matt Jones)
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Bitquabit - The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News
Aside from being specifically about people who think they can rewrite StackOverflow in a weekend, great as an example of where the complexity lies in a website. (via Blech)
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Elmcity project FAQ « Jon Udell
A way to aggregate iCalendar feeds about a particular location using Delicious. Looks slightly fiddly but also nice in a loosely-joined kind of way. (via Tom Taylor)
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Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair « Mostly on McSweeney’s!
A very nicely written set of notes about that discussion at the British Library a week ago. (via Blech)
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Notes.husk.org. The show, which is currently in production with an….
BBC4 “comedy drama” about the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers head Chris Curry. Why a sodding *comedy* drama? Let’s laugh at the funny 1980s and their silly computers! Well, might be good.
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Walton Rocks! - a set on Flickr
A nice simple set of photos of bits of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
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AVForums.com Home
A good source of answers to the question “what model of TV should I get?” (and similar, I imagine).
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Stalled building sites in Square Mile to become allotments | News | Architects Journal
Temporary grow bag allotments, but still, better than nothing. (But not as good as having Milton Court undemolished either.)
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Newspaper Club - A work in progress
Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome.
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The Viridian Design Movement
Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I’d heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
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Scope (Schulze & Webb)
More Matt Webb, his opening presentation at last week’s Reboot. It was very, very good, and it’s great to have the whole thing written much as he delivered it.
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Pulse Laser: Shownar
This is what I’ve been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
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The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach
As simple as a grid-based CSS framework thing could be. (via Infovore)
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YouNotSneaky!: How to read The Economist
Several friends seem to rate the Economist, which confuses the lefty in me. But this is a handy guide. (via Haddock)
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Harrow Technical - Pentax Repairs, Pentax Spares, Pentax Cameras, Pentax Service
In case I need to get my old camera fixed.
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Give Me Something To Read
“Selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper.”
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 by Various - Project Gutenberg
Completely wonderful 17th century science. Fascinating subjects, beautiful titles (“A Relation of Persons killed with subterraneous Damps”) and gorgeous language.
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Lifestories On-Line Brochure
Poorly presented, if interesting, business videotaping people telling their life stories. However, the owner, Dr Ellen Brandt, @venerability, is a compulsive twitter spammer.
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I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel on Vimeo
Beautiful slow motion video shot using very high speed cameras, up to 2500 frames per second. (via Daring Fireball)