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  1. The full story and conclusion of Tim and Freya #traintales (with image, tweets) · JaneyGodley · Storify

    Blimey. A really good read - must have been even more gripping in real time.

  2. The physical constraints of London’s streets | As Easy As Riding A Bike

    Countering the “London’s streets are two narrow for proper Dutch-style cycling lanes” idea with many, many photos of London’s wide main roads. (via Cyclists in the City)

  3. Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter’s history | Anarchogeek

    Nice bit of digging. (via Kottke)

  4. Another Studio - MONUmini Barbican Tower

    10cm tall stainless steel sheet model of a Barbican tower.

  5. Samuel Pepys, Swedish Tweets and the craziest photo app yet (ft. Phil Gyford, Samuel Pepys Diary blog) | Off The Wall Post

    I’m on this podcast talking about Pepys and Pretend Office and, you know, stuff. It was fun!

  6. Peity • progressive pie charts

    Nice jQuery plugin for turning lists of numbers into little pie charts, graphs or bar charts. Sparklines. (via Brett Terpstra)

  7. Revans/bash-it

    Even if just as a source of handy bash bits and pieces, rather than installing the whole thing, handy. (via Brett Terpstra)

  8. Home - Annotator - Annotating the Web

    “An open-source JavaScript library and tool that can be added to any webpage to make it annotatable. Annotations can have comments, tags, users and more.” (via Brett Terpstra)

  9. xdissent/ievms

    Automated setting up of Microsoft’s virtual machines for testing versions of Internet Explorer, using VirtualBox. (via @mattb)

  10. Facebook should make a camera ( 3 Jul., 2012, at Interconnected)

    I’m still amazed how unprogressive the camera market is. Aside from lack of product design innovation, cameras are so unconnected. Here we are in 2012 and very, very few even have wifi or GPS, never mind 3G, slick interfaces, integration with third-party services, etc.

  11. Building and dismantling the Windows advantage | asymco

    Blimey, those are quite some graphs, showing ratio of Windows:Mac, and Windows:Apple sales over time. (via Daring Fireball)

  12. A successful Git branching model » nvie.com

    Good-sounding group workflow for using Git. (Last year I apparently already linked to the modified version they use at GitHub.) (via Haddock)

  13. Pimping out git log - Bart’s Blog

    Very nice and super-easy to implement. See the Update for the most recent command. (via Haddock)

  14. Twitter / mattb: @philgyford those “estimat

    “@philgyford those “estimates” always upset me. I didn’t estimate, I wrote down the first 15 companies I could think of in half an hour.” Exactly.

  15. Demos | Publications - A Tale of Tech City

    Free download PDF of the report. Page 53 includes the “15 companies in 2008” meme as only one of several unreliable figures. (via @jwheare)

  16. Olympic Park legacy plan threatens Tech City growth, report warns | Business | guardian.co.uk

    “That compares with an estimated 15 companies as recently as 2008.” The Guardian trotting out that ridiculous stat yet again. Even the Demos report the article is about (but doesn’t link to) says that figure is only one of several unreliable ones.

  17. Pixastic: JavaScript Image Processing

    I keep forgetting the name of this and appear to have not bookmarked it before. “A JavaScript library which allows you to perform a variety of operations, filters and fancy effects on images.”

  18. Infrastructure for Startups

    Even without the talk itself, Paul Hammond’s slides are a good, sensible read. (via @infovore)

  19. Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture

    “By the end, you feel as if you have experienced a form of art; it feels like poetry, though it is not, and like the best poetry, it expresses something meaningful about the human condition.” Nice review of the site I helped make a while back. (via Infovore)

  20. Satellite Eyes

    Tom Taylor made a really lovely thing. If you use a Mac you should try it.

  21. Doonesbury Comic Strip, June 17, 2012 on GoComics.com

    I just cried at an eight-frame comic (well, eight frames plus the previous x years).

  22. The Online Photographer: Set Those Expectations Low

    “Photography is a superb hobby, one of the best. It’s when you try to make a living at it that it is so likely to resist you. I don’t think other hobbies have this problem. I mean, consider, say, fly-fishing, or building plastic model planes. Very few people who do those things assume they’re going to ‘go pro’ someday. Very few people try. It doesn’t generally come up.”

  23. Republicans for Revolution by Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books

    “People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.” Also for the definitions of “liberal” and “conservative” half-way through, and the potted history of the origins of neoconservatism.

  24. Safety is an Expensive Illusion

    For the middle bit in which he calculates the lifetime cost (in money and time) of driving a larger, very sliightly safer, car.

  25. Fume Finder

    Can’t remember where I read it recently, but I noticed that Katie Puckrik, once awesome on ‘The Word’, now blogs and YouTubes (that’s a verb now, right?) about perfume. This is her tool to help you choose fragrances.

  26. Disquiet about confidentiality clauses - Portas Pilots

    If having a TV celebrity manage the regeneration of a handfull of high streets didn’t sound like a dumb enough way of implementing government policy, it’s sounding like turning the process into a reality TV show — with all the secrecy, fakery and manufactured conflict that involves — is even worse. Also, #portaspilots on Twitter.

  27. Killing Our Citizens Without Trial by David Cole | The New York Review of Books

    On drone killings: “As long as the Obama administration insists on the power to kill the people it was elected to represent — and to do so in secret, on the basis of secret legal memos — can we really claim that we live in a democracy ruled by law?”

  28. Escape into Whiteness by Brent Staples | The New York Review of Books

    Some of the details of 19th and early 20th century courts etc deciding whether specific mixed-race individuals count as white or coloured are bizarre, as if part of some kind of epic theatre piece.

  29. The Brilliant Music of Ravel by Charles Rosen | The New York Review of Books

    As someone who’s only awareness of Ravel is what I think of as the flouncy Torville & Dean ‘Bolero’, I love the descriptions here (especially in section 3) of exactly why Ravel’s music was avant-garde. Unfortunately, subscribers only.

  30. Predators and Robots at War by Christian Caryl | The New York Review of Books

    “The US Air Force now trains more UAV operators each year than traditional pilots.” “There are already more [military] robots operating on the ground (15,000) than in the air (7,000).” “…a pilotless aircraft … ‘has the same rights as if a person were inside it, … official policy.’”