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Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. “Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline.” (via Blech)
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Cruciforum: crucially simple
A very simple discussion forum that involves uploading a single file to your website. (via Simon Willison again)
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The Information Freeway :: A map of the planet
A very nice viewer for the Open Street Map data. I had no idea they had so much, and it looks gorgeous close-up. (via Simon Willison)
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Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys’ Diary.
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Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Long article about ‘The Wire,’ the show which is so good it ruins all other TV for you. (via Kottke)
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Silent Noise Control
Another MP3blog with full albums, this one on “industrial, electronic and experimental weirdness.”
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Fauni Gena
While looking for MP3blogs on electronic music (any suggestions?) I came across this one on ambient music.
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Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
SQL joins as Venn diagrams (but better than the previous post on SQL joins as Venn diagrams that I read). (via Infovore)
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Journa-list.com
Like my Byliner.com but more comprehensive (yay) but only for UK newspapers (aww) and with higher ideals (yay).
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Universal Heritage Poster
A timeline “summarizing 13.7 billion years”. (via Cool Tools)
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Russell davies: studying graphic design
Lots of advice in the comments about where to do a graphic design degree (no recommendations for UWE where I went…).
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Mozy Online Backup: Simple, Automatic, Secure
Simple-sounding online backup service for Windows or Mac. (via Haddock) (UPDATE, 2009: Heard not so good feedback about it, trying Backblaze instead.)
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Sheet Music Plus - World’s Best Piano Arrangements
“100 Golden Standards Arranged by the Greatest Pianists of the Century!”
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Thesp Club
One of the four current part-time Foundation acting courses at the City Lit have their own collective weblog. Scarily enthuiastic.
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Blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
Marc Andreesen’s interesting guide to what you should study at college if you’re Marc Andreesen. (via Rodcorp)
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Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens
50mm lens. (via Daring Fireball)
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YouTube - Today’s Special 1 - Tea Rooms
Lovely, too-short film about a now-closed caff in London. See also part 2 (New Piccadilly) and 3 (Eldon Street). Criminal that these places are all disappearing. (via Haddock)
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Top Small Workplaces 2007 - WSJ.com
Why fifteen small US companies are good places to work. (Haven’t got round to reading it yet though…) (via Kottke)
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Zzap Zzuperstore
Complete scanned versions of every issue of Crash!, Zzap! 64, C&VG, etc, etc. I bought Crash! and Sinclair User. Brilliant. I feel 13 again. (via Haddock)
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Tilt-shift miniature fakes - a photoset on Flickr
Lovely photos of Bristol looking like a teeny tiny toy.
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School of Everything
Currently a way to list and find teachers of many subjects. More features planned for the future. (via Blackbeltjones on Iain Tait)
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Iain tait | crackunit.com » Blog Archive » Courses I’d Love to Do
What would you like to learn? (via Russell Davies)
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GarageBuy Homepage
Free Mac application for browsing eBay and buying stuff. Much nicer than the site itself. There’s also a pay-for app for selling stuff. (via Yoz)
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Migrating from TextDrive Shared hosting [Joyent Wiki]
For future reference.
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Johnaugust.com » Quitting, and the age question
“It’s not harder for an older writer to start. It’s just easier to quit.” Replace “writer” with pretty much any profession. Harsh truths.
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Johnaugust.com
I finally got round to reading a few months of John August’s weblog — he’s the screenwriter of ‘Go’ and ‘Big Fish’ among others — and it’s great stuff. Honest, open and useful.
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Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I like timelines. One day I’ll draw a great big one on a very long wall. (via Kottke)
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“An Ilustrated Life” Preview
Lovely collection of pages from “artists, illustrators and designers’” sketchbooks. Awful slidy Flash interface though. Illustrators are worse than estate agents in their use of appalling interface techniques. (via Ted Mills)
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Ops on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Oops indeed. What kind of vehicle did that sort of damage? Somewhere near the Barbican apparently, Silk Street or Moor Lane?