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  1. Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django « SaltyCrane Blog

    A handy guide. What am I getting into…

  2. Tools of Pro Django developer – aka What powers dinette and almost every app we write.

    Some useful things to have a look into.

  3. Dallas Clayton - An Awesome Book

    If you need a little inspiring, this is like a lovely “think something big!” pill. (via Haddock)

  4. Flat rate VAT « Online accounting software news from Xero

    Xero added support for the Flat Rate Scheme for VAT last month. I don’t use Xero, but this is another reason to try it.

  5. John Graham-Cumming: Utter crap reporting from The Daily Telegraph

    Also read the previous post about the CNN story. Come *on* journalists — it’s not difficult to at least be adequate at your job.

  6. Flights - Search Data from Hundreds of Travel Sites for Cheap Flights at KAYAK

    A good way to filter lots of flight search results.

  7. Whole Earth Discipline

    Online, annotated version of Stewart Brand’s book. Annotations aside, seems to Instapaper quite well.

  8. Schneier on Security: The Comparative Risk of Terrorism

    Some examples of how many Americans will die from different causes each day. eg, 50 murders, 85 suicides, 120 in traffic accidents. Every day.

  9. HomeAway Vacation Rentals: Beach Houses, Condos, Cabins, Villas & Vacation Rental Homes

    Could do with “sort by distance from a given point” and better maps of each place’s location, but handy otherwise.

  10. TinEye Reverse Image Search

    Supply it with an image and it will look for other uses of that image on the web. (via Meish)

  11. The Jane

    Cheap West Village / Greenwich Village hotel in New York. Small but cute-looking rooms like ship’s cabins.

  12. Walking Off the Big Apple

    “A strolling guide to New York City.” I’m planning a few days there in March, and I like walking around cities. Looks like a good place to start.

  13. Why Leslie Harpold’s Sites Disappeared | Workbench

    Sad-making. For the record, I would love it if everything I’ve ever put online remains available after my death. (via Haddock)

  14. Dave’s Mechanical Pencils: Uni Kuru Toga

    A pencil in which the lead rotates when you press down so you don’t get a sloping point. Plus: a blog about mechanical pencils! (via Crackunit)

  15. Knitwear from House of Bruar

    Also recommended in some forum for Scottish wool jumpers.

  16. Pakeman Catto and Carter

    Recommended in some forum for Scottish wool sweaters.

  17. Incentra Village House - Official Homepage - Incentra Village House, built in 1841, occupies two red brick landmark townhouses in New York’s Greenwich Village Historic District.

    Not too expensive Greenwich Village hotel/rooms, good Guardian review.

  18. Hotel 414 | Official Website

    Cheapish Midtown West New York hotel, recommended by Leslie.

  19. Manhattan New York City Budget Hotels - Hotel 31 - Hotels in Manhattan, NY

    Cheapish Lower East Side, recommended by Leslie.

  20. Chelsea Lodge - Official Home Page - Budget Hotel in New York City, cheap lodging/rooms and budget accommodations for budget minded travellers.

    Cheapish Chelsea hotel, New York. Recommended in a Guardian review.

  21. Design 1968 Journal - VADS: the online resource for visual arts

    A favourable period review of Britannic House, since revamped as City Point.

  22. BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere

    Wow. Amazing to think this could be part of suburbs - I visited in 1997 and it was in the middle of nowhere.

  23. International Journalism Festival

  24. DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich

  25. O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2010 - O’Reilly Conferences, February 22 - 24, 2010, New York, NY

  26. Supernova Hub

  27. Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade | Music | guardian.co.uk

    The 200 best albums of the noughties weren’t as good as the best 200 of the 1960s. But the 2,000 best albums were better than the 2,000 best of the 1960s.

  28. Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers | Books | Interview | The A.V. Club

    An interview. I like, and share, his bemusement at newspapers’ reliance on wire stories when the world isn’t short of writers. (via Tom Taylor)

  29. WW2: A Civilian in the Second World War

    Another historical-diary-as-weblog, this time diaries from the home front in Essex during World War II.

  30. Westminster City Council - The Life and Loves of a Victorian Clerk

    Least inspiring implementation yet of realtime-historical-diary-online? No RSS, links, weblog view. Does have pictures though. And pointless generic “Was this useful?” block.