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  1. In Pictures: Secret Bits Of The Barbican - Londonist

    Not that secret - only two or three photos are from inside the building that’s currently being turned into flats, but still interesting.

  2. The Unstandard Demo

    Another nice WordPress theme. Uses images for the front page.

  3. Grid Focus Demo

    Nice clean WordPress template (with slightly annoying slidy social bookmarking panel).

  4. Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 - Crave at CNET UK

    Shockingly bad bar charts. 3D bars drawn in perspective don’t help with comparisons.

  5. Magical times at the picture palace - Evening Star 24

    Second part (of two, I think) of my grandad’s memories of growing up in Ipswich in the early 1900s.

  6. Great ideas generator - Dracos.co.uk

    Prepare for the next dotcom boom.

  7. How to: create a wiki with Drupal | Cwgordon7’s blog

    Drupal was quite lovely and easy to install, if complicated. But the wiki still felt a bit “not quite right” somehow.

  8. The Dead - a free survival-horror role-playing game.

    Looks like fun. Interesting stuff about relationships. Nice illustrations too.

  9. HOWTO/Install MoinMoin On Dreamhost - Mitch’s Wiki

    The official MoinMoin wiki installation instructions are a confusing nightmare and failed me. These, on the other hand, just worked (even on a non-Dreamhost shared host). Still seems much, much more complex than an install should be.

  10. WikiMatrix - Compare them all

    Compare loads of features of loads of wikis.

  11. Main Page - Lyrics from LyricWiki

    Never trawl through those oodles of banner-ad and ringtone laden sites filled with scraped and inaccurate lyrics again. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before.

  12. Big L Radio Times Feature | Big L

    Article from the ‘Radio Times’ from last year describing life in the Frinton-on-Sea house that radio DJs Mike Read, David “Diddy” Hamilton and Adrian John share five days a week. Those wacky guys!

  13. The Demon-Haunted World

    Matt Jones’ thought-provoking presentation on urbanisation and digitalisation: practical city magic. Great stuff.

  14. Click opera - Art students (called Brian) observed

    The student days of Brian Eno. (via Blackbeltjones)

  15. William Heath’s blog » Blog Archive » Who wants to live in our new hamlet, just outside London?

    William Heath and co have found a great place for their co-housing project. Exciting.

  16. AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel

    A way for people to rent out rooms or apartments. More formal arrangements for paying than Craig’s List, a step up from Couch Surfing. Got a nice (I hope) place for SXSW here.

  17. Article Skimmer

    NY Time’s prototype news viewer. Nice idea but it equalises the importance of all but one of the stories. I want a newspaper to tell me what it thinks is important (even if it’s wrong). Otherwise it’s not a newspaper, it’s a database.

  18. Datamoshing

    This stuff is awesome… ten years ago we wouldn’t be able to see this as anything but an ugly mistake. In a couple more years it’ll look really dated. It’s now, yesterday’s future here.

  19. Child’s-eye view of Edwardian Ipswich - Evening Star 24

    Part one of my grandad’s memories of growing up in Ipswich in the early 1900s.

  20. Jacobian’s jellyroll at master - GitHub

    “You keep personal data in all sorts of places on the internets. Jellyroll brings them together onto your own site.” Sounds good, but haven’t tried it. (via Blech)

  21. Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing

    Sounds nice and some lovely little features like saving info about the weather, etc when it automatically checks your files in. Contextual backup.

  22. Husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.

    “Is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site?” Yes. Maybe even a WordPress plugin…?

  23. Adactio: Journal—Magnoliloss

    On backing up his Magnolia links and wondering how to back up the rest of his distributed online life. (via Blech)

  24. Tech Support, Manuals & Troubleshooting for Consumers

    Nice idea. Like user-filled tech support forums but for everything, from white goods, cars, etc on. Although I did see a comment about them not paying people they’d promised to… (via Noisy Decent Graphics)

  25. All Things Seen and Unseen » Similar Posts

    WordPress plugin for doing “more posts like this” stuff. Sounds well done. (via Infovore)