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  1. Slashdot | Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

    And why most of us entrusting our creative output to third-party sites is a bad idea. (via Lee)

  2. Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page

    Big wiki cataloging “devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations”. Big, big time sink.

  3. Bandwagon update - Bandwagon Forum

    I thought I’d check out how that iTunes music online backup software was doing and found this exercise in failing to manage users’ expectations. 14 months of “it’ll be ready soon…” Ouch.

  4. Happy New Year by Electrabel - Fubiz™

    Stunning stop-frame animation advert done with thousands of candles. Watch it. (via Drawn!)

  5. Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don’t eat anything… | Ask Metafilter

    List of scenes from movies that explain the different cliques within a school. Looking forward to the YouTube compilation.

  6. ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

    Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.

  7. Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)

    Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison)

  8. MadAlfred’s WFRP Page

    Mad Alfred appears to be the pre-eminent creator of extra material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  9. Liber Fanatica Homepage

    Four user-created booklets for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  10. Winds of Chaos » Downloads

    More Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay stuff. Critical Hit charts made by doctors — got to be good. Plus conversions for the Enemy Within Campaign to WFRP2.

  11. Warpstone magazine - Downloads

    Lots of handy downloads for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  12. Strike to Stun

    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay site: weblog, downloads, forum.

  13. Fantasy Flight Games [Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Products]

    Current publishers of WFRP. Catching up on this after twenty years is a lot of fun.

  14. Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition) - EN World D&D / RPG News

    Long discussion mostly on what’s good about WFRP and why WFRP2 is better than WFRP1. Also, suggestions for what supplements are most useful.

  15. Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too) | Surfing in Kansas

    (via Blech)

  16. How Django processes a request

    (via Blech)

  17. Kiva - Loans that change lives

    I was trying to remember the name of this micro-loans site the other day and today it popped up on Cool Tools.

  18. Cnewton.com: List: Starbucks Terms of Art

    A list of jargon used by Starbucks employees. Industry phrases always fascinate me but… how about explanation of what they mean? (via Waxy)

  19. Hedged down: Practical Django Projects

    For future reference if/when I have a look at this book, updated code examples. (via Blech)

  20. 10 Insanely Useful Django Tips - NETTUTS

    I like insanely useful tips. Just dipping my toes in Python at the mo so this may come in useful. (via Blech)

  21. Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

    Lots of handy tips for people like me who have only dabbled in jQuery so far. (via Infovore)

  22. Shoemakers.org.uk - Roosters

    I got a pair of boots from Roosters over twenty years ago and (after a long time of not wearing them) I still like them.

  23. West End Whingers

    I’m enjoying this blog’s theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.

  24. CD Pro CD Storage Sleeve

    One more CD and booklet and rear tray card storing sleeve. This one from $0.56 per sleeve.

  25. CD Accessories - Space-Saving CD Sleeves CD

    Another type of CD sleeve that also holds booklet and rear tray card. From only $0.15 per sleeve.

  26. JewelSleeve - The world’s finest CD storage device!

    Wondering about shifting all my CDs from jewel cases into space-efficient sleeves. These hold the booklet and the rear tray card too. From $0.48 per sleeve.

  27. Clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal: Hallelujah

    2007 article about Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and its covers. Also good on ‘The OC’. More decent writing about TV please. (via Blech)

  28. Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome

    One more online backup solution. Heard good things about this in the past I think. [UPDATE: Cool Tools readers gave it the thumbs down.]

  29. CrashPlan – Automatic Offsite Backup » Features - Tech Specs

    Another online backup thing, to backup to your own machine elsewhere or (for a subscription) to their server.

  30. TidBITS Safe Computing: Backblaze Launches Mac Beta of Online Backup Service

    Looks like a great online backup service, currently in private beta. (via Daring Fireball)