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London’s Great Exodus
Seen lots of links to this today. Rather depressing, if you want London to be somewhere you and your friends can afford to live. “The city is essentially a tax haven with great theater, free museums and formidable dining.”
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Native to a Web of Data (PDF)
Tom Coates from 2006. Still good. “What can I build that will make the *whole Web* better?”
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Images | The Public Domain Review
Another useful source of public domain images, aggregating some stuff from other places (‘Sources’ is also a handy jumping-off point), including engravings etc.
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Category:Images - Wikimedia Commons
Saving as a useful source of free images. Especially for Little Printer-suitable old engravings, prints, etchings, etc.
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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI
This is great stuff. I’d love to hear more music like this that’s played through something more substantial than MIDI instruments. I think. (via Kottke)
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Casting Call Woe
In the brief period that I read casting websites I thought about starting something like this, because there’s so much weirdness there.
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VESTS / Stuff-carrying gear
Style Forum thread on pocketed waistcoats etc. I’m oddly fascinated by this stuff, and yet almost all of them look ugly and/or ridiculous.
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United States of America v Ross William Ulbricht (PDF)
This is the criminal complaint against “Dread Pirate Roberts” of Silk Road, and is well worth a scan. Quite readable, and it’s interesting to see how they worked out who he was from a few online slip-ups.
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Unity - Activating GameObjects
I think they’ve added custom JS to allow tabbed language-switching between what are Prism.js-styled code blocks, which is nice. If you’ve seen similar somewhere, do let me know…
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Prism
Nice-looking lightweight JavaScript syntax highlighting, which I’ll forget the name of by tomorrow.
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How to see through the cloud
James Bridle follows a traceroute. Simple, yes, but really nice. More people should see more of this kind of thing.
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Watch this (4 minutes) and recall that every one… - Fresser.
So many people are idiots. Really, idiots. I wish this clip showed more of the interviewees being told Obamacare and The Affordable Care Act are the same.
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Potlatch: 20 public-spirited lawyers could change the world
Lawyers are the creators of a future in which the rest of us must live. By Will Davies (it doesn’t say anywhere on the page). (via @moleitau)
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‘The only time that’s mine’ « LRB blog
A nice account of trying to get to grips with what the Internet is for children, and a bit of a review of ‘InRealLife’ and an appearance by Olia Lialina.
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The perils of bespoke casual clothing
On the difficulty, or pointlessness, of having casual clothes bespoke tailored.
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Adactio: Articles—Beyond Tellerrand
A great talk by Jeremy Keith on archiving, the web, App Stores, URLs, design, history, the future, what’s important… just all the good stuff.
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Yes, it’s misogynistic and violent, but I still admire Grand Theft Auto | Technology | The Observer
Good stuff. Nothing to add really. (via @timoarnall)
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the making of makers
Nick Sweeney being positive about new independent “makers”, but also on how not-new the idea is. I like the Arts & Crafts parallel.
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This at There
Very nice list of art / exhibitions on in London, ordered by how soon they close, from It’s Nice That. (via @antimega)
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Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs | Breaking the Mobile Web
Very useful look at all the new, improved or broken things in Safari on iOS 7. (via @jamesweiner)
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Simple Team Performance Management - iDoneThis
Seems a nice idea: “Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone on the team got done.” I like email as an interface to things. (via @dotcode)
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Tecznts - The construction of “Big Ben” in London in 1859…
If you rely on Big Ben to set your timepieces - and who doesn’t? - this 1875 map shows you how to adjust for the delay of the sound reaching you, depending on where you are in London. So good.
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philgyford’s Open Source Report Card
Analyses your GitHub activity and tries to determine things about how you work and what you do. Not perfect — if I really am “one of the top 20% most active Python users” I’m concerned for Python — but interesting and nicely done. (via @pkqk)
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Dashing - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.
Ruby thing that lets you combine and make widgets for displaying stuff in nice drag-and-droppable dashboards. Looks good. (via:tomtaylor)
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Britain from Above | Rescue the Past
This is amazing. Prepare to lose some time to looking up places you know. Over 47,000 aerial images of Britain from between 1919 and 1953.
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Australia: Drone Shadows, Diagrams, and Political Systems | booktwo.org
Great, measured piece by James on Arts Queensland’s last-minute banning of his artwork, and authorities’ embarrassment over drones. “The Drone Shadow is not just a picture of a drone. It is a diagram of a political system.”
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The Online Photographer: Open Mike: A Little Site
Just a nice post on the finances of running a blog as a job - advertising, Amazon affiliate links, selling books, etc. Often precarious.
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John Bryce SWE RE - Along the Thames
This was also at the Bankside Gallery. Tiny, slightly twee, but very nice. He doesn’t seem to have a website, but Google images turns up a few others, many detailed London views.
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Six Snapshots of St Paul’s - Anne Desmet
Saw a single version of this Bankside Gallery today. Nice, tiny, detailed. A good not-touristy, vertical London landscape.
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ai/autoprefixer · GitHub
“Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use.” Very clever and good but, like increasing numbers of things, also makes me go, “oh god, I wish CSS was simpler.”