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  1. Europe by train made easy | Loco2

    For future reference. (via @benhammersley)

  2. How best to store local copies of third-party Django applications and python modules? : django

    I asked this on /r/django - anyone reading this have any thoughts?

  3. AirPair | World’s Best Software Experts

    I like this idea - screenshare and video call with an expert in a particular thing. Not cheap, but possibly cheaper than getting someone in for a whole day. Their d3.js guy has answered most of my Stack Overflow questions very well.

  4. Put This On • The Custom Shirts Series, Part III: A Quick Primer…

    A nice explanation of the varieties of shirt fabrics.

  5. Met Police encourages Twitter pile-ons (with images, tweets) · anyabike · Storify

    Interesting, in an unpleasant way, to see how Twitter etiquette, and tone of voice, and the blurry lines between personal / professional Twitter accounts make this kind of thing get a bit horrible. (via @mildlydiverting)

  6. Making Tweedy’s “Summer Noon” video (or how I went from designing apps to directing a music video) — Allison House

    A really nice description of making a simple animated music video in a week by someone who’d only just started getting to grips with computer animation. (via Waxy)

  7. A City of London report on potential options for improving Beech Street (PDF)

    The phrase “lipstick on a pig” springs to mind, because there’s so little that’s feasible. Making the road more pleasant, somehow, *and* improving access to the podium level, *and* getting rid of the yellow Exhibition Halls tunnel up there, would all be good.

  8. One Cloth, Four Styles

    A nice poacher’s pocket for reading material.

  9. This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You - D Magazine

    Entertaining article about woot.com, which Amazon bought, then meh.com which woot’s founder created next. All new to me. I like the event-ness and novelty. (via Metafilter)

  10. Archeological Desk Based Assessment of 141-47 Whitecross Street (PDF)

    Interesting to see the what they need to assess before redeveloping even quite a small site like this, with information going back to Palaeolithic times.

  11. Russell Davies: it’s the cardigan that makes it

    This is a good 23 minute watch — Russell answering questions sent by students about advertising planning.

  12. kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

    “Bootstrap/386 is a Twitter bootstrap v2 theme to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s.” Nicely done. (via Waxy)

  13. Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work - meeting report

    One photographers’ experiences of successfully chasing down copyright infringers, online and off. (via @mildlydiverting)

  14. Epoch by Fastly

    Looks like a simple-to-use charting library, based on d3.js, with real-time charts.

  15. Sewing by Alice - Dream fabric

    Fabric with the old Netscape broken image icon.

  16. Building a capsule wardrobe: reader question

    Some suggestions for jackets and trousers for a more casual capsule wardrobe.

  17. Building a New Pants Wardrobe

    Pants as in trousers, of course. I don’t plan to do any of this, but I like “building a wardrobe” articles.

  18. The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why

    Really good stuff explaining the many possible theories for why we haven’t heard from any alien races given the (potentially) very large number of intelligent civilisations in the galaxy. (via Kottke)

  19. The coolest culture hack of all is not hacking your culture » Boyes Club

    Good. “If you tell me you want to ‘hack’ your culture, what I hear is, ‘I don’t know how to make the people working for me simultaneously more engaged and more productive, so I’m going to attempt to manipulate them in ways based entirely on my own misunderstanding of human behaviour and hope that gives me the results I’m looking for’.” (via @tomstuart)

  20. straup/tiny-letter-tools

    Of course Aaron has made a handy (python command line) tool for making an RSS feed out of a Tiny Letter archive page.

  21. Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss — The Message — Medium

    Joanne McNeil on the recent rise of email newsletters and how they compare to the old days of blogging. (via @warrenellis)

  22. The Fall of the Creative Class

    On how Richard Florida’s creative class theory doesn’t show causality. Worth reading Florida’s and then Bures’ follow-ups. (via @timoarnall)

  23. The 1950s Flying Saucer Conventions at an Underground Rock House | Messy Nessy Chic

    Lots of great photos from LIFE magazine, and a good story. Very ‘Gods Without Men’. (via @GreatDismal)

  24. Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus

    Open source, self-hosted commenting system. Lovely idea, although my heart sank at the thought of installing a python web application. I can’t help thinking PHP would be more useful for people making otherwise-static web sites. (via Brett Terpstra)

  25. I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are

    One thing learned from writing 3000 Motley Fool columns: “I’ve learned that short-term thinking is at the root of most of our problems, whether it’s in business, politics, investing, or work.” One for the futurists there. (via Kottke)

  26. The Icon Browser

    Loads of little icons collected from 1994 to 1996. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)

  27. Unlimited 4G Home Broadband in London | Relish

    Looks interesting. £20 per month for 4G broadband at home. So no need for a landline. People at the Barbican have been getting good speeds so far.

  28. Perry Anderson · The Italian Disaster · LRB 22 May 2014

    Not for most of the article, but for the first 7+ paragraphs outlining the, er, legal difficulties, of those in political power across Europe. We are terrible.

  29. Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now by Mark Danner | The New York Review of Books

    This series of articles on Rumsfeld is a good read. But this, the first article, is the only one that’s available to non-subscribers.

  30. After You’ve Gone by Thomas Nagel | The New York Review of Books

    On thinking about the world after we, as individuals, die. And the importance of “the collective afterlife”, “the survival and continued renewal of humanity after our personal death”. (Subscribers only)