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Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft
This has come a long way since I last looked at this kind of thing. Now comes with a handy installer.
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YSlow for Firebug
Not entirely sure about the A-F grading, but handy plug-in for measuring page loading times and weights. (via Rodcorp)
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Moving Target: Cyclist-killing lorry driver fined £300
Yes, the lorry driver must feel awful, but he wasn’t looking where he was going while steering an HGV round a corner. Only a 300 quid fine for killing someone!? Motorists get away with so much while driving dangerous machines.
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Pulse Laser: Drawing Olinda
Splendid piece by Jack Schulze on how they came up with ideas for the form of their exciting-sounding digital radio prototype for the BBC.
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Telephone and broadband packages
The Advertising Standards Authority on phone and broadband claims of “Unlimited” usage: “Something can be described as ‘unlimited’ even if a fair-use policy exists.” Pathetic. A licence for companies to print lies, correcting via a footnote. (via Haddock)
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Billie the vision and the dancers
Gorgeous, tuneful, twee Swedish pop, all free. If you try one track, try ‘A Beautiful Night in Oslo’. (via Not Your Usual Bollocks)
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DJ Earworm Mashups » No One Takes Your Freedom
While I’m at it, this is my other favourite mashup. Great fun.
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Mark Vidler // Go Home Productions
12 CDs worth (4 more to come) of mashups / bootlegs / remixes, his complete back catalogue, free. Of the few I know, ‘Girl Wants (To Say Goodbye To) Rock & Roll’ on CD6 is one of my favourite bootlegs. (No permalink)
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Scarlet Mist - buy/sell spare music gig and Festival tickets ethically
Buy and sell UK and Ireland gig tickets at face value, avoiding eBay and touts.
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The Terrific Electric, by Boiler Room for BITE 2007 at the Barbican - a photoset on Flickr
Photos from the dress rehearsal of the play I enjoyed at the Barbican’s Pit a couple of weeks ago.
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Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Device and Desires
Splendid essay about all the smartphones he’s owned. He cares, he knows what he’s talking about, he’s such a lovely, lovely geek. (via ChrisDodo)
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Shimano pedals PDM324 - on one :: Calderdale’s 2nd biggest bike company
I’m starting to think about clipless pedals and these sound good for me.
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Orbicule | Undercover | F.A.Q.
Fascinating software and service to help trace your Mac if it’s stolen. Even sounds vaguely feasible. (via Daring Fireball)
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Crooked Timber » » Globollocks Watch
I like the “objective” scoring of articles. I want to do something similar to calculate genuine “newsworthiness”… +1 per person killed, +1 per million dollars stolen, etc. (via Nick Sweeney)
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LastGraph: Home
Create completely stunning and fascinating colourful graphs of your Last.fm data. The best way I’ve ever seen of getting a good impression of what you’ve listened to. If only I had data for my whole life of listening. (via Plasticbag)
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Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata
Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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The Morning News - Still Life
Awesome photo of a shattering ceramic figure. (via Rodcorp)
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What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter
I’m fascinated by the single book that summarises an entire field, and here’s a list of loads. Some are a bit too opinion-based (eg Jane Jacobs, as good as she is) rather than fact-based, but maybe I’m a pedant. (via ChrisDodo)
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Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy (kottke.org)
A post from 2003 about a guy on a stand who lets customers make their own change.
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London Print Studio - courses
Would love to do this if I found more hours in the day. Was thinking more of lino/wood cuts though. (via Rodcorp)
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Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
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Swissmiss: urban cup holder
I really like little things that make the real world a little bit nicer.
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Flickr: Discussing RSS feed of your contacts’ favorites (Y! Pipe) in Flickr Hacks
How to make an RSS feed of your contacts’ favourites using Yahoo! Pipes. (via Haddock)
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BigO Worldwide - Brian Eno, Joanna MacGregor and Bath Camerata
MP3s of a concert at Bath Abbey in 2006. ‘Music for Airports’ performed live for the first time is pretty good.
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Google Image Labeler
I’m trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it’s getting a fair amount of it.
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Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service
Congratulations to Matt, Matt and co! (I did a bunch of the site’s HTML/CSS work a while back.)
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‘Beyond good and evil’, Prospect Magazine issue 138 September 2007 - Printer Friendly Article
Another interview with writer Nicholas Mosley.
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True to Life - Metatheory and the Writings of Nicholas Mosley
Interviews with Mosley, whose books I’m liking a lot so far (‘Accident’ and ‘Impossible Object’).
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YouTube - 9 Nine Minute Sopranos (Complete 7 Minute Version!)
Brilliant compilation of clips from the Sopranos, telling the entire story veryquickly.
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World Clock
Statistics (based on estimates) updating in real time about deaths, diseases, disasters, etc globally.