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  1. EyeTV Lounge • View topic - Easy to Use Application for Radio Times data in the EPG (UK)

    (via Ian Betteridge)

  2. Food Court Musical at Improv Everywhere

    This video makes me all happy. (via Boing Boing)

  3. Lunch over IP: What social networking site is popular where

    A map and charts showing relative popularity of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, etc in different continents. Amazing how much it varies. (via ChrisDodo)

  4. Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together

    Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I’d fit in, but also wonder why I’m doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.

  5. Jaikoz Audio Tagger

    Multi-platform ID3 tagging app, for most kinds of music file, using MusicBrainz and MusicIP. 15 quid, but powerful, even if a bit, you know, Java.

  6. Journal of ziggy (25)

    Using perl to extract ID3 data from the iTunes Music Library XML file and then update the relevant MP3s with the correct data.

  7. The Joyent Community / Any news on IronPorts (or even spamassassin or grep -v “st0ckZ”)?

    “A brief history of announced spam solutions from Joyent/Textdrive.” Since 2005. Still waiting.

  8. Condé Nast set for a flurry of launches - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic

    Apparently planning a UK edition of ‘Wired’. Hahahahaha Boohoohoohoo. (via Haddock)

  9. YouTube - Ignite ETech 2008: Matt Webb

    Matt’s fun five minute whizz around fictional versions of the solar system. Wish I’d been in San Diego and Austin this past week.

  10. BBC Internet Blog - BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes

    I’m liking this blog when it gives some insight into how things work behind the scenes. Shame about all the dumb comments though.

  11. Ironic Sans: The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists

    What the people who do the drawings of court proceedings draw/paint when not in court. I like Patrick Flynn’s court work there. (via Drawn!)

  12. New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes

    A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’. First thing that’s made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock)

  13. This American Life: 348: Tough Room

    Click “Full Episode” then skip forward five minutes for a quarter of an hour of ‘The Onion’s staff talking about what makes a story funny or not. (via Jane in Progress)

  14. Using Smarty Templates With PEAR HTML_QuickForm

    A handy guide that’s moved since I last bookmarked it.

  15. Litmus: Pricing and signup

    24 hours passes now available for this Browsercam-like site for testing web pages and emails against different rendering engines. (via Daring Fireball)

  16. Yahoo! Developer Network: Fire Eagle Launches - O’Reilly Conferences

    Tom Coates launching Fire Eagle. Yay congratulations Tom (and team)! We miss you over here you know.

  17. Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks

    Spacing things out horizontally with CSS. (via Simon Willison)

  18. Fundable Online Fundraising

    Ask people to pledge money to something you do. No one pays anything until you reach your funding target. (via Kevin Kelly)

  19. Kevin Kelly - The Technium - 1,000 True Fans

    The idea that you only need a relatively small number of people willing to pay you occasionally for your work in order to make a living. (Stewart Lee suggested he needed 7,000 fans in 2005.)

  20. AntiRSI - TECH.inhelsinki.nl

    I’ve tried a few apps that nag you to take a break from the computer. I was using TimeOut but this manages to be both more subtle and more insistent.

  21. Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded

    I keep Googling this, so bookmarking it might be easier.

  22. Leather Backpacks

    More leather backpacks. Fewer recommendations for these that I’ve seen.

  23. Leather Briefcases, Backpacks, Custom Briefcase, Custom Backpack

    More leather bags, including custom orders.

  24. Does anyone here have any experience with Saddleback Leather? - Page 2 - Ask Andy FORUMS

    Photos of a Saddleback Leather briefcase.

  25. The Gadgeteer - Saddleback Leather Company Briefcase

    Glowing review with lots of photos

  26. Flickr: J. Mark Bertrand’s photos tagged with saddleback

    Photos of a Saddleback Leather briefcase.

  27. Briefcases from the Saddleback Leather, Co..

    Expensive, lovely-looking bags. But comments on some forums suggest the workmanship doesn’t live up to this site’s hype.

  28. Laptop Backpacks by booq(R)

    I’ve spent a lot of time researching nice backpacks, not finding much that’s practical and looks good. These are current front-runners.

  29. Save the Railway Path | The campaign to save the Bristol to Bath cycle path from being turned into a bus-lane

    Protest site over some daffy plans to let buses run alongside the peaceful but well-used Bristol to Bath cycle path.

  30. Cityofsound: Robin Hood Gardens is not the same as a digital model of Robin Hood Gardens

    Dan Hill’s excellent summary of the protest going on over plans to demolish the London housing estate. I hope they renovate rather than destroy.