Links
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Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
Worth reading even if it only included this quote:
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Daily Mirror: How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?
Well, you have to wonder. Something in the water? Cosmic rays? 59,054,087 radio receivers embedded in fillings?
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Designing for Civil Society: Promoting regeneration? First listen to your critic
Jonathan Glancey on regeneration.
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | ‘I thought Peel would live forever’
Paul Morley on John Peel.
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Seinfeld Virtual Tour
Illusions shattered
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Monolingual
Mac OS X app for removing un-needed language files, if you forgot to disable them when installing the system. Saved myself a few hundred MB.
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Centre Point, 101 New Oxford Street, London, West End, London - photos, history and background
Be sure to follow the little link to read the history of the site’s planning permission.
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CVSTrac - A Web-Based Bug And Patch-Set Tracking System For CVS
Original CVS-based version of the aforementioned Subversion-based Trac.
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The Trac Project - Trac
Python-based bug-tracking wiki thing that uses Subversion and sounds good which I don’t need now but will forget the name of when I need it if I don’t link to it now.
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Cars to Vanish in $50M Tunnel Town
100 homes, $50 million, all cars underground in a planned development in Russia.
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43 Folders: OSX inventories, tips
Very handy list of links to peoples’ collections of tips for getting the most from your Mac.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Fallen fruit
Why many varieties of British apples are gone forever. I bet right-wingers who want to
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Archinect : School Blog Project
A collection of weblogs by students at architecture schools around the world, documenting their experiences. Every academic discipline should have this.
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Flickr and PHP by Cal Henderson (PDF)
Interesting presentation… only wish I could see Cal present it.
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Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Robots.txt Query Exclusion.
HotWired launched ten years ago yesterday but you can’t see older versions on archive.org because HotWired have blocked it from archiving their site.
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Copy, Right?
MP3 blog devoted to cover versions. Don’t know why no one did it before!
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Audioscrobbler :: It’s a job, but not as we know it..
Just how tempting is this!?
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adaptive path
Peter Merholz ponders how to make user-added keywords (or
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Subterranea Britannica: Sites: Bishopsgate Goods Station (Goodsyard)
Interesting report on the history and future of the location, and it uses one of my photos (on the fourth page).
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About Desktop Manager
Been using this for a few days now, and it’s invaluable if you only have one screen.
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Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools - A Review of Review Sites
The best sites that review all kinds of things. Useful round-up.
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Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
About interviewing programmers, but useful otherwise too perhaps.
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Chalet lounge, catered ski and snowboard accomodation, Chamonix - Cookbook
Recipes — and some good tips — from Sarah and Tom’s Chalet.
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Jeffrey Veen: Making A Better Open Source CMS
Moan, moan, moan. But in a good way.
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OZtrading.net - The OZ magazine trading site - Library of Issues
Archive of scanned Oz magazines.
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Anti-mega: can we get excited yet?
Chris is living in the future. And it’s over there.
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BBC - BBC Four Music - Gillian Welch Session
Tonight or tomorrow… if her recentish show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire was anything to go by, this should be awesome.