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  1. Population Today, volume 30, number 8 (PDF)

    For the article “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” An estimated 106 billion. (via Wait But Why)

  2. Ballardian » ‘Working for the building’: An Interview with Ben Wheatley

    A good discussion of ‘High-Rise’.

  3. I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire — Medium

    I just enjoyed reading this. (via @GreatDismal)

  4. Nigel’s Against the World (London Review of Books)

    I’ve mostly been ignoring EU referendum stuff but this is quite good on the things we don’t really know about what happens if we leave.

  5. America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny — NYMag

    There are loads of worried articles about Trump but this is a nice long overview of worries. (via @spongefile)

  6. In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial | Motherboard

    I love this collision between tech culture and a court made up of “normals”, as the author describes them. (Odd that the article doesn’t say what the trial’s about until the final sentence though.)

  7. BBC One - The One Show, 09/05/2016, Poets Corner: Dr John Cooper Clarke

    On his love of Frinton-on-Sea. I had no idea.

  8. Three Years in San Francisco » Mike Industries

    Some good thoughts on building teams, management, product managers, diversity, etc.

  9. Salary benchmarking for London - Cogs Agency Cogs Agency

    2015/16. Interesting, although I take these with a pinch of salt. And all the tables are an image, so they obviously want to keep this data hidden from some people.

  10. Gentrification’s Price : S.F. Moves: Yuppies In, the Poor Out - latimes

    On San Francisco’s gentrification. Article from 1985.

  11. Test A Reusable Django Application For Support Of Multiple Django Releases With Tox And Travisci | Joe Bergantine

    A clear description of how to do something that pretty much worked. Always a pleasure.

  12. Social Autopsy founder Candace Owens channels GamerGate in bizarre attack on Zoe Quinn :: We Hunted The Mammoth

    This gets more amazing the further you read. Things just get messier and messier. The ‘New York’ article linked to near the end is also good, and similar.

  13. Don’t Trust Your CMS — Following: How We Live Online

    On CMSs stripping formatting and how troublesome that can be. My first thought is “Why is this CMS so awful that the journalists aren’t writing and editing their own drafts in it?” (via @simonw)

  14. Thrones of Blood - The New Yorker

    Clive James on ‘Game of Thrones’. Really good, so many great lines.

  15. Framework7 - Full Featured Mobile HTML Framework For Building iOS & Android Apps

    Could be useful. (via @paulpod)

  16. [messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

    Fascinating summary, from 2014, of the problems with blocking email spam and how end-to-end encryption affects that.

  17. Post-Internet Sound

    Holly Herndon & Jennifer Walshe: “we are attempting to put together an archive of sound and music works dealing with the internet since its inception” (via @cityofsound)

  18. How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you | Anna’s blog

    Nice clear description of two ways to view basic Land Registry data about an area. A shame it even takes this much work. And the Ordnance Survey stuff is so locked down. And Land Registry data lookups cost £3.

  19. Findable.TV - Watch movies and TV series online

    See which services have the movies/TV you want to watch.

  20. chris dorley-brown

    Some lovely photos of mostly east London. Good colours and more. (via The Online Photographer)

  21. San Andreas State: Animal Cam

    I watched the recording of this for about half an hour today. (via Waxy)

  22. Boiling React Down to a Few Lines in jQuery - Hackflow

    An explanation of React that my fuzzy head can’t cope with right now. So, for later. (via @simonw)

  23. inkle/ink: inkle’s open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.

    I wonder if it makes more sense than Twine, which seemed bonkers when I tried to make sense of it last year. It looks a bit more… methodical? modern? robust?

  24. Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise — Medium

    Jason Fried on the pros and cons of group chat at work. (via @tomskitomski)

  25. Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

    PHP and MySQL thing for hosting your own photo library. Nice, possibly, although I find the demo frustratingly un-web-like. (via Infovore)

  26. Tryolabs/metamon: Collection of Ansible playbooks to quickly start your Django Application

    Another one of these for reference.

  27. New Spaceship Speed in Conway’s Game of Life | Nigin’s Blog

    I shouldn’t be surprised, but I had no idea people were this into Conway’s Game of Life.

  28. Which house style suits your body shape? - Permanent Style

    Good to have a summary of the basic styles of suit jacket in one place, even if I can barely tell most apart.

  29. Vega-Lite

    An abstraction of an abstraction of d3.js - make D3 charts using only a JSON file. (via FlowingData)

  30. Unable to set permissions within shared folder using Vagrant and VirtualBox - Ryan Sechrest

    Just because this is an example of how I’m spending my time. Every. Single. Step. of the past few weeks has been a stuttering ball-ache of googling for the least bad fix to solve yet another tedious problem.