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  1. Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text

    Replacing HTML text with Flash-rendered text just to make it look prettier seems like precious designer overkill to me. But it’s very clever and it does work.

  2. Tricks of the Trade

    New weblog. Brilliant!

  3. History flow

    Yummy visualisations of how Wikipedia pages change over time (look in the Gallery).

  4. How to be rich and famous

    As Webb said,

  5. Analysis of an artificial meme - nodalpoint.org

    Graphs showing how a meme spread through websites.

  6. SCPlugin

    Mac OS X Finder plugin providing an interface to Subversion (and one day, CVS). In case I ever need it.

  7. Sparkly Trainers | The travels of Mary Loosemore: Heavenly Herefordshire

    What I did on my summer holidays.

  8. Brochure for my 1 bed flat in Hackney (PDF)

    Want to buy a flat in a cool art deco building? More details to follow shortly.

  9. The Morning News - Tricks of the Trade

    Different professions. Landscape architect:

  10. phil’s big whiteboard of scenarios on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Me in action at Euro Foo Camp last weekend.

  11. Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Quaint essential

    Raves for Frinton-on-Sea and (slightly less so) Walton-on-the-Naze.

  12. Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | David Blunkett can’t take on the yobs all by himself

    I’m not sure agreeing with Max Hastings is a good thing, but even so…

  13. Economic History Resources - How Much is That? (British Pounds)

    Handily converts the value of money in past years (back to 1264) to 2002 values.

  14. Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters

    Interesting article. 4

  15. Fontus - London model

    3D map of central London.

  16. TOOOL - The Open Organisation of Lockpickers

    Someone’s giving a talk on lockpicking here at Euro Foo Camp. More non-computer talks please!

  17. Centricle : css filters (css hacks)

    A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.

  18. Johannes Koch’s How to hide CSS from buggy browsers page

    The URL that almost every website points to is now broken and this is the new home, which is a bugger to find.

  19. Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now

    A decade and more ago it was

  20. Japanese

    Insanely complex interface, but very handy.

  21. Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser

    I’ll need this at some point I’m sure.

  22. Why we’re reaching our limits as a one-hour city - Opinion - www.smh.com.au

    Throughout history cities have been an hour’s travel across. I’m not convinced

  23. Usability News - 6.2 2004 — Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts

    The importance of white space in online reading.

  24. Black and White Photography: London Tube Map

    Wonderful aerial photo view of London with the tube lines overlaid on top. Crossed off the to do list.

  25. This week’s UK television

    Beautifully minimal, customisable UK TV listings, including XML versions.

  26. MT Tag Quick Reference

    MovableType help in your browser’s sidebar (Netscape 6 /Mozilla or PC IE 5 or a framed version for everyone else).

  27. The Snowflake Process for Writing a Novel

    Sounds rather formulaic, but then it’s also similar to how I imagined the process would be if I ever wrote one.

  28. OpenPhoto.Net | Version 1.5b_FINAL

    Creative Commons photo library. Ideal for illustrating that presentation, website, etc.

  29. Collage - An iTunes Visual Plugin

    Displays images off of the Internet depending on the currently playing tune. Best when the images are apparently unrelated, like a no-budget interpretive video.

  30. Seinfeld Videos

    Torrents for every season of Seinfeld (in a choice of low and high qualities).