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  1. Interesting but impossible to read map of Hackney’s crime hotspots

    They make the mistake of emphasising ward boundaries — which no one outside local politics knows — over roads.

  2. Good notes from Jeff Veen: “When Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.”

  3. Pixy’s very handy collection of web authoring bookmarklets

  4. My photos from London Transport Museum

  5. I’m proud to be a ninja with dwarfish tendencies. I think.

  6. These replacement iPod batteries really do the job

    I’ve just got 12 hours out of one charge, rather than the two I was getting before!

  7. Strangely inspiring article about a woman moving to a remote Finnish island

    She appears to have the Internet, so it could be worse.

  8. Green ISP - sustainable and generally nice-looking ISP

  9. Fascinating interview with a US medical corps soldier in Iraq

  10. Justin Hall’s donation-ware guide to Tokyo

  11. How to glue This to That

  12. Stewart Butterfield’s buddy icon mosaic

    What’s surprising is how much familiar faces (friends’ icons and re-purposed images) stand out from the crowd.

  13. iGetMovies saves QuickTime movies from your browser window to your Desktop

    At bottom of page. For Macs.

  14. How to type French characters

    Because, like Blech on 2lmc, I’ll need to do this on a Windows machine at some point and I’ve never understood how to do that.

  15. ‘Status Anxiety’ was fantastic. More two hour shows by youngish, balding, intellectual chaps please!

  16. Awesome: Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music

    Might even prompt me to break up my single ‘Electronic’ iTunes genre.

  17. Keyring: Free Palm app for storing passwords and seekrit things

  18. Paul Morley’s Top Ten(ish) Books. Fun stuff.

    No idea what date that was published on though.

  19. Сайты, сделанные в Студии Лебедева

    Gallery of websites by a Russian designer, many of which use CSS to expand width-ways in an intriguing fashion

  20. University of Reading’s MA in Typeface Design

    Only one in the UK apparently.

  21. A history of ‘The Economist’s design

  22. I liked this extract from Joan Didion’s book, about California

  23. I’m so pleased to live in a relatively sensible, Godless country

  24. ‘Director’s Commentary’ really is one of the most delightful shows on TV at the moment

  25. I’ve been MetaFiltered

    The MeFi comments simply re-hash the discussion on the page they link to.

  26. Very handy tips for customising the Firefox browser

  27. Elmore Leonard’s ten rules for writing

  28. AllOfMP3.com: Very, very cheap Russian music download service with clever configurable encoding settings

    Like, $14.95 for up to 1,000 files per month, or 1 cent per MB…

  29. Interesting article on the etymology of

    Boy, am I out of touch.

  30. Nintendo emulator for Apple Newton