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  1. Ella Guru

    Heard their song ‘On a Beach’ on Late Junction last night and it was good.

  2. Gigantomachia

    I’ve had my first real play with TypePad, and got a new site up and running that isn’t a weblog.

  3. Wired UK employees

    Most Wired UK staffers are missing from the roll call on the website of Gary Wolf’s book, ‘Wired: A Romance’, so here they are.

  4. Eudora 6, inching slowly forward

    Eudora 6 has been released. An improvement, but it’s falling still further behind the competition. It wouldn’t take much…

  5. This week’s culture

    This week I’ve seen Douglas Coupland talk and I’ve heard ‘Newsnight: The Opera’. I missed Gillian Welch and Burning Man.

  6. Bloglines

    I’m loving the online RSS feed reader which is replacing NetNewsWire Lite for me.

  7. Colours

    I’m no good with colours, as you can tell, but here are two simple yet handy things that…

  8. iCal time zones

    iCal has almost exactly the same problem with time zones as Movable Type. If you travel iCal will change the time of all your appointments…

  9. Movable Type time zones

    Weblog entries should have their own time zones, rather than be stuck with the weblog’s default that you can never change, even if you move from one continent to another.

  10. Post boxes

    Red post boxes all over the web. Hurrah! Buy them (and phone boxes) for your garden! Yay for hobbies!

  11. David Lynch on sheds

    Sheds are apparently fashionable right now but David Lynch was way ahead of the curve. He likes sheds.

  12. Telegraph poles

    Telegraph poles are often marked with their owner, size and date. More details here…

  13. Updated Haddock Blogs

    A couple of updates to the Haddock Blogs script, mainly including the full item descriptions in the feed, where available.

  14. Summer playlist

    A selection of tunes from Greil Marcus’s ‘Mystery Train’ that make for fine heatwave listening.

  15. Pre-client spam filtering

    After trying the very nice Knowspam.net I’m left uneasy by the whole idea of challenge and response spam filtering.

  16. What are the chances of that happening, eh?

    Brian Eno documentary on BBC 6 Music.

  17. Three web widgets

    Three generally unnecessary JavaScripty things that you’ll probably never need, but they’re pretty good solutions if you do.

  18. Open mapping

    Some folk in a German city have generated a set of freely-available mapping data, because authorities in Europe don’t release such information.

  19. Essex signposts and milestones

    A great site of photos of signposts and milestones around Essex. No, it’s interesting.

  20. T610 dimness

    The Sony Ericsson T610 is indeed lovely, but that review was right about the dim screen.

  21. Great ‘24’ review

    A good review of ‘24’ in ‘Sight & Sound’.

  22. Encoding with LAME in iTunes revisited

    There’s a much updated version of the iTunes-LAME Encoder.

  23. Removing languages

    I’ve reinstalled OS X and found a handy utility for removing all the unnecessary language files afterwards.

  24. HTML is for grown ups

    Why HTML is both easy and hard, and two Internet Explorer bugs.

  25. Doonesbury via RSS

    I made an RSS file that links to this week’s ‘Doonesbury’ strips.