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- Links for Thursday 18 October 2007
- Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
- Long article about 'The Wire,' the show which is so good it ruins all other TV for you. (via Kottke)
- Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
- Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys' Diary.
- The Information Freeway :: A map of the planet
- A very nice viewer for the Open Street Map data. I had no idea they had so much, and it looks gorgeous close-up. (via Simon Willison)
- Cruciforum: crucially simple
- A very simple discussion forum that involves uploading a single file to your website. (via Simon Willison again)
- Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. “Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline.” (via Blech)
- BBC - Programmes
- What I've been working on, launched today: a permanent URL for every episode of every TV and radio programme. The data needs much improving and there's lots more goodness to come…
- Art and Heart: Grumble, grumble, yay!, meh?
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A comment posted on another site on 18 October 2007. Permalink
Bad luck about the bike - I'd try taking it back to where you got it. You're only just outside the month and it's a serious problem so if you're nice (which I'm sure you would be!) they may at least fix it for a reduced price.
I guess if you're going to get another bike, the best thing is to go shopping with someone who knows a lot about them. I'm sure there are bargains to be had, but like you I wouldn't know a beat-up but sturdy bargain frmo a beat-up about-to-fall-apart money pit.