Monday 20 December 2010 (Phil Gyford’s website)

More4 cuts back The Daily Show to one episode a week | Media | guardian.co.uk: But! What? Grrr! May have to get a Witopia VPN again so I can watch the Daily Show online. What kind of media industry is this where I find myself paying $40/year to circumvent region protection in order to watch a TV show? (via @megpickard)
Adactio: Journal—Home-grown and Delicious: Yes, I've been thinking this self-hosting-with-syndication model is the way to go. I don't use Delicious's social features at all, but if I self-hosted my links I'd still like them to be viewable by others in my network, if they're interested. (via @preoccupations)
Isle of Tune: Really lovely thing for making music out of cars driving round a pretty isometric road layout. Worth firing up Flash for. (via Kottke)
Coding Horror: So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code): Things you should do when sending email via code. (via Daring Fireball)
Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2010: I have completely failed to keep up with this or any other music blog this year. Again. But StG's end of year lists are always good.
Memolane | Your time machine for the web: Currently invite-only, and I've not tried it, a thing for aggregating and/or archiving your stuff from various web services.
Blissblog - 10 for 2010: Simon Reynolds' top records of the year. So much to listen to. (via Warren Ellis)

20 Dec 2010 at Twitter

08:29am: Not as cold as I expected out. Having a nice walk.

02:05pm: @AOLTV_UK I kept seeing Apprentice tweets by you last night which copied slightly earlier tweets by other people.

05:11pm: @AOLTV_UK Ah yes, I see you were "sharing" @brokenbottleboy's tweets. But it does look like you're blatantly copying them. Why not retweet?

05:14pm: @brokenbottleboy Just seemed weird having identical tweets from both. Made AOL look a bit silly. But no big deal, sorry :)

05:59pm: Cool Site of the Day for 16 years ago, Smitty's UFO page: http://j.mp/i3xEja (This should be a daily tweet...)

06:00pm: @Mike_Corso Ever thought of doing a Cool Site Of The Day twitter account for 16 year old links? Using web.archive.org? It'd be great!

09:23pm: @gilest @jah was asking the exact same question a little while ago: http://j.mp/gQCKyz Don't know if he found a good solution...?

10:25pm: Just watched last ‘Misfits’. So good. How do they manage to shift tone so completely and rapidly and often and have it all still work?!

Monday 20 December 2010