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  1. Random Etc. - Proof that narrative is hard: A 3 month Flickr summary

    Wow, awesome stuff — it all looks amazing and I’m very envious of all the dramatic Californian…

  2. Lets get brutal on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    It would be safe to clarify what you mean by “the Barbican.” I think you’re referring to the…

  3. Pulse Laser: Beautiful Beolit

    I’m trying to imagine the excitement on your face when you took the panels off and discovered the…

  4. Stone Cold Pimpin’: Louis Menand (and myself) on Diary Keeping

    Interesting, I look forward to reading the article (I’ll get round to the paper version…

  5. Vandalism, Shoreditch on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    They’re by Eine: www.einesigns.co.uk/ Here’s an interview with him:…

  6. Christmas panto lads on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Good lord, that was at sixth form!? You look amazingly young, especially David!

  7. Graphpaper.com - What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)

    Great list Christopher. I’ve been thinking recently that concentrating on the kind of skills in…

  8. 10 years old on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I remember at some point when BBC News changed its design and I said that it was crap that they…

  9. Technovia: Biofuels “a crime against humanity”

    I’ve been pretty well taken in by the organic food good, big corporation genetically modified food…

  10. Speed Chess on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I saw him today on Neal Street, Covent Garden. The evil cynic in me couldn’t remember what the date…

  11. Art and Heart: Grumble, grumble, yay!, meh?

    Bad luck about the bike - I’d try taking it back to where you got it. You’re only just outside the…

  12. Mind gyms for cognitive fitness - Boing Boing

    The Guardian’s excellent Ben Goldacre has had some good articles in the past about this…

  13. Fancy seeing you here on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    One of the prominent features of my summer working at the BBC has been the frequent appearance of…

  14. Get Lat Lon

    Fantastic Simon, just what I need! It’s been a real pain finding the lat/long of precise locations…

  15. Meish dot org » A World In Your Ear

    I like Take Your Medicine too, and you might also like Not Your Usual Bollocks, which is kind of…

  16. Crashed drug plane owned by US Government? - Boing Boing

    The photo of a mechanic on their Products page is a stock photo from Photo.com.

  17. Ffffound, flickr, and finding favourites - Vox

    In case you don’t already know, Bloglines also uses vi keys for jumping around posts in a feed.…

  18. Subtraction 7.1 Beta: Operation: Bring Nothing to Work

    Occasionally I manage journeys without a bag, but I rely on all the pockets on my combat trousers…

  19. Adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » Thinking the Unthinkable about iTunes

    “it ain’t even named appropriately anymore” I rather like it when things outgrow their original…

  20. Kurt Vonnegut on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I’m really liking these portraits. Simple and strong, and they make me want to do some! Do you do…

  21. Wi-Fi Networking News: The End of Unlimited as a Modifiable Noun

    The Advertising Standards Authority have looked into this in the UK, and here’s their position:…

  22. Golden Flats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I’m sure you coped with it OK, but I don’t think he was correct. The estate’s freeholder is the…

  23. Golden Flats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Why did he tell you not to take photos?

  24. Said the Gramophone: Perestroika

    My favourite Soviet Europe themed diptych is Thomas Dolby’s ‘Europa and the Pirate Twins’ and…

  25. Art and Heart: A painful, piteous rite of passage

    Ouch, sorry to read about the accident, but pleased that there’s no permanent damage and you’re on…

  26. Burrito(?) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    And… I was hoping it’d be more of a huge burrito wrapped in foil type place, rather than somewhere…

  27. The Omni Mouth » Call for OmniGraffle stencil requests

    Family tree stencil. Not much to it, but would be handy.

  28. My Best Friend on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I think there’s a good film to made about someone who realises he doesn’t have any real friends.…

  29. Oliver Kornel Hill on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Ooh, wow, yay! I had no idea! Shows how long since I last saw you :) Congratulations!

  30. Russell davies: we love technology - part two

    “…comedy is clearly a higher and more difficult art than straight drama.” I’m not entirely…

  31. Bunker on the beach, Walton-on-the-Naze on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Rawprints beat me to it by minutes! We must both be watching for Walton photos :)

  32. Bunker on the beach, Walton-on-the-Naze on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    It’s erosion - the cliffs at Walton have been gradually disappearing into the sea for years. On the…

  33. Barbican Flats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    These are part of the Golden Lane Estate, rather than the Barbican Estate. By the same architects,…

  34. Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1: not all seats are equal

    It also depends on what you expect the future pattern of tube usage to be. I get on at Barbican…

  35. Meish dot org » I see famous people. Everywhere.

    Weird; I just thought I saw an elderly, white-haired David Caruso carrying shopping bags from…

  36. Z-23 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Is it like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory!? Please say it is.

  37. Sunday Best #6: Bestival Special « Sunday Best Podcast

    I’m loving the podcasts, but any chance of tracklistings for them? It’d make life just that little…

  38. Rabbit, Rabbit. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I was going to say I saw one not so long ago in Holborn tube, but it appears “not so long ago” was…

  39. Moving Target: Cyclists to be banned from using the road

    Anyone wanting to contact their MP can do it easily (and for free) via http://www.writetothem.com/

  40. Low (fuzzy) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Last night Mark Kozelek kept asking someone in the audience, who was taking photos with a camera…

  41. Inside The Disco Warren on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I went to a talk by one of the guys who did the new signage for the place. He said that the plan…

  42. Girls on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Wow, that’s wonderfully 1980s. How come the 1980s seemed so new and modern back then, and now they…

  43. April 13 Walton Essex (24) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I think that’s one of the concrete boats that were used during World War II to block the backwaters…

  44. Engaged on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Excellent, congratulations!

  45. Meish dot org » Future of Web Copyright?

    This reminds me a little of after I attended the Carson Workshops Flickr workshop in 2005. We’d all…

  46. Sort Fields in iTunes 7.1 - Vox

    Nice understandable guide, thanks Paul. But I’ve always thought it better to sort artists by first…

  47. I love the adbusted oxford circus - Vox

    I love some of the newer stations (Jubille Line extension?) that don’t have ads anywhere. Or didn’t…

  48. Twin 2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Fantastic! I am now very happy and all smiley. Congratulations!

  49. dimsum on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Hmm, I appear to have shrunk. I feel a bit like Dennis Waterman in Little Britain.

  50. Captain’s Crate: The Voice of Reason

    You might want to check out ‘A Soldier’s Sad Story: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Black America…

  51. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Does Web 2.0 = B2B?

    I’m also a little confused — when you say that “social network” is a bullshit term, are you talking…

  52. The Stage / Shenton’s View / The play(wright)’s the thing….

    I’m sure you don’t mean to write off all of the Mime Festival, or all group-devised works, but your…