- Links for Thursday 17 May 2012
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- Links for Wednesday 16 May 2012
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- Roll Call. Say hello! (Pepys' Diary)
- This is the why. Well, one of the whys.
- Links for Tuesday 15 May 2012
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- Essex Fingerposts - a set on Flickr
- Lovely set of familiar signposts. (via Paul Mison)
- google-map-marker-with-shadow.js — Gist
- "Here's how to add a coloured marker to a Google Map with a shadow in the right place." The marker's dynamically generated using the Google Charts API.
- The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
- Some good (but, as she says, far from exhaustive) and interesting tips on how to blog anonymously, by Brooke Magnanti / Belle du Jour. (via @tomcoates)
- Links for Monday 14 May 2012
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- Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard? at Scott Porad
- "In the history of the world, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex?"
- Links for Sunday 13 May 2012
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- Retirement Researcher Blog: The Shocking International Experience of the 4% Rule
- Historical number-crunching, looking at one of the universal rules-of-thumb of financial blogs. (via Monevator)
- Links for Friday 11 May 2012
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- TMA-1 - AIAIAI
- Nice looking closed-back headphones. Because you've never bought your final pair of headphones.
- Secret Underground
- "Smart ways around the tube system." I'll never remember these, but interesting and handy nonetheless. (via @antimega)
- Links for Thursday 10 May 2012
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- User Guide: Getting the most out of the Olympus E-M5: Digital Photography Review
- For future reference. (One can dream.) But also, blimey, are cameras the most complicated and complexly configurable items of consumer electronics available today? With the most clumsy interfaces?
- LUV & HAT: Love and hate and hilarious disagreements • PINTEREST
- Pinterest? "...it’s just Tumblr. It’s just Tumblr in a grid. And Tumblr is already woeful enough. Look, there are already enough Instagrammed pictures of sad girls holding balloons on the internet." (via @benhammersley)
- The woman who lives in a shed: how London landlords are cashing in | Society | The Guardian
- Sometimes I fear we're going backwards.