- Links for Friday 29 January 2010
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- The State of Split-Screen Gaming Article | Eurogamer
- A summary of decent games to play with a friend in the same room. (Thanks Tom A.)
- Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - Toki Woki.
- An AIR application that generates customised CSS etc files for use with the Blueprint CSS framework. Handy.
- Grange Hill Online - Locations
- Amazing: matching up shots from Grange Hill episodes with photos of the real world contemporary locations. The Internet's fab. (via EnemyOfChaos on Twitter)
- Links for Monday 25 January 2010
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- CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box
- Cameron Barrett's account of SXSW 2000.
- Hack the Planet: Are you sure?
- A post-SXSW2000 discussion about weblogs and cliques and oh all those things that now seem so old.
- Comments on 1142 | MetaFilter
- A bit more flurry about weblogs and "3000 word" Ben Brown-style essays, post SXSW 2000. Quaint.
- The benbrown website :: daily text
- Ben Brown's 6985 word account of his SXSW 2000 and *that* weblog panel. A lovely piece, still worth a read.
- Links for Friday 22 January 2010
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- Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
- I've been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)
- Timeline twins, music and movies
- I keep thinking about this old post. I must be getting old. "Listening to Michael Jackson's Thriller today is equivalent to listening to Elvis Presley's first album (1956) at the time of Thriller's release in 1982."
- Can't You Wait - Geographer
- I don't *quite* understand it, but some refreshingly interesting design, not aping print.
- Links for Monday 18 January 2010
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- LRB · David Runciman · I Could Fix That
- All interesting, but I particularly like the bits where Bill Clinton gets obsessed with details of things like Hubble and Dolly the sheep.
- What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK (from little.red.boat )
- Lengthy but clear explanation from Anna Pickard. Hurrah! I'm hoping she does get started on 'Saturday Night Live'...
- Links for Sunday 17 January 2010
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- Robhudson's django-debug-toolbar at master - GitHub
- Looks very handy for showing what's happening under the hood on your Django pages.
- Express & Star
- "Britain's biggest selling evening newspaper", their website now powered by WordPress.
- Shift Run Stop – Episode 7: New Year’s Special – Adam Curtis and Avery Edison
- Not to put down Avery Edison, but the Adam Curtis bits of this are fascinating and really worth a listen.
- Links for Thursday 14 January 2010
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- Flat rate VAT « Online accounting software news from Xero
- Xero added support for the Flat Rate Scheme for VAT last month. I don't use Xero, but this is another reason to try it.
- Dallas Clayton - An Awesome Book
- If you need a little inspiring, this is like a lovely "think something big!" pill. (via Haddock)
- Tools of Pro Django developer – aka What powers dinette and almost every app we write.
- Some useful things to have a look into.
- Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django « SaltyCrane Blog
- A handy guide. What am I getting into...
- Links for Wednesday 13 January 2010
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- Whole Earth Discipline
- Online, annotated version of Stewart Brand's book. Annotations aside, seems to Instapaper quite well.
- Flights - Search Data from Hundreds of Travel Sites for Cheap Flights at KAYAK
- A good way to filter lots of flight search results.
- John Graham-Cumming: Utter crap reporting from The Daily Telegraph
- Also read the previous post about the CNN story. Come *on* journalists -- it's not difficult to at least be adequate at your job.