- Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka - Celebrating ORG’s Second Birthday
- The Open Rights Group is doing fantastic things for the UK online world. I joined when they started and if you join now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust will match your contribution. Go!
- Graphpaper.com - What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)
- A list of skills learned in art school that aren’t hands-on crafting skills. These are the best things about such places I think (via Purse Lip Square Jaw via Rodcorp)
- A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design
- Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)
- Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register
- ‘Power of Nightmares’ etc creator on the BBC and other media being scared, the faults of blogs, user-generated content. "It’s a time of great technical invention but it’s a time of [artistic] stagnation."
- Ben Goldacre: Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Can we all club together and buy Ben Goldacre an award for services to common sense or something? He’s been on fire this year.
- Journal.nonesuch.com: Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of "The Wire"
- Sounds good… and only six weeks to go until the fifth season begins.
- Indiepop Radio
- Fantastic. "Indie songs with proper tunes and proper lyrics: Indiepop, Sarah Records, Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, Twee…" Streaming radio and a podcast.
- VectorMagic
- Nice, free web-based bitmap to vector graphic convertor. (via Ted Mills)