Links for Wednesday 13 May 2009

The Straight Choice | The election leaflet project: I’m slightly unsure about the "why" of this project but it has a great pedigree so I’m sure it will be a Good Thing.
William Heath’s blog » Customer service: His amazing battle to get Orange to stop chasing him for debts incurred by someone who started an account in his name while he was in another part of the country. Stunningly poor and dumb service.
YouTube - Unit Four Plus Two — Concrete and Clay: 1965(?) video for the song, filmed on the building site that was to become the Barbican.
How do I stop the "Mailbox is at 90% of quota" alerts?: No, really, how do I do this in Thunderbird? Anyone? Or anyone know somewhere else I can ask where I might get an answer? It’s driving me nuts enough to consider switching to Apple Mail.
BBC News | Programmes | Newsnight | Stephen Fry dismisses MPs’ expenses row: Exactly what I needed. Stephen Fry putting the infuriating and angry-making MPs’ expenses stuff into perspective. It’s a very bad thing but there are more important things to get angry about. (via Tom Taylor)

13 May 2009 at Twitter

07:01am: Everyone was swimming clockwise this morning. Surprisingly disorienting.
07:30am: Blimey, I had no idea a film was made of Nicholas Mosley's 'Accident' (I like) with a screenplay by Pinter. And it's re-released next month!
08:11am: Responding to critics.
11:26am: If I wanted to buy some mugs near Silicon Roundabout, where would I go? Argos doesn't do them (unless you want two Playboy mugs for £8.79).
11:32am: @tomtaylor Robert Dyas a good idea... although the website suggests I might end up with Winnie the Pooh and Friends...
12:50pm: Mugs acquired at good old Waitrose. Good size, comfy handles. Plus: tea, milk and biscuits. The full kit.
08:57pm: bbc.co.uk's Apprentice Predictor gave away that I didn't pick the firee before the firing actually took place. Spoiler. Won't use again.
09:12pm: @mattb Online radio should have interference filters to let you make it sound like FM, MW, LW or SW.

Mailman Archive Scraper: A Python script I wrote that scrapes a Mailman mailing list archive and republishes it elsewhere, with some optional additional changes.

A long list of books | MetaTalk: Hi, I’m responsible for Septivium and put the list together from the original thread. To respond to some of the points above……