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Links for Thursday 4 June 2009

Online Backup from Backblaze: After reading poor reviews of Mozy.com on Cool Tools, I’m giving Backblaze, which got better reviews, a try. (Warning, annoying auto-play video.)
Stupidfresh: Highs in the low 70s: A nice summery bunch of summery tunes for the summer. (via Soul Sides)
Walton Tales - Windows Live: A blog and photos about the history of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.
Walton-on-the-Naze network - Welcome: A social network for the small coastal town of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Photos taken 4 Jun 2009

10:14am: Our polling station features a second hand book sale. This is the form of democracy we should be exporting to the world.
10:15am: But if you ask for "either £1.50 or £2" for a book, your customer will leave feeling either mean or ripped-off.
11:34am: Queuing in Whitecross Street for hog. With scotch eggs for the future already in my pockets.
01:49pm: Loading camera film for the first time in... ten years? First black and white film in... seventeen?
02:02pm: #fontsongs Man in the Myriad; Franklin, Mr. Shankly;
08:13pm: Watching the Big Brother launch show, if only to have some idea what the newspapers I don't read will be talking about. #bb10
08:55pm: @dracos @crystaltips @doctoe Yes, @hashdash is just as incomprehensible to me too... What a mess. #bb10
09:39pm: Calling them "non housemates" is about as convincing as calling prisoners of war "enemy combatants". Stupid bloody idea. #bb10