Links from July 2010
- Links for Monday 5 July 2010
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- LRB · Christopher Turner · Missionary Work
- On Henry Wellcome's amazingly vast collection of stuff from around the world, most of which was sold off in the mid-20th century. Huge.
- Home - ExtensionFM
- This is rather slick -- a Google Chrome extension that makes a nice iTunes-style library of MP3s on web pages you visit. (via Yoz)
- The Design of Understanding
- This looks like it'll be good, Max Gadney's one-day conference at St Bride Library in 2011 about "how ideas are designed to be more understandable".
- Can Science Explain Religion? | The New York Review of Books
- I remember finding this interesting when I read it, but was offline at the time. Similarities and things between the major religions.
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- Links for Tuesday 6 July 2010
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- Growing Up Female | The New York Review of Books
- For the sometimes jaw-dropping examples of sexism from not so long ago.
- Night | The New York Review of Books
- Tony Judt has been writing some wonderful memoirs in the NYRB over recent months. But you should start with this account of his increasingly paralysing motor neuron disorder.
- The art of noise refined - Times Online
- When I'm having to read about new musical genres ("hauntology") in three-year-old 'Sunday Times' articles, something's gone very, very wrong.
- How to be a beer historian in just 10 books « Zythophile
- Reading lists about really specific fields of knowledge by people who know their stuff are good. (via Chris Heathcote)
- Charles leifer | Using virtualenv, pip and django-site-gen to quickly start new Django projects
- Another article about setting up and managing Django projects.
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- Links for Wednesday 7 July 2010
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- LRB · Rosemary Hill · Keep Calm
- From 2007, an article that keeps coming back to me, about the Co-operative Correspondence Club, a distributed newsletter for women that lasted most of the twentieth century.
- LRB · Cathy Gere · Dying and Not Dying
- About Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951, but whose cells, named HeLa, are still being used today.
- Introducing play DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing" | KOKO London
- Been wanting to see this for a while now, and looking forward to seeing it later this year. 'Endtroducing' played live on instruments.
- Nomad Sea Kayaking UK - The Home of Sea Kayaking in the East
- Sea kayaking off Essex and Suffolk.
- Anthony Lau, Floating City 2030: Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism - a set on Flickr
- A project to visualise a floating city in the Thames Estuary. Lovely images. (via BLDGBLOG)
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- Links for Thursday 8 July 2010
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- LRB · R.W. Johnson · Sudanitis
- On a Victorian exploration into Africa which required more than 2000 people.
- BLDGBLOG: A Design History of Military Airspace
- "A volumetric rendering of military airspace in East Germany during the 1980s, as imaged in Google Earth." Mapping historical, invisible, 3D spaces. Must be good.
- MetaOptimize Q+A - machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical modeling, and data visualization
- Stack Overflow-style site for data geeks. Fascinating, if mostly over my head. (via @neb)
- Introduction - iui - iUI Introduction Wiki Page. - Project Hosting on Google Code
- A JavaScript/CSS framework thing for making web apps on iPhones etc. Haven't looked into it yet.
- CSS3 Transition - iPhoneWebDev | Google Groups
- Occasionally useful thread from 2009 about CSS3 transitions, hardware acceleration, etc on iPhones
- LRB · Alex de Waal · Dollarised
- Interesting article about the place of patronage, bribery, etc in non-"Western" countries and why simply trying to circumvent it, or stamp it out, isn't a good route to reform.
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- Links for Friday 9 July 2010
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- LRB · Stephen Sedley · Enemies of All Mankind
- For the bit about pirates, the old fashioned kind, and their equitable pay scales.
- You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter
- All the bits about pronouncing words wrong get a bit tiresome, but there's some other fun stuff that people did wrong for years without realising. (via Waxy)
- The Ultimate Carrot Cake with Mascarpone, Fromage Frais and Cinnamon Icing - Sweet - Recipes - from Delia Online
- I made this a couple of weeks ago and it was indeed Ultimate. Recommended.
- How to build a web widget (using jQuery) - Alex Marandon
- Good, clearly written, tutorial on writing a widget that will be included on third party websites. (via Dotcode)
- Paul Morley: Perhaps I'll finally give Glastonbury a go | Music | The Observer
- Not that I want to reduce Morley to a music-list-making-machine, but I keep meaning to listen to some of the current music he listed here last month, as I'm so out of touch.
- IanVisits » London Underground’s “secret” tube station
- A fake tube station used for training staff in an office block. (via @jameswallis)
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- Links for Monday 12 July 2010
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- Historypin | Home
- This is rather nice, especially when you finally get to viewing the historical photos in place in Google Streetview. (via Beyond the Beyond)
- Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer
- Looks good, configurable, etc. And I'm a sucker for that nice zoomy action.
- SuperMe
- Phew, launched! I did the front end development. Congrats to everyone involved!
- Playlist by mildlydiverting - Spotify
- Kim made a playlist of that list of bands in that Paul Morley article what I linked to the other day. Thanks Kim!
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- Links for Wednesday 14 July 2010
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- Commercial property for sale in 141-157 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JL, EC1Y
- Those derelict shops on Whitecross Street are up for auction, which sounds good. "Only" £3 million...
- 4 bedroom house for sale in 41 Cloth Fair, London, EC1A, EC1A
- I'm also fascinated by this huge £5.5 million house on Cloth Fair, just south of Smithfield Market. So big! So expensive!
- 3 bedroom house for sale in St Pauls, St Pauls, EC1A
- Finally, I didn't know that Christopher Wren church tower on Newgate Street, near St Paul's, was a house. Only £4.5 million to you!
- Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin
- A bit clunky, interface-wise, but much more configurable and better than the standard Lightroom 3 Flickr plugin. (via @tomtaylor)
- Django Advent
- Finally finished reading this. Are there other sites that have this kind of writing about Django regularly?
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- Links for Friday 16 July 2010
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- Awkward Stock Photos
- Can't. Stop. Looking. Just. One. More. Page... (via Kottke)
- Finsbury market trader wins battle to stop flats and shops grab | Islington Tribune
- From a couple of months ago about the derelict shops on Whitecross Street that are now up for auction for £3 million.
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- Links for Saturday 17 July 2010
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- intitle:"anna chapman" inurl:beyond_the_beyond site:www.wired.com - Google Search
- I'm very much enjoying Bruce Sterling's coverage of Russian spy Anna Chapman. (And, mmm, Google search filters are handy.)
- LRB · Jenny Diski · Toxic Lozenges
- About how common arsenic poisoning (both murder and accidental) was, mainly in the 19th century. Fascinating.
- Volubilis, Morocco (34.090556,-5.554722 - Google Maps)
- Really quite amazed at this aerial photo of the Roman ruins of Volubilis. You can see the streets, outlines of buildings, etc. Incredible.
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- Links for Sunday 18 July 2010
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- Gutenkarte » Book Catalog
- "Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find." (via BookTwo)
- Infovore » It’s Better Because It’s Better
- I really, really like that quote.
- Chapter 10 - Examples (from Digital Restoration 1st-ed) (PDF)
- Fascinating, close to magic. Second edition of the book is out now and I'd love to do this kind of thing. You know, if I managed to double my available time.
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- Links for Tuesday 27 July 2010
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- Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)
- Good bit about the value of editors for online stuff. In my (sporadic) experience, old media are much, much more rigorous and able to Make (predictable, repetitive) Things Work than new media.
- Git Reference
- Ooh, blimey, an actually useful and readable and understandable concise guide to Git. Phew.
- The Mid-Century Modernist
- Oh. Oh. My. Too many nice things. I must lock my wallet away.
- Gridness
- More lovely rigorously grid-based designs than you can shake a very straight stick at.
- Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary.
- I must have seen this before, but I stumbled across it again recently. Tasty.
- Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
- Kevin Kelly is asking people to recommend the best magazine articles ever written. Too much good stuff to read. Excellent.
- Pay as you go sim with data Wiki
- This could be very handy when going to Abroad.
- Oh I get it, it's a sci-fi novel! « LRB blog
- Oh, no, David Markson died last month. The Strand Bookstore is selling off his library. Some people are trying to keep it together.
- On Danny O'Brien on Shift Run Stop « Enemy of Chaos
- Leila's reflections on Danny and NTK and geek culture and everything, plus a fascinating exchange between them over the past couple of days in the comments.
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- Links for Wednesday 28 July 2010
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- Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities
- "We want to help create an historic placename gazetteer for the UK, publish it as Linked Data and link it to other widely-used sources of placename reference information on the semantic web."
- Who is this guy? Mystery man keeps appearing on live news reports | fidgetwith.com
- Quite fascinating. Although the correct reaction these days is probably "Is this an ARG?" (via @megpickard)
- Ben Alman » jQuery Misc plugins - jQuery queueFn
- "Execute any jQuery method or arbitrary function in the animation queue." Handy, and I keep forgetting where to find it. (via Simon Willison a while back)
- JavaScript Compressor and Comparison Tool
- Paste some JavaScript in and get it compressed by various compressors.
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- Links for Thursday 29 July 2010
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- Ariel Flesler: jQuery.ScrollTo
- This is very lovely: super easy to automatically scroll the window to a specific point, a DOM element, a selector... easily adjustable.
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- Links for Friday 30 July 2010
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- HM Government - Petition to: encourage government departments to upgrade away from Internet Explorer 6
- Oh dear. (via @tom_watson)
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- Links for Saturday 31 July 2010
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- Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings
- Even if you're not directly interested in Lightroom, it's interesting to look at the many examples here to see how different levels of JPEG compression affect quality/file size.
- Barbican - Explore Barbican
- 90 minute guided tours of the Barbican, every couple of days for the rest of the year.
- Jonathan Gems on the abolition of the UKFC - Pleased Sheep Forum
- All those "Save the UK Film Council" tweets from people who (like me) have no idea how the industry works really pissed me off. Here's a different point of view.
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