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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Supposing … Subversive genius Banksy is actually rubbish
I do like Banksy’s images, but I hate how people fawn over his criminal and not-really-political acts. (via Blech)
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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML
Why you (and I) should probably be using HTML 4 rather than XHTML. Oops. (via Daring Fireball)
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Mind Hacks: Why email is addictive (and what to do about it)
I’ve got this bad. I need to replace my Apple-M habit with Apple-Q. (via Yoz)
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Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones
If you’ve installed several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows XP, here’s how to make them work better.
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Today’s Blog Music / The Hype Machine - discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs
MP3 blog aggregator that lets you play the aggregated music in a Flash player.
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CD Times - Various (compiled by Chris Coco & Rob Da Bank)
Bugger. Blue Room is the only radio I’ve regularly listened to (on Listen Again) since Peel died, and it finishes this month. The last corner of radio that felt like home. What do I listen to now? Suggestions very welcome.
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YouTube - skinnyCorp on CNN
I had no idea Threadless was such big business — expecting $18-20 million in sales this year. Blimey. (via ChrisDodo)
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Hotwired Search
The saddest thing I’ve seen this week (even though I first saw it a few weeks ago but completely forgot about it because I must be going senile).
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Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot
Lots of people go into a store as shoppers and, in unison, all move in slow motion. Shortly after, they all stand motionless, which is even better. (via Kottke)
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How to Read - Nick Hornby
“If you don’t read the classics, or the novel that won this year’s Booker Prize, then nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly, nothing good will happen to you if you do” (via Kottke)
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Vimeo / everyday video clip (from Noah K.)
A photo of himself every day for six years, made into a movie. Awesome. If he continued this into old age, until he died… wow, it would be hard to like any work of art more. Stunning. (via Kottke)
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The New York Review of Books: The Case for Decency
“The belief in unity that has fueled so many utopian dreams is an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable that ends in repression. Berlin suggests we renounce this venerable faith, and learn how to live with intractable conflict.” (Subscribers only)
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Mocking Music: NME C86: Side B
This makes me very happy. MP3s of all tracks on the NME’s C86 tape. I only started listening to jangly indie stuff a year or two later, so this is nearly all new to me. Twenty years, blimey.
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Gregarius » A Free, Web-based Feed Aggregator
Nice-looking, install-it-yourself, personal Bloglines (only less ugly).
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The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
Ethics, identity, violence, justice. “Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?”
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Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
How to make your own clickmap thing using Javascript, Ruby, ImageMagick. (via Kottke)
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55 word stories
Some lovely stories here, conveniently short and ideally suited to the short-haul commuter or the busy housewife. (via Said the Gramophone)
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Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org
Pictures of tapes. There used to be a huge Japanese page that had all the pictures on one page, but that’s gone and this is more convenient. How quaint. (via City of Sound)
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Phil Gyford’s blog
I’ve been trying Vox out and have posted a few things there recently. Not sure I’ll continue though - one weblog’s more than enough.
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BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - milton court
Building Design article about the proposed replacement of the Barbican’s Milton Court building (“43 storey residential tower”!), and the resistance to the plans.
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Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times
I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I’ve got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)
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Flickr: Archive of Strand Building Hackney’s photos posted to Flickr on 16th July 2006
The Strand Building, where I used to live, has finally had its central courtyard remodelled (necessary due to leakage into the garage below). Beautifully done, although the fountain looks odd.
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LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out
Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially ‘Look Back in Anger’, Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
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LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye
Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).
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Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch’s Rendezvous
Fantastic idea, although it stutters horribly and becomes very out of sync for me.
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YouTube - The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
Nice video for the new, lovely, Mountain Goats single.
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Grand Theft Auto III FAQs - Grand Theft Auto III Walkthroughs - Grand Theft Auto III Guides
Because every few months, when I have a GTA3 stint, I have to go and find this again.
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Cool Tool: Adventure Cycling
The woman cycling across the USA on the Saturday Guardian’s Travel section back page has got me intrigued…
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SovMusic.ru - Soviet Music
Lots of free Soviet MP3s. Hear a choir sing (apparently) ‘Capital Oppresses Us’ and other family favourites. Also, speeches and lots of Soviet posters.
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Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang
Webb recommended this to Coates and it sounds interesting but I hate reading on the screen so maybe I’ll never get round to reading it even so. (via Plasticbag)