Writing tagged Misc
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Extendaword
The project I’ve been working on recently, a word game for the Financial Times, is finally launching.
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Semi-public events
Wondering how to create a distributed calendar system for inviting friends along to events without showering them with emails.
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A question
If you insure your CDs, what is it you’re actually insuring?
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Geolocational link dump
A collection of URLs scavenged from two months’ worth of unread Geowanking mailing list emails. Maps, wikis, GPS, Flash, RSS, RDF… the usual.
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Changing jobs
The Guardian’s special report on changing jobs, and how great it is to hear about people making the break…
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Sunsets and shared experience
Other peoples’ photos of Wednesday’s London sunset show how much richer the online world can make the real world. Hurrah!
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Linklogs are taking off. Again.
Ooh, excitement! Some people think “linklogs” are taking off! But, of course, they’re nothing new — Jorn Barger was doing it waaay back.
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“I wish he would pull my hair again”
A friend of mine in the US has started posting excerpts of her diary from when she was 12 to her weblog. “I want to be Joey’s friend … I wish he would pull my hair again.”
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Bloglines’ blogrolls and the real world creating friends
You can now include your “blogroll” direct from Bloglines. And I ramble about why some people feel like closer “friends” just because they’re physically nearer.
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Hiragana and Katakana practice page
I’ve made a page to help people (like me) practice their Japanese alphabets.
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Online autobiography tools?
Is there a market for a simple tool that would allow people to easily document their lives? No, not weblogs; something geared towards the past.
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Link-only weblogs aggregated on Haddock Blogs
Haddock Blogs now has a separate list and RSS feed of a few other “link logs” or link-only weblogs, or whatever you want to call them.
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Imperial Rome’s high density living
In Rome 2,000 years ago, most people lived in apartment blocks five to six storeys high.
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Underground Britain
Fascinating information, photos and floorplans of underground locations around the UK, particularly the half of the site devoted to old cold war bunkers.
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Greater London Industrial Archeology Society
Their bi-monthly online newsletter is an amazing collection of wide-ranging background info on everything from bricks to the distilling industry.
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Douglas Coupland interviews
Two interviews with Coupland on the launch of ‘Hey Nostradamus!’.
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Farmers’ Market
Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market and occasional second hand book sales. A perfect Saturday morning.
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Bill Nighy
“There is nothing lonelier than being on stage in pantaloons.”
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Gigantomachia
I’ve had my first real play with TypePad, and got a new site up and running that isn’t a weblog.
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Wired UK employees
Most Wired UK staffers are missing from the roll call on the website of Gary Wolf’s book, ‘Wired: A Romance’, so here they are.
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Bloglines
I’m loving the online RSS feed reader which is replacing NetNewsWire Lite for me.
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Post boxes
Red post boxes all over the web. Hurrah! Buy them (and phone boxes) for your garden! Yay for hobbies!
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David Lynch on sheds
Sheds are apparently fashionable right now but David Lynch was way ahead of the curve. He likes sheds.
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Telegraph poles
Telegraph poles are often marked with their owner, size and date. More details here…
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Updated Haddock Blogs
A couple of updates to the Haddock Blogs script, mainly including the full item descriptions in the feed, where available.