2010-03-26 (Friday)
Writing
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Week 353
Back on Project Humphrey after a break, and all is good.
Photos
Links
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Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper’s Magazine)
Lovely article that is more a reminiscence of a lost San Francisco and childhood than it is another “we must save newspapers” plea.
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Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com
interesting article on the “Tea Party” Right in America. Also scary. Hadn’t realised how much they had in common with crazy paranoid Patriots.
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jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery
There are lots of things like this, but I’ve used this one and it seems very nice.
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Experimental Rockets at the Naze - Windows Live
There was secret rocket testing going on at Walton on the Naze during World War II.
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Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine
Fascinating account of the process of making an album/track and all the technological stuff that happens to the music these days. (via Tom Taylor)
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Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders
One of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it. Very handy. (via Infovore)
Tweets
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Analogue or digital friction? Sticky chocolate cake fingers on the trackpad.
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@spaceboy @samuelpepys' court case is too laborious to fit into tweets. Business, not personal. You should read the full diary! #upselling
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@blech Because some cyclists think you're only a cyclist if you ride the right bike and see it as a way of life, rather than transport.