2011-01-10 (Monday)
Links
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LRB · job
Now that’s a job advert. No faffing. “The ‘London Review of Books’ is looking for an editor, preferably one with an interest in politics and history. Would suit a young, disaffected academic.”
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New Lightroom plug-in – CaptureTime to Exif - John Beardsworth
Bascially a Lightroom-plugin front-end for Exiftool. Lets you easily update the Date Time Original EXIF field (eg, for setting the date a scanned photo was taken) but also add other arguments manually.
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Who killed the Intel microprocessor? | asymco
I never knew about the difference between Intel (who design, manufacture and sell microprocessors) and ARM (who license microprocessors which designers use as part of a chip which is then manufactured by a fabricator).
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Obama London: Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page
It’s fascinating how quickly Palin’s team remove comments (and fair enough; it’s their page). It’s annoying how many people shout that this is “censorship”, as if they wouldn’t do the same if the tables were turned.
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Exquisite Tweets
Really handy way of being able to point at an entire Twitter conversation, or a hand-curated selection of tweets, from James Wheare.
Tweets
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@fidothe Yes, looks lovely. However, I don't have time to LEARN A WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE BEFORE I GO TO BED.
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@FidoThe I have used better things since, but right now I'm just trying to patch a several-years-old nasty grep. Thanks anyway.
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@Zoonie I have a machine to watch it for me this evening.
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I've read *that* Stack Overflow post several times and yet I *still* persist in trying to write complex HTML-matching regular expressions.
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iTunes Ping, with these recommendations you're really spoiling the idea that algorithms can give the slightest illusion of intelligence.
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@tomcoates Watch out... @antimega's Essex posse has me and @mala lurking at the back holding his leather jacket for him.
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The Bourne trilogy on ITV2 the next three nights, starting NOW! (I haven't seen one of them; don't know which one.)
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@catfunt The experiment has yet to reach a conclusion.
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@catfunt Keeping the browser window open all day, volume up, waiting for a good moment, is a recipe for a jolly office. Up to a point.
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@stml Whenever I hear Steve Lamacq's voice I think it's 1993.
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@pixellent Yay, well done!! http://bit.ly/hD8NoB
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Playing sound effects to wife down the phone: WIN! http://bit.ly/AqTvF http://bit.ly/1avtr3 The gift that keeps on giving.
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Yes, like this, but for everything: http://xkcd.com/806/ (via @gwire)
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Wanted: An entire secret parallel world of customer service designed for people who are competent and know what they need.
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When someone's talking about you, your ears burn. What happens when you're being watched? That. / cc @ethermole