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Amazon.co.uk: Building Scalable Web Sites: Books
Cal has a book out! Sounds interesting and very useful.
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The New York Review of Books: City Lights
Review of Tristram Hunt’s ‘Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City’. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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Flickr: The London Flickr Scavenger Hunt
Nice treasure hunt idea — you’re given a set of photos and, I think, you have to go and take identical ones around London. There’s one tomorrow.
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iCal Exchange
“an easy way to publish … calendars using [iCal’s] built-in ‘Publish to a web server’ mechanism.” Been a bit quiet for a while though.
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iCalShare - BBC Radio 4 schedule
Nice iCal-able schedule. (via Haddock)
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BLDGBLG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1
This sounds good. Must read it next week. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Amazon: Listmania! - View List “Revolutions and State Collapse”
Damn, I need to find a few spare months from somewhere. These all sound fascinating.
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Amazon.com: Books Search Results: Charles Tilly
Tilly has written some interesting sounding books about social movements, revolutions, collective violence, etc.
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MySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses
Lovely maps of travel times around the UK by Lightfoot & Steinberg, data wranglers to the Ministry. (via Haddock)
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Variety’s Festivals & Markets - Stillman seeing ‘Green’
Whit Stillman’s starting work on a new film. About time!
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The Observer | OMM | A northern soul
Paul Morley on the Manchester and Liverpool punk scenes from 1976 and beyond. I always find his excitement infectious. (via Ted Mills)
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Flickr: Photos tagged with mstr
Museum Street Tea Rooms. Some things are destined to get Flickr’d a lot.
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Mark Fletcher presentation at Startup SIG
Long transcript of a talk on running a startup by the chap who started ONEList (which became eGroups then Yahoo! Groups) and Bloglines.
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Blair kelly studio
Gorgeous lino cuts. One day I’m going to do lino cuts again. I can dream that they’ll be this good. (via Drawn!)
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Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ
In case I get round to getting one. (via Blech)
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Patryk Rebisz - Between You And Me
Lovely short film shot using a digital still camera. There were a few awkward moments for me, but it looks wonderful and the technology makes it more dreamy. (via Blech)
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LRB | Rose George : Diary
Subscribers-only or pay-for, but an interesting account of going into London’s sewers. She’s working on a book about human waste…
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Gmaps Pedometer
Calculates distances along a route for you. Nike also have a version but you have to register to get the same data.
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Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before
A big collection of world maps with countries resized according to different kinds of statistics. (via Boing Boing)
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AMK design | Last 10 tracks on your website
Simple but good PHP code for putting your Last.fm recent tracks on your site. Inspired me to rewrite all my stupidly over-engineered code for gyford.com along the same lines. (via Kottke)
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Dejal - Narrator
Handy Mac app for reading out stories or scripts. Can give each script character a different voice, and leave a gap for you to say your lines.
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Transport for London Cycle Journey Planner
Matthew Somerville does it again. Simple interface to get cycling directions across London from Transport for London’s journey planner.
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Public Videos // pajamapants
Videos and interviews with musicians, lots of Britpoppy stuff from the early 1990s including loads from Sleeper. Suddenly I feel 10+ years younger. Fab.
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Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
Intriguing anti-spam solution for weblogs and pretty much any site with user-submitted content.
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London’s lack of Mexican (Phil Gyford: Writing)
My page on there being no decent Mexican food in London has spawned its own mailing list for those interested. Yum!
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ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
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Color Scheme Generator 2
There are loads of these around, but this seems a nice example.
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Peterme.com: Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time
I have fond memories of staying in the Wired corporate flat on San Francisco’s South Park for a week in 1996.
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Magpiebrain » Blog Archive » Trouble Free Backups, Part One - rsync and Strongspace
Again, just in case I start using Strongspace, saves me Googling again.
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Strongspace Weblog - Syncing With Rsync
In case I start using Strongspace and forget where to find these instructions.