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  1. I was never any good at sports… | Ask MetaFilter

    Recommended sprawling post-modern novels, for if I ever finish the ones currently on my shelf. (via Chris, not Tom Carden (my del.icio.us feeds are all a blur))

  2. Dejal - Time Out!

    Break-enforcing thing for Mac OS X. Liking it more than MacBreakz - more modern and more free (but no random exercise suggestions).

  3. Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times

    Tom Standage on why you’re an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.

  4. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO Fix Your iPod FireWire Cable

    Make is often fascinating. Sometimes it’s like this, the most pointless “HOW TO” ever: fix a broken thing with glue.

  5. Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet Online

    Interesting guide to going on holiday differently. (via Nick, who describes it as “Psychogeography and Related Bobbins for Beginners”)

  6. Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: The Impact of Inequality by Richard G Wilkinson

    Sounds interesting - equality matters more in a society than the absolute level of wealth.

  7. MacBreakZ - Your Personal Ergonomic Assistant - RSI prevention and recovery - Macintosh

    I’m giving this a go, in an effort to prevent my shoulders seizing up. Good, although the app feels a bit old fashioned.

  8. Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom

    Some handy tips about coding, systems and organising companies. (via Yoz)

  9. Rootburn: Pressure Connections

    Maybe we need something like A Month Of Unsubscribing - unsub from one RSS feed a day for a month. As a start. (via 2lmc)

  10. Anil Dash: Pay By The Hour

    How to tell if you’re not charging enough for your freelance work. I’m bad at this.

  11. SiteVista

    Another Browsercam alternative.

  12. Browsershots

    Open-source, distributed processing, free version of Browsercam. Probably more interesting than useful. At the moment.

  13. Google Maps - Salton City, California

    The road layout of an American town founded in the 1950s, which failed to develop. (via Google Sightseeing)

  14. Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online

    Nice Basecamp-esque web service with a meaningless name I’ll forget. So I’d better link to it. (via Foe)

  15. Tom Mangan’s Fun With Google Maps

    Especially the Space Shuttle tracking, and some Javascript for laying other images on top of Google Maps. (via Haddock)

  16. Pepys’ Diary: In-depth articles

    We just started a new section of the Pepys’ Diary site. Hopefully there will be more lengthy articles to come…

  17. BBC News | Technology | Uproar grows over GTA sex scenes

    Sex scenes require a *higher* rating than blasting innocent people with a variety of weapons!? Weird Americans. (via Anne Galloway)

  18. The economics of movie popcorn pricing (kottke.org)

    See my two comments… so I don’t lose those links again (the rest of the page is by weird popcorn-eating people).

  19. Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head: The Personal MBA 40

    I love stuff like this, The Books You Must Read for any particular field. Business, in this case. (via Kottke)

  20. Super simple clearing floats - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style

    A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)

  21. Complete Wikipedia on your handheld or notebook in TomeRaider format

    Oooh… another reason to upgrade my Palm. (via Chris)

  22. One month of speed reading [Tesugen]

    Weblog post. To read later. Quickly.

  23. B3TA : Features : How to Poach an Egg

    I tried the cling-film method last night - worked, although it’s a little tricky to extract the egg intact.

  24. Speed Reading, Reading Improvement and Assessment - AceReader Software by StepWare, Inc.

    I read annoyingly slowly.

  25. FooterStick › css › Learn › solarDreamStudios

    Make a footer stick to bottom of the viewport where appropriate. (via blech)

  26. Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net

    Lovely PHPy and Ajaxy calendar interface. Mmmm, the web’s getting nice.

  27. Six Apart ProNet Articles - yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows

    May give it a whirl sometime. (via Yoz again)

  28. Wage Slaves from 1UP.COM

    I’m always amazed by this kind of stuff: people paid peanuts in Asia to earn money in computer games (via Yoz).

  29. Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image - Photomosaic

    Wow, that is impressive. Haven’t seen a photomosaic that detailed before.

  30. BBC Sport | London beats Paris to 2012 Games

    Bugger. If only there was some way one could opt out of paying for this nonsense, or put my money toward something actually useful.