Links
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Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | David Blunkett can’t take on the yobs all by himself
I’m not sure agreeing with Max Hastings is a good thing, but even so…
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Economic History Resources - How Much is That? (British Pounds)
Handily converts the value of money in past years (back to 1264) to 2002 values.
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Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters
Interesting article. 4
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Fontus - London model
3D map of central London.
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TOOOL - The Open Organisation of Lockpickers
Someone’s giving a talk on lockpicking here at Euro Foo Camp. More non-computer talks please!
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Centricle : css filters (css hacks)
A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
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Johannes Koch’s How to hide CSS from buggy browsers page
The URL that almost every website points to is now broken and this is the new home, which is a bugger to find.
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Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
A decade and more ago it was
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Japanese
Insanely complex interface, but very handy.
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Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser
I’ll need this at some point I’m sure.
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Why we’re reaching our limits as a one-hour city - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
Throughout history cities have been an hour’s travel across. I’m not convinced
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Usability News - 6.2 2004 — Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
The importance of white space in online reading.
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Black and White Photography: London Tube Map
Wonderful aerial photo view of London with the tube lines overlaid on top. Crossed off the to do list.
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This week’s UK television
Beautifully minimal, customisable UK TV listings, including XML versions.
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MT Tag Quick Reference
MovableType help in your browser’s sidebar (Netscape 6 /Mozilla or PC IE 5 or a framed version for everyone else).
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The Snowflake Process for Writing a Novel
Sounds rather formulaic, but then it’s also similar to how I imagined the process would be if I ever wrote one.
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OpenPhoto.Net | Version 1.5b_FINAL
Creative Commons photo library. Ideal for illustrating that presentation, website, etc.
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Collage - An iTunes Visual Plugin
Displays images off of the Internet depending on the currently playing tune. Best when the images are apparently unrelated, like a no-budget interpretive video.
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Seinfeld Videos
Torrents for every season of Seinfeld (in a choice of low and high qualities).
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i’m writing a book (4 August 2004, Interconnected)
Matt is clever and nice. His forthcoming book, ‘Brain Hacks’, should be good. Yay!
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The Daily Chump Bot
Create a weblog automatically from URLs and comments posted to an IRC channel. Handy (if I used IRC).
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts reviews | Gillian Welch/David Rawlings
This was, I think, one of the most enjoyable gigs I’ve been to. Rawlings’ guitar playing was even more awesome than the rest of the show, which is saying something.
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Soul Sides
Soul Sides has started posting
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Techquila Shots: Topic Mapping Pepys’ Diary
Creating XML topic maps of Pepys’ Diary entries. This makes my head hurt in a very good way.
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Reggae-Riddims.com
Identifiying the source of that familiar ‘riddim’. Now, is there something similar for samples?
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Mountain Goats sessions MP3s
If you only try one go for ‘Dance Music’ or ‘Your Belgian Things’.
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Pepys’ Diary: The story so far is now up to date
Don’t have time for a dose of Pepys every day? How about an RSS feed of monthly summaries?
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BugMeNot extension for Mozilla/Firefox
Right-click on any page requiring registration and you’ll probably be given a username and password.