Links
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Topographic page layout
A bookmarklet that uses background colours rather than borders to make a page’s HTML structure clear.
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Mobile Bristol - Queen Square - 1831 Riot!
Walk around the square and a GPS-equipped iPAQ plays location-relevant historical sounds…
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The Early Films of Peter Greenaway
Nice site by the BFI aobut his early shorts, The Draughtsman’s Contract and A Zed
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Film Review - Sight
I believe Mark Kermode could find similarities between The Exorcist and every film ever made.
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Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover by David Carr (NYT, Registration required)
A magazine will customise the covers of its subscribers’ copies with a satellite photo of their individual homes.
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Mogi: Second Generation Location-Based Gaming by Justin Hall
Sod location-based reviews of restaurants
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Setting the maximum width of HTML/CSS elements
I’m not quite convinced, but I may need to find this again at some point.
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Interesting Ian Jack article on how kids describe past events in the present tense
Although it tails off into irrelevant self-indulgence towards the end.
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TrailBlazer is an OS X web browser with an awesome graphical History display
A bit buggy at the moment.
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Interesting but impossible to read map of Hackney’s crime hotspots
They make the mistake of emphasising ward boundaries — which no one outside local politics knows — over roads.
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These replacement iPod batteries really do the job
I’ve just got 12 hours out of one charge, rather than the two I was getting before!
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Strangely inspiring article about a woman moving to a remote Finnish island
She appears to have the Internet, so it could be worse.