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  1. University of Reading’s MA in Typeface Design

    Only one in the UK apparently.

  2. A history of ‘The Economist’s design

  3. I liked this extract from Joan Didion’s book, about California

  4. I’m so pleased to live in a relatively sensible, Godless country

  5. ‘Director’s Commentary’ really is one of the most delightful shows on TV at the moment

  6. I’ve been MetaFiltered

    The MeFi comments simply re-hash the discussion on the page they link to.

  7. Very handy tips for customising the Firefox browser

  8. Elmore Leonard’s ten rules for writing

  9. AllOfMP3.com: Very, very cheap Russian music download service with clever configurable encoding settings

    Like, $14.95 for up to 1,000 files per month, or 1 cent per MB…

  10. Interesting article on the etymology of

    Boy, am I out of touch.

  11. Nintendo emulator for Apple Newton

  12. Cal’s Etcon summary is even denser than NTK’s

  13. I want to hear a terser version of this over the Shipping Forecast music

  14. Awww, bye bye Webmonkey

  15. Amazing navigable maps of French citiy streets with photos of each building and position

    Doesn’t seem to work on Macs

  16. Everyone’s collection of ETech notes

  17. Another zoomable Technorati graph of, er, something

  18. Zoomable graph of Technorati ranking vs inbound links

    (Right/control click to zoom in)

  19. Where am I now?

  20. Buy Mary’s flat. It’s very nice.

  21. Fantastic Mozilla/Firebird toolbar or menu packed with web developery goodness

  22. Very handy CSS-debugging stylesheet and bookmarklet

  23. “Thank you to the support of those who’s names are not on here” (PDF)

    I assume the BBC’s copy editors were forced to resign too

  24. Unusually good Simon Hoggart diary from Saturday’s Guardian

  25. Handy tips for choosing contents insurance and claiming on it

  26. After 2,000 myDoom emails so far this week, Knowspam’s looking awfully tempting again

  27. Accessible National Rail Enquiries!

    From Matthew Somerville, who also brought you accessible Odeon.

  28. Fascinating (and long) undercover US car salesman tale

  29. Zoom in on zip codes (try 77058 (where I used to live) or 90210)

  30. “Making public the intimately personal is a revolutionary act”