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  1. Very handy CSS-debugging stylesheet and bookmarklet

  2. “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

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

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

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

  6. Accessible National Rail Enquiries!

    From Matthew Somerville, who also brought you accessible Odeon.

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

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

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

  10. That guy who sold loads of travel books near Waterloo Station and in the City actually stole them all!

    (Scroll down to above ‘The micro chart’)

  11. Interesting Guardian history of the New York Review of Books and its editor

  12. The Barbican’s waste disposal system in great detail

  13. Forum for residents of the Barbican

  14. Collection of 1950s-70s artists’ impressions of the Barbican

  15. Awesomely detailed site about the Barbican as a place to live

  16. Portsmouth’s Tricorn Centre will be demolished in March

    Looks like it was built by Blakes 7 modelmakers. In a good(ish) way.

  17. For three quid my life’s that tiny bit better

  18. My postcode <--> latitude/longitude convertor still works

  19. Free list mapping postcode areas to latitude/longitude

  20. The most recent ‘Archive Hour’ on Radio 4 was a good one about the history of the Post Office

  21. A List Apart on ‘faux columns’ in CSS. I was hoping for a magical solution. Instead: well, duh!

  22. I nearly forgot: I’m a

  23. Oooh, ‘Mapping the Metropolis’ exhibition of historical London maps until Feb 28

  24. It’s the last day for ‘Early Bird’ prices for Emerging Tech

  25. Who reads your RSS feed? Better than nothing.

  26. Simon Hoggart on Christmas circular letters

  27. As the Apple Turns on the birth of a ‘fact’

  28. How to tell Arial, Helvetica and Grotesque apart

  29. USB- and Firewire-powered chargers for mobiles, PDAs, etc.

  30. EyeTV: Turn your Mac into a Freeview PVR