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

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

  3. Accessible National Rail Enquiries!

    From Matthew Somerville, who also brought you accessible Odeon.

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

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

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

  7. 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’)

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

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

  10. Forum for residents of the Barbican

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

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

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

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

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

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

  16. Free list mapping postcode areas to latitude/longitude

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

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

  19. I nearly forgot: I’m a

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

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

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

  23. Simon Hoggart on Christmas circular letters

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

  25. How to tell Arial, Helvetica and Grotesque apart

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

  27. EyeTV: Turn your Mac into a Freeview PVR

  28. More PVRs for sale than you can shake a remote at

  29. DIY PVR on a Linux box

  30. Good discussion at Azeem’s about PVRs, MP3 servers, etc