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Writing tagged Misc

  1. Pre-client spam filtering

    After trying the very nice Knowspam.net I’m left uneasy by the whole idea of challenge and response spam filtering.

  2. Open mapping

    Some folk in a German city have generated a set of freely-available mapping data, because authorities in Europe don’t release such information.

  3. Essex signposts and milestones

    A great site of photos of signposts and milestones around Essex. No, it’s interesting.

  4. T610 dimness

    The Sony Ericsson T610 is indeed lovely, but that review was right about the dim screen.

  5. Doonesbury via RSS

    I made an RSS file that links to this week’s ‘Doonesbury’ strips.

  6. Freelance charging

    How much does a freelancer need to charge to equal certain full-time annual salaries?

  7. Birkenstock

    The Guardian’s lack of research, Birkenstock’s new range of shoes, and my fashion dilemmas.

  8. Domestic geeks

    There is an emerging tradition of geeks analysing how to perform certain domestic tasks with the most efficiency.

  9. The Mapmakers

    I just finished reading The Mapmakers (Amazon US, UK) by John Noble Wilford which was wonderful.…

  10. The Believer

    McSweeney’s new mag can now be shipped outside North America. Hurrah.

  11. Life as a 19th century fire-eater

    Part of Henry Mayhew’s interview with a street fire-eater is fascinating, but not for the weak of stomach.

  12. We’re all reporters now

    Webloggers should respect “off the record” briefings… just as companies should be aware their employees might be well-read webloggers.

  13. Smoke: A London Peculiar

    Issue one of a low-key and enthusiastic little zine about London.

  14. Social sausages

    Social software and social capital at The Wonk Foundation; cocktail sausages; Microsoft missing the point; getting bored at talks; and how men in suits rarely live up to TV’s portrayal.

  15. Buy comics NOW!

    Fantagraphics need you to buy some comics to help them out of a nasty hole…

  16. Especially lovely Richard Herring thing

    “I wondered how many thirty-something overweight men were spending this glorious bank holiday night eating unpleasant, artery clogging fried food, before returning to their flats alone. I thought it was probably 29.”

  17. The all@ rite of passage

    The journey from fun start-up to grown-up company is marked by one obvious rite of passage: the taming of the company-wide mailing list. Getting rid of the jokes and amusing URLs may be inevitable, but handle it wrongly and you’re in trouble…

  18. Walton from the air

    Aerial photos of Walton-on-the-Naze and the town’s beautiful backwater.

  19. Haddock Blogs problem

    Sorry about the flood of Live Journal entries — they seem to have changed all their URLs. Hopefully it’ll be OK from now on.

  20. London tours

    You can do tours of the old hotel at St Pancras and the Freemasons’ Grand Lodge in Covent Garden.

  21. Tax-efficient giving

    How to maximise your charitable donations for the benefit of both you and the charities.

  22. Ethical ISAs

    Options for saving money that aren’t going to make the world even worse than it already is.

  23. Happy birthday Wired

    Wired is ten years old. Gary Wolf writes about what things were like ten years ago. But nothing in…

  24. Big bag of words

    A guide to talking like a gamer, an online language journal, and a language weblog.

  25. Road geeks

    Celebrating geekery in an unexpected area… Chris’s British Road Directory.