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Quick references of most common HTML/Unicode entities

Amazing. Generate gridded maps of cities with data from OpenStreetMap, along with an index of the streets with references to the squares on the map. Just wish it put the map and index on the same PDF for double-sided printing.

John starts by taking a stab at what we should expect for coast-to-coast roundtrip latency:

* Roundtrip distance between the west coast and the east coast is 7400 km.
* The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792.458 km/second.
* So the theoretical minimum for roundtrip latency is 25 ms.
* But light’s not traveling in a vacuum. It’s propagating in glass in fiber optic cables.
* The index of refraction of glass is 1.5, which means light travels at 66% of the speed in glass that it does in a vacuum.
* So a more realistic roundtrip latency is ~37 ms.
* Using a Linksys wireless router and a Comcast cable connection, John’s roundtrip latency is ~90ms. Which isn’t really that bad, given the other variables involved.

"My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself—who have free access to the site—are not going beyond the registration page. It’s an empty world."

"Apple's Keynote for iWork is probably not on your list for wireframe/prototyping tools, but it should be. It's ridiculously easy to use, creates gorgeous presentations, and features full suite of drawing tools and shapes."

Details of Barlesque, the BBC's page templating application

Twitter JavaScript API

Tracklisting:

The Morning Benders – Cold War
Rollerskaters – Sleep Tight
Via Tania – Fields
Tame Impala – Alter Ego
Best Coast – Boyfriend
Memoryhouse – Lately (Deuxième)
The Hundred In The Hands – Sleepwalkers
School Of Seven Bells – Babelonia
Dusty Brown – Back to Back
Lorn – Cherry Moon
Wax Stag – Folk Rock
Baths – Maximalist
Flying Lotus – Zodiac S**t
Tycho – From Home (Mux Mool Remix)
The Samps – Yellow Jacket
Onra – Long Distance (Instrumental)
The Beat Broker – Deep Sleep
ceo – come with me
Delorean – Infinite desert
Korallreven – The Truest Faith
Phoenix – Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
The Whitest Boy Alive – Intentions
The Swiss – Bubble Bath
Com Truise – Slow Peels
Computer Magic – Electronic Fences
Oneohtrix Point Never – Zones Without People
Odd Nosdam – Up In Flames
Fur – Lackadaisical
Ducktails – Mirrorimage
Medications – Brasil ‘07
Red House Painters – Dragonflies
Say Hi – November Was White, December W
Gravenhurst – Hourglass

"Where butch meets buttercream".

"Founded in 1999, CoffeeResearch.org was the first Web site dedicated to coffee education with comprehensive coverage on coffee, espresso, coffee brewing, coffee agriculture, coffee science, and the coffee markets. The research is the culimination of a year of travel studying coffee with the foremost experts around the world."

Beautiful set of 1970s era photos. It's so hard to capture that yellowed, desaturated look with modern techniques. "For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s."

Some really interesting agenda items here. Some are talk notes but some are nicely formatted PDF papers. Covers a wide range of security and privacy implications inherent in new location and storage APIs.

"On Thursday a tidbit of news circulated around the Web that Microsoft had filed a patent in late 2009 hoping to lay claim to the look and feel of page turns on a touchscreen device. The patent states that when “one or more pages are displayed on a touch display” a “virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page.” Just like real pages in a paper book."

"There's a mix-up at the restaurant – will Coelina Carter, 38, a teaching assistant, and Simon Brunning, 41, an IT consultant, overcome it?"

"I religiously use the .5 Zebra Sarasa gel pen to write all things, I write in ALL CAPS, and I collect bells."

"The moment you first lay eyes on the iPhone 4's new Retina display, you are ruined. No other display will ever make you happy. Not unless it, too, is a Retina display. You start seeing pixels everywhere. My beloved MacBook Pro's screen? Pixels. The iPad I bought a few months ago and couldn't leave aside? Pixels."

"The Trust concludes that, as things stand, the case has not been made for the closure of 6 Music. The Executive should draw up an overarching strategy for digital radio. If the Director General wanted to propose a different shape for the BBC’s music radio stations as part of a new strategy, the Trust would consider it."