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Nice web design agency site utilizing some nifty new CSS techniques.
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"Exploration of Beatles music through infographics (ongoing project): These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings."
They are also beautiful, expressive and full of rich meaning and musical insight. Fantastic.
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Firediff is a Firebug extension that tracks changes to a pages DOM and CSS.
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"In just over a week the new Four Tet album 'There Is Love In You' will be released. If you want to check it out before it's in the shops I have put it up to stream on Soundcloud and will leave it up there for the next week:
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"jQuery Lint is a simple script you can download and use with jQuery. It works over the top of jQuery and diligently reports errors and any incorrect usage of jQuery. It will also, to some extent, offer guidance on best practices and performance concerns."
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I don't write Ruby, but this site makes me want to investigate more
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Search and filter console games scores and reviews
King’s Cross at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
paulcarvill.com
Hi, I'm Paul Carvill, I'm a web developer. I'm currently working as Technical Lead at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.
Archive for the ‘King's Cross’ Category
links for 2010-01-19
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010links for 2010-01-18
Monday, January 18th, 2010-
Is this the smoking gun in Michael Haneke's Cache? Roger Ebert calls it "a mesmerising puzzle."
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The No-Look Pass, the “Elastico” and the “Espaldinha". Benji Lanyado on the latest signature moves in football.
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"Being gay in India might no longer invite trouble with the police and the threat of 10 years in jail, but in a country still built around the institution of marriage it's a social disaster for most. "It is still very difficult and dark. You'll have to get a job where people accept you, because most places won't. Even supposedly open-minded people have double standards," says Varun, one of the few openly gay men here happy to talk to the media."
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"The historian and travel writer explains what prompted him to co-found the largest free literary festival in the world"
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"Bankers do not deserve bonuses this year, at least not in the Western world. And I don't say this from atop some moral or aesthetic or populist high horse. Instead, my arguments are mostly economic."
links for 2010-01-17
Sunday, January 17th, 2010-
Excellent selection of full length Hindi movies, songs and clips, grouped into playlists such as "Romantic Songs", "Hit Songs (Old)", "Action & Dialogue" etc. Check out the massively kitchsy, kooky and cool song on their index page, Jan Pehchan Ho — ''…from super hit Suspense Thriller Gumnaam"!
links for 2010-01-15
Friday, January 15th, 2010-
John Kricfalusi certainly is gracious.
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Good little app for keeping track of a meeting agenda, and keeping track of time.
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"Goodbye Fancypants Agency. Hello Nosotros."
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How did i miss this — R.E.M Condiment Set? Binary Calculator? Consomme Fountain? Terry's Chocolate Orrery?
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Play about with some CSS3 styles
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Mental.
links for 2010-01-14
Thursday, January 14th, 2010-
Giles coren "does" climate change
links for 2010-01-12
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010-
"We're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer — all you need is an Internet connection.
Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. "
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"On Saturday, the New York Times posted an interactive map of Netflix rental patterns in 12 U.S. cities, broken down by ZIP code. The map is smartly designed and great fun to explore, yet what strikes you almost immediately is the lack of regional variation. The most-popular movies across each urban area are films that contended in last year's Oscars [...] But not all of the ZIPs are so boring."
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Sweet new MIA song/video
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"Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we can get in there."
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"In one sense, Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! is a truly exotic bit of esoterica — a game on the Columbia riots, printed back in 1969 in the pages of the Columbia Daily Spectator, and designed by James F. Dunnigan, one of the finest and most prolific designers of board wargames.
But in another sense, you can argue that it is a seminal title: Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! may well be the first commercial simulation game not on a military theme."
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"From early vinyl-desecrating experiments to world championship tournaments, turntablists have honed their techniques to become hip-hop's answer to the lead guitarist"
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"The capacity to listen, and other crucial human attributes, are being diminished by relentless technological expansion"
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"In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon, was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence. The area was a diplomatic black hole, the model of an anarchist society somehow allowed to grow organically without the aid of any government, existing somewhere outside of both British Hong Kong and China."
links for 2010-01-11
Monday, January 11th, 2010-
Clever and amusing css file formatting high jinx.
links for 2010-01-10
Sunday, January 10th, 2010-
Roger Ebert's review of No Direction Home, the 2005 Bob Dylan documentary.
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Examine Netflix rentals by US neighbourhood. Very interesting — almost too much information to consume in one sitting.
links for 2010-01-09
Saturday, January 9th, 2010-
Notes on a year of web development at The Washington Times
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How we create and deploy sites fast with virtualenv and Django | Open Source at The Washington TimesThis is an excellent post describing from beginning to end how developers and designers at the Washington Times create, share, work on and deploy a new project. The post goes into some depth about the philosophy behind their project automation, ease of use, project structure and having well-defined dependencies. Check the comments for input from one of their designers.
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Simon and Nat's prize-winning Science Museum API project
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Nirpal Dhaliwal on why Bollywood fails to make a dent in the western cultural mainstream
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Zippy new jQuery API documentation site
New Horizons Youth Centre film screening
Friday, February 27th, 2009I was lucky enough to be invited to watch a screening of the short film In The Pod by the New Horizons Youth Centre, a charity based in King’s Cross who I will be working with as we develop their website.
The film is on the subject of gang culture and knife crime, and was created by young people from the Youth Centre itself, using broadcast quality equipment provided by them.
The film is moving, enlightening, funny, sad and shocking. One of New Horizon’s patrons, Channel 4 news anchor Jon Snow, features in the film, and was also in attendance at the screening, having cycled to The Scala directly after reading the news that evening.
The film covers subjects such as how safe people feel on the streets, if they would ever carry a knife or other weapon, what they understand by Postcode Wars, and how we might go about stopping young people killing each other on the streets. One of the most poignant moments in the film comes when a man dressed like a pearly king, looking back on his life of crime and gangs, says,
“You don’t need guns! You don’t need knives! In my day it was just these,”
and holds up his two clenched fists, to much loud laughter around the room.
Also on display at The Scala, who had donated the venue free for the evening, was the original pod, a painted, wooden construction made by the Women’s Group a the Centre, and a photographic collection made by the Men’s Group.
New Horizons will be using their film as an educational tool, taking it around schools and colleges.
