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• July 26, 2008 9:35 AM

• The Quietus - new site from the Drowned In Sound crew. Awful name, great site.

• List of great Flickr mashups and other stuff

• July 25, 2008 10:43 AM

• Guardian.co.uk breaks 20m users a month - the first newspaper site to do so. Woo!

• July 22, 2008 4:52 PM

• Social t-shirting? Get awesome t-shirts from around the world, at Rumplo. And comment on them.

• Create and share interactive timelines with this lovely online app.

• July 17, 2008 1:47 PM

• Apparently before 1908 there were no national teams at the Olympics - competitors entered individually!

• July 10, 2008 2:29 PM

• This competition to come up with ways of using public data from the UK government's horrendously titled Power of Information Taskforce seems like a good idea. They've made "gigabytes" of new data available to the public. But a brief glimpse at the list of ideas shows a lack of imagination. Concepts tendered range from the pointless to the banal to the truly mind blowing. Is this inevitable? Is information inherently boring? Come on, people, you can do better...
• Haven't seen a hard copy of this new free paper The Other Side, but it looks interesting

• July 9, 2008 11:00 AM

• Does this mean Movable Type is totally out of favour? Probably - it does suck greatly, after all.
• Watch TV on your Mac with Zattoo. Looks like the Freeview channels for now: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and BBC4 etc.

• July 8, 2008 10:53 AM

• Horribly designed Flash site artAngel featuring lots of people talking about their favourite bit of architecture. Includes, if you can find him (I couldn't work out how to link to it) Milton Glaser, designer of the "I Love New York" logo, grudgingly admitting to having a favourite piece of art.

• July 2, 2008 2:05 PM

• Play text adventure games online (using a Javascript interpreter for the Inform language!), including the amazing The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Repeat after me: "Go N", "Use key"...
• Play old Magnetic Scrolls games online (using Java!), including Jinxter, Corruption and Fish. But only if you already own the originals.

• June 29, 2008 12:46 PM

• City of London Festival

• June 25, 2008 11:37 AM

• Typically contentious article concerning Nelson Mandela's silence over Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. In it he says Mandela is "...making himself complicit in the pillage and murder of an entire nation."

• June 24, 2008 1:37 PM

• Lots about Anita Jain's epic struggle to get married...

  The marrying kind
  A modern Indian woman's struggle
  An open letter to Anita Jain

• Hamish Hamilton's new literary magazine Five Dials, named after a lost part of London which was once "a den of iniquity, a haven for criminals, a slummy, ragged bit of the city cleaved away to make room for a broadening of Charing Cross."

• Flickr spam! I got spammed by this bible-bashing weirdo.

• June 23, 2008 2:17 PM

• This film looks a bit good. It's called The Fall, and has a certain Roy Walker in the cast list, raising hopes of a surreal otherworldly version of Catchphrase as produced by David Fincher and Spike Jonze (as if Catchphrase could ever really get more otherworldly, isn't that right Mr Chips?)

• June 21, 2008 8:12 AM

• Friends Reunited, the Web 1.0 Facebook, finally catches up with the rest of the social networks and makes it free to contact people

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digest

• October 08

• Rendition

• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

• Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra
  

• Gomorrah

• Kal Ho Naa Ho

• La Belle Personne

• La Dolce Vita

• Ran De Basanti

• Hum Tum

• I'm Not There

• Somersault

• September 08

• Eden Lake

• Guru

• Yuva

• Quilon

• Andaz

• The Wackness

• August 08

• Lions For Lambs

• Her Naked Skin at the National Theatre

• Mother India

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