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The Quietus
The Quietus - new site from the Drowned In Sound crew. Awful name, great site.......
Posted on July 26, 2008 9:35 AM |
Photojojo » Photojojo's Favorite Flickr Add-ons and Mashups
List of great Flickr mashups and other stuff......
Posted on July 26, 2008 9:23 AM |
Guardian.co.uk breaks 20m users a month
Guardian.co.uk breaks 20m users a month - the first newspaper site to do so. Woo!......
Posted on July 25, 2008 10:43 AM |
Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts, from around the world.
Social t-shirting? Get awesome t-shirts from around the world, at Rumplo. And comment on them.......
Posted on July 22, 2008 4:52 PM |
Dipity
Create and share interactive timelines with this lovely online app.......
Posted on July 22, 2008 2:49 PM |
Countries and Nationalities at the Olympics
Apparently before 1908 there were no national teams at the Olympics - competitors entered individually!......
Posted on July 17, 2008 1:47 PM |
Show Us a Better Way
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......
Posted on July 10, 2008 2:29 PM |
The Other Side Magazine
Haven't seen a hard copy of this new free paper The Other Side, but it looks interesting......
Posted on July 10, 2008 9:54 AM |
Google Trends: movable type, wordpress, blogger
Does this mean Movable Type is totally out of favour? Probably - it does suck greatly, after all.......
Posted on July 9, 2008 11:00 AM |
TV on your Mac: Zattoo
Watch TV on your Mac with Zattoo. Looks like the Freeview channels for now: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and BBC4 etc.......
Posted on July 9, 2008 12:33 AM |
artAngel
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"......
Posted on July 8, 2008 10:53 AM |
Parchment
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".........
Posted on July 2, 2008 2:05 PM |
Play Magnetic Scrolls games online
Play old Magnetic Scrolls games online (using Java!), including Jinxter, Corruption and Fish. But only if you already own the originals.......
Posted on July 2, 2008 2:05 PM |
Why hasn't Nelson Mandela spoken out against Robert Mugabe?
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."......
Posted on June 25, 2008 11:37 AM |
A Modern Indian Woman's Struggle with Arranged-Marriage
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......
Posted on June 24, 2008 1:37 PM |
Hamish Hamilton's new magazinbe
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......
Posted on June 24, 2008 10:00 AM |
Jesus' Reign Is Coming
Flickr spam! I got spammed by this bible-bashing weirdo.......
Posted on June 24, 2008 9:52 AM |
The Fall the movie
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......
Posted on June 23, 2008 2:17 PM |
Friends Reunited - finally goes free
Friends Reunited, the Web 1.0 Facebook, finally catches up with the rest of the social networks and makes it free to contact people......
Posted on June 21, 2008 8:12 AM |
025.431: The Dewey blog
Enticingly subtitled "Everything you always wanted to know about The Dewey Decimal but were afraid to ask", it's the Dewey Decimal system blog!......
Posted on June 19, 2008 1:16 PM |
Firefox 3: Power User's Guide to Firefox 3
Power User's Guide to Firefox 3......
Posted on June 18, 2008 5:50 PM |
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
No one from the Western Sahara has downloaded Firefox 3...yet......
Posted on June 18, 2008 12:54 PM |
Illustration special - some recent contributors to The Believer magazine: http://thebathwater.com/ http://bertbergen.com/ http://paulmccreery.com/ http://steph.vonreiswitz.com/ http://brendanmonroe.com/......
Posted on June 12, 2008 9:58 AM |
Ryan McGinley takes photographs of Morrissey fans......
Posted on June 10, 2008 1:27 PM | Tagged with: photography morrissey gig
The world's 50 most powerful blogs Another oldie, but well worth a read through. I'm not featured on the list, by the way.........
Posted on June 9, 2008 2:08 PM |
Catching up a bit after six months away from a computer screen...Here's an article clearly explaining the differences and similarities between XHTML2 and HTML5......
Posted on June 4, 2008 4:40 PM | Tagged with: internet xhtml html w3c
Word Magazine
The brilliant new Word Magazine website, chock full of "content" and rumination......
Posted on November 30, 2007 1:01 AM |
Transcripts of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time
Transcripts of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4, wherein everyone's favourite Cumbrian intellectual and guests investigate the history of ideas.......
Posted on November 27, 2007 12:43 AM |
The Hindoo Calculator
The Hindoo Calculator - a book about the untutored mathematical genius featured in the Complicite play "A Disappearing Number"......
Posted on November 27, 2007 12:28 AM |
The Peeq - a sexy community
The Peeq - peak, peak, pique, a sexy community, exploring the quirky, humourous, embarrassing and sublime sides of sex.......
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:40 PM |
Alternadad - Neal Pollack Gets Offsprung
Alternadad - a memoir recounting Neal Pollack's transition from hipster guy to hipster dad. Funny stuff from one of the funniest guys around.......
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:36 PM |
Jewcy.com | What Matters Now
Jewcy.com - a magazine and community for new Jews and other riffraff. Sample headline: "A Jewish Girl's Guide to Genetics - What’s so great about knowing you’ll get cancer?"......
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:24 PM |
Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
Prevent your Mac creating .DS_Store files on your Windows box......
Posted on November 23, 2007 11:40 AM | Tagged with: files,mac,wnidows,xp
Microsoft drops IE's 'click to activate' nag
Microsoft finally sort out the ridiculous "click here to activate this content" message on embedded Flash objects in IE7. The fix is due to go live in an update to IE7 "next month" (December). Detail of the original issue, from......
Posted on November 22, 2007 1:17 PM | Tagged with: microsoft
Five days / five heatmaps
Five days / five heatmaps Some fascinating work on end-user heatmaps using some major uK ecommerce sites as examples......
Posted on November 20, 2007 11:32 AM | Tagged with: heatmaps
Run-Riot
Run-Riot an '...eclectic listing of counter culture events in London...'......
Posted on November 18, 2007 10:21 PM |
The Clive James Show at Slate.com
The Clive James Show at Slate.com A series of interviews with creative types, made at Clive James's own house......
Posted on November 18, 2007 9:49 PM |
Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay) Standard Operating Procedure
Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay) Standard Operating Procedure Official document leaked from the White House......
Posted on November 16, 2007 2:43 PM |
Spam One-liners - a photoset on Flickr
Spam one-liners posters......
Posted on November 12, 2007 11:23 PM |
I'm Too Sexy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In case you didn't know what "I'm Too Sexy" was about "...the song's lyrics express confidence that [the singer's] personal level of sexiness makes him too sexy for numerous things..."......
Posted on November 10, 2007 10:35 AM |
HEMA - online winkelen
Bonkers Dutch e-commerce site Whimsical use of flash undermines boring old e-commerce expectations.........
Posted on November 9, 2007 1:07 PM |
A Short Walk in the Hindu Crush by AA Gill
A Short Walk in the Hindu Crush by AA Gill An illuminating and witty article from the ever-reliable AA Gill......
Posted on November 9, 2007 12:59 PM |
Lending money the Islamic way
Lending money the Islamic way Sharia law prohibits the payment of interest, as well as imposing other strictures against businesses linked to alcohol, gambling and investment in enterprises with high debt. Is sukuk a viable alternative?......
Posted on November 7, 2007 6:11 PM | Tagged with: islam
rules to Mexican Train dominoes game
How to play Mexican Train (with dominoes)......
Posted on November 6, 2007 10:03 PM | Tagged with: game dominoes
tom chiarella Abstracts by Brijit
Is Tom Chiarella one of our greatest living features writers? This is also a link to the interesting new magazine article aggregator site Brijit. It features human-written summaries of articles, and allows you to read them online if possible. I......
Posted on November 6, 2007 9:48 PM | Tagged with: article,magazine,summary
The Interpunct ...being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language.......
Posted on November 6, 2007 3:57 PM |
The Guildford Guy Riots - Bonfire Night - Icons of England
The Guildford Guy Riots......
Posted on November 5, 2007 5:00 PM | Tagged with: guildford fireworks guyfawkes
Avril Lavigne says Hot (Official Music Video)
Avril Lavigne says she's Hot... ...and finally caves in and joins the britney/christina slut brigade......
Posted on November 5, 2007 12:49 PM | Tagged with: musicvideo pop
Public Lectures and Events at the London School of Economics - for free!......
Continue reading .Posted on October 24, 2007 3:26 PM |
Eat Your Own Ears - probably one of the best record labels around right now-......
Posted on October 16, 2007 10:29 AM |
Follow the public inquiry into 43 Farringdon Street - the former Smithfields Fish and General Markets......
Posted on October 11, 2007 5:17 PM |
Tom Coates' valiant attempt to arrest the spead of direct marketing......
Posted on October 4, 2007 10:36 AM |
Is Moneyball dead? Great article about baseball and statistics, by Josh Chetwynd......
Posted on September 29, 2007 5:52 PM |
Apple 's slick new keyboards - they'll make you type extra sexy......
Posted on August 13, 2007 11:27 PM |
The British hate politicians, and always have done, says A A Gill......
Posted on June 24, 2007 1:13 PM |
Muslims’ Veils Test Limits of Britain’s Tolerance - from NYTimes.com......
Posted on June 22, 2007 10:13 AM |
Colours Are Brighter - cool sounding charity album for Save the Children......
Posted on June 21, 2007 12:36 AM |
Clever "uncoiling" time machine interface for items on ecommerce site......
Posted on June 21, 2007 12:34 AM |
Finally shed some light on Neko Case's "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood"......
Posted on May 30, 2007 11:54 AM |
flickrvision - view flickr photos, on a map, as they are uploaded......
Posted on May 22, 2007 11:15 AM |
Khoi Vinh Speaks - interview with the subtraction.com supremo at CSS Vault......
Posted on May 22, 2007 9:39 AM |
Universcale - startling graphical evocation of the scale of the universe and our place in it. From Nikon.......
Posted on May 16, 2007 1:11 PM |
CERN Large Hadron Collider - A Giant Takes On Physics' Biggest Questions......
Posted on May 15, 2007 12:53 PM |
A Greener Apple - a message from Steve Jobs regarding apple's environmental credentials......
Posted on May 15, 2007 12:41 PM |
New Monopoly "Here & Now" version - vote on the location leaderboard......
Posted on May 8, 2007 3:13 PM |
Kaboom! - Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion......
Posted on May 8, 2007 1:00 PM |
Ambigrams from John Langdon (ambigram: a visual image closely intertwined with a name)......
Posted on May 2, 2007 12:06 PM |
More Hot Fuzz interview action - this time Edgar Wright riffing with Shane Black, writer of Lethal Weapon......
Posted on April 29, 2007 10:42 AM |
David Rees, creator of "Get Your War On," delivers a hilarious discussion of his comics. In 2 parts.......
Posted on April 27, 2007 3:33 PM |
Justin’s Flash Blog - very clever Flash-customized Yahoo maps, including a Pirate Map and Radar......
Posted on April 23, 2007 1:49 PM |
One for the font nerds - a piece about kerning in Wired magazine's new logo......
Posted on April 23, 2007 1:04 PM |
The web is dead; long live the web - fascinating opinion piece on knowledge, identity and "digital narcissism"......
Posted on April 23, 2007 12:43 PM |
Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - includes "Ruby is slow" revelation......
Posted on April 20, 2007 3:20 PM |
Eco Kettle:Energy Saving Kettle - ideal for reducing energy costs.......
Posted on April 12, 2007 2:20 PM |
Big Bang at the atomic lab after scientists get their maths wrong......
Posted on April 10, 2007 11:31 AM |