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There is the barrel of a cannon, buried upright and projecting about 3 feet into the air in Roy Grove, Hampton. The cannon marks one end of the original base line used for the measurement by triangulation upon which all Ordnance Survey maps were subsequently based.

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Common HTML5 <input> patterns.

While the British way can be drainingly negative, The American approach to happiness can spur a debilitating anxiety. The initial sense of promise and hope is seductive, but it soon gives way to a nagging slow-burn feeling of inadequacy. Am I happy? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could I be doing more about it? Even basic contentment feels like failure when pitched against capital-H Happiness. The goal is so elusive and hard to define, it’s impossible to pinpoint when it’s even been achieved — a recipe for neurosis.

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I should note that this idea is the same for any other addiction: biting your nails, smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc. We use them as crutches to cope with our needs, and to beat them we need to find healthier methods of coping and meeting our needs.

Zen Coding is being sunset and is now Emmet. For sublime: https://t.co/H94pvjQj New features for CSS like

w100p -> width: 100%;

We don't pitch often, but when we do the question of pitching creative work usually crops up. We never do it, even when - as happened when we pitched for ITV - other people we're pitching against do, and we want it, and there is pressure to conform. But it would be utterly wrong to talk about how important it is to discover and validate the customer need and problem space if the very first thing we produce for a client presents completely the opposite approach. Doing creative work at the pitch stage is a dangerous fiction

Lift is a simple way to achieve any goal, track your progress, and get the support of your friends.

Sciptogram and Tumblr-friendly markdown editor. Giving this a whirl.

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Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment. [...] The Ruby language and the Sinatra web framework form the base of the tool.

nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles documents written in formats such as Markdown, Textile, Haml… into a static web site consisting of simple HTML files, ready for uploading to any web server.

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