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A planeload of DVDs... bandwidth... etc etc

With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?

Useful from the other side i.e. how to be hired as a consultant and not suck.

"Unless the web fragments again, and it’s once more us against them, I think we’re on the road to efficient and productive normalcy. Which is great in almost every way except that it’s just not as fun. The web is on its way to becoming a commodity [...] I haven’t given up. I just wonder sometimes how long we’ve got before we all have to stop being hackers and be software engineers." What's next?

9 to try, then.

Via antimega.

A reference point for all designers creating BBC websites

Via daneastwell.

Repo for previous.

Dropbox alternative, should that day ever come.

Let’s rate our technologies for how much they help us as primates, rather than how they can put us further into this dream of being powerful gods who stalk around on a planet that doesn’t really matter to us.

Lots of useful things here. Use Vagrant.

Wondering why I didn't save this in 2008. Keep referring to it.

Many, many types of seed (including nettles).

The tea served by The Modern Pantry.

Mmm, nettle tea.

Ale Trumps® features a selection of 34 of the UK's top ales and is played along the lines of other Trumps games, under the following categories: the age of the brewery, its production level, the strength of the beer, its depth of colour, its rarity and refreshment potential.

Via monospaced.

It is an accommodating species and many varieties grow successfully in our cooler, damper climate. You usually have to ripen the fruits off the tree here, but in warmer climates you can pick them soft, golden and sun-drenched. They will even adapt to growing in containers.

Via monospaced.

Excellent: Chrome Frame no longer requires admin rights.

Pretty flipping amazing.

Aha! The missing tool.

Via monospaced.

"You can keep using h1-h6 in HTML5, but you can also choose to use only h1 elements for all headings and rely on the HTML5 outline algorithm to sort out the heading hierarchy. If you do this, however, you should be aware that currently there is very little support for the HTML5 outline in web browsers, screen readers and developer tools." Possibly not ready for production quite yet, then.