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A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

Two case studies of building Django applications irresponsibly on tight deadlines, and some thoughts on more sustainable ways of developing with Django.

A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key

Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition, shows you how. So have a watch, then astrotag your pictures at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group on Flickr. If everyone joins in we can make a beautiful and accurate map of the night sky… so pass the word on.

Good flowering teas in particular.

A very low cost open source autonomous blimp. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with on-board infrared and ultrasonic sensors and an interface for an optional RC mode, a simple gondola with two vectoring (tilting) differential thrusters, and ground-based infrared beacon.

A quick bit of documentation on making a Bluetooth device that can respond to your computer. In this example a Processing sketch will blink the LED of the Arduino. It requires basic knowledge of soldering, Arduino and Processing.

Just the meat. "This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents."

A brief talk about getting started with automating deployment [...] nice and simple and [doesn't] focus on any specific technology or tool – just the general principles and pitfalls of doing anything manually.

This is one of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts (1915 – 1973). From what I can tell, the animations were made several years ago and were produced by the makers of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Sells small, low-power, reasonably cheap headless boxes.

"A new Belgian Bar in Stoke Newington, 5 minutes' walk from Church Street, just off the High Street on Northwold Road." Yay, Belgian beer without the hike.

Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments

The British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online at http://sounds.bl.uk. Featuring unique field recordings, live performances and out-of-print commercial releases, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a sample of musical traditions across the globe - offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world.

ProxPick is a highly versatile attack & defense tool for 125-134KHz RFID systems (collectively known as Prox), about the size of a playing card.

Typical British caff food, nothing challenging or complicated, just straightforward hearty ingredients and recipes.

Interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals.

Webfaction's new Django documentation.

Reviewing is the new advertising.

Upload any file of any size for free and get back a link good for 24 hours

Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.

A set of conventions and small javascript libraries to archieve a complete separation of html, css and javascript in your web application. Jamal is built on jQuery and inspired by MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails, CakePHP and its derivatives.

"This is simply a "click these buttons" guide to git."

It’s overwhelmingly easy to write bad unit tests that add very little value to a project while inflating the cost of code changes astronomically.

“Film by Romuald Karmakar on Chilean DJ and musician Ricardo Villalobos which will have it’s World Premiere at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, September 8th, 2009”

Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.

A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.

Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work

The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.

Summary: just be consistent, whichever way you go.

But does it do clockwise *and* anti-clockwise loaders? Clients can be funny.

Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO field. This document [helps] provide transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices in search engine optimization.

"If there were fewer labels and releases everyone would be happier, but that's difficult to accomplish. I am hoping for a loud voice of reason talking to everybody: producers, labels, distributors, and shops. Like hey, "Think it over, think twice before you release a record." Maybe things can get better again. The main problem isn't that people download or don't buy records anymore, the main problem is that there's just too many releases."

"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.

There is a cancer in the collective American soul — a mercy deficit that has in recent years grown as alarmingly as the budget deficit. Nor is it as simple as a left/right thing: no political party has a monopoly on merciless behaviour. Rather, a creeping draconian absolutism has cast its penumbra across the entire arena of public discourse, tainting every debate, poisoning and hardening attitudes across the board.

"Full-body animal pajama with hoods or hats styled after animals are also called Kigurumi, but do not have the same "costume" connotation as the full-body suits. They are worn non-commercially and are another form of Japanese street fashion. People who choose to wear kigurumi in public are often referred to as "kigurumin", and the consumer-level costumes they tend to wear are known as "disguise pajama"."