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- Reasons to be Cheerful - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
"An acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade". Always look on the bright side...
- The Tree Slider - GitHub github.com
The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with HTML — it's a JavaScript API) allows us to manage the URL changes while CSS3 transitions handle the sliding. Permalinks are always maintained, your back button works as expected, and it's much faster than waiting for a full page load.
- Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
- In Search of Number One « Adventures in the infraordinary jameswe333.wordpress.com
My plan for this project is to make my way down and back up Essex Road in Islington from number one to number 400-odd visiting every business along the way.
- Let's make blogging good again (Noisy Decent Graphics) noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
I'm game.
- Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com
The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change.
Via russelldavies.
- What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK? - The Ecologist theecologist.org
"Deron Beal and the US Network made no comment." Says it all, really.
- BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory themilkfactory.co.uk
With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine.
- Porthcurno Telegraph Museum porthcurno.org.uk
- Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."
- Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Things I’m Standing Next To code.flickr.com
It is difficult to overstate how impressive, and important, tools like Google Earth and PhotoSynth are visualizing geographies and in pushing the boundaries of what is possible both technically and conceptually. But both do so at the expense of what Scott McCloud calls “the magic in the gutter“.
- Versionista.com: Track changes to any Web site versionista.com
Monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences.
- Sniff browser history for improved user experience niallkennedy.com
Clever, well-meaning but crosses the privacy line.
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."
Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."
There is, by my estimation something of the order of twenty, possibly up to fifty times as much money to be made in the retrieval and reissue of lost gems as there is in releasing new recordings by new artists.
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
- British History Online british-history.ac.uk
The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
- Islington: Growth: Highbury | British History Online british-history.ac.uk
- Islington: Growth: Newington Green and Kingsland | British History Online british-history.ac.uk
It's not the end of the road for the world-famous double-deckers. They are finding homes with lifelong fans - friends in search of fun, middle-aged men who should know better, even schoolgirls too young to drive.