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Lulu-esque self publishing, but with dedicated software to produce your book. Looks interesting.
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“In the end, this means that really great coders will keep getting paid less than they are worth and average ones will keep getting paid more”
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YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
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sed is my new best friend. This is very, very useful.
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Colours svn/cvs diffs when you get them in your Thunderbird inbox. In a word: nice.
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Confirms some things I discovered the hard way.
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“…in some states… a sex offender might not have done anything really offensive.” Great analysis from Stephanie Booth of the dangers of blanket bans, and the complex depth to the concept of “sex offence”.
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In a nutshell: it’s Tetrinet for OSX. Get in.
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It’s a drawing package designed for making diagrams in… ascii. It’s a bit like Omnigraffle, except it spits out plain text rather than PDFs. Nifty, if you’re graphics-averse, writing game FAQs, or just like the idea.
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More good stuff on handling forms from Pivotal.
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“From their new fall/winter collection, Onitsuka Tiger introduces a few rakugaki (scribbled) versions of some of their classics.” Beautiful! Want!
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IN UR JOB LIVIN UR LIFE
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A visualisation plugin for Mint: Tufte Mint’s design is focused on maximizing data-ink and minimizing chartjunk and decoration.
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Freemind is awesome.
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Some beautiful close-up photography of watches and chronometers. The lighting-work is particularly impressive.
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‘The technology is called “tactile response,” and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape.’ This is funny. It may also be true.
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Plugin for WordPress to embed slideshows of your Flickr sets.
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“Toread represents the idea that we can be the sum of the knowledge of everyone who’s ever preceded us, that given enough time we can absorb the cumulative learnings of humanity.”
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A nicely-written guide to the way engineers classify problems – and a reminder to us of how other people hear the words we use.
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Bunnie Huang’s experiences on mass-producing a product (Chumby) in China. Lots of video, lots of great insights into what modern manufacturing looks like.
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Russell writes up his take on this year’s “we love technology” in Huddersfield.
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“In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold.” The results are, in equal parts, strange and wonderful.
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“I’ve found instead that there is a formulaic way to produce excellent Controller code–the Controller Formula”.
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Online magazine mainly about pro advertising photographers. Looks like it could be interesting.
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“He is regarded as one of the most important session musicians in rock history, playing on countless hit recordings by leading British and American acts.” He is also my new hero.
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“Don’t take work only for the money. You get what you do, so work than makes you unhappy is not progressive.” S&W in the Telegraph.
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Matt’s reading list from his Interesting 2007 talkk
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Jack’s marvellous presentation from Interesting2007. A must-read. The transcription is a very accurate rendition of what he said.
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Actually knew a few of these already, but there are some great ones in there.
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Linked everywhere, but what the hell: it’s a cracking nine-minutes Shirkyblast. Listen to what he says; it is good.
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Oh gosh, this looks good: dynamic merging/caching of js/css files in Rails, but in production only; your development environment continues to use the original files. Lovely. Now: does it work?