7 days ago
philgyford : The Ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - There's been a ladder perched on a balcony at the church since at least 1835. Fascinating story. (via Haddock)
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2 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - The Late Edition - Britain's Own War On Christmas - Watch for the first 2 minutes 30 seconds rant about Christians complaining that "Christianity is under attack". Brilliant. (via Haddock)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Pillow Speaker With Volume Control: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk - Years ago I tried a Laurie Anderson sculpture that pretty much did just this and it was lovely. Hmm... (via Haddock)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Illustration Friday - A different topic every week for you to create an illustration about. Lovely idea. Why are there so few hours in the day and days in the week? I want to do everything. (via Haddock)
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3 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Mycrocosm from M.I.T. Media Lab - “A Web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs.”
Andy Baio : Mycrocosm - very, very similar to Daytum, but supports OpenID and a mobile/email interface
philgyford : Mycrocosm - "A web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs." Like Daytum? Love it. (via Haddock)
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4 month ago
philgyford : iSquint - iPod Video Made Easy. - Free converter for making video into iPod/iPhone-friendly video. (via Haddock)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Condé Nast to launch Wired magazine in the UK | Media | guardian.co.uk - I hate that a bit of me is torn between bitterness and excitement about this. I want not to care. (via Haddock)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Upload.mn - free image hosting - Wired UK - One person's guess as to how the forthcoming UK version of Wired will turn out. Not quite Thomas Paine. (via Haddock)
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : MuxFind, search for songs on Muxtape - this can't last long [via]
philgyford : MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes - Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)
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7 month ago
philgyford : Your London - Living - "This website lets you search for food businesses across London to find out the hygiene rating they achieved from their last food hygiene inspection." Am I Being Poisoned Or Not? (via Haddock)
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7 month ago
philgyford : Vote Match - Help to decide who to vote for in the London elections. For me it says: Paddick, Livingstone, Left List, Greens... Still hard to decide. (via Haddock)
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7 month ago
philgyford : Free Traffic For Your Squidoo Lens on Squidoo - Instructions for how to spam people via Twitter. As Ian said, wankers, making the Internet a little bit more unpleasant for everyone else.
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philgyford : HistoryShots Information Graphics - Prints - Nice posters of timelines and similar infographics, along the lines of that one of Napoleon's Russian campaign. Mostly American topics. (via Haddock)
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8 month ago
dbow : YouTube: Design Coding - "Don't use I-talics... use _emphasis_"
philgyford : YouTube - Design Coding - Rap: "Please don't use tables even though they work fine, when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time. Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide, remove font-type, font-color and font-size." Awesome. (via Haddock)
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization - works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive [via]
joshua : mail-trends - analyze and visualize your email as extracted from an IMAP server
Rod Begbie : mail-trends - Analyzes your email corpus and displays nice graphs. Currently only works with GMail, but support for all IMAP servers is planned. [via] #
philgyford : Mail-trends - Google Code - "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)" Haven't tried it, but it looks purty. (via Haddock)
Jeremy Zawodny : mail-trends - mail-trends: "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)."
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8 month ago
philgyford : BBC - BBC Three - TV Listings - TV listings done as a slowly whizzy (and pointless) Flash thing. Is there really *nothing* more useful that BBC staff could be doing? (via Haddock)
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8 month ago
philgyford : Daf Yomi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "... a daily regimen undertaken to study the Babylonian Talmud one folio (a daf consists of both sides of the page) each day." Would take 7.5 years. (via Haddock)
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9 month ago
philgyford : New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes - A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. First thing that's made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Automatic writing | eG weekly | EducationGuardian.co.uk - Fascinating. Philip M Parker can generate a book automatically when someone orders it. I stumbled across one for sale on Amazon. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online - Interesting articles on how a class of children played with Lego and how the teachers attempted to help them structure the play fairly. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Rails for PHP Developers - Sounds ideal for when I eventually get round to Ruby on Rails. (via Haddock)
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10 month ago
joshua : Travel-time maps - with integrated house prices. amazing.
philgyford : MySociety » Travel-time maps - Very, very tasty interactive London maps looking at travel times and house prices. (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
philgyford : Leslie Harpold | 43 Folders - "What Would Leslie Do" has been a handy mantra for me in awkward situations this past year. Many wise words here. (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
philgyford : Greyworld - Lots of lovely public art projects. No, really, public art that's fun and interesting! (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
plasticbag : A capture of the proposed new BBC homepage as spotted by Jeremy Keith - People always get designs of homepages wrong. They ask what the homepage is for. What they should ask is what the site is for and make the homepage reflect that. Does anyone know what the BBC's site is for?
philgyford : The new BBC homepage on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Lots of people commenting on one third of a design seen in a photo. So we haven't got past that "design is what it looks like" phase after all then, eh? Bah. (via Haddock)
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