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Basic Google maps via little-known querystring.

A mobile twitter client application for the Nokia N95. In addition to some basic twitter functionality it can make use of the built-in GPS of the N95 to add your current position to a tweet.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet.

BBC Radio 4 – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently comes to Radio 4 Wednesdays at 6.30pm, from 3rd October 2007.

The Arcade Fire presents…

Good Continuous Integration run-through and, ooh, smart Ambient Orb hack!

Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma

“The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape.”

Great ideas are only great if they fit a purpose, as such it is important to be clear from the outset what your site’s core user proposition is.

"The next time you tag something cheese on toast or woopwoop you might actually cause some researchers somewhere out there sleepless nights while they are trying to understand what kind of music those tags define." Oops!

Assume this is a custom group page. Hadn't realised that was on offer...

"The "attitude," as it came to be known, was built around three core attributes: inspired, genuine, trusted. Innocuous as they seem, they were vivid enough for a group of designers to begin to articulate a common visual language."

It is likely that many of its millions of die-hard fans will be unable to resist buying the box-set, available in December, while Radiohead will not be required to share its profits with either a record label or shops.

A scalable and strong email template that has really good flexibility

Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.

Pick something small in your organization. Internal systems are usually a good fit [...] Pitch this system as a test balloon for another way of doing things.

Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…

This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.

Occasionally we all accidentally hit the reset button on a web form and lose all of what we just spent time typing out. I’ve written a little bit of javascript that makes it possible to recover from these disasters.

Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.

Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.

Allows searching of Landmark Trust availability PDFs.

A novice wanted to learn the Tao of Backup. The master said: To become enlightened, you must master the seven heads of Backup. He who knows the heads will keep all his data forever.

Fast, reliable, and secure with unmatched spam control.

Good music and great example of self-promotion; the guy is everywhere without being annoying.

Takes the UN Secretary General's schedule and bungs it into a twitter account. Smart.

I am here to tell you about backups. It's very simple.

Created as a non-profit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective

If you think it's possible to identify a single date, somewhere off in the future, upon which you'll receive everything you've requested and for a fixed price, then you're setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.

Cursor Miner – Skunk Works.

My favourite track from Danceflaw but the video wasn’t working for me until now. Put your headphones on, turn up the volume, hit the fullscreen button and stare at the middle.

Probably best to avoid this one if you have photosensitive epilepsy.

2024-01-17: this video has gone away. Here's an audio-only version of Skunk Works.

A lot of traditional IA practice doesn’t make sense anymore. Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces.

Useful introduction. Answers the "Why?" question nicely.

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.

A simple web application which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to.

Ask them what they're doing. Then ask them why they're doing it, and keep asking until you get to a reason your customers would understand.

Quick, easy tip to stop TortoiseSVN being such a hog.

"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.

Some background on last.fm, including information on Power Plays.

New Boots site. UK only.

...blends self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world.

"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.

The first time Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm's founders, have spoken publicly on the acquisition of their site since it was purchased by CBS in May

TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns.

Last.fm [...] is launching a PR campaign in the guise of an initiative to get unsigned and independent bands using online tools to build their careers.

Life has cords, and cords get tangled. CORDhogs take up the extra slack to adjust your cord to just the right length.