#uk (269 links)
- UK mainland pub density map frisnit.com
Maps generated from the location data of over 28,000 pubs from www.beerintheevening.com. Each pixel on the maps corresponds to 6.5 km2 on the ground.
- The art of noise refined - Times Online entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Take a springtime stroll through the streets of Belbury. This provincial English town, created by CS Lewis in his allegorical novel That Hideous Strength, is also the imaginary home of the electronic eccentrics Belbury Poly. There are Tudor buildings next to modernist municipalities; spots of Arcadian reverie and pleasant public gardens with fountains and statues of nymphs; and, on the outskirts, green fields, unexplained crop circles, haunted woodlands and ancient stone monoliths dedicated to pagan deities. Listen to Belbury Poly’s most recent album, The Owl’s Map, and you’ll find all of this invoked by some of the most delightful electronica to arise in Britain since Aphex Twin, the Black Dog and Global Communication in the early 1990s.
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
- Police vet live music, DJs for 'terror risk' • The Register theregister.co.uk
"A dozen London boroughs have implemented a "risk assessment" policy for live music that permits the police to ban any live music if they fail to receive personal details from the performers 14 days in advance."
- Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data and finding a loo | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Winners announced.
- MSc Human-Centred Systems overview soi.city.ac.uk
Will equip you with techniques and theories with which to design, implement and evaluate interactive computing systems for the widest range of users.
- citizensound - music strategy for brands, brand strategy for music citizensound.net
An international music marketing collective offering sonic strategies for brands and their agencies, along with brand strategies for musicians, managers and labels.
- National Greasy Caff Database - Welcome! caffs.co.uk
- Xfm Uploaded xfmuploaded.co.uk
Xfm's unsigned band network. Bands can create a homepage, upload songs, post gig info, build a gallery and receive a unique Xfm Uploaded web address. They might even get played on Xfm itself.
- Paul.A.Young fine chocolates paulayoung.co.uk
The new guidelines for UK public sector bodies on ‘Delivering inclusive websites’ are a bewildering blend of the vague with the Draconian.
- Show Us a Better Way showusabetterway.com
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated.
- Rural Retreats ruralretreats.co.uk
Holiday cottages with style throughout Britain - cottages for self-catering holiday rental in the Cotswolds, the West Country, the Peak District, Yorkshire, Scotland and more.
- National Trust | Working holidays nationaltrust.org.uk
Working Holidays range from two to seven days and from £60 a week including food and hostel-type accommodation. No previous experience is necessary.
- Green Web UK | Google Groups groups.google.com
A mailing list for anyone in the UK who working on web technologies to promote green issues. Discussion, networking, jobs, whatever.
- Kelkoo goes microformatic (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) developer.yahoo.net
We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo.
- Digital Pulse | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry chinwag.com
Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator rejects net tracking news.bbc.co.uk
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."
- Digital Jobs, New Media, Web, Online & Internet Careers - Revolution Jobs revolutionjobs.co.uk
"Now that Google is probably pulling down more ad revenue than ITV, the biggest TV network in Britain, it looks like it is the the UK’s single largest advertising channel, posits Seamus McCauley." Clarification: ITV1 the channel, not ITV the network
- Welcome to WWOOF wwoof.org
In return for your help on organic farm, gardens and smallholdings you receive meals, accommodation and the opportunity to learn. Wwoof volunteers do not pay to stay with hosts and Wwoof hosts do not pay volunteers for their help.
Is there a dearth of candidates in the digital industry? Is it hindering the growth of the sector? And what do employers, recruitment consultants and HR professionals think is going to happen this year?
"The organisation that compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom [..] currently, BARB have approximately 5,100 homes". How crazy is it that 5,100 households dictate UK TV ratings? Will VOD fix this?
- Adactio: Journal - Microsoft in London adactio.com
Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…
- Unofficial Landmark Trust search page (updated 28th September 2007) landmarktrust.dracos.co.uk
Allows searching of Landmark Trust availability PDFs.
- TrustedPlaces trustedplaces.com
Npower have been dumping slurry into the Radley Lakes - once one of the largest wetland areas and the richest site for breeding birds in the entire county of Oxfordshire - for the past 20 years. Only two of the original 12 lakes remain.
- The Nag thenag.net
one thing a month. sign up to get nagged each month about one easy thing you can do to be greener, cleaner and, if you're not careful, a tiny bit smug.
- The Landmark Trust | Homepage landmarktrust.org.uk
The Landmark Trust is a charity founded in 1965 that rescues and restores historic buildings at risk and gives them a new life by offering them for holidays
- This modern life: Army recruitment | Magazine | The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk
The forces try new tactics to entice fresh blood
- Future Of Web Apps, Day 1 readwriteweb.com
The Future Of Web Apps 2007 kicked off in London today with a host of speakers from various startups, bigcos, media outlets and associated businesses."
- Neighbourhood Fix-It neighbourhoodfixit.com
"Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Nicely done.
- Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! geograph.org.uk
Aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
- Really Wild Flowers - British wildflower seed, plants, bulbs & orchids for your garden reallywildflowers.co.uk
We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow.
The how, what and where of recycling in the United Kingdom.
Old school.
Possible present ideas...
"Digital UK: Re-engineering the content architecture to communicate the UK’s move to digital television." Fredy's presentation for the 2nd European IA Summit, Berlin 2006.
- Introduction to e-petitions petitions.pm.gov.uk
mySociety provide petition tool for PM.
- BBC Motion Gallery bbcmotiongallery.com
Access to thousands of shots from the vast and diverse archives of the BBC