March 2009
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How to: Set Up A Group Tumblr
Tumblr’s supported group blogging for about a year now, but it’s not obvious what to do to get started. There’s a small mention in the docs, but it’s not exactly a step-by-step guide. So, here’s how to get going. (Note these instructions work with the dashboard at the time of writing, but Tumblr do seem fond of redesigns.)
Firstly, log in to a Tumblr account...
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Against Waffle
blech: I think it only has one comment because [the piece] doesn't have a point.
blech: You can't argue against waffle.
The: You can fight waffle with wiffle.
jerakeen: Or syrup.
blech: Mmm.
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Compare and Contrast: Covers Edition
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cdcover- Automatic Audio Album Art
zimpenfish:
A clever idea by Joshua Distler: making CD covers from the audio waveforms of the tracks.
My implementation: http://rjp.github.com/cdcover/
Hurrah to Rob for taking what was a nice (and widely ffffound/blogged) idea and making it into a piece of software.
I’m happy to have acted (in a small way) as a midwife: when mentioning this on IRC, I mentioned that making CD covers...
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“Remember, over 5,000 people died in one night in London in the 1950s from...”
– James Lovelock in the Independent’s You Ask The Questions section, in response to being asked why he’s in favour of nuclear power (via jim-in-austin)
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“London’s unique beauty, splendour and energy is truly illuminated in...”
– Boris Johnson, quoted in a typically sensational Evening Standard story about Google launching Street View.
Edit: Turns out, there’s a special selection of views by the Mayor (well, probably his office). I’m not sure this one is that inspiring, though.
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“There are none of the usual Windows and Intel stickers - a fact the Dell staffer...”
– Darren Waters, Does Dell covet Apple’s design status? | BBC NEWS - dot.life
“Underside”. “Hidden from view”. Not actually, you know, not there at all.
Edit: Nice website you have there, chaps.
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Taking Playlists To The Next Level
I decided to walk the 1.3 miles from the station to the office to enjoy the weather. Upon making this decision, as if by magic, my ipod decided to play U2 - Beautiful day. “Clever iPod!” I thought.
No, not really. But why not?
BPM
maybe I was a little swayed in my choice by the fact that it’s one of the heart rate monitors sported by Edward Norton in the 2008...
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Two Short Walks
It feels like forever since I was the sort of person who’d walk north to south across London in a single column of the A-Z, or from Barnsbury to Limehouse at 6am in December.
However, I seem to be getting my feet back, slowly. Yesterday I did nearly three miles to Crooked Billet, and another one after a cheeky bus down the Chingford Road, which produced some (posted) photos of the North...
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Being a list of North Circular buses
Being a list of buses whose routes run alongside or on the North Circular, clockwise from Hangar Lane to Woolwich. Note that some buses may leave the road (especially at gyratories or other junctions) or run parallel to it.
112 (Harrow Road - Brent Cross, and southbound onyly Abbey Road - Hangar Lane)
232 (Hendon Way - Bounds Green Road, Pinkham Way - High Road (Wood Green))
184 (Pinkham Way -...
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Keyboard Navigation In Tumblr
For a while, I’ve had a small bit of JavaScript into the templates of notes.husk.org that enables vi/ffffound/Google Reader style navigation with the j and k keys. Hit ‘j’ and the page will scroll to the next entry; ‘k’ and it will move to the previous one. It even handles paging (well, paging with j, anyway).
It’s not very complicated code, and (unlike the...
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“We may be whirled from Richmond, Wimbledon and Highgate by ships such as Jules...”
– From the archives, 6 March 1890: An electric subway in London | From the Guardian (via teflon)
Full of goodness, this. “In South London difficulties are so great that passengers grumble incessantly. Tramcars and omnibuses can only convey their passengers at little more than walking...
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WatchWorld Builder from Bruce Branit, via kellan.
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Random item, twenty-one
The woman is curled up on a seat, just behind the glass at the end of a block of seats. Purple dress, white shawl, black pointed boots, asleep and girl-like, oblivious to the comings and goings between King’s Cross and Seven Sisters. As the carriage starts to empty there, another passenger tries to rouse her, but the chap next to her says “she’s with me”. He’s older,...
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Mobile phones vs mobile devices
I muttered on Twitter this morning that I “really need to buy an iPhone sooner than later. Yesterday my mobile ran out of battery before I left the house; today I forgot it entirely.”
Chris Heathcote pointed out on IRC that iPhones don’t carry themselves. It’s true, but neither do iPods, yet I can’t think of many times in the last five years when I’ve left the...
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“There seems to be an assumption made by many people that all a designer has to...”
– Maxwell Roberts, Information Pollution on the Underground Map
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Kindle for iPhone... in the US
This morning’s big tech news seems to be the launch of the Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod touch, as also covered by John Gruber. Naturally, neither story covers the fact that, like the Kindle hardware, the app is only available in the United States.
Now, unlike the Freakonomics blog, I can entirely understand the hardware existing only the US. EVDO, the technology behind what Amazon...
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“Known Issues: Delete no longer functions as a keyboard shortcut for Back.”
– Wait, this isn’t an issue, this is a feature!
Camino 2.0 beta 2 release notes 