April 2009
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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Sports and Activities covered | Endsleigh →
I appear to be covered for zorbing whilst on holiday. Sadly, I didn’t discover anyone willing to let me go down Lombard Street protected only by a large inflatable transparent ball. (Warning: PDF.) Edit: Turns out I could have done the (similar) wirlball riding in Dolores Park.
Apr 3rd
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San Francisco
In case you were wondering about the absence of posts here, I’ve been on holiday in San Francisco, and very good it was too. Probably the pick of the museums and exhibitions I saw was the “Signs: Wordplay in Photography” show at the de Young, although the architecture of the new California Academy of Sciences building and two of the four entrants to the SECA Art Award were...
Apr 2nd
March 2009
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Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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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...
Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
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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.
Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Compare and Contrast: Covers Edition
Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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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...
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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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)
Mar 19th