March 2010
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“He had everything: vision, athleticism, stamina, speed,” Borrell said....”
– Cesc Fábregas faces the Barcelona Dream Team he left behind | Sid Lowe | Football | The Guardian
Spanish-based writer Sid Lowe on the development of Cesc Fábregas at Mataró and Barcelona - where he played as a teenager with Gerard Piqué and Lionel Messi - then his subsequent controversial...
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SolarBeat →
Neat - a solar system music box. The planets make different tones as they complete a year. Kinda atmospheric, melancholy and a little bit lovely.
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Rethinking Online Grocery Experiences | Teehan+Lax →
A nice post about the frustrations of ordering groceries online. Timely, as I expect to receive several boxes worth of food tonight that very closely but not exactly resembles what I ordered.
The relative size thing is interesting. I order my food shop online about 10-20% of the time, and every time something will be delivered that is either much bigger or much smaller than I anticipated. This...
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WatchBoris - “Pink” live @ Mohawk on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Every Saturday should start like today. Coffee, an omelette, and some Boris to blow the cobwebs away.
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My latest custom Quix commands →
So, I keep going on about Quix. I do that because it is insanely useful to me and it could make your life slightly easier.
Quix is one of those things that you spend a little while getting used to, but from then on it starts making lots and lots of tiny time savings almost every time you need to search for something or perform some small action. The more you use it, the more it becomes second...
“Upon discovering that his daughter was crying and covered in blood, my dad...”
– Hyperbole and a Half: How a Fish Almost Destroyed My Childhood
This is great; cartoons straight out of the same bucket of humour as The Oatmeal. Recommended.
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7 Ways To Make A Better How-To/Lifehack/GTD Blog
So, you’ve decided to help the rest of the world accomplish an already easily-accomplishable task. Great! Good for you. Before you start your brilliant doucheblog, however, there are some simple rules to follow:
1. Make it a list, make it prime ‘Science’ shows that people will scan your lists more often if it is made up of a prime number of items. 7, 11, 13 and 17 are all great...
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“Only if everyone begins at the same starting line can it be said that the...”
– Michael Sandel, Justice (via squashed)
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WatchI love Quix. So should you.
It’s a neat service that replaces a whole bunch of bookmarklets you might already use, and throws a load of extra commands in too.
Here I show you some quick and simple uses for it, stumble over my words, and say the words ‘really’ and ‘cool’ a lot. I really do, it’s cool.
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Abstruse Goose » How to Teach Yourself Programming →
More how-to hilarity. The link above is a cartoon on how to teach yourself C++ in 21 days.
I moan about this stuff (‘50 Ways To… X’, ‘Teach Yourself Y in Z days’) because it is ridiculous; it fosters the belief that you can become an expert/master of a chosen subject by reading a bunch of articles or a book. In reality you won’t have got out of novice mode - at...
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“I’m trying to avoid showing The Steps and instead show them enough of The Idea...”
– The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics – Technoccult interviews Tom Henderson | Technoccult
Tom ‘mathpunk’ Henderson on why an understanding of mathematics stacks the odds of life in your favour, how he attempts to communicate this, and how our ‘how-to’ culture may have...
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How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad →
Penguin has some interesting plans for the iPad.
They’re eschewing the .epub format in favour of applications. Each book will become an individual app, to include appropriate non-text-based content like videos, games, audio and whatever else fits. This is less about books per se as it is the intersection between books and toys, calendars, maps, IM, productivity apps, etc.
I’m halfway...
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“While his career, one spent battling at the sharp, insecure end of English...”
– The Fiver, on the death of Keith Alexander. Whilst primarily a funny email about football, it always deals with the sport’s serious issues in a very dignified manner. Never schmaltzy, never po-faced, it’s a cut above the rest of the world’s football media.
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Joanna Newsom develops her art
I’m looking forward to getting the new Joanna Newsom album, Have One On Me.
(I’ll get it the next time I go shopping. Without particularly realising, I’ve gone almost download-only over the past few years. This is strange, considering how much attention I’ve paid to the physical vs. digital battle over the same period. I’d just not paid the same attention to my own...
