links for 2008-02-29

css-boilerplate – Google Code New CSS framework. Based on Blueprint but without all the non-semantic markup. (tags: css design boilerplate frameworks web) Bits or pieces?: Every trough-full helps … Simon Wardley points out that Tesco aren’t quite as philanthropic as they like to appear. (tags: tesco chartiy tax profit)

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links for 2008-02-27

Encyclopedia of Life “Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.” (tags: biology zoology evolution science life nature) Dave Cross – FriendFeed Me on FriendFeed. Looks like this might be a good… Continue reading links for 2008-02-27

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Last night I watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the documentary about the MPAA‘s film ratings system. It was an interesting film that raised a number of valid criticisms about the ratings system, but ultimately I think it was too intent on blaming the MPAA and completely missed a far deeper issue. First the… Continue reading This Film Is Not Yet Rated

links for 2008-02-26

Garfield Minus Garfield “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? “ (tags: cartoons garfield comic humour)

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links for 2008-02-22

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog – film: Is Naked Britain’s most under-rated film? Interesting piece in the Guardian about “Naked”, Mike Leigh’s best film, which has never been released on DVD. (tags: film mikeleigh naked thewlis guardian) Fizz › Mike Leigh Back-cat DVD Releases DVD release of Mike Leigh’s “Naked” imminent. At long last. (tags: dvd… Continue reading links for 2008-02-22

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links for 2008-02-21

Open Tech 2008 – 5th July in London. The previous OpenTech conference (in 2005) was a lot of fun. I’ll definitely be there. (tags: events london opentech) rsync.net – Secure Offsite Backups, Offsite Data Storage and Remote Encrypted Filesystems, Offsite Backup A recent disk crash (luckily not as fatal as it could have been) means… Continue reading links for 2008-02-21

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