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)
Author: Dave Cross
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BBC – Homepage The BBC homepage has a new (and I think, rather nice) design. (tags: bbc media web design) Flickr: Foxtons Cock Mobiles (Collect them all) Excellent new sport. Collecting photos of Foxtons Cockmobiles. The discussion page is also a great place to vent your spleen about Foxtons. Might start taking photos of some… Continue reading links for 2008-02-28
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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
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
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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)
KT Tunstall
Bugger. I’ve just seen some photos of KT Tunstall playing in my local pub last night. It’s all very well living so close to such a cool music venue, but I really need to find a good way to keep in touch with what’s going on there. Their web site really doesn’t seem to be… Continue reading KT Tunstall
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Darwin’s Beagle Specimens – O.U.M.N.H. Zoology Web-accessible database containing the specimens that Darwin collected on the Beagle. (tags: darwin database evolution science zoology)
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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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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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‘Fleabytes’ by Paula Kirby – RichardDawkins.net Excellent atheist review of four of the christian books published in response to “The God Delusion”. (tags: dawkins thegoddelusion atheism religion toread)