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[v-hold] v.2.0 | via popbitch: Confessions of Madonna's tour
Three themed sections; equestrian, Middle East and disco. 'Everybody' performed on roller skates, and 'Live To Tell' on a crucifix. Or so it is rumoured.
(tags: madonna confessionsonadancefloor tour concert)

Amazon.co.uk: Jay Aston - Alive and Well
2003 album from the one in Bucks Fizz who was not Cheryl [...]

A friend recommended I go and see C.R.A.Z.Y., so on Friday night I did. It is the kind of film that is bound to strike all the right notes with me: there are more feelings than CGI, a substantial dose of humour, and… subtitles - because the film is in the most beautifully sung language [...]

SketchUp - a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas
Bought last month by Google, and now released with a free version and a more powerful professional paid one.
(tags: 3d animation application free google graphics illustration model tool)

Zend Technologies - Beginner Tutorials - Build your own Database Driven [...]

Yahoo! ZoneTag 2-click-uploads location-tagged photos to Flickr - Engadget Mobile
'Yahoo! has [...] rolled out a new application for Nokia Series 60 handset owners that allows them to not only 2-click upload their cameraphone photos to Flickr, but actually tag them with general location data for personal reference and providing viewers with context.'
(tags: flickr gps media [...]

The people at Yahoo! have done an excellent job in rethinking the Yahoo! Mail Beta UI, with messages opening in tabs, an optional preview pane, drag-and-drop, and all messages in the inbox appearing on a single page. You can even delete messaged by selecting them and pressing the 'delete' key, rather than ticking them and [...]

Is the pace of change really such a shock? (plasticbag.org)
Tom Coates is 'completely bored of this rhetoric of endless insane change at a ludicrous rate, and cannot actually believe that people are taking it seriously [...] this is a fairly reasonable and incremental technology change that anyone involved in it could have seen coming from [...]

The BBC Programme Catalogue allows you to search through the last seventy-five years of BBC radio and TV programmes - that's almost one million items.
Tom Loosemore (Project Director, BBC 2.0) rightly praises 'the wonderful BBC archivists [who] had displayed astounding consistency and discipline in keeping their data clean, and their vocabularies controlled'. A structured core [...]

(New, just out) 'Rocky', re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds
"…the classic underdog story of Rocky, re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds" (with hilarious fish and turtles performing the theme tune at the end).
(tags: bunnies parody rocky movie animation funny flash)

Google Maps Mania: Big News: Google Maps street maps for ALL of Europe!
'Not only are street [...]

I have already mentioned in a previous post how there was hardly any coverage at all in the Berlusconi-controlled Italian press of his 'possible trial on new corruption charges in a case also involving his former British lawyer and financial adviser, David Mills' (British minister Tessa Jowell's husband).
I had a couple of Italian friends over [...]

Steelpixel offers lifetime hosting for a one-time fee
For a limited time, Steelpixel offers lifetime hosting, for a USD150 or USD400 one-time fee. No limits on the number of MySQL databases or email addresses.
(tags: business hosting webhosting)

Design View : Andy Rutledge - White House Redux
A hypothetical and very professional redesign of the current US White House [...]

JoeSchmidt.com: Gadget of the week: The Baker's Edge Baking Pan
Baking pan with extra internal "walls". Looks like a maze, so that every brownie can be a corner brownie (the best, apparently). Thirty-six dollars from amazon.com.
(tags: kitchen cooking brownies baking pan)

Torchwood House
If I was to get married, this is exactly the location I'd choose. Of course, [...]

I got to spend some time with a couple of friends visiting from Italy and their daughter, who is almost four years old.
After being very shy for half an hour last night, she decided she likes me and Dr B., and for once did not want to be picked up (well, I would not walk [...]

BrainFuel | Top 10 Photoshop Tips and Techniques from BrainFuel
I am familiar with most but will soon start pressing either ] or [ to adjust the brush size by 10 units.
(tags: photoshop tutorial tips brush howto)

Mini Pixel Icons
Over 320 free mini pixel icons, 14×14px with transparent background, specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. [...]

Secunia - Internet Explorer Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability Test
A one-click test to check if your browser is vulnerable to the latest generation of phishing attacks that spoof the content of the address bar.
(tags: browser computer explorer ie microsoft scam security test vulnerability web)

feed and rss protocols format
An explanation for the 'feed:http://…' link format that gave [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Night of the Image Map
Traditional image maps don't work well with text-only browsers. Here is an easy replacement technique that uses only standards-based XHTML and CSS.
(tags: css design html image tutorial xhtml imagemap web)

A List Apart: Articles: A More Accessible Map
A way to display text-based data on a geographical map, keeping [...]

Free download that lets you play DivX and Xvid on your Xbox 360
We played around with Windows Media Centre Edition in order to stream video through Dr B's Xbox 360 and were frustrated by it only playing WMV. This is an improvement - if you have a powerful enough machine to encode on the fly. [...]

Last night I walked out of a play (well, we 'forgot' to return to our seats after the first interval) for the first time ever. And it was not even half bad.
I actually feel a bit ashamed; I realise that my attention span is now attuned to a maximum of forty minutes (the average 'Lost' [...]

Green Wing rocks because of dialogue like this (Staff liaison officer Sue White, when asked to bring paediatrician Angela Hunter's eight-week notice period down to under three hours):
'Do I look like a mug?
Have I got a handle? Am I made of china? Am I kept in a cupboard or on a small wooden tree?
Would you [...]

Multiculturalism UK: ORIGINATION INSITE from Channel 4: Build your own website
England's multiculturalism comes from the many diverse cultures that live here. ORIGINATION INSITE offers you the chance to build a website about these different stories and cultures - for FREE!
(tags: britishness englishness channel4 website free multiculturalism)

I have imported my Outlook events into the just-launched Google Calendar (beta).
There is a known issue with timezone settings: events show later than scheduled (eight hours, in my case).
It can be easily solved by creating an additional calendar within the same account, and re-importing the events, which this time will show with the correct timestamp. [...]