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The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
Perhaps music will never be totally free as Techcrunch's founder argues. However, people will have to realise sooner than later that record labels have to reinvent themselves or disappear.
How to make a box out of a [...]

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WP-DBManager
'control your complete WordPress database in your WP admin panel. Backup, restore, repair and optimize your database, without any knowledge requirement. You can even run SQL commands and add new tables to your database.'
How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
'With [...]

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

SilverStripe - Open Source CMS / Framework
Simple. Flexible. Scalable. Fast. Standards Compliant. Modular. Template Freedom. Open source. Cross platform. Easy to install.
The XP alternative for Vista PCs
'While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers [...]

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50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog
'Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really don’t need, and it serves mainly to get in the way of your content and other vital information. Your content and important pages are the signal, and [...]

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3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November?
A leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany promises a version of the handset with support for 3G using both HSDPA and UMTS, with theoretical download speeds reaching the format's full 3.6Mbps. It also suggests that [...]

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Tafiti
Experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Requires Silverlight running on your machine.
On Firefox 3 and microformats [...]

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Met Office: London: forecast
The Met Office - The latest UK and international weather forecast. Global weather services for business and the public. UK weather warnings.
Tesco and Asda in email inquiry
The Competition Commission has ordered two UK supermarket giants to hand [...]

The inner lining of the fourth stomach of calves and other young ruminants. A dried extract made from the stomach lining of a ruminant, used in cheesemaking to curdle milk.

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Facebook Source Code Leaked
'This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is. If the main source code for a site can be leaked, then it can [...]

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How to Sleep 4 Hours per Night
Neuroscientists are studying a spot on the skull that they could zap to induce the brain waves characteristic of deep, non-REM sleep. If they could find one that makes me sleep 8 hours per [...]

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Invite Share - Everyone is invited!
Have some invitations [to private betas] that you want to get off your hands? Why not share them with others and get new invitations in exchange.
Mitch O'Connell Embroidery Patterns
Stitching patterns with illustrations of 'hot 'n [...]

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Are you a Facebook RSS leper?
Some Facebook users have a link to an RSS feed of their own status stories. Some don't. I don't, and went bonkers looking for it. Nobody knows why some have it though. Weird.
Easily follow your [...]

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Brown Zune finds meaning in Hide-a-Pod - Engadget
Tired of having your iPods stolen from you? Hide your next one in a brown Zune shell. Mean - and so very true.
Utako Wakamatsu & Jean-Sebastien Fecteau OK GO!
Canadian skating champions reenacting OK [...]

When I 'undesigned' this website, I removed the links to the last five del.icio.us bookmarks from the right-hand side column and started looking for a more elegant and flexible solution than the (otherwise very well working) del.icio.us daily blog posting functionality.
It took me a while, but I finally managed to find, tweak and implement it. [...]

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My Mom Hand-Knit An iPhone
An uber-cool mother's knitting saga, and the tips and details to help other knit-happy folks save 800USD.
When 'Digital Natives' Go to the Library
An article explaining why libraries and librarians should evolve and take a page out [...]

Architecting CSS
A few methods to maintain and organise large and complex CSS files
(tags: css stylesheets design web tutorials)

Tab Mix Plus
'Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.'
(tags: firefox mozilla tabs tabmixplus browsers plugins tools)

Ring of steel divides Padua
A ten feet tall steel wall around a crime-ridden estate full of immigrants in Padua, Italy, splits local opinion.
(tags: italy padua immigrants social estates)

Long Live the Q Tag
A backward- and forward-compatible fix for the Q tag which IE/Win (surprise, surprise) would not normally render properly.
(tags: q tags css ie explorer windows [...]

BBC One's new idents and logo
Based around the symbol of a circle, the new idents launch on Saturday 7th October 2006. Indian dancers and skateboarders are out - in come daredevil motorbikes and synchronised hyppos.
(tags: bbc logos identity idents tv branding)

Three-year-old buys car on internet
Little Jack used his parents' eBay account to successfully bid for [...]

Program your PVR online with TV Genius
It currently is in beta and works with any Windows Media Centre PVR but they are looking to support as many PVRs as they can.
(tags: tvgenius pvr tv recorders online web remote)

Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers
A list that includes some of the best ideas I embraced and raved about [...]

Timorous Beasties wallpaper
Classical, timeless French toile - with contemporary London prints, 'Gherkin' and London Eye included. 100 pounds per 10m roll.
(tags: wallpaper london gherkin londoneye)

US hypoallergenic cats go on sale
These cats are not genetically modified cats but chosen because of a natural gene divergence in the DNA and selectively bred. Despite costing $3,950, there is [...]

Priceshout.com
UK-based price comparison website with a web 2.0 social software flavour, that allows you to track product's prices and monitor the changes and additions in your RSS reader.
(tags: online uk shopping social priceshout compare)

Dynamic Drive CSS Library
Practical CSS codes and examples for menus, forms, containers, links, buttons…
(tags: css libraries dynamic reference examples web design)

PSD2HTML
Hand-coded markup to any specification in under 8 hours.
(tags: business web design html markup xhtml css services)

The Oneseat campaign
It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. Online petition to have it located only in Brussels.
(tags: politics europe eu petitions campaigns parliaments brussels strasbourg)

'Pack-a-day crisp habit' [...]

Bordee
New free service, built with Ruby on Rails, that lets anyone create a topic-specific message board for any domain name/web page on the internet.
(tags: application free social messages boards bordee rubyonrails)

Vintage Star Trek gets digital facelift
'CBS Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS, is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show's 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-generated graphics.'
(tags: television cgi specialeffects startrek tv series)

Optimal width for 1024px resolution is 960
After you account for browser chrome and scrollbars, it turns [...]

Doctor Who spin-off set for CBBC
'The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC will star Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith opposite Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker between 1973 and 1976.'
(tags: doctorwho drwho elisabethsladen sarahjanesmith tombaker bbc cbbc spinoffs scifi sciencefiction)

UK immigration database
'7.5% of people living in Britain were born abroad. You can find out where [...]

Global obese now outnumber global malnourished
'globally, there are one billion overweight adults, and 300 million of them are obese; in contrast, about 800 million do not have enough to eat.'
(tags: nutrition statistics obese overweight weight fitness)

Architecting CSS
A few methods to maintain and organise large and complex CSS files
(tags: css stylesheets design web tutorials)

Tab Mix Plus
'Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.'
(tags: firefox mozilla tabs tabmixplus browsers plugins tools)

Nutrients and phytochemicals reference database
Information about the healing power of foods, searchable by nutrient or by condition.
(tags: eating food nutrition nutrients vitamins supplements health conditions)

The alternative dictionaries
Slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all the world, from Acadian to Zulu.
(tags: languages dictionaries funny profanities slang swearing)

TrackMeNot
Lightweight Firefox extension that interferes with data profiling and surveillance by [...]

Concert ticket generator
Just enter some text and click the 'Go' button. A picture of a concert ticket will be generated for you.
(tags: concerts gigs generators tickets fun)

The web developer's list of resources
Very extensive list of links, with the option to highlight interesting ones for future visits (if cookies are enabled).
(tags: ajax database design lists programming [...]

Doctor Who spin-off 'cancelled'
Series producer and writer Russell T Davies decided the programme, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was "a spin-off too far" and called it off.
(tags: doctorwho drwho rosetyler billiepiper russelltdavies tv television scifi sciencefiction)