YouTube – Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ) This sounds criminally dull, and while I wouldn't claim it as the most interesting thing I've ever watched, it's still more fun than you might think. If nothing else, it's a clear demonstration that while Windows might suck in lots of ways, if you care about backwards compatibility, they're pretty much the kings. Supporting software written by third parties 23 years ago is no mean feat – I have trouble supporting software I wrote myself five years ago…
Pattern | CLiPS Python module for datamining and data visualisation. Just in case/
Tory council to make homelessness illegal « Labour Uncut While Dangerous Dave Cameron talks about the Big Society, and tells us that we must all hel[ one another, because the government would just as soon see us die in the gutter, another group of his friends are attempting to make it illegal for us to help one another, presumably because the Tories have nothing but contempt for anyone who wasn't born into wealth, and wish to see us all die in a gutter.
Notes From The Zeitgeist: Get Your Sugar Some absolutely beautiful prints of unlikely chracters done as calaveras. Particularly like the Pacman and Spy vs Spy ones.
Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things Shotnote – notepaper design to be photographed with an iphone camera using a special app, for organisation/archive purposes. If my beloved Fieldnotes were to do this, I would be fucking ecstatic.
The Best Questions For A First Date « OkTrends Another bunch of interesting statistical slice-and-dices from OKC. I really hope they keep doing this, even through they've been acquired by match.com
Why second-hand bookshops smell good File under: interesting trivia I never knew. Also: "Why yes, given enough time, science *can* explain everything."
Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind The BBC it seems, refuse to learn lessons from their own history. I'm usually one to defend the BBC against a lot of the flak it gets, but this is just plain stupid. Archiving these sites should be a matter of maybe an hour's work each, at most.
Isotope Tech bollocks. JS (specifically, jQuery, my new best friend) library for doing all sorts of very nice layout/sorting tricks. Bound to be handy.
To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the century If you live in the UK, stop what you're doing and read this, assuming you haven't already. This is somewhere between absurd and terrifying, and I simply don't understand how anyone in Cameron's position can contemplate it. Well, I do, but the only way it makes sense to me is active malice and contempt for other people, which is a motivation I find hard to ascribe to any human being.
NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device If this isn't vapourware, then I am at least interested in having a play with one. I've never been happy with scribbling handwritten noted on the ipad, but I do want to stop carrying paper for scribbling on.