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Wikipedia: List of auto-antonyms in English
Awful used to mean "full of awe, even better than awesome."
iPhone 4 Case Program
The free cases are now available via a very simple iPhone app. Surprisingly wide selection of cases, I'm probably one of very few people to go for the "tartan effect" case.
Gillian McKeith loses an online argument, backtracks, and then pretends to be someone else
A funny story, but the Boingboing commenters get all out of proportion and seem to think she'll be bankrupted by the "fiasco"
Diffable: only download the deltas
Updates cached Javascript files with diffs rather than downloading the whole thing again.
GlastoTag
Super high-resolution photo from Glastonbury where over 3,000 people have tagged themselves
A Stack of Twits
Simple webapp sends you @replies on Twitter when new Stack Overflow questions appear matching a set of keywords.
YoruFukurou
A terribly-named native Mac Twitter client. Not as slick as Tweetie, but loads of configuration options and custom tabs.
A fluid Hicksdesign
Clever fluid design that adjusts the number of columns based on your screen width
iPhone 4 UK Price Comparison
Spreadsheet comparing the UK iPhone 4 pricies annouced so far (Orange, Vodafone, o2)
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Ordos: China’s Vacant City
In grand Dubai-esque fashion, Ordos City in Chinese Inner Mongolia rises from the desert to proclaim the glory of mankind’s accomplishments. Its glittering high-rise buildings and grand government projects are skirted on all sides by smooth…
Posted on 7th September 2010
Distilleries of Islay
Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010
HubPages Marks the Spot
Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and me to join their expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010
The Russian Woodpecker
Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010
Airport Emergency Training Locations
As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010