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Wu Wei // equivocality Simple clean WP theme. Might be useful in the future, although I'd need to wrestle the type into submission first. (tags: wordpress themes)

EPICWIN Soon, you will be able to level grind as you go about your daily grind. This is either genius, or bleakly depressing. (tags: iphone productivity games todo)

Osborne's first Budget? It's wrong, wrong, wrong! – UK Politics, UK – The Independent |I imagine a few of you have seen this, but still: a nobel prizewinning economist delivers his verdict on George Osborne's benefit. Now, I imagine that a few of you are thinking "well, he's obviously got a bias". Yeah, probably true. [...]

Manual – googlecl – How to use GoogleCL. – Project Hosting on Google Code Mostly just a note to self to keep an eye on this project – if and when google mail is ever supported, this could become very, very handy indeed. (tags: google api commandline)

Call for Submissions
Oi, writer types what read this: my friend Del is trying to put together a charity book to help Medcins Sans Frontieres. She is looking for submissions. If you have the time between now and October to write a short story on the theme of healing, you might consider doing [...]

Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I'll Never be an Adult
I wouldn't like to suggest this is like me, or like anyone else I know. But I often have to do things I don't like.
(tags: funny responsibility adult)

American Apparel's Complete Guide to Grooming
Jesus fuck. It turns out that I, and many/most of my friends would not be eligible for employment at American apparel because we don't look "natural" (for which one might also read "bland") enough. Be sure to read this, and then click through to the stories about hiring [...]

Customer Experience Mapping & «
Strategies for designing a service, end-to-end. Useful
(tags: user_experience map)

USB Typewriter by usbtypewriter on Etsy
Why no, there is no practical reason to get one of these. Why yes, I do really really want one.
(tags: ipad gadgets diy)

Frank Chimero: What is the future of print design?
Key quotes: "we break stuff before we know what replaces it, and we invent things before we know what [...]

FOI reveals how costs of Crown Prosecution Service website ballooned past budget | Technology | guardian.co.uk
This makes me angry on many many levels. Yes, this looks like total waste, and yes, they got a shitty, shoddy website that was massively over-budge. One the other hand, though, the outrage about serious undervalues my profession. [...]