• Nick Bradbury: Hit The Deck: Tasteful Ads in FeedDemon
  If this comes to NetNewsWire I *really* hope they offer an option to pay for an ad-free version of the application. (If they don't I doubt I'd switch away though - NNW is so much better than the alternatives, especially when you take the iPhone client into account, that there's no app to switch to.)
• RealityStudio » Michael Moorcock on William S. Burroughs
• STACK independent magazine subscription and delivery
  A subscription service that sends you a variety of magazines. Brilliant idea, and not too pricey at £3 per mag.
• The Agrippa Files
  "Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr." It included pages that faded over time, and a Gibson poem that "ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion".
• BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Love letter jigsaw takes 15 years
  Sweet story, even if it shamelessly plugs a vanity publishing outfit and learndirect.
• CustomizeGoogle: Improve Your Google Experience — Firefox Extension
  "CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam)."
• tap tap tap ~ 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

• Another country: Artist Charles Avery discusses the Island - The Scotsman
• VUKZID06 - Goodiepal - collected works - V/Vm Test Records
  “Here for the first time in an easy to download set of zip files are a series of collected Goodiepal works which include at Goodiepal’s request ‘Narc Beacon’ and his ‘Mort Aux Vaches” releases. There are also a selection of rare Goodiepal tracks along with some of his selected advertisments.”
• Posterous: Minimalist Blogging - ReadWriteWeb
  Posterous is an interesting weblogging app that you post to via email, and which can then send your posts on to Flickr, Twitter, your weblog, &c.. Cool, if not terribly secure.
• Why I Chose Posterous: a Quick Review - Joel’s posterous
• Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art
• Aeeeris Tablet Conversion Kit
  A custom faceplate for the Eee 70x that turns it into a nice-looking mini-tablet.
• MediaConsumer 0.1 - David Raynes
• The Pixel Palace
  "Tyneside Cinema, the oldest surviving newsreel cinema in the country and one of the UK's leading cultural venues, is exploring cinema's potential in the new digital world, using the latest digital projectors, high-speed networks, games consoles and mobile devices to help us uncover ways in which we can make cinemas (and perhaps other arts and cultural spaces) as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th."
• Sucked Into The Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

• The Art of the Title Sequence
• Would current technology allow someone to make an audio recording of their life? | Ask Metafilter
  Answer: yes, but processing the data would be very hard/expensive.
• Dept. of Technology: Remember This?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  "Gordon Bell… by means of custom programs and gadgets, now collects the daily minutiae of his life so emphatically that he owns the most extensive and unwieldy personal archive of its kind in the world."
• The Grid System
• 35 Days Against DRM — Day 7: Prince: Friends without benefits. | DefectiveByDesign.org
  This is why I didn't buy anything from the NPGMC. That and all the songs released were bibble.
• Dinosaur Gardens » BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension
• Sucked Into The Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

The link to the ‘BNP proximity search’ has been removed after a series of threatening emails. It may or may not be reinstated pending legal advice.

• BNP member proximity search
  Enter your Post Code to see if there are any fascists in the vicinity.
• Why Were Still Looking At You (from The Herald )
  Alternate headline: Why do the Herlad keep crediting me with James Mottram's work, and he with mine?
• Publishing Google docs to your blog
• On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel
• russell davies: speculative modeling
  Modifying Hornby model buildings to look like they might in 2050. I can't wait to see what people come up with (I'm too cack-handed to participate, sadly).
• Jonestown 30 Years Later
• Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC - Wired How-To Wiki
  I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu Eee, really, but this remains very tempting.
• Aquarium Drunkard: MP3 Blog, Music Blog » Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash :: 1969 Sessions
• Europa Film Treasures

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This month I’ve made quite a few posts at MetaFilter, an American website where thousands of people gather to share links to cool websites and shout at each other. Here they are:

The Tone Generation

The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell ‘looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology’. The original globe-trotting series: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus programmes: Expo 58, The RCA Synthesizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.

Theatre of the New Ear

Theatre of the New Ear. Two radio plays: one by Charlie Kaufman, the other by the Coen Brothers, recorded live and starring Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

The Coen Brothers’ Sawbones can be downloaded from the site linked above, or streamed along with Kaufman’s Hope Leaves the Theatre here. Via Subtraction.

L’Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

A complete archive of French magazine L’Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It’s a treasure trove for fans of fashion, photography, advertising and design.

Architecture, Sampled And Remixed

Dionisio González makes photographs of imaginary favelas, Filip Dujardin makes photographs of imaginary buildings.

The Demarco Digital Archive

The Demarco Digital Archive holds 10,000 images and documents gathered by Richard Demarco, gallerist, Beuys collaborator, founder of the Traverse theatre and a key figure on the Scottish arts scene since the ’60s.

The Lost Synthesizer Classics of Ursula Bogner

It seems almost incredible that Ursula Bogner’s musical talents should have remained undiscovered until now.

• Journeyman Leather Belts
  Nice belts, handmade in Shetland.
• BNP Members List Leaked - Complete details of all British National Party Members here!
  One member, a man from Pinner, that the press haven't picked up on, whose notes are just a trifecta of fail: "Former policeman. Lecturer in human rights/data protection."
• RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
  Lets you farm out authentication, so users can use their existing accounts on other services (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, OpenID, etc.) to log in to your site.
• Iranian Blogger Could Face Death Sentence
  It's Hoder, who I know through MetaFilter.
• Radio Wallah
  "Click on the links below to see some fabulous transistor radios from the fifties."
• GREY GARDENS ONLINE INFORMATION DATABASE
• Mens Underwear and Male Underwear from Sunspel
  Nice T-shirts. As worn by Charlie Watts!
• groupr
  "groupr is a small web application that groups photos in Flickr groups that you belong to into a series of web pages, so that you can easily look at them and see what's been added."
• Official Google Blog: Feed me! Google Alerts not just for email anymore
• Fix for Flickering Fullscreen Application with Compiz | Tombuntu
• TypePad - Why Blog - Journalist Bailout Program
  Send a link to your last published piece to SixApart, and they'll give you a free TypePad account, and enrol you in their advertising programme.
• A Tutorial on Hyperfocus Technique
  Thanks for the link Dad!
• Hyperfocal Focusing Photography Tips - Digital Camera Techniques

This is likely to be of limited interest to most readers, but the denim heads¹ will drool. Iron Heart have just released a new pair of jeans in a limited edition of one hundred: the Triple Works Hidden Rivet TWHR01.

A belt-loop stitched to a waistband, for extra strength.

Like the mighty Iron Heart IH-634S, they’re based on the 1955 Levi’s cut, though probably not too closely, as Levi’s sued Iron Heart and other Japanese repro brands last year for trademark infringement. Unlike the IH-634S, which is made of incredibly hefty 21oz selvedge denim, the TWHR01 comes in a relatively lightweight 13oz selvedge, though it’s woven on the same 30” Riki-Shokki—that’s Japanese for “power loom”—and from the same long-fibre cotton.

Some more nerdy details:

• Goatskin leather patch
• Hidden rivets
• Donut buttons
• Button fly
• Selvedge detailing inside the watch pocket and the fly construction of the jeans
• Two colour stitching throughout
• Extra-heavy twill pocket bags
• Half-lined rear pockets
• Belt loops stitched into waistband for extra strength

And if you order now, you can get an optional crotch rivet free of charge. Yes, you read that right, an optional crotch rivet!

1. Hello Roger! Hello Mike!↩

• BBC NEWS | Politics | Shops may take ID card biometrics
  ‘Supermarkets could be asked to take people’s fingerprints as part of the government’s identity card scheme.’ What. The. Fuck?
• Barack Obama: How He Did It
  Fascinating, sometimes gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the Presidential campaign. The fact that the reporters ‘were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day’ is pretty dubious, though.
• Podcast Downloading Confirmed in iPhone Firmware 2.2 | TheAppleBlog
  Cool. (For some reason I’ve got really into listening to podcasts on my iPhone, though I never did on my iPod.)
• PdaNet — Use your iPhone as a Wireless Router for your PC/Mac
  If there’s no official way of tethering in the next month, I’m going to have to jailbreak my ‘phone for this.
• AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone
  Fingers crossed O2 follows.