Bookmarks for May 20th from 08:09 to 18:40

Unbound | books are now in your hands – Kickstarter for books, if Kickstarter for books wasn't Kickstarter
Thanks For Your Call · Welcome to the call centre! – "My name is Liza and I will be your tour guide for the duration of your trip. On your left you will see exhaustion and low pay. On your right, anger, frustration and disdain. Please remember to be polite at all times and refrain from speaking your mind. Enjoy your trip!"
VOC – "VOC is a twenty-first century update of the East Indian Punch House concept originally found in places like Batavia and Java in the 17th Century."
London Cocktail Club – Bacon & Egg Coupet, etc.
Ossulstone Hundred | British History Online – Oswald's Stone, Oswulf's Stone
Londonist Maps…Ye Olde London | Londonist – Obsolete, obscure and forgotten place names of London
Welcome to The Three Mariners –
Pea & mint soup recipe – Recipes – BBC Good Food –
The Rookeries of London, by Thomas Beames, 1852 –
Goodwood Road Yard – Next to NXG

Bookmarks for June 7th from 09:19 to 09:19

These are my links for June 7th from 09:19 to 09:19:

Participants wanted for Swarm, by Orlando Gough at the Barbican –

Bookmarks for June 12th from 12:20 to 12:20

These are my links for June 12th from 12:20 to 12:20:

m.guardian.co.uk –

Bookmarks for June 13th from 10:17 to 13:49

These are my links for June 13th from 10:17 to 13:49:

Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art –
landscape urbanism bullshit generator – "reconceptualize scalable vocabularies"
Children of Troy « Snarkmarket – … and one of those children writes back
Letters of Note: A library is many things – Letters to the children of Troy, Michigan, on the occasion of the opening of their new public library…
Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new paradigm for our social media platforms » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism – Tweech or twext?
Justin Van Genderen Art Prints – Shop Canvas and Framed Wall Art by Justin Van Genderen – HAL 9000 ad, Star Wars minimalism and more

Bookmarks for June 14th from 13:43 to 13:43

These are my links for June 14th from 13:43 to 13:43:

Whisling Shop – Libations –
The Zetter Townhouse –

Bookmarks for June 14th through June 20th

These are my links for June 14th through June 20th:

‘Scrapers’ Dig Deep for Data on the Web – WSJ.com –
Bionic Man Lee Majors Does Not Like Bionic Sound Effects – "Do you think The Six Million Dollar Man predicted the future of cyborg technology?" A cracking interview with Lee Majors
12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren’t – From a midair flip to a satellite snatch
Magazines’ iPad Editions Struggle to Keep Your Attention | MediaWorks – Advertising Age –
Open Libraries –
Cities | John Geraci’s Blog –
Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing | Reuters – Self-publishing made a bit too easy
"I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes" – Fired (and resigned) journalists extract literary revenge on their former bosses
iPad Usability: Year One (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) –
Elephant and Castle Urban Forest – Yes: Elephant and Castle. Forest.
Goats on film: a dying breed? | Film | guardian.co.uk –
Deception detection from text aka author gender detector – Do you write like a girl?
m.guardian.co.uk –
Jamie Oliver | Member Recipes | Risotto | Spicy Rice with Harissa –
Plugins don’t show up on individual blogs in network –
How to keep your privacy online | Ask Jack | Technology | guardian.co.uk –
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change | IsumaTV –
WordPress › Onswipe « WordPress Plugins –
Mobile joins Plugins and Themes in WP.org Extend menu | WPCandy –
Automattic’s new Jetpack brings WordPress.com features to WordPress.org folks | WPCandy –
Meet Jennifer Angus, An Artist Whose Medium Is Insects [Slideshow] | Co.Design –
Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/82GVB.jpg) – Skull of child developing adult teeth. No gore, but it's a skull. #photo
Daily Mail Proxy – Daily Mail Proxy
Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/r7TdK.jpg) – Hey, you! #photo
3M – Wave Sound – Grey Digital | Bloodyloud! – this is coooool! 3M – Wave Sound – Grey Digital #Design #Film

Rick Poynor: A Dream World Made by Machines: Observers Room: Design Observer

I prefer to see this in terms of the famous saying attributed to the political thinker Antonio Gramsci. We need to apply “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

“The Rookery,” was a triangular space bounded by Bainbridge, George, and High Streets; it was one dense mass of houses, through which curved narrow tortuous lanes, from which again diverged close courts—one great mass, as if the houses had orginally been one block of stone, eaten by slugs into numberless small chambers and connecting passages. The lanes were thronged with loiterers; and stagnant gutters, and piles of garbage and filth infested the air. In the windows, wisps of straw, old hats, and lumps of bed-tick or brown paper, alternated with shivered panes of broken glass, the walls were the colour of bleached soot, and doors fell from their hinges and worm-eaten posts. Many of the windows announced, “Lodgings at 3d. a night,” where the wild wanderers from town to town held their nightly revels.” (Timbs’ Curiosities of London (1867), p. 378.)

Site of the Rookery | British History Online

links for 2011-04-09

Portuguese steak sandwich recipe

Bife ana aka prego

(tags: recipe food cookery beef steak)

links for 2011-04-06

The Nature Matching System

Colour-coded healthiness

(tags: art design nutrition food health)
Portmeirion Cottages

(tags: travel wales ook2012)

A more-interesting-than-most article about eating roadkill:

Rabbits, badgers and pheasants are my most common finds. Rabbit is actually quite bland. Fox is far tastier; there’s never any fat on it, and it’s subtle, with a lovely texture, firm but soft. It’s much more versatile than beef, and has a salty, mineral taste rather like gammon. Frogs and toads taste like chicken and are great in stir-fries. Rat, which is nice and salty like pork, is good in a stir-fry, too – I’ll throw in celery, onion, peppers and, in autumn, wild mushrooms I’ve collected. Badger is not nice and hedgehog is hideous.

He eats owls, too. I was surprised as I was reading this that we rarely think about meat being poisonous (diseased or spoiled, yes, but not poisonous). You wouldn’t eat a random plant or fungus, but most animals seem to be fair game (excuse the pun). I suppose flight-or-fight is a better way to avoid being eaten than making yourself unpalatable, inedible or poisonous.