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Review of Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking
I’ve spent this last weekend gripped reading Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. The book’s author, Susan Cain, is a self-confessed introvert and ex corporate lawyer....
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Here’s a new blues Spotify playlist of 10 artists I’ve been listening to this summer: Royal Southern Brotherhood New Horizon Royal Southern Brotherhood’s self-titled first album released in May is my...
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Review: The human face of big data app
Photo © Peter Menzel 2012 / from The Human Face of Big Data The Human Face of Big Data is: “[…] a globally crowdsourced media project focusing on humanity’s new ability to collect, analyze,...
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Book review: Designing the Invisible
A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills is a compact, neat and useful primer for web design beginners with some good refresher lessons for the more experienced. The book has five...
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Top ten albums of 2012
Now is the season of top 10 lists and reviews of the year. I thought I’d throw my favourite albums released in 2012 into the interweb’s melting pot of unsought opinion. 2012 has definitely been a year...
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Book review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a novel by Robin Sloan. The story starts humbly with Clay Jannon, a young man in San Francisco adept at the interwebs, who is out of work and takes the night shift...
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Advocating the craft of words
The Craft of Words is a 49-page guide by Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson (a tweed-clad duo also known as The Standardistas). They advocate words and language – both their meaning and visual form...
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Valve guitar amps for blues rock
Photo: RCA 6L6 GC and 12ax7s in a 1969 Fender Pro Reverb by Bee Collins At the end of 2012 I made a resolution to be playing guitar regularly by the end of 2013. Four months in and things are coming...
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Web roundup of 2008
Here are some sites and people that I’ve found particularly inspiring, informative or useful during 2008. This list isn’t meant to be definitive or a reflection on trends; it’s just a way of sharing...
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