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• glenisredmondstore.com
  (tags: poet poetry)
• David Harmer - poetry and drama work for schools
  (tags: poet poetry)
• John Bilsborough - entertainer, performance poet, after-dinner speaker, humour
  (tags: poet poetry)
• Elvis Mcgonagall - performance poet, slam poetry
  (tags: poet poetry)
• MySpace.com - Neal Zetter - Comedy Performance Poet - London, UK - Comedy - www.myspace.com/nealzettercomedyperformancepoet
  (tags: poet poetry)
• Will Holloway | Home
  (tags: poet poetry)
• Poet in London » Yell.com
  Looking for a performance poet? Don’t let your fingers do the walking.
  (tags: nothelpful poet poetry)

• Recommended Cameras
  When I was a kid I used to have calendars from Ken Rockwell, he takes beautiful pictures with vibrant colours. Here are his list of recommended cameras (although, having said that, see http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm ).
  (tags: camera photography photos nikkon cannon ken rockwell)
• New Products at PMA2008
  There are usually a lot of new cameras released at the PMA show, starting on Thursday. These are the ones that dpreview knows about.
  (tags: camera photography pma show)
• TVCatchup
  A TV Catchup service for those in the UK. Substantially better than iplayer, and even allows you to request recordings from each other. Legality dubious - the creators are sure it is, some producers of content are skeptical.
  (tags: bbc tv vod ondemand video free freetoair four five itv)

• GlovePIE
  Programmable input emulator that supports many devices.
  (tags: wii control bluetooth windows input midi interface)
• Search Wikia
  Planning for a transparent search. Doesn’t seem to be much activity sadly.
  (tags: search wiki transparency community quality privacy)
• To the Moon, Alyce1
  Cringely and his irrational optimism plan to send a rover to the moon within 18 months. pretty cool. Interesting the way people whose main claim to fame is connectedness can put together this kind of team. We’ll see more of this sort of thing.
  (tags: cringely space contest moon google xprize lander)
• Disqus
  Looks like exactly what I need. Now I just have to read about how to integrate it.
  (tags: blog conversation comment forum wordpress discussion)
• Colors
  Nice painting program for the NDS
  (tags: homebrew ds nintendo nds drawing art graphics)
• SvSIP
  A SIP phone for the NDS
  (tags: ds nintendo sip voip homebrew nds phone telephony)
• RTMark
  A corporation devoted to anti-corporation sabotage.
  (tags: corporation anticorporation antiglobalisation sabotage)
• iSee
  Institute for Applied Autonomys application for finding “the path of least surveillance” in Manhattan.
  (tags: surveillance maps privacy security cctv)
• How to zap a camera
  A simple countersurveillance technique discussed - using lasers to blind cameras.
  (tags: surveillance privacy camera security laser)

• NOVINT falcon
  A relatively inexpensive 3d haptics device. Check out the video reviews on youtube if you’re interested.
  (tags: haptic 3d virtual i/o input output interactive interface hardware)
• Loans that change lives
  An easy way of solving the old problem - the wealthy can get credit while the poor can’t. I love the way it connects person to person different people in different situations.
  (tags: microcredit microfinance loan business economics development credit wealth)
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography
  Nearly everything you need to know about cryptography, now available for free download.
  (tags: cryptography security book reference crypto)

• The Nag
  Nags you about the environment, but tries to do it in a way that might help.
  (tags: environment, green)
• Virtual Labor Lost
  Why academic MMORPGs need to be fun. (Fairly obvious)
  (tags: games, research, education, mmorpg, fun)
• strange maps
  Excellent blog. The title says it all. I particularly like ‘transit map of the world’
  (tags: anthropology blog cartography map strange)
• The palimpsest
  Archimedes was an amazing guy, and we’ve only just learnt how amazing through the recent work on this palimpsest.
  (tags: archimedes history math mathematics physics philosophy science hidden mystery book)
• North Pole Cruises on the Nuclear Icebreaker Yamal
  One of the few boats that can actually make it to the north pole. Visit those polar bears before they die out.
  (tags: polar nuclear icebreaker north pole northpole)

• Best reason for space exploration ever.
  And some nice pictures from a nintendo DS legend (not that it has anything to do with the NDS)
  (tags: space fun exploration pictures)
• Hans Rosling: Third World Myths
  Some lovely presentation of stats. Check out gapminder.org as well to see some of the other stuff Hans Rosling has done.
  (tags: visualization data statistics lifeexpectancy development birthrate population)
• OpenLayers: Home
  JS Library for connecting to many different famous mapping services.
• The Story of Meehan’s Tale-Spin
  I’m very interested in the idea of a story generator. Shame the code is now lost.
  (tags: story generator understanding)
• Department of Homeland Security Blanket
  A threat levels blanket
  (tags: threat blanket security craft vote politics)
• Del.icio.us Opera Buttons
  Since FF and IE are part of the build process, it’s more convenient for me to use Opera at work. I’d be shirking my responsibility to the web if I didn’t have some delicious buttons in my main browser.
  (tags: delicious opera browser)
• Earliest published smiley?
  Possible smiley from the 18th century.
  (tags: smiley)

• TruthMapping.com
  Getting closer…
  (tags: debate argument discussion)
• Time banks
  Time based currency is an interesting idea.
  (tags: time currency timebank bank exchange community charity)
• Freebase
  Hurrah for community structured data! I’ve got my invite code, and I’m pretty much maximally excited.
  (tags: database semantic data structure)

• Scribd
  Excellent Document Sharing
  (tags: document sharing)
• Galaxiki
  A fictional galaxy for the editting.
  (tags: fiction galaxy sf)
• Content Aware Image Resizing
  Very nice technique
  (tags: graphics photography photos images resizing)

I don’t suppose anyone here reads this, and doesn’t also read roos blog but if you don’t, you’ve just missed some really cool stuff on tangible interfaces, including whiteboard pong and yo-yo tuning.

Also, I love this devious idea from woodly for making guests stay longer.

• We Feel Fine
  A database of human emotion spanning the blogoplace.
  (tags: feeling emotion blog fine)
• Buxfer
  Pretty good money tracking app. Not quite everything I want…
  (tags: money finance tracking web2.0)
• Penspinning Academy (bic)
  The ancient and noble art of pen spinning
  (tags: pen bic penspinning spinning skill)
• SIMILE Project
  Some cool components and ideas. Check out the Timeplot and Timeline.
  (tags: Ajax web semantic simile mit)