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Today’s bookmarks:

• No Impact Man: Sustainable development vs reducing consumption - Very intelligent post from "No Impact Man" about the Tata Nano, a $2500 low-cost car made in India.
• The Allmusic Blog » Do What Now? - "How can you and your music be in harmony when you know the imperative in the title takes an object and it’s not there?" Quite :)
• BBC - Radio 2 - Spellbound: The Story of John McGeoch - Documentary about John McGeoch, who "performed with no fewer than nine bands on the cutting-edge of music, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Visage."

Today’s bookmarks:

• Revive | Extending Wordpress Beyond the Blog - Another vote for WordPress as a content management platform.
• Nicole Atkins - An interesting new singer-songwriter from New Jersey.
• Choosing the Right Tea. - Tee hee - the guy on the right is a little like me :)

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• Favicon Generator - Neat tool to make little ‘favourite’ icons that appear in the browser’s title bar.
• Food: Cheeseburger in a Can is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen - “Is it the greatest achievement of mankind thus far, or is it an abomination of foodstuffs that deserves to be hucked back into the gaping maw of whatever food processing plant it was spewed from?”
• Vegetarian restaurants guide and directory of natural health food stores by HappyCow - Great guide to vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• BBC - World Review - Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke Band, East Meets East - “The balance of upbeat and reflective material is well judged and sequenced. It’s also nice to hear Kroke once again playing to their strengths.”
• Carnegie Mellon University is … RoboU. DramaU. EngineerU. - Dancing robot fun.
• Installing Microsoft Windows XP on an Eee PC 701 4G [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki] - Good instructions here on how to make Windows work on the eee pc.
• Function Point Analysis - “The function point metric was devised in 1977 by A. J. Albrecht, then of IBM, as a means of measuring software size and productivity.”
• Eee PC Tips: A crash course in Linux - Download Squad - Well, I got an eee pc - so now I have to learn all this stuff :)

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• salmagundi: 10 brilliant reasons to live in Johannesburg - My friend writes about why she likes living in Johannesburg. Even though I left, I can see how many of her points apply. Pity about all the negatives.
• Welcome to Sacred Dub: Bill Laswell Discography and the Dub/Ambient Podcast - Interesting Bill Laswell fansite.
• Bill Laswell: Extending energy and experimentation - “Few people on this sphere truly deserve to be called a genius.” An interview with Bill Laswell from 1999.
• Trojan Records - Web home of the legendary UK reggae label.
• GeekStuff4U.com - 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA HDD Stage Rack - This is really neat. I want one :)
• Everything’s Gone Green - A really great little film, written by Douglas Coupland. Worth watching.

Today’s bookmarks:

• Uninet - The South African academic and research network: International Development Research Centre - Funny to find a research paper I wrote 10 years ago, still kickin’ around the Internet… I remember this was a great gig: I was between jobs and got paid well to write about something I cared about :)
• Wooster Collective - Love this blog. Always something good to look at here.
• Write to Done - New blog about writing from the guy who brought us Zen Habits. Promising.
• Hyperdub Records: BURIAL - UNTRUE - NOVEMBER 2007 - Interview with Burial: “The tunes were made quite fast in the middle of the night and they had to fight for their right to exist.”
• Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You - In order to encourage high performers who are not currently looking for work to interview, this startup offers money.
• » Streetcar map for Toronto ? Spacing Toronto ? understanding the urban landscape - Good ideas, these. Nice design, too.

Today’s bookmarks:

• Funky Ways to Express Yourself - This is pretty funny. Upload a picture and transform it into a cartoon, warp it, or make an avatar of yourself. Good clean fun. Not sure about the UI, though.
• AskMeNow Search ? Because You Shouldn?t Have to Search - This is fun (but may be expensive, depending on your mobile plan). They even have a sense of humour if you ask a question that can’t really be answered factually :)
• Wiki - AboutUs Wiki Page - A wiki page “about” every organization in the world. Interesting idea. Good complement to Wikipedia.
• Google Mobile - I use this on my BB to have both my work mail (Exchange/Enterprise Server) and all my personal mail (aggregated in Gmail) on the same device. It’s pretty awesome.
• Shifting Mind » Postalicious - This looks really good - an easy, full-featured way to get daily bookmarks into my blog. Bryce told me the other day that he was surprised I didn’t have a linkblog… so I’ll try this for a bit and see if it works.
• WordPress Makes Sense For Many Non-Blog Websites | iface thoughts - “So here goes my justification for why WordPress makes a lot of sense for many simple web sites, including the non-blog ones.”