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I won't be saving links to Delicious any more. Head on over to Pinboard if you want to keep seeing new stuff. All my old links are there too. - Phil Gyford

I won't be saving links to Delicious any more. Head on over to Pinboard if you want to keep seeing new stuff. All my old links are there too. - Phil Gyford

Obama: "The reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." - Phil Gyford

Obama: "The reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." - Phil Gyford

"If we launch starships, whether of exploration or settlement, they won’t be conquerors; they will be worse off than the Polynesians on their catamarans, the losses will be heavy and their state at planetfall won’t resemble anything depicted in Hollywood SF." (via Futurismic) - Phil Gyford

"If we launch starships, whether of exploration or settlement, they won’t be conquerors; they will be worse off than the Polynesians on their catamarans, the losses will be heavy and their state at planetfall won’t resemble anything depicted in Hollywood SF." (via Futurismic) - Phil Gyford

I'm enjoying this blog, chronicling one person preparing to make and sell things they knit. Suppliers, materials, processes, etc. (via @hiutdenim) - Phil Gyford

I'm enjoying this blog, chronicling one person preparing to make and sell things they knit. Suppliers, materials, processes, etc. (via @hiutdenim) - Phil Gyford

Ha, very good. My memories of photos on these blogs does collapse into: women in casually very little; women in expensive smartness; men, usually older, in odd combinations. - Phil Gyford

Ha, very good. My memories of photos on these blogs does collapse into: women in casually very little; women in expensive smartness; men, usually older, in odd combinations. - Phil Gyford

This looks good. A three hour video tutorial about deploying Django, "including Amazon's EC2 and S3, Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more." I just need to find three spare hours now. - Phil Gyford

This looks good. A three hour video tutorial about deploying Django, "including Amazon's EC2 and S3, Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more." I just need to find three spare hours now. - Phil Gyford

Ugh. How do you take the really ugly Old Street roundabout and make it even more ugly and hideous and somewhere you really wouldn't want to be? Like this! (via @antimega) - Phil Gyford

Ugh. How do you take the really ugly Old Street roundabout and make it even more ugly and hideous and somewhere you really wouldn't want to be? Like this! (via @antimega) - Phil Gyford

Ooh, exciting. Director and cast have confirmed a new short season to be shot next summer, along with the long-promised movie. Backing not certain yet though. (via @secretbean) - Phil Gyford

Ooh, exciting. Director and cast have confirmed a new short season to be shot next summer, along with the long-promised movie. Backing not certain yet though. (via @secretbean) - Phil Gyford

A presentation covering a few things to do or avoid. Bookmarking it mainly for the settings bit at the end, something I should do better, like this. - Phil Gyford

A presentation covering a few things to do or avoid. Bookmarking it mainly for the settings bit at the end, something I should do better, like this. - Phil Gyford

A way to rename any/all of your tags on Pinboard using Python. (via @pinboard) - Phil Gyford

A way to rename any/all of your tags on Pinboard using Python. (via @pinboard) - Phil Gyford

Long, good, interesting, righteous-anger-inducing article about the ongoing privatisation of the NHS, and how the service compares to other options. I am struggling not to swear. - Phil Gyford

A lovely account of an amazing runaway myth created by fans out of a single throwaway joke in an episode of 'Community'. - Phil Gyford

Justin Hall's lengthy account of starting, running and then closing his startup GameLayers. A good read. (via @jah) - Phil Gyford

Next in my occasional series titled "I love good forums dedicated to particular careers." This one's about the British army. (via Soldier Systems) - Phil Gyford

Lovely thing from BERG that "compares the number of people involved in key historical events or situations to the people you know through Facebook or Twitter." Very good. - Phil Gyford

A handy, free Adobe Lightroom plugin that makes it simple to export albums of photos to a folder that iTunes can then sync with your iPhone/iPad. - Phil Gyford

A bit tempted by paying to watch the sessions from this. (via @wendyinfutures) - Phil Gyford

Really, really nicely done web app for managing tasks, lists, projects, teams, collaboration. - Phil Gyford

Jason Scott has been busy importing loads of old computer magazines into Internet Archive. Great stuff (and a great job!). - Phil Gyford

Brilliant email from Danny O'Brien about the San Francisco hacker space Noisebridge's problems with a lama using one of their rooms for meditation. - Phil Gyford