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How to make the perfect espresso | Life and style | The Guardian
coffee 
3 days ago
How we made: Gary Kemp and Steve Norman on True | Culture | The Guardian
Thatcher-era sophistipop frontman wrote wine-bar soul anthem to impress post-punk crush object
music  history  1980s  sophistipop  yachtrock 
8 days ago
Subjective Objective-C: Writing high-quality view controller containers
ios  programming  cocoatouch 
8 days ago
BBC News - The Cold War rival to Eurovision
The story of the Communist bloc's odd attempt at a Eurovision-style song contest, with all the requisite politicised rigging. Oddly enough, Finland participated in both this and Eurovision.
eurovision  ussr  warsawpact  coldwar  history  communism  bizarre 
9 days ago
johnezang/JSONKit · high-performance JSON library for iOS (<5.0)
ios  json  cocoa 
9 days ago
How to inspect iOS's HTTP traffic without spending a dime | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
howto  ios  development  http 
22 days ago
Burp Suite - Java-based web/mobile app testing/hacking tool
Includes a HTTP intercepting proxy which is useful for debugging mobile apps
software  tools  security 
23 days ago
History of the fascist roots of the Olympics
Fun fact: the IOC was run, until recently by a Spanish Falangist.
history  olympics  fascism  ideology  totalitarianism 
27 days ago
Sell up now before it's too late, expert tells Damien Hirst fans - News - Art - The Independent
art  capitalistrealism  damienhirst  modernart  artmarket 
27 days ago
The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men
And it might zap the AIDS virus for good measure. Is there anything it can't do?
medicine  science  contraception  tech 
4 weeks ago
The "63% of young women would rather be glamour models" statistic debunked
It turns out it was from a very unscientific survey from a now-defunct "mobile entertainment" company
statistics  media  feminism  culture  sexualisation 
4 weeks ago
Webkit Linear Gradient design tool
css  css3  design  tools 
4 weeks ago
Befriending Core Text | Cocoanetics
ios  development  coretext 
5 weeks ago
mattt/TTTAttributedLabel · GitHub
iphone  ios  code  ui 
5 weeks ago
Create a DIY MacBook Battery | The Verge Forums
I.e., how to get DC into your MagSafe laptop. Possibly not suitable for taking through airport security.
diy  apple  macbook  mac  battery 
6 weeks ago
I've backed Ken Livingstone for mayor before, but this time I just can't do it | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian
I.e., has Ken gone Galloway?
london  kenlivingstone  islamism  antisemitism  politics 
6 weeks ago
How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
usa  control  authoritarianism  surveillance  naomiwolf 
6 weeks ago
Mobile FontFonts | Build your app with better type | Made by FontFont
fonts  ios  mobile  typography  fontfont 
7 weeks ago
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Or: authoritarian modernism vs. Burkean conservatism
architecture  design  philosophy  modernism  authoritarianism 
7 weeks ago
Smooth Trooper | Men's Standard Weight T-Shirt designed by Arkady504 | Spreadshirt | ID: 5603816
7 weeks ago
Top 10 tips for cycling and staying fit | Lucy Fry | Environment | guardian.co.uk
cycling  fitness  health 
7 weeks ago
John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB 5 April 2012
capitalism  economics  politics  marxism  marx 
8 weeks ago
The Brain on Love - NYTimes.com
neurology  love  psychology 
8 weeks ago
5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women | Cracked.com
culture  sexism  gender  feminism  misogyny  themalegaze 
8 weeks ago
News: The beat goes on: the geometry that makes music pleasing
music  mathematics  fractal 
9 weeks ago
Life With and Without Animated Ducks: The Future Is Gender Distributed - Charlie's Diary
Or: the future's already in Japan, but it's unevenly distributed by gender
japan  technology  gender  sexism 
9 weeks ago
Edits Quarterly - beautiful example of custom scrolling-based web navigation
design  webdesign  inspiration  dhtml 
9 weeks ago
The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Half Baked: The Trouble With Cupcake Feminism
feminism  culture  politics  cupcakes  twee  irony 
9 weeks ago
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh - London Life - Life & Style - Evening Standard
apple  design  interview  jonathanive 
10 weeks ago
(Unsubstantiated) claim that credit card companies can predict divorce two years in advance
datamining  society 
10 weeks ago
fontshop/AppFontDemo · iOS app-supplied font demo project - GitHub
How to add your own fonts to your iOS apps
ios  programming  fonts  typography 
10 weeks ago
Completion blocks in CAAnimation (on layers) - xissburg :: graphics and programming
osx  programming  code  coreanimation 
10 weeks ago
Core Animation on views using blocks
osx  programming  coreanimation 
10 weeks ago
The Swedish model is the opposite of the big society, David Cameron | Lars Tragardh | Comment is free | The Guardian
society  politics  sweden  individualism  bigsociety  neoliberalism 
11 weeks ago
How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
libertarianism  economics  rightwingers  ideology  politics 
11 weeks ago
Rich, Beautiful and Surprisingly Virtuous: A Whit Stillman Primer | Splitsider
whitstillman  film  cinema  art 
11 weeks ago
Google Maps Free Alternatives « Fubra
openstreetmap  maps  geodata  howto  tech  web 
11 weeks ago
How to connect a (jailbroken) StorCenter ix2/ix4 to an ipkg repository
Presto: instant Linux binaries on demand
storcenter  nas  howto  linux 
11 weeks ago
From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Role Ex-Nazis Played in Early West Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
West Germany's establishment was riddled with Nazis from the start; which is probably why it didn't collapse like de-Baathified Iraq. Sometimes one has to make ugly compromises.
history  germany  nazi 
11 weeks ago
BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
health  history  sleep  society 
11 weeks ago
Dunbar's Number Kicked My Ass in Facebook Friends Experiment | Underwire | Wired.com
socialsoftware  psychology  facebook 
11 weeks ago
bdimmick/python-trie · GitHub
python  programming  code  datastructures 
12 weeks ago
Ruin lust: our love affair with decaying buildings | Art and design | The Guardian
architecture  psychology  culture 
12 weeks ago
Straight and narrow: how pop lost its gay edge | Music | The Guardian
More on the bourgeoisification of rock'n'roll
music  culture  gay  heritagerock  rocknroll 
12 weeks ago
3D Matrix Math Demystified
programming  mathematics  3d  graphics 
12 weeks ago
Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement | Environment | The Guardian
economics  transport 
12 weeks ago
obj2opengl: convert obj 3D models to arrays compatible with iPhone OpenGL ES « Heiko Behrens (Blog)
opengl  ios  iphone  tools  development 
12 weeks ago
How the punks of Portland turned to disco | Music | The Guardian
music  punk  house  disco  hipsters 
february 2012
Family tree of hipster/indie music c.2011
music  indie  hipster  pitchfork  chillwave  nyc86 
february 2012
The Stop-gap E.P. (Free Download) | Owen Duff
bandcamp  music  indie 
february 2012
iPhone development: accessing UIColor components
apple  development  iphone  ios 
february 2012
My Raining Stars
bandcamp  download  indiepop 
february 2012
Did Not Chart: A Sarah Records Story
indiepop  sarahrecords  indie  history  culture  music 
february 2012
Common characteristics of bad pseudohistory books
pseudoscience  pseudohistory  woo 
february 2012
Alex James's new memoir proves him to be Britain's premier cheese bore | Life and style | The Guardian
Another candidate for a list of Most Loathsome Britons?
blur  celebrities  alexjames  twats  uk 
february 2012
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left's closet | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian
politics  history  eugenics  leftwingers  ideology 
february 2012
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
Super-nifty Javascript-only data visualisation library
javascript  graphics  library  visualisation 
february 2012
hayashi311/Color-Picker-for-iOS - GitHub
ios  code 
february 2012
The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Maggieography: Why The Thatcher Biopic Should Be Resisted With Prejudice
uk  history  film  margaretthatcher  1980s 
february 2012
The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash | Science | The Observer
economics  mathematics 
february 2012
Downloads/updates/patches for Korg softsynths
music  softsynths  korg  software 
february 2012
ahefner: Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES
lisp  6502  bes  retrocomputing 
february 2012
Oh, Vienna: how the city inspired William Boyd | Books | The Guardian
vienna  history 
february 2012
padolsey/jQuery.fn.autoResize - GitHub
Facebook-style autoresizing textareas in jQuery
jquery  javascript  textarea  autoresize 
january 2012
Shady Characters
typography  history  design  blog 
january 2012
The Tory values of indie folk and similar bobo culture
Is contemporary indie-folk inherently allied with Tory values?
uk  politics  culture  tories  folk  hipsters  whitepeople  class 
january 2012
America Isn’t a Corporation - NYTimes.com
Why the "businessmen make the best politicians" canard is false
politics  neoliberalism 
january 2012
Harvard Declares Dairy NOT Part of a Healthy Diet | Care2 Healthy Living
"Harvard’s nutrition experts did not pull punches, declaring that the university’s food guide was based on sound nutrition research and more importantly, not influenced by food industry lobbyists. "
health  corruption  usa 
january 2012
Mystery of the meat-eaters' molecule - Telegraph
A mutation could be responsible for some people experiencing autoimmune disorders triggered by some animal products
health  genetics  meat  vegetarianism 
january 2012
Pilky.me - Xcode 4: the super mega awesome review
xcode  apple  programming  osx  ios 
january 2012
Demonstrations' to be banned during Olympics' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
The Olympics, as always, an excellent excuse to roll back civil liberties where they impede profits.
uk  authoritarianism  civilliberties  olympics 
january 2012
Was Jesus Christ’s hairstyle normal for his time? - Slate Magazine
Short answer: no.
history  christianity  jesus  art 
january 2012
These Japanese Fast Food Chains Will Make You Love Fast Food Again | Tofugu.com - Wonky Japanese Language and Culture
japan  food  travel 
january 2012
Announcing libmidi, A Very Simple MIDI File Library (GPL)
programming  midi  libraries  code  opensource 
january 2012
middl - Midifile C Library (BSD licenced)
programming  code  midi  libraries  opensource 
january 2012
Sustainability of Human Progress
progress  sustainability  energy  environment  science 
december 2011
DANGER 5 TRAILER - YouTube
SBS-commissioned 1960s-style Nazi-exploitation pastiche
tv  parody  kitsch  sbs 
december 2011
Britain's love affair with our military is dangerous | George Chesterton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
On the militarisation of British popular culture in the age of War Without End (see also: USA, Australia)
war  uk  culture  militarisation 
december 2011
Medieval Names Archive Compact Index
language  history  names  reference  culture 
december 2011
How Ayn Rand Seduced Generations of Young Men and Helped Make the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation | Gender | AlterNet
aynrand  libertarianism  politics  objectivism  evil  culture  society 
december 2011
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