- Links for Monday 22 October 2012
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- The rapidly increasing ideology of the US Republican Party
- A chart showing the changing political positions of US political parties since 1789. I'd love to see something similar for the UK. (via Kottke)
- Links for Thursday 18 October 2012
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- Night and the City • Articles • Xbox 360 • Eurogamer.net
- A lovely description of exploring the 1947 world of 'LA Noire' with the author's father who grew up in LA around then. (via Infovore)
- Links for Wednesday 17 October 2012
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- Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
- Really nice visualisation of how different states have voted over time. (via The Functional Art)
- Our favorite computer bags
- A good start for finding a decent bag. Plenty of backpacks.
- Links for Tuesday 16 October 2012
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- Timpulse - Who Works With ‘Creative Coders?’
- Handy and interesting. A "list of institutions—both EU and Stateside—that are using creative coding". (via @RandomEtc)
- Henderson - General - Henderson launches new plans for Smithfield Quarter
- Description of plans for the west end of Smithfield Market. I am never optimistic about these things.
- Links for Monday 15 October 2012
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- James Meek · How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity · LRB 13 September 2012
- Plenty of people linked to this at the time, but I forgot. Now I am. A good read on who now owns the UK's power.
- The Gay Path Through the Courts by David Cole | The New York Review of Books
- Subscribers only unfortunately. But I liked this for its descriptions of how the Supreme Court rules on things, and how cases that are ostensibly about a particular crime are used to force a decision on constitutional issues. Also about how the Court tries (ideally) to follow, rather than lead, society.
- Links for Sunday 14 October 2012
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- Some pointers for Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning — Gist
- Not sure I'll ever need this, but Matt Biddulph has collected useful things he's found while getting to grips with this stuff, and I love it when people share their learning like that.
- Links for Saturday 13 October 2012
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- LED Light Review
- Thorough reviews of LED bulbs. Doesn't seem to do little spotlights though. (via The Wirecutter)