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Fwd: Grow for It: East Kent Bus Tour : 13 - 16 November GET ON BOARD !: A bus is coming to Thanet this week to promote the Kent County Council 'Grow For It' campaign, which includes PR of the £35m Region Growth Fund post, Expansion East Kent 0% Loan Scheme."This week the Wednesday - Canterbury, Westgate [...] Margate Architecture
KLM to operate flights to Amsterdam out of Manston: It's been announced that KLM will be operating flights to Amsterdam out of Manston. What seems to be promoted in most of the media is the opportunity for outward bound passengers to then travel on to 130 destinations world wide. More focus on [...] Margate Architecture

Time for a rethink: rebuilding a digital BBC: In the run in to the eventual selection of George Entwistle as Director General of the BBC commentators suggested three major challenges for a prospective DG: securing the next license fee settlement and galvanising political and public support for [...] Alex Balfour
Time for a rethink: rebuilding a digital BBC: Back in April, with the London 2012 Games still three months away, I did something out of character. Something some people who know me may think was bold. Others will think was brash, over-ambitious or plain mad. I applied for the position of [...] Alex Balfour
Turbo Drone RC Quadrocopter – hands on review: The nice people at Paramountzone sent me a Turbo Drone four channel remote controlled quadrocopter to review. It’s 36cm across (including the rotors, which are 13.5cm each), making it just about small enough to fly indoors. The 500mAh 3.7v li [...] Roo Reynolds

Static Typing: I read this fine blog post And this is precisely what is wrong with dynamically typed languages: rather than affording the freedom to ignore types, they instead impose the bondage of restricting attention to a single [sum] type! Ah, bless. [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
Weeknotes 38: publishing stuff: I’ve been quite busy in the past couple of weeks looking after a small team putting the Government Digital Strategy online. In the words of the policy professionals who actually wrote the words, it was published “as a website rather [...] Roo Reynolds
What I have been reading (or meant to read) this week November 9, 2012: What is a good open rate for your email newsletter? | LaunchBit eileentso: nice post (first of series of 3) re: targets for email marketing open rates (incl stats, analysis) t.co/rqmkq77c via @DanielleMorrill Fabrice Grinda: Musings of [...] Alex Balfour

Why AR 'Things' like Blippar will fail: AR is an infant technology, it’s GOING to be massive, it will be part of everyones lives in maybe 50 years time. At the moment it’s a tech demo, with no real use. Of course advertisers jump on any new tech like a (insert rude metaphor [...] Mostly This

BBC News - Baroness makes a little bit of history: House of Lords rule relaxed to allow a disabled peer's assistant to read out a speech. Over the next century, one-by-one, parliament will be replaced by tele-presence robots. Lee
krpano.com - Download: Kim
ted davis . new works from basel and beyond | online design portfolio: Interesting use of a panorama as a background image that follows the mouse Kim
Panorado JS 2.0 - Technical Reference: Kim
jquery - Javascript 360 degrees panorama - Stack Overflow: Kim
Introducing Pannellum | Matthew Petroff: Kim
JavaScript - 360° Panoramic Viewer | CodeCanyon: Kim
jQuery panorma plugin by Valerij Primachenko: Kim
Kerken Kijken met Street View: kom binnen! - ab-c media weblab: Kim
jQuery spherical panorama viewer - OpenStudio: Kim
Panorama viewers based on Javascript - User Experience: Kim
10 jQuery Panorama Image Display Plugins | jQuery4u: Kim
jspanoviewer - Pure JavaScript panorama viewer - Google Project Hosting: Kim
isolani - Web Standards: Web App Mistakes: Condemned to repeat: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant [...] Dotcode

Make beautiful products - sprint.ly: This looks really interesting. But so many SAAS work systems, and none of them really cover the whole stack... Kim

Anamorphosis software: Kim
Frequently Asked Questions about Computable Document Format (CDF): A WHOLE NEW WEIRDLY INCOMPATIBLE INTERNET PLUGIN FILETYPE! WOOO! Kim
JustGiving reveals average donation values of social media shares | UK Fundraising: The average values of donors giving on JustGiving following a call to action through social networks are: Twitter - £30.26 YouTube - £28.77 LinkedIn - £25.21 Facebook - £18.33 Google+ - £17.77 Donations driven from Facebook make up over a quarter [...] Kim
JustGiving online donor demographic research in Fundraising magazine « JustGiving blog: Kim
Errata Security: The hacking of a general's mistress: "This is a fairly strong password, consisting of random upper/lower case letters and numbers, which is why it takes 17 hours to crack." Lee

Brighton eating out 2013: Lostincatering style: Antimega
Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic « counternotions: A really good look at the more fundamental problems with iOS and OS X, how that compares with the old days when the Human Interface Guidelines were the law, and whether one person, Ive, can really keep on top of such a wide range of potential [...] Phil Gyford
The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection | Fast Company: I do like this use of maths to make something "feel" right to users. (via Daring Fireball) Phil Gyford
"We started drive farming in November 2011. The reason was simple, the supply of the 3TB hard drives...": Backblaze's staff, friends and family buying hard drives in small numbers from many stores when the flooding in Thailand restricts supply. (via New Aesthetic) Phil Gyford

Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View | booktwo.org: James doing a brilliant thing. So good. Phil Gyford
I, Anna Trailer - YouTube: Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne in a movie that seems largely set in the Barbican. Includes a scene in a lift with the blue "lift curtains" that are hung when someone's moving in or out, to protect the lift. A nice cosy/claustrophobic touch. Phil Gyford
Big Healthy Brother: 'Google Now' Surprises Users By Tracking Miles Walked and Biked - Forbes: "By calculating mileage, putting it into a nifty little graphic and reflecting it back at the smartphone user, ‘Now’ plays a new ‘fitness-trainer-you-didn’t-hire’ role." Lee

Anatomiae / Fernando Vicente: Fernando Vicente from Kim pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Greyscale / Matt Wisniewski: Matt Wisniewski from Kim pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
"Cyberdraft" Would Press-Gang Geeks Into Government Service | Fast Company: "There is talk of establishing an American 'cyberdraft' in which entire companies could be drafted to defend government and private computer networks in time of war." Lee
The Food Lab: The Science of Pie Dough | Serious Eats: Sweets: Antimega
The Technium: Myth of the Lone Villain: Kevin Kelly suggests you can only kill a Dunbar's number of people, even today. Lee
Pumpkin Pie from Scratch | Pumpkin Recipe | Eat the Love: Antimega

Psst: Heard the one about the National Pupil Database? Thought not • The Register: "Education Secretary Michael Gove told Parliament on Tuesday that his department had opened up a public consultation on plans, in his words, 'to share extracts of data held in the National Pupil Database for a wider range of purposes than currently [...] Lee