#reference

55 bookmarks

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1651697370/the...

Jess Nevins is crowdfunding his next volume of stupendous cultural research. I own his Encyclopaedi...

alasdairw Apr 04, 2012

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting#objects

Likely of no interest to non-webdev-nerds, but potentially of enormous value to me, in terms of lear...

alasdairw Aug 18, 2011

http://lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-wea...

For real and serious: if you have any passwords that are not at least 8 characters long with one non...

alasdairw Apr 01, 2010

http://www.derailingfordummies.com/

Ever done any of these things in an internet argument? Yeah, well, me too. Let's just put it behin...

alasdairw Jan 12, 2010

http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html

HTML 5 forms. Oh, this is going to make interface design much nicer. In about four of five years,...

alasdairw Jan 04, 2010

http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_fo...

Then number of times I've written, re-written, googled for, and generally had to implement one of th...

alasdairw Nov 30, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13...

Well, I've had one of them, and yes, it really is *that* good. So I probably ought to get on with a...

alasdairw Sep 21, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_technique

In future, I shall employ alien space bats in all things. Just because I want to be able to answer...

alasdairw Sep 11, 2009

http://www.thejump.net/id/saltwater-slow-3.htm

It does exactly what it says on the tin. I have no use for this, but I love that it exists.

alasdairw Jul 24, 2009

https://ssd.eff.org/

Your one stop primer on controlling your relationship with Big Brother.

alasdairw Mar 04, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Sol...

Yes. Today is esoteric claptrap day. Which reminds me, I saw a completely horrifying book at the w...

alasdairw Oct 06, 2008

http://www.shadyoldlady.com/index.php

Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.

alasdairw Sep 04, 2008