Useful tips from Tim Harford. The archive approach in particular is well worth following.

Useful tips from Tim Harford. The archive approach in particular is well worth following.

Originally shared by Tim Harford

Ten email commandments
http://timharford.com/2013/09/3180/

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Originally shared by Google UK


Our new cover photo: what can you find?

This afternoon Google UK uploaded a new cover photograph for our Google+ page.

Last month we asked for your suggestions on what should appear - you'll find many of your ideas have been added to this design.

Whilst it's not a geographical representation of the UK, it does highlight several landmarks, characters and icons from across the country.

What can you find?

You may be able to find a nod to the longitude of the Greenwich meridian too. 


#GoogleUK   #Googleplusupdates

Love this animated gif.

Love this animated gif.

Originally shared by Ralph Roberts

How Chicken Wire is Made

via the Shirk Report

Mirroring a website where you need to log in first

Mirroring a website where you need to log in first

I needed to make an complete offline copy of a website the other day but was having difficulties as you needed to login to the site to get the content.  Luckily, an firefox add-on plus the wonderful wget came to the rescue.

Export cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api) is a firefox add-on that lets you export cookies in a format that wget understands.

So here is the procedure:
1) Log in to the website
2) Export the cookies into a cookies.txt file
3) Run wget
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -mkEp  http://website.com
4) Hey-presto
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api

This script works really in letting me scrobble to last.fm what I am listening to in google music.

This script works really in letting me scrobble to last.fm what I am listening to in google music.
http://www.danielslaughter.com/projects/google-music-with-lastfm/

Factcheck: How to make bad charts in 7 simple rules | Full Fact

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/top_bad_infographics_charts-29075

I like this. Shame I'm stuck on my iphone 3GS.

I like this.  Shame I'm stuck on my iphone 3GS.

Originally shared by niko pfeifer

3D Tiles Free Parallax Android Live Wallpaper

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.nik0laus.tiles3d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClrK8EywJ4w