Links for Monday 17 June 2013
- Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation
- Very good. So rare to find a documentary that is complex or deep and isn't full of daft re-enactments or the presenter pretending to “discover” something.
- Debug and test your API, webhook and mobile back end service integrations. · Runscope
- For inspecting your requests to/from APIs etc. Also a tunnelling thing for sharing your localhost, but only on the pay-for plan.
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Letters: Peerless Wigan | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard describes Col Needham as the man who “created the Internet Movie Database” (G2, 13 May). While true in a technical sense, this ignores the vast amount of data contributed, free, by users of the original website. Without their unrewarded (and apparently forgotten) labours, IMDb would not have been as attractive to Amazon in 1998, if at all.
Phil Gyford
London
A comment on another site on 14 May 2013
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed
If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s been quiet for the past few days, but it should be back now.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 3 Mar 2013
Photos posted Saturday 15 June 2013
The Sound and the Fury playlist
BBC FOUR recently had a three-part TV series about 20th century classical music, The Sound and the Fury which, to me, knowing little about the subject, seemed good. So, inevitably, I’ve made a Spotify playlist of the works it mentioned.
In Writing on 19 Mar 2013
Mike Johnston’s 266 (or so) Books By Genre
Over on The Online Photographer the host Mike Johnston recently wrote about a list of books he’s been compiling for some time:
At Septivium on 25 Mar 2013