- Links for Wednesday 1 September 2010
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- Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
- Handy sometime I expect. Standardised icons for services, in four sizes.
- Links for Tuesday 31 August 2010
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- What's the best way to structure large JavaScript/jQuery projects? - Quora
- I asked a question on Quora and had some helpful responses.
- YouTube - BBC Town Planning Programme circa 1961
- Featuring the Barbican area, London Wall, etc. A shame the clip is so short. More, more!
- YouTube - Tour of the lifts at the Barbican estate walkways
- Er... good?
- YouTube - Look at Life - Top People, 1960
- Men in flat caps without harnesses working high above the City of London (Golden Lane Estate, London Wall, etc). Lots more 'Look at Life' on the right, too.
- Links for Tuesday 24 August 2010
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- Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun's logs
- Least baffling description I've read. Phew. (via Infovore)
- Why trust Facebook with the future’s past? — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
- Twitter and Facebook are storing what will be our history, but it's not accessible. (Which is why I have my own public archive of my Twitters, and rarely use Facebook.) (via Preoccupations)
- OCAD - Graduate Studies - MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation
- I hadn't heard of this Master of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Interesting.
- Links for Sunday 22 August 2010
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- OCA TAoP Assignment 3: Neighbourhood - a set on Flickr
- A set of lovely photos of Walton-on-the-Naze, better than the usual holiday snapshots that crop up there. Very British Seaside.
- Extremist Makeover - Homeland Edition - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/19/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
- On the "ground zero" mosque nonsense. Even better than usual. (But video won't play in UK. Why can't I show this to people? How is this good for the Daily Show?)
- Links for Thursday 19 August 2010
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- BBC - About the BBC: BBC Genome: The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC
- Wonderful - the BBC is OCRing and making computer-readable, all the programme listings from the 'Radio Times' going back to 1922. (via @catfunt)
- ESPN - OTL: The Franchise - E-ticket
- I like American football but have never played Madden (until trying the demo this evening). I enjoyed this article about the history of the game, and trying to make the first version work on early consoles.
- Links for Monday 16 August 2010
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- I have tried to be happy with django, I really have. : django
- I'm finding this quite reasoned discussion about what's good/bad about Django really interesting.
- William Gibson on 'Zero History' in London, October 2010 - Intelligence Squared
- Click, booked. (via @moleitau)
- Links for Sunday 15 August 2010
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- DecisionLab » FacilitationCamp
- Next Friday and Saturday in Vauxhall. Might be interesting / useful? (via @wendyinfutures)
- The Online Photographer: The Best Photography How-To Books
- Excellent, a short list of practical photography book recommendations by someone who knows their stuff.
- This Window: Close It - Safari 5 Port of Helvetireader
- Helvetireader as a Safari Extension, yum. The version of Helvetireader I'd been using was quite old; the latest one is gorgeous.
- LRB · Rebecca Solnit · Diary
- If you're feeling too happy, well worth a read. "A bayou redneck told him: 'Osama fuckinâ bin Laden could not have imagined, planned or executed more devastation than BP has.'"
- BeaTunes ~ build better playlists
- Interesting metadata editor/finder for music in your iTunes library. Can also do some kind of Genius-like playlist creation.
- When Internet businesses don't work out as planned... | Ask MetaFilter
- I'm fascinated (and horrified) by this kind of "Internet business" which... does nothing but SEO, "content generation", ads, auctions... what's it *for*?
- The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Issues
- Search the page for links to seven articles (and an introduction) by Simon Reynolds from 1992-2005 on the "hardcore continuum".
- Energy Flash
- More from Simon Reynolds on "the Hardcore Continuum".
- Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture | Reynolds: The History of Our World: The Hardcore Continuum Debate
- More Simon Reynolds to read after that last lot, looking back at debates over The Hardcore Continuum. (via Beyond the Beyond)
- Instapaper: Simon Reynolds (Phil Gyford)
- I put all those Simon Reynolds articles in a folder in Instapaper and here's the RSS feed. (I'm phil@gyford.com on Instapaper, btw, but don't use it a *huge* amount.)