Links (Phil Gyford’s website)

Pulse Laser: Shownar: This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
Scope (Schulze & Webb): More Matt Webb, his opening presentation at last week's Reboot. It was very, very good, and it's great to have the whole thing written much as he delivered it.
The Viridian Design Movement: Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
Newspaper Club - A work in progress: Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome.

Give Me Something To Read: "Selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper."
Harrow Technical - Pentax Repairs, Pentax Spares, Pentax Cameras, Pentax Service: In case I need to get my old camera fixed.
YouNotSneaky!: How to read The Economist: Several friends seem to rate the Economist, which confuses the lefty in me. But this is a handy guide. (via Haddock)
The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach: As simple as a grid-based CSS framework thing could be. (via Infovore)

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel on Vimeo: Beautiful slow motion video shot using very high speed cameras, up to 2500 frames per second. (via Daring Fireball)
‎Lifestories On-Line Brochure: Poorly presented, if interesting, business videotaping people telling their life stories. However, the owner, Dr Ellen Brandt, @venerability, is a compulsive twitter spammer.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 by Various - Project Gutenberg: Completely wonderful 17th century science. Fascinating subjects, beautiful titles ("A Relation of Persons killed with subterraneous Damps") and gorgeous language.

Tow.com » MsgFiler: This is a handy little thing to make Apple's Mail application a bit more wieldy if you have lots of folders.
Alice and Kev: A tale of two homeless Sims. Read the Introduction then every page. It's wonderful. (via Wonderland)
Fever° Red hot. Well read.: Self-hosted, pay-for feed reader. Looks like a lovely interface and an interesting way of organising feeds and posts. (via Daring Fireball)
Flickr: gruntzooki's stuff tagged with perfectphrasesfordifficultsitautionsatwork: This looks like a manual for Pretend Office.

Styling buttons to look like links | Natalie Downe: For the very few occasions when you want to make a submit button look like a standard link. Not that you should. (via Simon Willison)
Asian Poses - The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses: A blog describing all the common standard poses people in that part of the world use in photographs. Fascinating. (via Kottke)
Photofusion, London, UK | Darkroom Hire Facilities: In SW9. A friend recommended them.
Seth's Blog: Textbook rant: Why textbooks prescribed for college courses are a bad thing: "They are expensive ... They don't make change ... They don't sell the topic ... They are incredibly impractical." (via Preoccupations)

Cambridge University - CamTV - Video and Audio - The Phillips Machine with Allan McRobie: Video of the machine that simulates the economy using water. A few years back I couldn't even find a picture of this thing. The internet's getting better.
Welcome To The North » A whole lot of nothing: A transcript of an interview with Doncaster's new mayor, whose election manifesto might as well have been written by people who post the BBC's Have Your Say comments. (via Haddock)
Systemic - Too cheap to meter: Trying to calculate the monetary value of distant planets. I'd like to see calculations with a different example at the start, and different measures of inflation.

YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009: I finally got round to watching this demo. I rarely need collaborative tools and I like plain text email. And yet this really looks like the future. Worth setting aside some time to watch until the end.
LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished: Very long but very worth reading, on the collapse of the banks. One day I hope there's a book called "John Lanchester Explains Everything".

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