Links (Phil Gyford’s website)

Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca: Handy and nicely-done tool for checking the contrast of colour combinations when designing websites.
SitBy.Us: Simple tool that I think lets you see what your Twitter friends are going to at SXSW. There is way too much to go and see.
Jumblr - Unjumble your life.: Nice map-based Freecycle-alike. Fun to browse. (via Crackunit)

iClarified - Mac OS X - How to Setup Facebook Chat Within iChat: I didn't know you could do this. A bit odd having my "Facebook friends" (rather than my usual, "online" friends) there all the time. Plus they think I'm using Facebook *all day*.
Burn a playable DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder - Mac OS X Hints: Just works. I tried a couple of free GUI things, neither of which worked. This command line thing did.
Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram | News | guardian.co.uk: Useful to get an overview of where the BBC's money gets spent. Cutting 6Music and Asian Network doesn't save much compared to the total.
SXSW 2010 for Futurists: Some interesting things there, some of which might ease the pangs from the end of ETech. (via Tom Taylor)

Free Audio Walks in London - Download free podcast episodes by Robert Wright on iTunes.: I haven't tried these but could be good...
Hidden - Apple Mac theft recovery for just $20: Annoyingly lower-cased, but sounds good, and cheap. (via Preoccupations)
LRB · August Kleinzahler · Diary: I really liked this piece, in which Kleinzahler sells the home he grew up in, and his parents have lived in for decades.

Capital FM Logos, 1999-2009 | Blog - Gareth53.co.uk: I didn't realise they'd been through so many logos so quickly (although the Sunny Day logo was, I'm sure, introduced before 1999).
FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator: Helps you work out how much you need to charge to cover your expenses and desired profit. Although that doesn't necessarily bear much relation to the market. (via Haddock)
The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration | Epicenter | Wired.com: Wired magazine's demo of their tablet version. We're going to end up with a different UI for every single magazine/publisher aren't we...? Oh dear. Also: "At the bottom we have ... the scrubber." Ha ha!
MemoryMiner: Digital Storytelling for Macintosh & The Web: "It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time." Haven't tried it, unclear why I should.

Revised Font Stack | A Way Back: More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus: From the developers of TmyMCE. (via Simon Willison)
Jilion - SublimeVideo: That lovely HTML5 video player which I keep seeing and then forgetting the URL of.
AnchorFree: Free, ad-supported VPN. Software for Mac/Windows, and settings for iPhone.

Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize | Electronic Frontier Foundation: If you buy a Burning Man ticket you assign copyright on any photos you take at the event to the organisers.
Creative Review - The Atlas of the Real World: Some fascinating maps of the world representing stuff about each country... oh, just look. (via Booktwo)
Britain's "broken society": Through a glass darkly | The Economist: Good article on how many things that you'd think would define "broken Britain" have been improving. Britain's better.
Coriandr / lottielodge / Handmade socks, realistic price: I love this kind of thing. I'd like to see how much your average mass-produced-in-China garment should cost if the workers were paid UK minimum wage.

YouTube - Avatar Review (Part 1 of 2): From the guy who did that long Star Wars review. This is also wonderful. Intelligent, funny, silly. "I haven't rolled my eyes that much since that demonic possession."
The Online Photographer: Old TIME, New TIME: A nice comparison of two copies of Time magazine, from 1968 and today.
PersonalNews: Kind of odd "individual newspaper" that combines your choice of pages from some newspapers.
Photos of my models: Amazing photos... of *models*... keep watching until you see the little models to scale. (via The Online Photographer)

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