Links from August 2004

Links for 2 August 2004
Guardian Unlimited | Arts reviews | Gillian Welch/David Rawlings
This was, I think, one of the most enjoyable gigs I've been to. Rawlings' guitar playing was even more awesome than the rest of the show, which is saying something.

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Links for 4 August 2004
i'm writing a book (4 August 2004, Interconnected)
Matt is clever and nice. His forthcoming book, 'Brain Hacks', should be good. Yay!
The Daily Chump Bot
Create a weblog automatically from URLs and comments posted to an IRC channel. Handy (if I used IRC).
Seinfeld Videos
Torrents for every season of Seinfeld (in a choice of low and high qualities).

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Links for 5 August 2004
Collage - An iTunes Visual Plugin
Displays images off of the Internet depending on the currently playing tune. Best when the images are apparently unrelated, like a no-budget interpretive video.

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Links for 9 August 2004
OpenPhoto.Net | Version 1.5b_FINAL
Creative Commons photo library. Ideal for illustrating that presentation, website, etc.
MT Tag Quick Reference
MovableType help in your browser's sidebar (Netscape 6 /Mozilla or PC IE 5 or a framed version for everyone else).
The Snowflake Process for Writing a Novel
Sounds rather formulaic, but then it's also similar to how I imagined the process would be if I ever wrote one.

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Links for 11 August 2004
This week's UK television
Beautifully minimal, customisable UK TV listings, including XML versions.

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Links for 12 August 2004
Black and White Photography: London Tube Map
Wonderful aerial photo view of London with the tube lines overlaid on top. Crossed off the to do list.

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Links for 13 August 2004
Usability News - 6.2 2004 -- Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
The importance of white space in online reading.
Why we're reaching our limits as a one-hour city - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
Throughout history cities have been an hour's travel across. I'm not convinced

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Links for 14 August 2004
Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser
I'll need this at some point I'm sure.

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Links for 15 August 2004
Japanese
Insanely complex interface, but very handy.

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Links for 18 August 2004
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now
A decade and more ago it was

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Links for 19 August 2004
Centricle : css filters (css hacks)
A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
Johannes Koch's How to hide CSS from buggy browsers page
The URL that almost every website points to is now broken and this is the new home, which is a bugger to find.

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Links for 21 August 2004
TOOOL - The Open Organisation of Lockpickers
Someone's giving a talk on lockpicking here at Euro Foo Camp. More non-computer talks please!

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Links for 22 August 2004
Fontus - London model
3D map of central London.

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Links for 23 August 2004
Economic History Resources - How Much is That? (British Pounds)
Handily converts the value of money in past years (back to 1264) to 2002 values.
Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters
Interesting article. 4

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Links for 25 August 2004
Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Quaint essential
Raves for Frinton-on-Sea and (slightly less so) Walton-on-the-Naze.
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | David Blunkett can't take on the yobs all by himself
I'm not sure agreeing with Max Hastings is a good thing, but even so...

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Links for 26 August 2004
phil's big whiteboard of scenarios on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Me in action at Euro Foo Camp last weekend.

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Links for 27 August 2004
The Morning News - Tricks of the Trade
Different professions. Landscape architect:

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