Links from February 2005 (Phil Gyford’s website)

RichardHerring.com - Saturday 29th January 2005: Spot on about the wondrous 'Sidways' and the good-despite-itself 'Closer'.
Schubert it - PDF Browser Plugin: View PDFs in your Mac browser (Safari, Firefox...). No more desktop littered with PDF downloads. Excellent.

How to: the bag-packing edition : Lifehacker: Links to guides on packing bags and backpacks, and living out of a single bag.

Gladwell dot com / Big and Bad: Malcolm Gladwell on SUVs: "feeling safe has become more important than actually being safe".
Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit - Enterprise Integration Patterns: Not sure where I got this link from, but interesting.
Gladwell dot com-- The Pitchman: Malcolm Gladwell makes the story of Ron Popeil and his Showtime Rotisserie more interesting than anyone else could.
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: Spent ages trying to find this a while back when I couldn't remember the name. Now I have you.

How to Cut...: Ultimate vegetable chopping howto, as ChrisDodo says.
FixIt Guide - FixIt Guide Series: Very clear step-by-step guides to replacing various parts of your PowerBook or iBook.

As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google: Roughly how the client-side of Google Maps works.
As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google - Anonymous comment: Stitching together a map of the entire USA via Google Maps.
SeaDragon Technology: Demo of some vague but interesting mapping technology. (Go to Technology > Demos > Map demo. Dumb Flash site.)

Flickr: FlickrCentral - Visualizing the Flickr social network: Hot social network analysis action. (I'm nowhere to be seen.)
Black and White Photography: Walking the Circle Line: Barbican to Moorgate: Lovely pinhole camera shots of the Barbican

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive: I had no idea archive.org had bootlegs of gigs (I came across it via a Mountain Goats recording in there).

English Cut: Utterly fascinating weblog by a bespoke tailor, and a great example of how a simple weblog can promote a business.
Photographers' Rights in the UK (PDF): Two sides of A4 on what you can and can't take photos of in this country.

Ugandan Discussions: The Covers of Private Eye: Since 1961, with cover stars indexed.

DJ History: Archive Interviews - Ian Levine: Remembrances of Northern/Modern Soul in the 1970s.
Underground tokyo guidebook -- Tokyo, underground, guide book, punk, hentai, shinjuku, harajuku, tourism, anime, hardcore, japan, akihabara: One day I'll need this.
Riverside Studios: Comedy - Richard Herring - The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace: This was as fun as I'd hoped - go see! On till this Sunday.
SunKilMoon: I'm so out of touch - I didn't know Mark "Red House Painters" Kozelek had a new band. Joy.
So you want to be a consultant...?: Loads of really solid, useful advice for contractors/consultants.

Shakespeare & Lauderdale Towers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: A lovely photo of the Barbican that looks different to all the others for once.
RichardHerring.com - Wednesday 16th February 2005: I had that I-Spy book of Car Numbers. I was a fascinating child, oh yes.

Terra Nova: No shortage of currency options: Currency exchanging in online gaming.
BBC - Radio 4 - Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector: Miller on the time he spent in 1941 recording voices and songs in North Carolina for the Library of Congress (show includes some recordings).

Terra Nova: No shortage of currency options: Currency exchanging in online gaming.
BBC - Radio 4 - Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector: Miller on the time he spent in 1941 recording voices and songs in North Carolina for the Library of Congress (show includes some recordings).

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Work is a four letter word for those in their 30s ... but a joy for the relaxed over 60s: "When I went away [travelling] so many people [still working] said 'you're lucky' but it's not a matter of luck, it's just having the nerve."

Links from February 2005