Links from February 2005 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 27 February 2005

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 for 22 February 2005

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).

Links for 22 February 2005

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).

Links for 17 February 2005

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.

Links for 16 February 2005

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.

Links for 15 February 2005

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

Links for 14 February 2005

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.

Links for 12 February 2005

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).

Links for 11 February 2005

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

Links for 10 February 2005

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.)

Links for 4 February 2005

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.

Links for 3 February 2005

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.

Links for 2 February 2005

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

Links for 1 February 2005

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.

Links from February 2005