Links from June 2005 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 30 June 2005

Wonderland: The thing about videogames: Love this. Like Alice, the cheesiest US TV dramas can make me cry. So when will I feel for anyone in a computer game?
Harris Cyclery Articles: Oodles of articles about adjusting bicycle bits and other bike topics.
Anti-mega: web affordances: Chris on two quite nasty things I hadn't noticed about Bloglines.

Links for 28 June 2005

The knowledge: Euan Semple - Inside Knowledge: Interesting article about the philosophy of the BBC's head of knowledge management.
Keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish - Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website: Ahh, Wired lore. Lots to read. Big slow page.

Links for 26 June 2005

Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours: More Ajaxy stuff to investigate when time allows.

Links for 24 June 2005

Sign Builder 2.0 - Industrial Signage: Excellent web tool for generating PDF signs with standard icons. Hours of ANSI standard fun. (via Cool Tools)

Links for 22 June 2005

Eclectech : the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards: Wonderful. The only thing that would make this better was if it was released and got to Number 1…
LRB | Patrick Wright : Cubist Slugs: Particularly for the first two-thirds, outlining the fascinating art-influenced history of early camouflage. Worth a read.
Stella Artois - Le Sacrifice , ad, advert | visit4info | TV/Cinema: I don't like adverts, but I do smile when I see this fake surrealist film ad at the cinema. Nicely done.

Links for 18 June 2005

Links for 16 June 2005

Links for 15 June 2005

iTerm (Terminal replacement for Mac OS X): “Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity” could be handy.
Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes: For the future, when I get round to playing with Ajax.
Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates (Anders Jacobsen's blog): Another one for the ever-growing “some day” file.
Jeffrey Veen: Designing for the subtlety of Ajax: Also to read when I get round to doing Ajax stuff.

Links for 13 June 2005

BulletinBoardForum.com - 44 - Ukelele player: Just neatly competent at first. But after a while his hand speeds up until you can't see it any more.
'I will get three friends to sign up to the Proportional Representation Groundswell' - PledgeBank - Tell the world “I'll do it, but only if you'll help”: PledgeBank, a new site from MySociety. Comes with Brian Eno's pledge about proportional representation.
Systm: Wonderfully professional and geeky video how-to guides, like how to build a MythTV box. (via Wonderland)

Links for 10 June 2005

Google Sightseeing: Gobsmacked. Imagine when the rest of the world is photo-mapped at Google.

Links for 7 June 2005

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads: So close. Otherwise fab idea greatly marred by not splitting MP3s into movements and including the announcer's long introduction! Doh.

Links for 3 June 2005

Tom coates passed me (2 June 2005, Interconnected): Matt Webb on his book collection. Great stuff. At least as interesting as Nick Hornby's fun 'The Polysyllabic Spree'.

Links for 2 June 2005

Michael Tsai - Blog - My New Backup Strategy: I'm always intrigued by other people's Mac backup strategies.

Links from June 2005