Links from June 2005 (Phil Gyford’s website)

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

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'.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 from June 2005