Links from August 2005 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: The Impact of Inequality by Richard G Wilkinson: Sounds interesting - equality matters more in a society than the absolute level of wealth.
Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet Online: Interesting guide to going on holiday differently. (via Nick, who describes it as "Psychogeography and Related Bobbins for Beginners")
MacBreakZ - Your Personal Ergonomic Assistant - RSI prevention and recovery - Macintosh: I'm giving this a go, in an effort to prevent my shoulders seizing up. Good, although the app feels a bit old fashioned.

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO Fix Your iPod FireWire Cable: Make is often fascinating. Sometimes it's like this, the most pointless "HOW TO" ever: fix a broken thing with glue.
Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times: Tom Standage on why you're an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.

I was never any good at sports... | Ask MetaFilter: Recommended sprawling post-modern novels, for if I ever finish the ones currently on my shelf. (via ~~Tom Carden~~ Chris (my del.icio.us feeds are all a blur))
Dejal - Time Out!: Break-enforcing thing for Mac OS X. Liking it more than MacBreakz - more modern and more free (but no random exercise suggestions).

Slashdot | DHTML Utopia: Review of a book on "Modern web design using JavaScript and DOM". Ajax and stuff. Sounds good.

Free The Postcode!: Creating a free UK postcode database. Laudable, but I doubt it'll be comprehenive enough to be usable or keep up with churn. (via Tom Carden)

DaddyDonkey: Poor website, delicious burritos. In London! (Leather Lane market.)

Wonderland: New PSP advert: Cool TV ad by Alice's sister, a smidgen of which was shot one Sunday downstairs on Beech Street.

oe magazine - photofakery: Guide to spotting fake photos (via Yoz via Kottke)
LRB | Ed Harriman : Where has all the money gone?: Excellent but despair-inducing article outlining some of the mind-boggling corruption in post-invasion Iraq.
LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 15: The first letter describes how US corruption in Iraq is a direct descendant of the US corruption in Vietnam.

Open Tech 2005 - a photoset on Flickr: Lovely medium-format photos of geeks by Matt Locke. Includes me, but my favourites are: Coates, Hammond, Nelson, Webb.

Links from August 2005