Links from October 2005 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 27 October 2005

New puritans are the (26 October 2005, Interconnected): Matt Webb on the New Puritans being a sign of impending societal collapse (although I lose him a bit towards the end).
Pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected): Webb again on how to charge for freelance and consulting work. Brilliant, without having to mention embarrassing figures.
Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter: Book mentioned by Matt Webb in his New Puritans piece.

Links for 25 October 2005

The Observer | Magazine | Just Say 'No': Scarily close to the bone. I have “no” down to a far-too-instant reflex response. (via Annie Feighery)

Links for 22 October 2005

Digitally Distributed Environments: Flooding London Panorama: Photoshopped panorama of a flooded Charlotte Street in London. It'll look much less prettier when/if it really happens! (via Tom Carden)
Digitally Distributed Environments: Global Warming - London Flooding: A movie showing the effects of rising sea levels on a model of London.

Links for 20 October 2005

Web Services - Audioscrobbler: It's been a while since I looked - I didn't realise there was so much juicy data easily accessible.
MT Extensions: Avoiding Duplicate Comments 3.01: Movable Type hack to solve a problem I've been getting a lot recently.
Merchandise - OpenStreetMap: Very nice large map of plotted GPS data in London, only ten quid. Even better, raises money for OpenStreetMap. (via Tom Carden)

Links for 19 October 2005

TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine — The Road Ahead: A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)

Links for 17 October 2005

Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: Goodbye�: Simon Roberts on deciding to close his company, and what he's learned.

Links for 10 October 2005

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets: Makes me sad, as if a tiny piece of my own posessions have gone up in smoke. Commiserations, Aards folk.

Links for 9 October 2005

Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists: On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)
The Believer - Interview with Jonathan Haidt: On whether moral judgements are based on reason. Not sure how much of it I agree with, but it's interesting.
Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times: On how “coolhunters” are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)
ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion: Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines. (via Tim)
RichardHerring.com - Warming Up - Friday 7th October 2005: “So George W Bush is saying that God told him to invade Iraq. … The last person I remember who argued that God had told him to do stuff was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.”

Links for 7 October 2005

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Mike Davis, Has the Age of Chaos Begun?: My only hope is that tipping over into a new ice age happens after I die. (via Boing Boing)
EZPDO » Comments on “Cross the Divide, Object Persistence in PHP”: Response to some of the criticisms in the previous review.
Crossing the Divide: Object Persistence in PHP by Theo Spears (PDF): Review of DB_DataObject, Propel and EZPDO. I've been using the first, but the last sounds tempting for PHP 5.
The Stage Online :: Newsblog: I stumbled across the Stage's weblog earlier in the week, and it's very good indeed.

Links for 4 October 2005

Ning | Developer : Home: New site that makes it easy to create your own social software apps, from the secretive 24 Hour Laundry. (I did most of the HTML/CSS.)

Links for 2 October 2005

PrimerMovie.com :: View topic - My version of the Primer explanation.: I can't remember the movie enough to see how much this makes sense, but for next time I see it… (via Tom Coates)
Stone Cold Pimpin': Petracovich - The New Video: My friend Ted's made a lovely music video for Petracovich's dreamy track 'Others'.

Links from October 2005