Links from January 2006 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 31 January 2006

The Questors Theatre - Acting at the Questors: “The largest amateur theatre in Europe”

Links for 27 January 2006

Digitally Distributed Environments: Weblog with, currently, lots of models of London buildings for Google Earth.
Digitally Distributed Environments: London Google Earth 1690: One day we'll be able to view reality augmented with what the space looked like centuries ago. Until then, try this Google Earth map overlay. Awesome. (via Haddock)
Process Recess: Some gorgeous life drawings on this illustrator's weblog. (via Drawn.ca)
Improbable Show - DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED What are we going to do about theatre?: A friend enthusiastically told me this was a really good event. Certainly lots of discussion there.
Association for Psychological Science: 'To be or, or … um … line!': Actors shouldn't learn lines by rote, “but feel their character's intention in reaction to what the other actors do, causing their lines to come spontaneously and naturally”. (via Boing Boing)

Links for 25 January 2006

BBC - Freedom of Information - Freedom of Information: Occasionally interesting collection of responses to FOI requests to the BBC (scroll down to the responses for 2005 and 2006).
SR2005000136_Pay_Grades_Salary_Ranges.pdf: Ever thought of applying for a BBC job and wondered how much it paid? Here's your answer, via Freedom of Information (from 2004-5).

Links for 22 January 2006

Intense / complex classical music | Ask MetaFilter: Handy recommendations from Arvo Part to, er, the 'Conan the Barbarian' soundtrack. (via ChrisDodo)
Particletree � Quick Guide to Prototype: Another guide to using the Javascript library. One day I'll use it rather than just post links to documentation. (via Tom Carden)

Links for 20 January 2006

How to Do What You Love: Lovely essay. Worth a pile of 'What Color is Your Parachute?'s. Although I don't follow his line about “unpleasant jobs” - no doubt plenty of people have to do whatever job they can get. Other than that: read it.
London Theatre and Concert Venues: What theatregoers tell you, that box office staff do not.: Loads of info about shows: reviews and loads of detail about the seats to book or avoid. (via Haddock)

Links for 18 January 2006

Barbicansalvage : Barbican Salvage: There's now a salvage store for Barbican residents wanting to offload or fix their original fittings. Not sure why it's a Yahoo! Group, but still. Photos of retro kitchen fittings.

Links for 17 January 2006

Trading Spouses Margaret freaking out - Google Video: Very scary video from a US version of “Wife Swap”. Now, this woman vs Richard Dawkins would be interesting… (via Plasticbag.org)

Links for 12 January 2006

Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications: Library for Ajaxy drag-and-drop type stuff, extending prototype.js. (via Tim/twisty)
Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time: Some of the most commonly repeated functions. (via Tim/twisty)
The Popcorn Palace Economy - The thirsty moviegoer fuels the business. By Edward Jay Epstein: On the balance of food/drink, movies and advertising in the profits of cinemas. (via Kottke)

Links from January 2006