Links from February 2006 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 24 February 2006

3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site | high priority: Mac OS X toolbar to-do list manager. For me to remember if I start using iCal's to do list. (via plasticbag.org)
Soundstream: If I used a screensaver… Reacts to sounds it hears through your Mac's microphone. Only appeared on my PowerBook's screen, not the external monitor, but still nice.
Peter Maurer - Witch: Application switcher for Mac that lets you switch between windows, not just applications. Very handy for those of us trying to avoid the mouse. Oodles of options.

Links for 18 February 2006

BBC - Radio 1 - Zane Lowe - Tracklisting - Thursday 16 February 2006: Fantastic 90 minutes of break-up songs. Be a maudlin teenager all over again. 30 mins into the show, if you can find the Listen Again link. And if you can put up with the appalling Zane Lowe.
BBC - Radio 3 - Mixing It - P J Harvey: I always forget to listen to Mixing It, but last night I stumbled on this long PJ Harvey session. Yum. Listen Again from /radio3/mixingit/ for the next week.

Links for 15 February 2006

Thecompact : The Compact: The Yahoo! Group for the Bay Area people who aren't buying new stuff in 2006.
Compact: The Compact's weblog — see them wrestle with exactly what they're allowed to buy new and giggle at the optimism: “if our movement grows we could take this country down”.
Bay Area / Out of the retail rat race / Consumer group doesn't buy notion that new is better: The Compact - 50 people who have committed to buy nothing new (“except food, health and safety items and underwear”) in 2006. (via Boing Boing)
BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme - Interview with Stephen Pound MP (Real Audio .ram file): I woke up this morning to hear an MP talking frankly about almost changing his mind over the smoking ban. Glorious, because he sounds like a human being. If only the cabinet sounded like this. (skip forward to 3:15)
Flickr: ludd's photos tagged with barbican: Old models of the Barbican, a map and a photo of what the Barbican replaced.
Yahoo open up their UI libraries… (plasticbag.org): Links to all Yahoo's shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.

Links for 14 February 2006

Travel Time Tube Map (Built with Processing): Not sure how I missed this Tom Carden awesomeness before. Beats other tube maps into cocked hats. (via Haddock)

Links for 11 February 2006

dBug: Very handy PHP class for displaying easily comprehensible variable information. Has no doubt been referred to as “var_dump on steroids” by someone. (via Tim/twisty)
The Art of DeTouch: Widget showing how advertising / publicity photos have been retouched. (via Kottke)
Early Retirement: By Philip Greenspun. One can dream. Two general tips: don't read news/email in the morning or your brain will fill and you'll get no work done; and spend more time with other people to increase happiness — computer programming is bad. (via Kottke)
Flickr: HDR: Some lovely photos using the High Dynamic Range merging image feature thing in Photoshop CS2.
Ogle Earth: Center of Gravity II: Finding the “centre of gravity” of a number of points in Google Earth. (via Kottke)

Links for 9 February 2006

Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!: IS this new or have I just not seen it before? “Aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles.” Lovely. Nice Google Earth integration too. (via Tim/twisty)

Links for 8 February 2006

Aerial Photographs of Mexico City (English): Some amazing photos, particularly the two of low income housing. (via Boing Boing)

Links for 5 February 2006

ZX Spectrum walkthrough - Google Video: Wow. All the nostalgia without having to remember how to play the games. (via Yoz, via everyone apparently)

Links for 4 February 2006

London Centre for Theatre Studies: Year-long, 40 hours per week (over 4 days) acting course for mature students. Sounds very intense.

Links for 3 February 2006

Map1.pdf: Map of the Barbican from Frank Harris estate agents attempting to show the raised walkways. Very misleading in a lot of places however.

Links from February 2006