Links from May 2006
- Links for Friday 26 May 2006
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- BLDGBLG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1
- This sounds good. Must read it next week. (via Blackbeltjones)
- The Observer | OMM | A northern soul
- Paul Morley on the Manchester and Liverpool punk scenes from 1976 and beyond. I always find his excitement infectious. (via Ted Mills)
- Amazon.com: Books Search Results: Charles Tilly
- Tilly has written some interesting sounding books about social movements, revolutions, collective violence, etc.
- Amazon: Listmania! - View List “Revolutions and State Collapse”
- Damn, I need to find a few spare months from somewhere. These all sound fascinating.
- Flickr: Photos tagged with mstr
- Museum Street Tea Rooms. Some things are destined to get Flickr'd a lot.
- MySociety - Travel-time Maps and their Uses
- Lovely maps of travel times around the UK by Lightfoot & Steinberg, data wranglers to the Ministry. (via Haddock)
- Variety's Festivals & Markets - Stillman seeing 'Green'
- Whit Stillman's starting work on a new film. About time!
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- Links for Friday 19 May 2006
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- Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ
- In case I get round to getting one. (via Blech)
- AMK design | Last 10 tracks on your website
- Simple but good PHP code for putting your Last.fm recent tracks on your site. Inspired me to rewrite all my stupidly over-engineered code for gyford.com along the same lines. (via Kottke)
- Blair kelly studio
- Gorgeous lino cuts. One day I'm going to do lino cuts again. I can dream that they'll be this good. (via Drawn!)
- Dejal - Narrator
- Handy Mac app for reading out stories or scripts. Can give each script character a different voice, and leave a gap for you to say your lines.
- Gmaps Pedometer
- Calculates distances along a route for you. Nike also have a version but you have to register to get the same data.
- LRB | Rose George : Diary
- Subscribers-only or pay-for, but an interesting account of going into London's sewers. She's working on a book about human waste…
- Mark Fletcher presentation at Startup SIG
- Long transcript of a talk on running a startup by the chap who started ONEList (which became eGroups then Yahoo! Groups) and Bloglines.
- Patryk Rebisz - Between You And Me
- Lovely short film shot using a digital still camera. There were a few awkward moments for me, but it looks wonderful and the technology makes it more dreamy. (via Blech)
- Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
- A big collection of world maps with countries resized according to different kinds of statistics. (via Boing Boing)
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- Links for Friday 12 May 2006
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- Speech Accent Archive
- Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
- Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
- Intriguing anti-spam solution for weblogs and pretty much any site with user-submitted content.
- ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
- Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
- Mod_rewrite Cookbook - FrontPage
- Very handy resource for mod_rewrite recipes. It's like some arcane magic to me.
- Strongspace Weblog - Syncing With Rsync
- In case I start using Strongspace and forget where to find these instructions.
- Color Scheme Generator 2
- There are loads of these around, but this seems a nice example.
- London’s lack of Mexican (Phil Gyford: Writing)
- My page on there being no decent Mexican food in London has spawned its own mailing list for those interested. Yum!
- IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
- Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
- Magpiebrain » Blog Archive » Trouble Free Backups, Part One - rsync and Strongspace
- Again, just in case I start using Strongspace, saves me Googling again.
- Peterme.com: Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time
- I have fond memories of staying in the Wired corporate flat on San Francisco's South Park for a week in 1996.
- Transport for London Cycle Journey Planner
- Matthew Somerville does it again. Simple interface to get cycling directions across London from Transport for London's journey planner.
- YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Public Videos // pajamapants
- Videos and interviews with musicians, lots of Britpoppy stuff from the early 1990s including loads from Sleeper. Suddenly I feel 10+ years younger. Fab.
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- Links for Thursday 4 May 2006
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- Enid Crow Disasters
- Nice Cindy Sherman-esque self portrait photography of characters witnessing disasters. (via Haddock)
- Aplus :: z-pos
- Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
- Dorian moore : Dalston to Old Street
- Like a slow and clunky (in a good way) east London version of that movie where a guy drives across Paris insanely quickly.
- If:book: the selected, annotated outbox of dave eggers
- When reading reviews of books about someone's letters I've wondered what will be gleaned in the future from someone who only uses email. (via plasticbag)
- The New York Review of Books: The Coming Meltdown
- I underlined this review of two books on environmental disaster when I read it. Not sure why now, but still.
- The New York Review of Books: The Way to a Fair Deal
- Interesting review of Benjamin M. Friedman's 'The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth' (subscribers only).
- The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
- Lots of bits in this review of Carter's book 'Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis' that I circled.
- The New York Review of Books: Summoning the Spirits
- Fascinating article about Victorian mediums, spirit photographers etc. (subscribers only)
- Randy Glass Studio
- Incredibly detailed and accurate black and white ink(?) illustrations. (via Drawn!)
- Royal Festival Hall | Information Pages
- The RFH are selling mats made out of the 1950s carpet they took up for their refurbishment. Nice, but £55.
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