Links from June 2006 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for Saturday 24 June 2006

Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English: I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).
A List Apart: Articles: The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes (and other notes on the distinction between style and design): I'm sure I'll need this again at some point. On why so many “designers” are actually “stylists”.
Jacob Borshard: 'The Last Brontosaurus' is my current favourite album and it's free! Treading the fine line between twee and heart-breaking. (via Said the Gramophone)
Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign ?�: If you download a WebKit nightly build there's a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
Juneberry78s.com: What was Norm's 78 Record Room. Oodles of old country, blues, regional US records downloadable as MP3s.
Where the Hell is Matt?: Pick-you-up, swing-you-around uplifting, brilliant, simple genius. Would be 33% even better without the sponsor's logo at the end. (via Haddock)

Links for Friday 16 June 2006

Bristol school of art media & design - UWE Bristol - Major Redevelopment for Bower Ashton Campus: My old college is having a �11.5 million makeover. I can't work out if our old “giraffe house” building is to be replaced or not.
Take Your Medicine - UK Music Podcast: Now I've found a podcast I like I *finally* see the point of them.
A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge: Excellent article on restricting the hours you work. “And then it hit me: there will always be more to do.” Realising this is a big step.
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Confessions of a virtual virgin: Newspaperman Roy Greenslade on coming to terms with being a blogger, and what journalists must now accept and learn.
Guardian Unlimited | Family | Family Forum: How eccentric are your people?: I thought this would be horrendously cloying but it was actually really funny.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guide | Jacques Peretti: History in the remaking: The commodification of our childhood memories. “Once they start making programmes about your youth, you may as well kill yourself with a spiked ball, preferably while wearing rollerskates.”
LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe: Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)

Links for Friday 9 June 2006

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | It's not as easy as it looks: Jonathan Jones on learning to draw (via Rodcorp).
Botld - In 2008, I stop using email.: If practical it would be a nice balance of high and low tech. Tempting. (via ChrisDodo)
Startup Reality Distortion #4: Flickr, MySpace and Others Did It, So You Can Too: Second in today's links that crush dreams.
London Tube Map With Distance Grids: The conventional tube map with geographic distortions shown by a bendy grid. (via Tom Carden)
Mattias Adolfsson: Wonderful, solid, sketchy drawings. Click the “Drawing” or “Sketch Books” links. Inspiring. (via Drawn!)
MT Extensions: MTTagInvoke 0.9: I could have done with this so many times before this week, when I stumbled across it. Linking to it because I'll forget the name by next week.
My coffeehouse nightmare. By Michael Idov: Why not to dream about running a coffeeshop.
Vitamin Features � HTML Emails - Taming the Beast: For future reference. Although I really hope I never ever need it (via Plasticbag).

Links for Friday 2 June 2006

iCalShare - BBC Radio 4 schedule: Nice iCal-able schedule. (via Haddock)
Amazon.co.uk: Building Scalable Web Sites: Books: Cal has a book out! Sounds interesting and very useful.
Flickr: The London Flickr Scavenger Hunt: Nice treasure hunt idea — you're given a set of photos and, I think, you have to go and take identical ones around London. There's one tomorrow.
USSR posters - a photoset on Flickr: 1,500 “Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters from 1917 to 1991.” (via Kottke)
iCal Exchange: “an easy way to publish … calendars using [iCal's] built-in 'Publish to a web server' mechanism.” Been a bit quiet for a while though.
The New York Review of Books: City Lights: Review of Tristram Hunt's 'Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City'. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)

Links from June 2006