Links from August 2006
- Links for Thursday 24 August 2006
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- Mocking Music: NME C86: Side B
- This makes me very happy. MP3s of all tracks on the NME's C86 tape. I only started listening to jangly indie stuff a year or two later, so this is nearly all new to me. Twenty years, blimey.
- Gregarius » A Free, Web-based Feed Aggregator
- Nice-looking, install-it-yourself, personal Bloglines (only less ugly).
- The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
- Ethics, identity, violence, justice. "Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?"
- Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
- How to make your own clickmap thing using Javascript, Ruby, ImageMagick. (via Kottke)
- 55 word stories
- Some lovely stories here, conveniently short and ideally suited to the short-haul commuter or the busy housewife. (via Said the Gramophone)
- Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org
- Pictures of tapes. There used to be a huge Japanese page that had all the pictures on one page, but that's gone and this is more convenient. How quaint. (via City of Sound)
- Phil Gyford's blog
- I've been trying Vox out and have posted a few things there recently. Not sure I'll continue though - one weblog's more than enough.
- BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - milton court
- Building Design article about the proposed replacement of the Barbican's Milton Court building ("43 storey residential tower"!), and the resistance to the plans.
- Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times
- I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I've got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)
- Flickr: Archive of Strand Building Hackney's photos posted to Flickr on 16th July 2006
- The Strand Building, where I used to live, has finally had its central courtyard remodelled (necessary due to leakage into the garage below). Beautifully done, although the fountain looks odd.
- LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out
- Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially 'Look Back in Anger', Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
- LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye
- Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).
- Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous
- Fantastic idea, although it stutters horribly and becomes very out of sync for me.
- YouTube - The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
- Nice video for the new, lovely, Mountain Goats single.
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- Links for Tuesday 15 August 2006
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- SovMusic.ru - Soviet Music
- Lots of free Soviet MP3s. Hear a choir sing (apparently) 'Capital Oppresses Us' and other family favourites. Also, speeches and lots of Soviet posters.
- Scout: Find your photographs in Flickr's Explore
- Read between the ads to find the form that lets you see whether/where your photos appear in Flickr's magical Explore pages.
- MT Hacks FastSearch
- PHP-based replacement for Movable Type's generally inadequate in-built search tool.
- Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes
- People sharing bike routes in different cities/countries. Using Google Maps. Interesting to see which way people go. (via Blackbeltjones)
- Dicewars - Flash game
- Neatly done, time-wasting Risk-like online game. Must. Resist. (via Haddock)
- Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang
- Webb recommended this to Coates and it sounds interesting but I hate reading on the screen so maybe I'll never get round to reading it even so. (via Plasticbag)
- GogglesBeta09.swf
- Server problems mean I'm probably the last person to link to this. Still fun. (via Haddock)
- Cool Tool: Adventure Cycling
- The woman cycling across the USA on the Saturday Guardian's Travel section back page has got me intrigued…
- Learning Movable Type: A Safe Way to Upgrade to MT 3.3
- In the increasingly unlikely event that I can face upgrading, this will be handy. One day I'll escape the computer.
- Create a Timeline : My Timelines
- Create a timeline from an RSS feed. Not sure how useful it is, but might be interesting for something.
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- Links for Friday 4 August 2006
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- Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture
- Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven't tried it).
- David Hughes Illustration
- I loved his work when I was at college and he's still going strong and has a new website. Excellent scratchy pen action. (via Drawn!)
- Afghanistan 2006 - a photoset on Flickr
- Real life Action Man (“with real typing fingers!”) Ben Hammersley is embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and taking some nice pics. Be careful Ben!
- Mallow street skyscraper - a photoset on Flickr
- Ridiculously huge skyscraper planned for right next to Old Street roundabout. Only a few days left to get objections in to the planning people. (via Haddock)
- LAPL Virtual Photo: Far and Wide
- Wonderful collection of 1920s and 1930s travel posters advertising exotic destinations like California, Bermuda and North Wales. (Click the little 'Next Page' link, bottom right.) (via Drawn!)
- LRB | letters from Vol. 28 No. 15
- I have a letter in the current London Review of Books. I fear they'll rumble that my knowledge is based solely on Google and Wikipedia (I've never seen 'Happy Days').
- Martin Wittfooth
- Lovely surreal paintings and drawings. (via Drawn!)
- YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Results for “grange hill”
- Fantastic amounts of time wasting. See especially “grange hill,old ,skool” (the “Just Say No” video).
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