Links for Thursday 24 August 2006
- 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.