Links from October 2006
- Links for Sunday 29 October 2006
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- Los Campesinos! | Nothing But Green Lights: A UK mp3 blog.
- Also loving 'You! Me! Dancing!'. Fun!
- Music: Pocketbooks: Indie-Pop | Nothing But Green Lights: A UK mp3 blog.
- Loving this song. The first to feature an Oyster Card and London Underground fare boundaries? Sometimes it's like Sarah Records never went away.
- Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Steve Rose on the renaissance of the Brunswick Centre
- And the history of the its birth. It looks lovely now, and could only be improved by the reappearance of Skoob Books and by calling it the "Brunswick Centre" instead of the "Brunswick". Stupid pointless re-branding. (via Blech)
- Evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp.
- I've thought this would be the way to go for some time: build a network of smallish, mutually-supporting websites, grow organically. (via Kottke)
- About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- The full list of Firefox (etc) tweaks.
- Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks - Lifehacker
- Didn't think I'd need this after applying most of these once, but I keep trying to find it when I install on other computers.
- Webkuehn.de - Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth
- That's a lot of locations. Not sure what I'd do it with it but just in case… (via Plasticbag)
- Freesound :: view pack :: london underground
- I'm not sure why sounds recorded from the Tube are interesting, but they are. (via Plasticbag)
- BBC News | Technology | Sony admits to buying grey goods
- This kind of thing makes me angry. Companies are dead set against regulation until they need it. "We'd like a free market please, but only when it suits us."
- The Hemingway Challenge « Gauravonomics
- 25 six word stories from famous authors, plenty better than this week's much-linked-to few in Wired, but still non as good as Hemingway's.
- Google Maps - Treo
- Official Google Maps app for the Treo. Works a treat. All it needs now is walking directions…
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- Links for Friday 20 October 2006
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- Potion Factory Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Tangerine
- Interesting Mac app for creating iTunes playlists organised by BPM. It's BPM-working-out algorithm needs some tweaking though, as it's more miss than hit for me (eg, it thinks a few slow acoustic guitar tracks are 180 BPM). (via Plasticbag)
- Comment is free: Religions don't deserve special treatment
- It's a shame this needs saying, but still, great stuff. "It is time to refuse to tip-toe around people who claim respect, consideration, special treatment, or any other kind of immunity, on the grounds that they have a religious faith." (via Haddock)
- Simon Willison: Graphing requests with Tamper Data
- Very nice thing found by Simon - a graph showing when elements of a webpage load, and how long they take. (via Daring Fireball)
- YouTube - Olbermann: the beginning of the end of America
- Awesome rant about Bush's irresonsibility. Fantastic and relentless. I love how Americans still refer to the subject of their ire as "sir". (via Haddock)
- YouTube - Extras - Episode 5 - Acting by Sir Ian
- I'm very much enjoying 'Extras'. Some great bits, like Ian McKellen's description of acting. Wonderful, and so straight-faced.
- UBUWEB :: Alvin Lucier
- Lucier's 'I Am Sitting in a Room' track, which Paul Morley goes on (and on and on) about in his 'Words and Music' book, as MP3. 1969 tape recording avant-garde.
- The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
- I also love reading about how to have a successful (or unsuccessful) startup. (via Kottke)
- YouTube - Battle of The Bands
- Oodles of album art animated Gilliam style. Very nicely done. (via Haddock)
- Walk It - A step in the right direction
- Fantastic. Gives you walking directions from A to B in central London. Google et al only do driving directions, which are very different. (via Haddock)
- Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times
- Why Friendster floundered. I love reading technology failure (or not quite success) stories. (via ChrisDodo)
- Doom_1.php
- Graphic illustrating what would happen to Earth if humans vanished.
- Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist
- What would happen to the world if we all vanished. (via Boing Boing)
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- Links for Friday 13 October 2006
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- Make.text
- Bookmarklet to convert a web page into Markdown syntax (which I've started to use almost everywhere). Could be handy. (via Daring Fireball)
- TidBITS - Eudora to Become Open Source Collaboration with Mozilla
- Bugger. I've been using Eudora since early 1995. At some point the current version will no doubt stop working with future versions of OS X. (via Daring Fireball and others)
- SimpleXML processing with PHP
- Nice clear explanation and examples (for PHP5). Will be handy sometime I'm sure. If only it was as simple in PHP4. (via Daring Fireball)
- Coelacanth (2005)
- More about Ben Moor's 'Coelacanth' to whet your whatever.
- BBC- Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
- Ben Moor's 'Coelacanth' is the Afternoon Play today, and you can listen again for a week. I saw him do it live and it was both very funny and very touching. So do tune in.
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- Links for Thursday 12 October 2006
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- Earth Day Footprint Quiz
- Nicely done. My lifestyle uses up 3.6 "Global Hectares" (most on food and shelter) and if everyone lived like me we'd need two Earths to get by. (via Kottke)
- Core77 - 1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers
- Links to 1000 Words for Design Students (via Kottke)
- Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan
- Just in case running becomes more appealing one day, now I've cancelled my gym membership. (via Yoz)
- Peter Sellers doing various English accents (kottke.org)
- I wish I was this good (or any good) at doing accents. Impressive because it seems so effortless.
- Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
- What the title says. Very handy. (via Rodcorp)
- Generation X Neo-logisms
- One of my favourite books, but noted again because I'd forgotten the phrase "option paralysis" came from it. (via Francis)
- Maps of War
- Excellent animated map showing who's inhabited and carved up the Middle East over millennia. (via Haddock)
- Mexican Food, Chilies, Tomatillos at MexGrocer.co.uk
- New UK store - delivering Mexican food and ingredients to you. (via my page on London's lack of Mexican restaurants.)
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- Links for Monday 2 October 2006
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- July 2006 - Issue 391 | New Internationalist
- Why carbon offsets and buying trees aren't the answer to global warming. This is my instinct too but I'd like to find a more objective and scientific source. (via Haddock)
- WizbangTech - MT Plugin: Naughtytext 1.0
- Movable Type plugin to strip ugly characters (like those from Microsoft Word) from entries and comments.
- NSLog(@"Erik J. Barzeski"); - iTunes Artwork in ID3
- AppleScript to move the artwork iTunes can fetch for you into the MP3 file itself. (via Daring Fireball)
- CoComment - Join the conversation
- Maybe this would be a more useful place to store where I make comments on sites, rather than a text file. (via Haddock)
- Piecing IT together » Blog Archive » Why Calendars are hard
- In the unlikely event I need a summary of why it's difficult to code decent calendaring. (via Blech)
- Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Supposing … Subversive genius Banksy is actually rubbish
- I do like Banksy's images, but I hate how people fawn over his criminal and not-really-political acts. (via Blech)
- Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML
- Why you (and I) should probably be using HTML 4 rather than XHTML. Oops. (via Daring Fireball)
- Mind Hacks: Why email is addictive (and what to do about it)
- I've got this bad. I need to replace my Apple-M habit with Apple-Q. (via Yoz)
- Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones
- If you've installed several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows XP, here's how to make them work better.
- Today's Blog Music / The Hype Machine - discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs
- MP3 blog aggregator that lets you play the aggregated music in a Flash player.
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