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- 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)
Links for Friday 20 October 2006
Friday 20 October 2006, 11:58pm
20 Oct 2006 in Photos
On this day I was reading
- New York Review of Books, Vol. 53 No. 14, 21 September 2006
- Words and Music by Paul Morley (UK)
Music listened to most that week
- Boards of Canada (27)
- Fionn Regan (21)
- Brian Eno & John Cale (16)
- Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle (13)
- PJ Harvey (5)
- Hank Williams (4)
- Suede (3)
- The Velvet Underground (3)
- Kylie Minogue (3)
- J Mascis (3)
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