Links from December 2006
- Links for Friday 22 December 2006
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- How to Backup Your DVD Movies
- Excellent screencast on how to back up DVDs on your Mac. (via Daring Fireball)
- Xmas card shoot :o) - a photoset on Flickr
- Sam's very good and scary Christmas photos.
- YouTube - A Charlie Brown Christmas (full length)
- Joy! I love the internet and I now feel Christmassy. And I think Charlie Brown grows up to become Jon Ronson.
- Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
- Interesting interview. Sees the show "as a 66-hour movie" and "a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it's the Postmodern institutions that are the gods" (via Kottke)
- ColourLovers Coup.0 :: Colour Lovers
- Odd but interesting and useful site for sharing colour palettes, marred only by over-busy design and annoying Flash. (via Haddock)
- Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1650
- Guide to what was happening in different fields in consecutive decades through history. Good if you ignore that knowledge changes with geography and social position. (via Kottke)
- MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Downloads
- Really nice Mac application for organising photos from your past around people and places. (via Haddock)
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- Links for Wednesday 20 December 2006
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- Running Movable Type 3.3 with LightTPD and FastCGI (Tapirtype Blog)
- Detailed instructions for doing this on TextDrive hosting.
- FLV Online Converter - vixy.net
- Free online Flash video converter, can convert YouTube videos into something usable. (via Daring Fireball)
- The Taiyo Yuden FAQ - Blank Media - Club CD Freaks
- How to identify which CDs/DVDs were made by Taiyo Yuden. (via Daring Fireball)
- How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera
- Use DVD+R discs manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, if you can identify it. (via Daring Fireball)
- Caring for Your Introvert
- Meet me. Scarily excellent description of being an introvert and why they/we find extroverts frustrating.
- Apophenia: suckage explained
- Having no spare time, not wanting any more email, microfame, attention. (via Haddock)
- Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
- "Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping."
- Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » The World's Longest Diary
- For me to come back to whenever I start documenting my life just that little bit too obsessively. (via Boing Boing)
- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot
- Not very complicated, but a good idea and a nicely done demo. (via ChrisDodo)
- Playwright Nina Raine on the difficulties of directing your own work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
- What it says.
- Karen Scott Photography
- Photographer who does actors' headshots, apparently popular with people at college in the past, for future reference.
- The London School of Osteopathy
- Someone at college was recommending these folks as a reasonably cheap way of getting a work-over. For future reference.
- The Ten Thousand Things
- I was following this eclectic MP3 blog a while back and somehow missed that Blake Leyh is also music supervisor on 'The Wire', which you must watch if you haven't already.
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- Links for Sunday 3 December 2006
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- Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
- Lots of very funny, obfuscatory and incomprehensible diagrams about Web 2.0. Couldn't be spoofed better. I thought diagrams were supposed to make things *simpler*. (via Haddock)
- How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine
- Looks a bit laborious but might be handy sometime.
- vi-R-us » Blog Archive » Planets
- Total Perspective Vortext / Powers of Ten style images to make you feel very, very tiny.
- World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games
- Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
- Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School
- Europe-based map game. I'm embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
- Geosense: an online world geography game
- What it says. Good one, you can play against others (or click 'Visit' then 'Play alone'). (via Haddock)
- World Map - countries of the world
- Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
- Voice of a City Paris
- A group blog about Paris — get the hang of the place from what the locals say I think.
- Things magazine - Images from The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings
- Nice wood cuts, for inspiration. (via ChrisDodo)
- eG Forums -> Best Pastry/Cake shops in London?
- Mmmmm… cake. To my shame I haven't even heard of most of these. Must explore… (via ChrisDodo)
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Musical copyright terms 'to stay'
- Yay. Is making money off your work fifty years after you did it not good enough!?
- Hawk Wings
- Apple Mail blog. I was thinking of switching to Apple Mail from Eudora when I saved this link, but probably won't now. But just in case…
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