Links from May 2007
- Links for Friday 25 May 2007
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- CABE - Design review reports - New Milton Court
- Thoroughly scathing review by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment of the now rejected plans for the Barbican's Milton Court.
- LRB | Andrew O'Hagan : The Things We Throw Away
- Wonderful essay about the UK's rubbish and recycling. Well worth reading. "Throwing things away has been so essential to our sense of how to live that we forget we invented the process just to increase our pleasures."
- Mark Fowler's Journal - Plain Text Wiki, Reworked
- A change to Matt Webb's plain text wiki in TextMate thingy, to make links [[like this]]. (via Blech)
- Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1
- Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
- Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
- Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
- Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait
- Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
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- Links for Sunday 20 May 2007
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- Raymond Waring Photos - Yahoo! Movies
- This chap is in '28 Weeks Later' and I *think* he used to work on the counter in Holmes Place gym, Barbican. He was very helpful and pleasant if it's him.
- Plain text wiki (20 May 2007, Interconnected)
- Great idea from Matt Webb: make wiki-style linked pages in TextMate. I think I've wanted exactly this without realising it before.
- TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
- A talk about education sounded very dull. But no, this is really good, well worth watching, and lots of fun. He's a bit like Tommy Cooper at times. (via Tomski)
- Em-K :: Emily Ketteringham :: Screen print gallery
- My favourite work seen on the 'Southville Art & Performance Trail' in Bristol last weekend.
- Philippe Jusforgues - Home
- Excellent photo collage illustrations. Very simple, very effective. (via Ted Mills)
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- Links for Tuesday 15 May 2007
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- BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - Milton Court - the tower has been rejected
- Excellent — the proposed plan to redevelop the Barbican's Milton Court has been "sent back" by the planning committee.
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- Links for Friday 11 May 2007
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- SMS Text News » 07624* is billed by Three and T-Mobile as an international text?
- Twitter's new UK SMS number will, on T-Mobile and maybe Three, still cost you silly money to use and won't be included in your bundle.
- Chippy Chat Forums - Powered by vBulletin
- Forum for UK chip shop owners.
- Testy Copy Editors :: Index
- Copy Editors' forum. I'm getting obsessed with finding niche forums. phpBB (via Kottke)
- Moving Target Forum - All Discussions
- UK cycle courier forum. (Vanilla seems like the forum software of choice.)
- All Discussions - London Fixed Gear & Single Speed
- Bicycles. Mostly seem to know each other from real life. Uses Vanilla.
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- Links for Wednesday 9 May 2007
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- Hide & Seek
- Pervasive gaming weekend based on the South Bank this weekend. Sounds a lot of fun; I'd go if I was in town. (via Haddock)
- Why the BBC Trust's decision on iPlayer sells us all short from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
- If Cory's too much for you, Bobbie's more English in his disgust. Gahhh. 86% of the public respondents are obviously far less important than the precious "industry stakeholders". Angry. (via Wonderland)
- Boing Boing: BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM
- I often find Cory's anti-DRM rants too much. But sometimes I feel as angry as he does and it all seems quite appropriate. I like the BBC and I don't want to see idiots slowly destroy it.
- Beth's Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies - Allrecipes
- Made these last night. Very, very tasty. They did, finally, just about set enough to not fall apart.
- Neighbourhood Fix-It
- I keep forgetting the name of this. "Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Reports go straight to the council concerned. Excellent. (via Tomski)
- PlanningAlerts.com | Email alerts of planning applications near you
- New to me. It just works. I even get direct links to the council website to comment on each application. Wonderful. This is how council websites should work. (via Tomski)
- Beast
- Lightweight, not-quite-finished Rails-based forum system.
- Twitter
- Twitter's new mobile interface, a boon for those who don't want umpteen texts to their phone about their friend's lunch decisions (but still, at some point, want to know the decisions).
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- Links for Tuesday 1 May 2007
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- Russell davies: interesting speakers
- I'll be speaking for five minutes at Interesting 2007 on "something to do with acting." Bet you can't wait.
- Living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
- One-click install of Apache, MySQL, PHP for running sites locally on your Mac without all the httpd.conf etc malarkey.
- Latitude/longitude lookup (geocoding-geolocator)
- Thing from Cameron Marlowe and Yahoo! Maps which shows you the lat/long of a place you point at. Simple and could be handy. (via Plasticbag)
- Henry Woolf
- My suspicions confirmed: Harold Pinter's lifelong friend and collaborator was also the man from 1980s education show 'Words and Pictures'. He could have spiced things up a bit more…
- Samuel Pepys Award 2007
- Hmm, a shame this is only for printed paper books. How quaint.
- MTV Labs: The New HTML MTV.com
- MTV.com has ditched its Flash site for an HTML version after user feedback. (via Blackbeltjones over Twitter)
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