Links from August 2007 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for Friday 24 August 2007

Internet Theatre Database: "Archiving and catalogizing professional theatre." Yes, "catalogizing." Looks to be Broadway only at the moment
IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information: Comprehensive (goes back decades in great detail) but Broadway-only theatre database.
StageClick.com: The "local theater version of IMDb.com", local being three US cities.
How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders: Merlin Mann's collection of tips and links on doing better presentations. Part of me would like to do presentations so I could do good ones. (via Danhon)
A 15,000 year tour of Manhattan: Great illustrations of what New York might look like at various points after human life disappears. (via Boing Boing)
Common User: Contact Us: Summing up 90% of media's over-excited attempts to be "interactive". "Why not tell us what you reckon."
Kultureflash - Headlines from London: Nice looking online mag of interesting things to do in London. Not that I'll get round to many of them. (via Haddock)
Stuff: Paul Graham on how much stuff we accumulate and suggestions on how to stop. (via Rodcorp)

Links for Friday 17 August 2007

63xc.com—Reviews | Midge Bar: I have one of these (with a bike attached) on its way. Includes a guide to setting it up properly.
jQuery for JavaScript programmers: What it says, by Simon Willison. For next time I delve into jQuery. (via Yoz and Blech)
Family Tree - Comics UK: I hoped this existed and it does! Wonderful. Try 'Buster' as a title. Awesome.
BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart - Script Formats: Different formats for film, TV, radio and stage scripts.
Celtx - Overview: Free, good-looking software for writing scripts, storyboards, planning productions, etc.
Doonesbury (db930827.gif): "Egg freckles?" To save me finding it again.
Freesound :: home page: Creative Commons licensed sound effects.
Gapingvoid: how to be creative: Looks like a good read. "Just get on with it" probably summing much of it up.

Links for Monday 6 August 2007

Historischer Zollsstock: 2,000 years of history on a 2 metre folding timeline. £15 in the National Portrait Gallery shop. I like long-term timelines.
Blueprintcss - Google Code: In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
Taskpaper: To-do list organizer application for Mac which uses plain text files. (via Daring Fireball)
DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS.: Read books, bit by bit, day by day, by email or RSS and gradually read a whole book.
Art and Heart: The End of Term Four, part II: Isabel's experience of the end-of-year-one LISPA project, and the horror of shifting deadlines.
BBC News | Grammatical Triumphs: Needs more frequent updating, but otherwise splendid.

Links from August 2007