Links for Tuesday 25 September 2007

Johnaugust.com » Quitting, and the age question: "It’s not harder for an older writer to start. It’s just easier to quit." Replace "writer" with pretty much any profession. Harsh truths.
Johnaugust.com: I finally got round to reading a few months of John August’s weblog — he’s the screenwriter of ‘Go’ and ‘Big Fish’ among others — and it’s great stuff. Honest, open and useful.
Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: I like timelines. One day I’ll draw a great big one on a very long wall. (via Kottke)
"An Ilustrated Life" Preview: Lovely collection of pages from "artists, illustrators and designers’" sketchbooks. Awful slidy Flash interface though. Illustrators are worse than estate agents in their use of appalling interface techniques. (via Ted Mills)
Ops on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Oops indeed. What kind of vehicle did that sort of damage? Somewhere near the Barbican apparently, Silk Street or Moor Lane?
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft: This has come a long way since I last looked at this kind of thing. Now comes with a handy installer.
YSlow for Firebug: Not entirely sure about the A-F grading, but handy plug-in for measuring page loading times and weights. (via Rodcorp)

25 Sep 2007 at Twitter

01:32pm: Becoming dangerously addicted to the canteen's traditional puddings with custard. At £1.07 it seems rude not to.

Kurt Vonnegut on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: I’m really liking these portraits. Simple and strong, and they make me want to do some! Do you do much drawing aside from these?…
Adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » Thinking the Unthinkable about iTunes: “it ain’t even named appropriately anymore” I rather like it when things outgrow their original titles. In the UK the BBC’s TV listings magazine is still called ‘Radio Times’, having started decades ago as a purely radio-based mag. And there’s…