Links from October 2007
- Links for Saturday 6 October 2007
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- Thesp Club
- One of the four current part-time Foundation acting courses at the City Lit have their own collective weblog. Scarily enthuiastic.
- Blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
- Marc Andreesen's interesting guide to what you should study at college if you're Marc Andreesen. (via Rodcorp)
- YouTube - Today's Special 1 - Tea Rooms
- Lovely, too-short film about a now-closed caff in London. See also part 2 (New Piccadilly) and 3 (Eldon Street). Criminal that these places are all disappearing. (via Haddock)
- Top Small Workplaces 2007 - WSJ.com
- Why fifteen small US companies are good places to work. (Haven't got round to reading it yet though...) (via Kottke)
- Zzap Zzuperstore
- Complete scanned versions of every issue of Crash!, Zzap! 64, C&VG, etc, etc. I bought Crash! and Sinclair User. Brilliant. I feel 13 again. (via Haddock)
- Tilt-shift miniature fakes - a photoset on Flickr
- Lovely photos of Bristol looking like a teeny tiny toy.
- School of Everything
- Currently a way to list and find teachers of many subjects. More features planned for the future. (via Blackbeltjones on Iain Tait)
- Iain tait | crackunit.com » Blog Archive » Courses I'd Love to Do
- What would you like to learn? (via Russell Davies)
- GarageBuy Homepage
- Free Mac application for browsing eBay and buying stuff. Much nicer than the site itself. There's also a pay-for app for selling stuff. (via Yoz)
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- Links for Sunday 14 October 2007
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- Mozy Online Backup: Simple, Automatic, Secure
- Simple-sounding online backup service for Windows or Mac. (via Haddock)
- Russell davies: studying graphic design
- Lots of advice in the comments about where to do a graphic design degree (no recommendations for UWE where I went...).
- Universal Heritage Poster
- A timeline "summarizing 13.7 billion years". (via Cool Tools)
- Journa-list.com
- Like my Byliner.com but more comprehensive (yay) but only for UK newspapers (aww) and with higher ideals (yay).
- Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
- SQL joins as Venn diagrams (but better than the previous post on SQL joins as Venn diagrams that I read). (via Infovore)
- Fauni Gena
- While looking for MP3blogs on electronic music (any suggestions?) I came across this one on ambient music.
- Silent Noise Control
- Another MP3blog with full albums, this one on "industrial, electronic and experimental weirdness."
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- Links for Thursday 18 October 2007
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- Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
- Long article about 'The Wire,' the show which is so good it ruins all other TV for you. (via Kottke)
- Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
- Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys' Diary.
- The Information Freeway :: A map of the planet
- A very nice viewer for the Open Street Map data. I had no idea they had so much, and it looks gorgeous close-up. (via Simon Willison)
- Cruciforum: crucially simple
- A very simple discussion forum that involves uploading a single file to your website. (via Simon Willison again)
- Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. "Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline." (via Blech)
- BBC - Programmes
- What I've been working on, launched today: a permanent URL for every episode of every TV and radio programme. The data needs much improving and there's lots more goodness to come...
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- Links for Monday 29 October 2007
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- The NUJ's blinkered approach to online : October 2007 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs
- Brilliant dissection of a dumb article about the effect of new media on the role of journalists'. (via Haddock)
- Donnacha DeLong: The Journalist article
- Another dumb NUJ versus the forces of progress article. Established media is authoritative and experienced. Normal people are sometimes inaccurate. Therefore "Web 2.0" is bad. (via Haddock)
- BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Huge pirate music site shut down
- The only sources of quotes are the police and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Could we have a bit more balance perhaps BBC?
- Major pirate website shut down | | Guardian Unlimited Business
- This is even worse. Appalling reporting from Katie Allen, using FACT, Trading Standards and the British Video Association as her only source of quotes. (via Haddock)
- Mudd up! » archive » Defending the Pig - Oink Croaks
- A nice defence and obituary for Oink, by an artist whose music was shared by people on the site. (via Infovore)
- What bugs me is not identity fraud but who will be watchdog to BBC’s Watchdog
- Funny piece by Toby Young about Watchdog's Facebook identity theft scare mongering. (via ObLinks)
- A MySQL Abstraction Class For PHP
- Sounds lovely, and probably better than the one of my own I've been using in various places for years. (via Infovore)
- Demonstration at St Pancras International, 14 - 11- 2007 — Camden Cycling Campaign
- One of the downsides of the new station: stupid little bike racks (obviously designed years ago by someone who never used a bike) a long way from anywhere useful.
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