Links from January 2008
- Links for Thursday 24 January 2008
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- The Believer - Interview with David Simon
- Creator-Writer-Producer of 'The Wire' interviewed by Nick Hornby. (via Kottke)
- With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
- Yes, all very well, but I'm guessing Hodgkinson hasn't analysed the beliefs of the bosses of every company he has any interaction with, only the most attention-grabbing.
- LRB · Thomas Jones: Short Cuts
- "The best of the lot, though, is the diary of Samuel Pepys, which a web designer called Phil Gyford has been posting in daily instalments since 2003…" Hurrah!
- Measuring Worth - Calculators
- Tools for calculating things like the current value of historical UK pounds or US dollars.
- Associate Email Addresses with a Google Account
- I've wanted to do this for ages and didn't know you could. So you can, for example, get your Google Groups messages sent to different email addresses. (via Technovia)
- Melamed
- Some great illustrations by Victor Melamed. (via Drawn!)
- MySociety » Travel-time maps
- Very, very tasty interactive London maps looking at travel times and house prices. (via Haddock)
- Improve website load time by 500% with 3 lines of code | Aciddrop.com
- Hmmm, interesting… (via Yoz)
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- Links for Thursday 3 January 2008
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- Luggage Pr0n: Five Head-Turning Bags for Your Notebook | 43 Folders
- Yet another geek bag discussion. Comments probably more practical than the main article. For when my 11 year old bag dies.
- Books speak volumes about life's milestones | Valerie Grove - Times Online
- On not getting rid of all one's books.
- Advice for clearing literary clutter | Ask MetaFilter
- Old thread on how to reduce the number of books one owns (or why not to bother). (via 43 Folders)
- Stephanie Merritt: Small is beautiful - the best new journals | Review | The Observer
- Literary journals. (via MeFi)
- The Personal MBA Manifesto: Mastering Business Through Self-Education (Recommended Business Books)
- First time I've thought "that looks awesome" about something MBA related. (via Cool Tools)
- Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work | 43 Folders
- Maybe my resolution should be "just be content". But then I'd try too hard to achieve it.
- How to Read a Book (PDF)
- Sounds like good advice. I mostly read for pleasure at the moment, rather than for just learning stuff, but this'll be handy one day…
- "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by John Hockenberry
- "…a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the 'emotional center' of the American people." (via Oblinks)
- Bristol Then and Now Photographs - Page One
- Lots of animated images with photos of past and (nearly) present Bristol. A shame more of them don't line up better, but still interesting.
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