Links from February 2008 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting: Much-linked-to article saying that Influentials aren't as influential as 'The Tipping Point' would have us believe."When you test the way marketers say the world works, it falls apart."
Complete® MoisturePLUS™ Contact lens solution recall notice: Oh, that'll be why I couldn't find my usual solution last time I looked...
Charlie's Diary: Youth of today: I love things like this, reminding those of us a little older what the world is like from a young person's point of view. (via Mildly Diverting)
Creative Generalist - What Specifically Do Generalists Do?: Wander & Wonder, Synthesize & Summarize, Link & Leap, Mix & Match, Experience & Empathize. (via Russell Davies)
HyperPort - HyperCard Export Utility: Handy. I must try this while I still have a Mac that can run Classic. (via Daring Fireball)
Chyrp: Simple-looking, open-source, decently-featured PHP/MySQL-based weblog engine with built-in support for different kinds of Tumblr-like posts. (via Daring Fireball)

Joining the register: Sign yourself up to the (UK) organ donor register now. Very simple and easy. (via Richard Herring)
Bristol UWE - In Pictures - Bower Ashton development gallery: My old college has got a swanky new hi-tech building.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Rails for PHP Developers: Sounds ideal for when I eventually get round to Ruby on Rails. (via Haddock)
Clay Shirky + Brian Eno on the Power of Networks at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) (Monday, March 17, 2008) - Upcoming: Shirky and Eno, together at last! Awesome bald'n'brainy action ahoy! See you there.
Ask Andy's Clothing Fora - Ask Andy Forums: I'm getting a little too into reading this, particularly about shoes. Would like to find a UK version.
Impro (9 February, 2008, Interconnected): Matt Webb's notes on the 'Masks and Trance' chapter of Keith Johnstone's book 'Impro'.
Smithsonian Magazine | Arts & Culture | Being Funny: Steve Martin on his early career and being funny without telling jokes.

Cabinet Magazine Online - A Timeline of Timelines: A history of different timelines. (via Kevin Kelly)
How To Spot A Psychopath :: The Six Ugliest Space Lego Sets :: January :: 2008: Eesh, some nasty things there. Personally I was always dubious about Space Lego that wasn't blue and grey. (via Blech)
Breaking Through - New York Times: Just because I find it interesting what movies make a performer's reputation, and in some cases makes it harder for them to different roles later. (via Kottke)
SF - RM Williams Boots - Everything You Wanted to Know - Style Forum: I love this level of obsession about any subject, and this is a fine example.
BBC drops Grange Hill | Media | guardian.co.uk: Damn. I've still been enjoying recent series, and the next one will be the last. I bet you it (and Top of the Pops) will be brought back by future BBC decision makers, like Dr Who was.

Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online: Interesting articles on how a class of children played with Lego and how the teachers attempted to help them structure the play fairly. (via Haddock)
Apartment Therapy New York | AT Europe: London Close-up - The Amazing Staircase: If we ever live somewhere that we can make a new flight of stairs in... (via Boing Boing)
Redland Green School Overspend - The Report | James Barlow: Nice deadpan assessment of an apparently poor report into the £6.4 million overspend on construction of a new Bristol school. (via the Bristol Blogger)
Against go bag silliness « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird: I've seen a few links fly by about making up emergency "go bags". Adam Greenfield offers some less excitable advice from experience. (via ChrisDodo)
Advanced Course - Spacelab 07/08 - The Fantastical: Photos from our class in which we made puppets and costumes on the theme of "the abyss". (I haven't finished anything for it yet.)

Dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter: Uses CSS rules to style the PDF output I think (can't get the demo to work...).
R&OS: pdf class: For making PDFs using PHP, as used by Dompdf.
FPDF Library - PDF generator: Another PDF-generating PHP class.
The Fell Types - My Revival Fonts: Fonts derived from late 17th century printing.

Make RTF with PHP : PHP -> RTF File Generator : Create MS Word documents with PHP: $58 US.
Smart Systems - Created the RTFGen which is a RTF generator for PHP: Basic version is free, others run to hundreds or thousands of euros.
PhpRtf development blog » About PhpRtf Lite: Make RTF documents using PHP. Free, LGPL licensed. Guess which PHP to RTF code I'm trying first.
Infinity Data Systems | Odysseus: A successor to Eudora, an alternative to the Thunderbird-based one. Somewhat behind schedule, but one lives in hope.
GeeKyoto2008 - 17 May 2008: Just booked my ticket. Clever people getting together at the Conway Hall "to discuss the future and how we'll live in it."
Tiny.swf: The little analogue clock from the new BBC homepage, all BIG. (via Alan Connor)

Links from February 2008