Links for Friday 28 March 2008

Kevin Kelly — Help Wanted — The world's best how-to?: "What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen?" From 2004.
Kevin Kelly — The Technium — The Forever Book: Not just a library of all essential knowledge about human civilisation, but it would contain instructions for how to recreate a version of itself. From 2006.
Lina Scheynius (MS Logan Photographic Agency): I like this photo and some of her others. I hope it's this one; stupid, slow, infuriating Flash interface makes it hard to link to stuff. Who commissions this crap (the website, not the photos)?
YouTube - Bristol In The 1920s: Lovely old footage of bits of Bristol. Presumably with sound added more recently. (via the Bristol Blogger)
YouTube - Wills's Girls: Interviews with women who used to work at Wills' tobacco factory in Bristol. Lovely, but would have been much better if we could just see the women being interviewed, instead of all the graphics.

On this day I was reading

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein (UK, US)
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley (UK, US)
Sight & Sound, Vol. 20 Issue 4, April 2008
The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh (UK, US)