Links for Tuesday 15 April 2008

Tweet Clouds: Showing what words you use most on Twitter. Home, College, Day, Work are the unremarkable stand-outs for me. (via Russell Davies)
A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards: Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
Zamzar - Free online file conversion: Convert a file to a different kind. Audio, video, text documents, archives, etc. Plus download YouTube etc videos in a different format. (via Cool Tools)
Free Traffic For Your Squidoo Lens on Squidoo: Instructions for how to spam people via Twitter. As Ian said, wankers, making the Internet a little bit more unpleasant for everyone else.
Long live Karl Marx! « The Bristol Blogger: Awww… we used to see this guy at Ashton Court Festival, wandering around in a leather thong with a huge bottle of cider. He was called Colin Toogood and he's died.
Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere: Brings a tear to my eye. Another lovely, lovely event.

15 Apr 2008 in Writing

Creating narrative as a team: Clowning is going well, in contrast to the Creation of the first couple of weeks of term, when we returned to the Heart of Darkness.

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein (UK, US)
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley (UK, US)
London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 6, 20 March 2008
London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 7, 10 April 2008