Links from May 2008
- Links for Friday 23 May 2008
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- Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online
- Nice looking online invoice recording and sending app. I'm not busy enough to need it right now, but maybe one day… (via Ben Hammersley)
- Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
- Some say nostalgia is a disease but it's still nice to see Webmonkey return. I first learned PHP and MySQL here. It has a lot to answer for.
- YouTube - 21 Accents
- An actress says more or less the same sentence in 21 different accents. Very good. I'd love to be able to do, well, any accent other than my own. (via Boing Boing)
- Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor
- Much linked-to article about an online shoe-selling firm and how it's a great place to work. They offer new recruits $1000 to quit, in order to only keep people who are keen. (via Kottke)
- YouTube - Hitler Plans Burning Man
- Laughing at Hitler feels so wrong, but that's what I did. (via Boing Boing)
- Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)
- Amazing infographic-like diagrams all based on Kerouac's 'On the Road'. Obsessively beautiful. (via Orlando's Ffffound)
- Corporation of London - Development & planning - Planning applications
- Proposal to create a brand new flat at the bottom of one of the Barbican towers, in a "void space". See the PLANNING REPORT for some pics.
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- Links for Sunday 18 May 2008
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- YouTube - Sony Bravia LCD TV Advert (Play Doh) & "The Making of"
- A TV ad with stop-motion rabbits (which I hadn't seen until now) followed by a little making of doc. Amazing amounts of coordination to get it all done. (via Ted Mills)
- MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
- I generally think graffiti is just selfish vandalism, including this, but it's still an impressive feat - a long stop-motion animation using graffiti. Must have taken an age. (via Kevin Kelly)
- Yahoo downgrades antispam measure after causing BT email chaos | Technology | The Guardian
- Including a quote from "freelance web consultant and blogger Phil Gyford".
- Going Solo: Stowe Boyd - From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities For Soloists. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
- A guide to freelancing. A lot that bears no relation to my experience, but I think I've been lucky at making a go of it without much planning (so far). Still interesting and worth a read.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Disappearing World of Soho’s Independent Record Shops
- I was on Berwick St the other day, but didn't go down far enough to see the demolition opposite Somerfield. I so hope they hang on, but then I buy MP3s over CDs whenever I can, so… (via Alan Connor)
- Bristol - Real Time Information
- Real-time information of buses' departure from bus stops, tracking buses fitted with GPS. Not the most beautifully implemented thing in the world but it looks like it works (eg, try postcode "BS1 5TR"). (via City of Sound)
- Matthew Johnston's slideshow on Flickr - Liberty City vs New York City
- Photos comparing bits of New York with their 'Grand Theft Auto 4' counterparts. Amazing and beautiful. Sometimes it's only the quality of the photos that sets them apart. (via Blackbeltjones)
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- Links for Monday 12 May 2008
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- Russell davies: copy and paste
- Very nice and easily-created rapid slideshow of a month's worth of photos. Fab idea.
- Widgetfinger - Simple Content Management for Simple Websites
- Looks like an awesome thing that would be great for a huge percentage of small business websites. I was a thrown by being asked for 'Company Name' first off when creating an account though. (via Infovore)
- Brent Black Panama Hats - Photo Tour: How a Panama Hat is Made
- Fascinating multi-page photo essay. Quite a process.
- Film Archive - FourDocs - Listen to Britain
- Nice short film of images and sounds from wartime Britain (if you sit through the introduction from the Canadian). Terence Davies mentions it in the current 'Sight & Sound'.
- Lefora Free Forum Hosting
- Hosted forums. New, so I assume it'll improve; the forums themselves are less than beautiful at the moment.
- Amazon.co.uk: "physics for beginners, and the maths that goes with it"
- Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it?
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