Links from August 2008
- Links for Wednesday 20 August 2008
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- Twitter / novelsin3lines
- I'm very much enjoying the 1906 French news summaries by Félix Fénéon (and not just because I wrote it up as an idea myself a while back). Lovely writing.
- Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics
- Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
- Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia
- Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde 'Zenit' to 'Advanced Beekeeping'. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
- BBC News | England | London | Smithfield market plans refused
- A couple of weeks old. Phew. I'm not against redevelopment if it's not going to be more glass offices and same-old shops.
- JPMorgan plans Europe HQ in Canary Wharf - International Herald Tribune
- Yay, they've ditched plans for their massive HQ on London Wall, which would have destroyed some of the public highwalks. (Three weeks old.)
- Scarytree Films - Here Comes Funky Kazoo
- My friend Mark's rather nice short film, in which I make a very brief and silent appearance.
- What to do now to improve the human race in the long term? | Ask Metafilter
- After reading 'Last and First Men' I've been wondering this, so I asked Metafilter.
- You're not helping | MetaTalk
- Oh, apparently I shouldn't have posted that (to me) fascinating question because it's too hypothetical. Shame. Seems more interesting than "How do I fix my Mac", etc.
- Foundation for the Future
- "Was established with the mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity." Less long-term than Long Now is, but perhaps more focused?
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- Links for Friday 15 August 2008
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- TheWashCycle: The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist
- I think decriminalising cyclists jumping red lights could, possibly, work. But until that happens: don't. That simple. Enough of the moaning and self-justification. (via Blech)
- LRB · letters page from Vol. 30 No. 14
- The '10' on 10 Downing Street's front door is Trajan, with an upper case 'O' instead of a zero.
- Stone Cold Pimpin': NASA's Forgotten Ambient Albums
- "Space music" from 1992: "raw, uncatalogued space sounds data … we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce 'Symphonies of the Planets'". Ambient "music".
- My Collection of Recorded 78 RPM Records - Free MP3 Downloads
- Currently 3,739 free MP3s ripped from one guy's 78rpm records. That's a lot of listening. (via Boing Boing)
- The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project
- Detailed information about thousands of 78 RPM recordings. I love the Internet.
- The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
- I found this Freeman Dyson article interesting because it isn't written from one of the two usual polar extremes of the global warming arguments.
- Hulu - Metropolitan
- Whit Stillman has put his first film, 'Metropolitan', up on Hulu for free viewing. But, like the rest of Hulu, it only works in the US.
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- Links for Monday 11 August 2008
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- YouVersion | A Revolutionary Online Bible Reader
- All signed-up readers can contribute notes about passages from many different versions of the Bible. Quite complex but usable interface. (via TUAW)
- Facebook | I Know Hans Montanana
- A group for the music teacher at my old school. Reading the many enthusiastic posts… it's like he's the lead in a Hollywood movie about a teacher inspiring kids or something. Lovely.
- Hong Kong’s Most Disturbing CG Illustrations « WITMOT?
- Hong Kong's 'Apple Daily' makes computer images for news stories when there are no photos. Hilarious, especially if you scroll down to Morgan Freeman. (via Ted Mills)
- BuddyPress » About BuddyPress
- "The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network." (via Oblomovka)
- About The DiSo Project : DiSo Project
- Building social networking tools using open tools and standards, starting with WordPress. Not enough there for me to quite "get" it yet. (via Oblomovka)
- The Orwell Prize
- George Orwell's diaries daily, Pepys style. Lacking the year on each entry — too much '2008' very little '1938' around. Quite a random linking strategy in entries, but it's early days.
- Summary of China Rights Developments | Human Rights Watch
- Just in case you're enjoying the Olympics so much you've forgotten all this stuff.
- Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle)
- Guy Debord's film in full on Google Video, with English subtitles.
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- Links for Tuesday 5 August 2008
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- Kevin Kelly — The Technium - Neo-Amish Drop Outs
- People who stopped using email etc.
- Site statistics (Pepys' Diary)
- Five and a half years in, 50,000 comments so far, 25,000 absolute unique visitors per month, etc.
- Myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding
- Imagine if every complaint about anything received a reply this thoughtful. (via Kottke)
- YouTube - Orangina Naturally Juicy French version
- I've seen this ad at the cinema in Paris and it doesn't make me want to drink Orangina. It makes me want to never go to the countryside again.
- Amazon.co.uk: An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't: Judy Jones, William Wilson: Books
- I'm interested in attempts to summarise everything one needs to know and this sounds vaguely promising.
- Synium - MacFamilyTree
- Very whizzy-looking Mac software for managing one's family tree and outputting it in many different ways, including weird 3D grids and a globe.
- New College, Oxford - College Oaks
- That story from 'How Buildings Learn' about the oak trees being grown to replace the dining hall's beams? The important part is apparently not true.
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