Links from November 2008 (Phil Gyford’s website)

SS09 Piers Atkinson: Amazing (and sometimes scary) "hats" by my friend Piers.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site: Great practical advice for building a website for iPhones. (via Infovore)
YouTube - The Day Today - Britain in Crisis: Always worth a watch when it looks like things are tanking. "This is Britain and everything's alright. Everything's alright. It's OK. It's fine."
Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs: Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
Changing the short username in Leopard | Macworld: This was very useful after Migration Assistant insisted I couldn't have the same username on my new MacBook as on my old PowerBook. Grrrr.
TruSim :: Division of Blitz Games Studios Ltd: Saw these videos of CGI humans at Playful. Very impressive. The second one was very unsettling -- I've never had an emotional reaction like that to computer graphics.

Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com: A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
The Ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: There's been a ladder perched on a balcony at the church since at least 1835. Fascinating story. (via Haddock)
Sprint: Plug into Now.: Quite absorbing "dashboard" about the state of the world. Some of it's obviously whizzy and not entirely factual. But I want one for me. (via Russell Davies)
Alex is blogging, too: Tumblr Friendfeed Theme Release: A theme for Tumblr that incorporates your Friendfeed stuff into a sidebar.
Main Page - John Peel Wiki - a Wikia wiki: More Peel info than you could ever need. I had no idea there were quite so many tapes (now MP3s) of complete Peel shows in existence. (via Ted Mills)
How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare: Presentation on a company's user testing with iPhones. One thing not mentioned: although some people made mistakes, did they immediately learn from them, or did they keep making the same mistakes? Big difference I think. (via Chris Heathcote)
Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline: I think they started going downhill after 1986. Entirely coincidentally, that's when I stopped buying them. (via Chris Heathcote)

Boundaries: Completely awesome thing from Tom Taylor. Shows the shapes of areas based on how people have tagged their geo-located Flickr photos.
The Netizen: I've been digitising VHS tapes. I found this 1996/7 TV show from the then soon to be defunct Wired TV. It's quite dull.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo: The latest version of the happy, happy dancing Matt video. Still makes me unusually happy.
Philayres' timeline on Swurl: An example of a Swurl timeline, aggregating a person's feeds etc. Interesting, although apart from photos it still all looks too similar.
BBC - Voices - The Voices Recordings: Recordings of different accents from around the UK.
YouTube - Hitler's BNP membership gets leaked: Best use of the 'Downfall' video meme yet. (via Haddock)
Feedback Army - Home [Website Feedback Service]: Get feedback on your website from Mechanical Turk users. Ten responses $7. (via Waxy)

Links from November 2008