Links from December 2008 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Sounds Familiar?: More listenable accents and dialects, British, old and new, from the British Library.
PressDisplay.com - Newspapers From Around the World: Browsable versions of newspapers from around the world (click country links in left column). Costs money to see much though.
Friday's Newspaper Front Pages | UK News | Sky News: Gallery of (some) UK newspapers, with permalink to the day. (For current day go to UK News, then see link under 'UK News in Pictures' on right.
Remember to breathe: Catching up a bit: I'm loving Eric's account of being at LISPA. Nicely written and very reflective. He's the father of someone I was there with until July, and is now doing the course himself!
Outlet PHP ORM - Welcome: I've just started using this. I needed something simple and lightweight and I think I like this. Still a little rough, but getting there.
Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation: "The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. ... until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers -- we aren't fully an information age society." (via Oblinks)
Haddock Events: We'll be using a Upcoming group (private membership, publicly viewable) to collate interesting events. Feel free to let me know if we miss something.

The Grid System: Nice resource on designing web sites using a grid. All we need now is a resource on designing web sites with DECENT LINK STYLES.
How does it feel to be loved? - london club night playing indie pop, northern soul, tamla motown, girl groups, sixties heartbreak: Sounds like an awesome club. Not that I ever go to clubs.
Home is where the heart is: Another weblog by someone at LISPA, currently doing the second year. Still odd to read about people doing what I did exactly one or two years ago.
Jacob Borshard - A Glow In The Dark: His new, third, still FREE album. Usual stuff: twee, ukelele, love, Star Trek references.
Home -- genetify -- GitHub: For testing how different ways of doing things on your site are used by people. Sounds good. (via Yoz)
Michal Kosakowski » films: Very, very good silent film about the hours before 9/11 made entirely from clips of movies made before 9/11. Set aside a few minutes and watch. (via Kottke)

STACK independent magazine subscription and delivery: Subscribe to a mixture of magazines. Lovely idea. The limited selection is a bit too "style" for my taste, but still. (via Russell Davies)
TidBITS Safe Computing: Backblaze Launches Mac Beta of Online Backup Service: Looks like a great online backup service, currently in private beta. (via Daring Fireball)
CrashPlan – Automatic Offsite Backup » Features - Tech Specs: Another online backup thing, to backup to your own machine elsewhere or (for a subscription) to their server.
Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome: One more online backup solution. Heard good things about this in the past I think.
Clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal: Hallelujah: 2007 article about Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and its covers. Also good on 'The OC'. More decent writing about TV please. (via Blech)
JewelSleeve - The world's finest CD storage device!: Wondering about shifting all my CDs from jewel cases into space-efficient sleeves. These hold the booklet and the rear tray card too. From $0.48 per sleeve.
CD Accessories - Space-Saving CD Sleeves CD: Another type of CD sleeve that also holds booklet and rear tray card. From only $0.15 per sleeve.
CD Pro CD Storage Sleeve: One more CD and booklet and rear tray card storing sleeve. This one from $0.56 per sleeve.

West End Whingers: I'm enjoying this blog's theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.
Shoemakers.org.uk - Roosters: I got a pair of boots from Roosters over twenty years ago and (after a long time of not wearing them) I still like them.
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips: Lots of handy tips for people like me who have only dabbled in jQuery so far. (via Infovore)
10 Insanely Useful Django Tips - NETTUTS: I like insanely useful tips. Just dipping my toes in Python at the mo so this may come in useful. (via Blech)
Hedged down: Practical Django Projects: For future reference if/when I have a look at this book, updated code examples. (via Blech)
Cnewton.com: List: Starbucks Terms of Art: A list of jargon used by Starbucks employees. Industry phrases always fascinate me but... how about explanation of what they mean? (via Waxy)
Kiva - Loans that change lives: I was trying to remember the name of this micro-loans site the other day and today it popped up on Cool Tools.

Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition) - EN World D&D / RPG News: Long discussion mostly on what's good about WFRP and why WFRP2 is better than WFRP1. Also, suggestions for what supplements are most useful.
Fantasy Flight Games [Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Products]: Current publishers of WFRP. Catching up on this after twenty years is a lot of fun.
Strike to Stun: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay site: weblog, downloads, forum.
Warpstone magazine - Downloads: Lots of handy downloads for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
Winds of Chaos » Downloads: More Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay stuff. Critical Hit charts made by doctors -- got to be good. Plus conversions for the Enemy Within Campaign to WFRP2.
Liber Fanatica Homepage: Four user-created booklets for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
MadAlfred's WFRP Page: Mad Alfred appears to be the pre-eminent creator of extra material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

Links from December 2008