Links from January 2009
- Links for Saturday 3 January 2009
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- Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)
- Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison)
- ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
- Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.
- Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything... | Ask Metafilter
- List of scenes from movies that explain the different cliques within a school. Looking forward to the YouTube compilation.
- Happy New Year by Electrabel - Fubiz™
- Stunning stop-frame animation advert done with thousands of candles. Watch it. (via Drawn!)
- Bandwagon update - Bandwagon Forum
- I thought I'd check out how that iTunes music online backup software was doing and found this exercise in failing to manage users' expectations. 14 months of "it'll be ready soon..." Ouch.
- Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page
- Big wiki cataloging "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations". Big, big time sink.
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- Links for Wednesday 7 January 2009
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- Slashdot | Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution
- And why most of us entrusting our creative output to third-party sites is a bad idea. (via Lee)
- Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
- A worrying amount of that seems to fit.
- 'I will e-mail the BBC to object to "Thought for the Day"' - PledgeBank
- I'd have signed up if I'd heard about it in time.
- Meet With Approval
- "Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming..." Great idea, but I wonder if it works in practice. (via Haddock)
- Doodle: Easy Scheduling
- Another way to arrange group events. (via Haddock)
- MediaShift . Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business? | PBS
- I had this great idea... turns out it's far from original, but it still sounds good. (via Haddock)
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- Links for Wednesday 14 January 2009
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- Preoccupations: Our work (so far) this year
- Going to talk to those pupils was great fun and this describes how incredibly lucky and clever they are. Very impressive (David and them, not me).
- Requirements for an invoice | Business Link
- Not thrilling, but useful and clearly presented, for UK businesses.
- The Django Book: Version 2.0 (English)
- New, in-progress, free version of the book for learning Django v1.0. (via Simon Willison)
- Twee as Fuck
- Fanzine, monthly London club night, record label. Looks great. (Warning: the naughty page plays music when it loads.)
- A Typographic Survey of the City of London on Vimeo
- Lovely little video about the typography used in public throughout the City. Only criticism: sound recording is very poor quality. Otherwise, fab. (via Blech)
- Russell Davies: meet the new schtick (2)
- Part two of a write-up of a talk Russell gave. Real-world things derived from the internet's good stuff make me excited.
- Tabbloid
- Will regularly email you a PDF of your chosen RSS feeds. Couldn't be much simpler. (via Russell Davies)
- Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print
- I haven't even seen one of these (yet) but it's already one of my favourite objects. I've wanted to do something like this for ages but Russell and Ben actually did it, and did it much better than I'd ever have done it.
- The Printed Blog | Home
- A trial of a twice-daily very local newspaper in some US locations using content from blogs. It would be difficult to be any worse than, say, Metro, London Lite, Evening Standard, etc. in London.
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- Links for Saturday 24 January 2009
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- Google Open Source Blog: Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
- Excellent - scripts to convert between Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType and WordPress. I reckon every single online service should have an "Export" button and nag you if you haven't backed-up in a while. (via Tom Taylor)
- ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes
- I'm sure there are similar services but if I don't save this I'll forget which one I signed up with to watch a page.
- LifeStreamBackup.com
- Launching soon, a backup for Flickr and weblogs. Google Docs, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook backup promised. As I said earlier, all these sites should offer this service by default. (via Blech)
- TDO Mini Forms Wordpress Plugin (v0.12.6) [thedeadone.net]
- Very flexible plugin that lets you create custom forms which create new WordPress posts with their data. Confusing and ugly UI, but nicely powerful.
- Simple online time tracking, timesheet and reporting software: Harvest
- What it says. Haven't tried it. (via Haddock)
- FreshBooks - Online Invoicing, Time Tracking and Expense Service
- Looks interesting, for possible future use. (via Haddock)
- Xero is the world's easiest accounting system.
- And one more for good measure. (via Haddock)
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