Links from July 2009 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Pulse Laser: Shownar: This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
Scope (Schulze & Webb): More Matt Webb, his opening presentation at last week's Reboot. It was very, very good, and it's great to have the whole thing written much as he delivered it.
The Viridian Design Movement: Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
Newspaper Club - A work in progress: Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome.

Stalled building sites in Square Mile to become allotments | News | Architects Journal: Temporary grow bag allotments, but still, better than nothing. (But not as good as having Milton Court undemolished either.)
AVForums.com Home: A good source of answers to the question "what model of TV should I get?" (and similar, I imagine).
Walton Rocks! - a set on Flickr: A nice simple set of photos of bits of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Notes.husk.org. The show, which is currently in production with an....: BBC4 "comedy drama" about the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers head Chris Curry. Why a sodding *comedy* drama? Let's laugh at the funny 1980s and their silly computers! Well, might be good.

Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair « Mostly on McSweeney’s!: A very nicely written set of notes about that discussion at the British Library a week ago. (via Blech)
Elmcity project FAQ « Jon Udell: A way to aggregate iCalendar feeds about a particular location using Delicious. Looks slightly fiddly but also nice in a loosely-joined kind of way. (via Tom Taylor)
Bitquabit - The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News: Aside from being specifically about people who think they can rewrite StackOverflow in a weekend, great as an example of where the complexity lies in a website. (via Blech)
Potlatch: what's going on with the music formerly known as 'indie'?: A nice piece about how mixed up music is today and what counts as "timeless". I need to read more good music writing. Maybe I can NewspaperClub my own NME/MM. (via Matt Jones)
John Harris asks whether the best writing about pop music hails from a different era | Music | The Guardian: While I'm at it, I enjoyed this too, about whether music writing isn't as good as it used to be. It never was. Or maybe it's always moving so it's not where you left it.

Jorn Barger, the NewsPage Network, and the Emergence of the Weblog Community | Tawawa.org: Fascinating history of the early days of weblogs, with a prominent place for Dave Winer's NewsPage stuff, which I remember being important to me (the Haddock Directory started on Userland Frontier in 1997). (via Preoccupations)
Last.fm + Spotify + Find new albums: Find albums by your top artists on Last.fm that have recently been added to Spotify. Although many are albums I already have, which is how I've listened to them on Last.fm... (via Tom Taylor)
Notes.husk.org. The City Of London Highwalks.: Paul Mison's starting some writing about the raised pedestrian walkways in the City of London. Good stuff.

Emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco: How to make the most of living in SF. Wouldn't that be very lovely? Anyway, I think these could probably be generalised as to how to enjoy any city. (via Kottke)
Piwik - Web analytics - Open source: An open source, locally-installable alternative to Google Analytics. Looks rather good. (via Yoz)
Taking a walk in the clouds - Times Online: An article from 2004 by Bob Stanley on London's raised pedestrian walkways. (via Blech)

Hacker News | The BBC's Glow effort has always confused me. They were using jQuery on the main...: John Resig, the chap behind jQuery, wondering (like many people I imagine) why the BBC wrote its own bespoke JavaScript framework. (via Haddock)
The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News: I was sceptical about this -- "I don't have time to listen to sounds!" "I live in London, I don't need to hear it through a computer!" -- but it's really quite lovely in its framing of brief moments of life. Would like to overhear more conversations, but I'm nosey.
Simple Bug and Issue Tracking | Sifter: Looks pretty and simple which is always a bonus.
Lighthouse - Beautifully Simple Issue Tracking: Another simple, pretty bug tracking web app thingummy.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I'm really thinking maybe I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much: Can we have the second and third paragraph printed in big letters as the first thing anyone sees when they open the packaging on a new shiny thing? (via Daring Fireball)
New Liberal Arts // Snarkmarket & Revelator Press: A free PDF book on many interesting-sounding topics. No idea what the quality's like, but it's another PDF to never quite get round to reading. (via Kottke)
New York Review of Ideas: Looks like rather a nice new online journal thing, marred only by having its articles split over several pages. Maddening. (via Kottke)

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: A Christmas Present from the HD Channel!: A way to calibrate your HD TV, but mostly for the links to Flickr pictures of HD-sized versions of the traditional BBC test card with girl and clown.
Facebook | News Feed and Wall Privacy: Opt out of having your photos appear in advertisements shown to your friends. YOUR PHOTOS APPEAR IN ADVERTISEMENTS SHOWN TO YOUR FRIENDS. ffs. (via Haddock)
100 Years of Design Manifestos -- Social Design Notes: I wish there were more early twentieth century manifestos (there must be more, right?) but a good list otherwise. (via Kottke)

Cufón - fonts for the people: A way to do pretty fonts nicely in web pages other than sIFR. (I haven't tried it.)
Mattb's git and workflow Bookmarks on Delicious: Links to examples of how people use Git. I still find it hard to get my head round this kind of stuff, and reading things like this helps.
Developer Color Picker: Quite handy, although I wish it gave the option to display the Color Values in CSS friendly hex too. (via Daring Fireball)

IanVisits London Events Guide: Fantastic guide of interesting things going on in London. I'd like an iCal file, but otherwise, handy stuff. (via Simon Willison)
Spotify + sharemyplaylists.com = good: I had exactly the same problem with Spotify -- unsure what to listen to. ShareMyPlaylists does seem like a good way in.
Spotify playlist: Chart Hits 83: I made a playlist of that K-Tel double cassette compilation I was banging on about a while back. A few omissions, but otherwise it's all there.

Links from July 2009