Links from August 2009 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule: Seems so obvious now it's been put into words. If I have a meeting in a morning or afternoon I know that half of the day will be a right-off for all other useful work. (via Daring Fireball)
jQuery slideViewer 1.1: Wonderfully simple looking javascript slideshow thing. (via Infovore)
Søren Vind >> pc_user: "A lightweight authentication library for CodeIgniter. It focuses on simplicity and security." I used this recently and, like the CodeIgniter PHP framework, it just worked.

Letter posters: Embroidery doesn't usually do much for me, but combine with typography and CMYK screens and it's all geek friendly! (via Haddock)
SWFUpload jQuery Plugin : Adam Royle: A nice jQuery way to implement the SWFUpload thingummy. (via Yoz)
Paul Morley's showing off ... Classical | Music | guardian.co.uk: Somehow I was unaware of the BBC programme and now it's off iPlayer. Grrr. Sounds awesome and I've only read 'Critic to Composer' so far. (via Blackbeltjones)

Op-Ed Columnist - Swan Songs? - NYTimes.com: On the changing state of the recorded music industry, mostly for the fascinating 'Music Sales' graphic on the left. (via Daring Fireball)
Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X - Ryan Parman: I've avoided IE 8 so far, but guess I'll need to give it a whirl soon. Harrumph. (via Tom Taylor)
New ways to save the newspaper - azeem.azhar: Interesting thoughts from Azeem about what things it's worth the Observer (or a similar newspaper) doing.
Netflix - Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture: Interesting readable presentation about Netflix's culture. Although I haven't worked in a company for years, I'm fascinated by this kind of thing. (via Kottke)

Senator Charles Grassley on the costs of health care (C-SPAN video): In case you missed the clips on The Daily Show, here's the full video of Grassley's bizarre cartoon-powered Arthurian mixed metaphors. It's stunning that this nonsense happens in government.
Free Movies: Watch movies online legally: A bunch of full "indie" movies to watch online. Looks like there might be some good stuff.
Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight - the transcript | Technology | guardian.co.uk: What's more depressing: The bored inanity of the Newsnight interview? That an event this unimportant is reported by the Guardian? Or the Guardian's relentlessly anti-Twitter commenters? Tough call.
Preoccupations: Berlin: I keep meaning to go to Berlin, and David's collected some great tips and links and background.

Muse: Ununited Eurasia: Something I made recently with Six to Start, which went very well. It was a busy week.
County of london plan 1945 - a set on Flickr: "excerpts from a small booklet explaining the ideas behind the official County of London Plan." Lovely.
Fujinon Binoculars: View Source. Scroll down. The HTML is something else. (via Haddock)
Cars parked illegally in bike lanes in London - MyBikeLane.com: It's vehicles stopping in the advance cycle boxes that annoy me most, because it's so easy not to do.

YouTube - NHS - Marr's Modern Britain: Andrew Marr on the introduction of the wonderful NHS.
The Google Maps Image Cutter (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis): "An application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map."

Deathwatch - Archiveteam: "a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down, or to serve as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly." (via Haddock)
Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution: (Re)Naming the generations from 1844 onwards. I'm fascinated by these kinds of divisions and identifications. (via Kottke)
Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View: First, interesting essay on Google Street View as photography/art. Second, really wonderful photos found around the world on it. (via Blech)

Simonw's mytweets at master - GitHub: "Script for saving a JSON archive of your tweets." I'm already archiving mine another way, but a handy thing nonetheless.
Government Beyond Obama? - The New York Review of Books: A review of 'The Case for Big Government' from March 2009, good at putting levels of US federal government spending in a historical perspective.
Ajax with Codeigniter | Setting Up Jquery | Tools for Ajax | Web Lee: I usually like reading docs rather than screencasts, but, while these weren't *quite* what I was after, they're quite good. And it's nice to have an English accent on these things.
Facebook Connect CodeIgniter Library « Elliot Haughin: That photo does not endear me to the chap but this is still quite handy if you're after that kind of thing.

Links from August 2009