Links from October 2009 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript redux using the Flickr Services API | d'bug: I've read oodles of JavaScript examples on weblogs recently and it's so nice to occasionally find one that explains things well, has good working examples, and inspires confidence. Shouldn't be rare, but is.
iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor: Need to try this out. I'd like an archive of my SMSes and this might help me extract them.
How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 — PaulStamatiou.com: A good intro to EC2, which I'd like to get know better. (via Infovore)
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front): "An engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products." (via Haddock)
Wired Scenarios: - Global Neighborhood Watch Neal Stephenson: For blech, Neal Stephenson in 1995, imagining people watching CCTV cameras over the internet, like the new 'Internet Eyes' scheme starting in Britain.

Rescuing The Reporters « Clay Shirky: On how much of a local newspaper is actual news, and suggesting that they should be non-profit organisations.
Tutorial for Flash MP3 Player: Nice, simple embedded MP3 player.
Flickr for busy people: Which of your contacts have added photos recently?
British Airways: Best 'Title' field in a registration form ever. (via Haddock)

CityEngine: I love watching this kind of stuff. "And... generate the buildings." (via City of Sound)
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Sounds like an interesting, free, online book for those of us unlikely to learn real programming any time soon. (via Infovore)
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica: How companies have complained that new technologies will destroy content industries over the past century. Like when home taping killed music. Wasn't that terrible. (via Kottke)
Equinux - Mac software to watch, chat and record digital TV: The Tube. Looks like an interesting alternative to something like EyeTV for watching and recording TV, if you have a tuner. Plus social gubbins.

gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library: That looks very nice indeed. (via Infovore)
Cadence | your music. your motion.: Mainly for Cadence Desktop, which claims to apply BPM values to your iTunes songs. I've heard that before, but you never know. (via Lee)
Warren Ellis » Paper Nets: "I keep wondering. What can a one-writer magazine look like?" Me too.
Thomas Dolby’s Blog » Blog Archive » ‘Gig’ announcement!: I'm unreasonably excited about this.

LRB · Roy Mayall: Diary: A good day to finally read this report from a pseudonymous postman. "Figures are down" but volumes are up; companies are important, ordinary people aren't.
Hiddenloop's paging_keys_js at master - GitHub: Could be handy - javascript for doing the j/k up/down navigation thing through a page. (via Kottke)
Free PDF Printer: I failed to get Windows XP running on VMWare to print. Grrr. But this allowed me to print to a PDF, which I could drag to the Mac and print from there.
Is the Magazine Dead? « Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia's founder on small groups making their own magazines with a MagCloud/Wikia partnership.

Click opera - Hanging gardens of Barbican: Momus on growing to love the Barbican. (via Blackbeltjones)
LRB · Bridget Riley: At the End of My Pencil: Bridget Riley on why she draws and how her paintings developed. Good, although it all sounds more straighforward than I imagine it was.
Linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of: What it says. (via Yoz)
Theatricalia: Matthew Somerville's new theatre database site. It already features nearly 19,000 productions, and you can add more.

Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities...: Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading 'Making of'. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)
What Startups Are Really Like: I love descriptions of start-ups and businesses like this. (via Daring Fireball)
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook | Facebook: After hearing, a while back, about Yahoo denying access to relatives and then closing accounts of the deceased, this sounds very good. (via Preoccupations)
Statistical analysis, data and graphing | Timetric: making data useful: Datagasm. Loads of data sets available for analysing, exporting, monitoring, fiddling with, etc. (via Blackbeltjones)

Video Monkey: "A free video encoding application exclusively for Mac ... it borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool." (via Yoz)
Mu — Mu Connect: A JavaScript library for making interaction with Facebook Connect easier. Which I somehow didn't find when it would have been useful to me.
Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition: Tool for "diagnosing and preventing AJAX performance issues". Annoyingly on Windows, for Internet Explorer, but free and could be useful. (via Yoz)
Playdar - Music Content Resolver: The idea is to play any song that's available on your computer or anywhere online. Requires compiling. Oh well.

Links from October 2009