Links from November 2009 (Phil Gyford’s website)

DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer: Looks useful. (via Haddock)
My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage: More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)
Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar: For IE6 or IE7. (via Haddock)
In which Phil uses his loaf for once « West End Whingers: (A different Phil.) The National Theatre made out of bread.

Misfits - E4.com: Click 'Play' to see what I've been making with Six To Start for the past few weeks.

Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps: Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
K-punk: London litened: A nice description from 2008 of a London where everyone is reading those bloody free newspapers. (via City of Sound)
Facebook Developers | Platform Live Status: Current status of the Facebook platform.
Illicit filesharing - p2p - government evidence to the culture committee | Tom Watson MP: Good questioning from Tom Watson. I'm continually gob-smacked by the craven corporate backwardness of the government. I wish there was a Labour party.

Papercraft Self Portrait - Art Portfolio for Eric Testroete: This looks wonderful.
Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]: The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)
BLDGBLOG: One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik: On planning nuclear waste disposal, designed to be stable and safe for one million years. Longest-term futures work ever?
Flogr - Project Hosting on Google Code: Looks like a nice way to make a portfolio site from your photos stored on Flickr. Example: http://thecarruthfamily.com/michael/photos/ (via Infovore)

Vintage Posters -- SSPL Prints: Hundreds of old rail posters etc reprinted for the purchasing of. Very tempting.
Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose - 8 November 2009: "Dad, you make it sound like social media is ruining my life! It's NOT!"
The Online Photographer: Panasonic GF1 vs. Olympus E-P1, Part I: Solely for this quote: "These two [bundled] applications just can't possibly be as lame and useless as they appear to be ... They can't be—right? Because if faced with a choice of working day in, day out in one of these environments or picking up trash by the side of the freeway with a pointy stick guarded by a fat man with a shotgun and a big wad of tobacco in his cheek, I would need time to decide. They both seem like they'd be torture, but least in a chain gang I'd be outdoors."

BBC News | World | Audio slideshow: Night witches: About Russia's World War II female fighter pilots, what I was in a play about three years ago.
Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics | Yes to Less | Fast Company: I've noticed that most of the more recent helmet designs (eg, Patriots, Buccaneers, Panthers, Jaguars, Ravens) are a bit rubbish. (via Daring Fireball)

Facebook | SAVE THE FOUNDRY CAMPAIGN !!! The Foundry - re-house/re-locate: You can have all the fancy urban theories you like, but I'm increasingly thinking that if you don't own lots of expensive property, you can't control anything.
What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging « Design By Gravity: This kind of stuff scares me, but this is a technique that's supposed to work.
Techtech2009: I was never hugely into techno, but I'm enjoying this mp3 blog. Great for working to. (via Haddock)
Word Spy - parahawking: "A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft."

Cool Tools: Printed Space: You too can have your own Hilda Ogden style mural. Apparently that's "cool" now.

Giving What We Can: A pledge to give 10% of one's income to what they reckon are the most cost-effective charities. (via Preoccupations)
The Space Elevator Games: $4,000,000(?) up for grabs at the current games. The beginnings of a possible bit of future right here.
Ie6-upgrade-warning - Project Hosting on Google Code: Easy-to-slot-in warning to users of Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade. Please.
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Contractor Job Market: Tracks rates offered for different categories of IT jobs in the UK (permanent as well as contract).

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework: Looks very interesting as a basis from which to build. (via Haddock)
Channelography: "Creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions." Like the start of a way to search the "text" of programmes.
Copy©unts: Showing where advertisers steal their ideas from. Which wouldn't be so bad if they didn't still claim to be innovative. (via Haddock)
Augmented Reality Does Time Travel Tourism | Singularity Hub: I remember 20ish years ago walking round my home town wanting something like this (only portable, and working everywhere).

Links from November 2009