Links for Friday 26 March 2010

Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders: One of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it. Very handy. (via Infovore)
Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine: Fascinating account of the process of making an album/track and all the technological stuff that happens to the music these days. (via Tom Taylor)
Experimental Rockets at the Naza - Windows Live: There was secret rocket testing going on at Walton on the Naze during World War II.
jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery: There are lots of things like this, but I’ve used this one and it seems very nice.
Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com: interesting article on the “Tea Party” Right in America. Also scary. Hadn’t realised how much they had in common with crazy paranoid Patriots.
Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper’s Magazine): Lovely article that is more a reminiscence of a lost San Francisco and childhood than it is another “we must save newspapers” plea.

Photos taken 26 Mar 2010

12:59pm: @blech Because some cyclists think you're only a cyclist if you ride the right bike and see it as a way of life, rather than transport.
03:22pm: @spaceboy @samuelpepys' court case is too laborious to fit into tweets. Business, not personal. You should read the full diary! #upselling
04:54pm: Analogue or digital friction? Sticky chocolate cake fingers on the trackpad.