Links for Sunday 3 June 2012 (Phil Gyford’s website)

The guide to implementing 2D platformers | Higher-Order Fun: I enjoyed this understandable description of different basic ways of constructing the basic physics of platform games. (via CreativeJS)
ifttt / Log tweets to a Dropbox file: Nice idea for making a backup of your tweets and @replies. (via Stellar)
FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator: It amazes me someone could go to this much effort to create a very complex tool (scroll down…) but leave the interface so bafflingly impenetrable. (via Mr Money Mustache)
Soul Sides / Sliced: Breaking Down: The Emotions’ “Blind Alley” (Stax, 1972): I like this way of discussing a song, displaying annotations while it plays.

3 Jun 2012 at Twitter

09:19am: Using a £660 application just to crop an image. It’s like, oh I don’t know, a simile about a really fast car or something.

10:06am: @revdancatt Yeah, madness! I’m sure someone 150 years ago predicted that fad wouldn’t last, and they were right!

01:41pm: Britain is daytime TV.

01:43pm: I'm going down to the Thames in a bit, but I only lasted a few minutes of BBC coverage. Ugh, dreary, smile-faced, vacuous talkathon.

02:25pm: When we look back on the Jubilee it'll all be laughing street parties, not crowds milling on Upper Thames St unable to get to the river.

02:50pm: Home, cup of tea, cake, Twitter.

03:02pm: "It's literally like a floating cathedral."

03:03pm: "It's so democratic."

03:08pm: Even for an event like this the presenters seem to be constantly looking for conflict and jeopardy. "*Could* anything go wrong?"

05:33pm: @alruii So long as you’re not busy watching men drive lumps of metal in circles!

09:47pm: @SineadHanks Hello. Do you know your Twitter account's been hacked?

Links for Sunday 3 June 2012