Phil Gyford's Links

Links for Wednesday 12 November 2008

phil — 2008-11-12T23:58:00+00:00

Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com: A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
The Ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: There's been a ladder perched on a balcony at the church since at least 1835. Fascinating story. (via Haddock)
Sprint: Plug into Now.: Quite absorbing "dashboard" about the state of the world. Some of it's obviously whizzy and not entirely factual. But I want one for me. (via Russell Davies)
Alex is blogging, too: Tumblr Friendfeed Theme Release: A theme for Tumblr that incorporates your Friendfeed stuff into a sidebar.
Main Page - John Peel Wiki - a Wikia wiki: More Peel info than you could ever need. I had no idea there were quite so many tapes (now MP3s) of complete Peel shows in existence. (via Ted Mills)
How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare: Presentation on a company's user testing with iPhones. One thing not mentioned: although some people made mistakes, did they immediately learn from them, or did they keep making the same mistakes? Big difference I think. (via Chris Heathcote)
Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline: I think they started going downhill after 1986. Entirely coincidentally, that's when I stopped buying them. (via Chris Heathcote)

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Links for Thursday 6 November 2008

phil — 2008-11-06T23:58:00+00:00

SS09 Piers Atkinson: Amazing (and sometimes scary) "hats" by my friend Piers.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site: Great practical advice for building a website for iPhones. (via Infovore)
YouTube - The Day Today - Britain in Crisis: Always worth a watch when it looks like things are tanking. "This is Britain and everything's alright. Everything's alright. It's OK. It's fine."
Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs: Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
Changing the short username in Leopard | Macworld: This was very useful after Migration Assistant insisted I couldn't have the same username on my new MacBook as on my old PowerBook. Grrrr.
TruSim :: Division of Blitz Games Studios Ltd: Saw these videos of CGI humans at Playful. Very impressive. The second one was very unsettling -- I've never had an emotional reaction like that to computer graphics.

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Links for Wednesday 29 October 2008

phil — 2008-10-29T23:58:00+00:00

ReBlog by Eyebeam R&D: A way of aggregating RSS feeds and publishing them through weblog software. All a bit vague.
Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software: Self-hosted aggregation of things you do elsewhere on the web. Not convinced about the design of the example. You have to sign up to find out more. Oh well.
Back to the Garden: 1958 TV show on Global Warming!: It's more than a little galling to see a TV programme from 1958 explaining global warming. We're only doing something about it now!? (via Boing Boing)
Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN): Nice looking Subversion client for the Mac (er, like it says). (via TUAW)
Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face: Hosted Subversion. Looks very nice. (via TUAW)
Jackets from Scottevest - Vests and Jackets by SeV - Men's and Women's Jacket Store: Good looking jackets designed for geeks with requirements for many, many pockets. Shame it's mail order only. (via TUAW)
LRB · Mark Greif: You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel: Great article on 'Mad Men', nailing some (but not all) of the things that annoy me about it. But so many people rave about it, despite all this, that we're going to try again...

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Links for Sunday 26 October 2008

phil — 2008-10-26T23:58:00+00:00

Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames: An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it's hard to believe no one's thought of it before. Smashing.
The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg: Describing how easy it is to get stuff past US airline security. "Security theatre": it's all just for show. (via everywhere)
BBC News | Health | Bee Gees hit could save your life: I'm amazed this non-news story got so much traction on blogs and news sites. There's nothing to it at all. (Plus, surely Soul II Soul's 'Back to Life' (102 BPM) would be even better.)
Reset Password for Movable Type User via MySQL - Adventures in Movable Type: I predict this will be very, very handy.
Photographic collection homepage from London transport museum: More than 16,000 historical photos of London, nicely browsable. You can even add comments to each one. Would be nice if they enlarged bigger, but otherwise fab.
Urban Sketchers: I'm very much enjoying this so far. A group weblog from dozens of sketching people in cities around the world. Some inspiring stuff.

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Links for Monday 20 October 2008

phil — 2008-10-20T23:58:00+00:00

Byroglyphics - news: I love some of these paintings / illustrations. Well-drawn plus splattery! (via Drawn!)
Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. at Aral Balkan: My word, it sounds quite useless really. (via Simon Willison)
Financial crisis timeline | Business | guardian.co.uk: Handy summary of the past month's descent into madness. Ideal for someone who's, say, been travelling through central Asia for four weeks...
BookGlutton: Read books online, annotate them and read the annotations of others. Doesn't feel *quite* right somehow in the way it works, but close.
Advanced Communication Solutions - Custom Earphone Sleeves: Very tempted by these, but not quite tempted enough at the price. Yet.
Custom Earphones by Etymotic Research and ACS: Reseller of aforementioned custom earphone sleeves bundled with ER-6is. Which you have to buy via further resellers. I'll never understand business.

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Links for Thursday 2 October 2008

phil — 2008-10-02T23:58:00+00:00

Mycrocosm: "A web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs." Like Daytum? Love it. (via Haddock)
Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware: I had no idea there was open source alternative software for MP3 players, including early iPods. (via Boing Boing)
The Official Star Wars Blog » I Left My Star Destroyer in San Francisco: I saw this linked to everywhere and didn't watch it. Just more Star Wars stuff. But I finally succumbed and it's *very* good. I love that the footage is so casual and amateur.
William Heath’s blog » A place to live: William Heath is looking for a place to create a "co-housing" project - people living slightly communally. The search is interesting.
UUA: Deep Fun: A good source of games to play with groups of people, ideal as ice-breakers. (via Cool Tools)
Related Entries in Movable Type | Devlounge: How to do a "related entries" block on individual entry archives. Requires that you use tags.
One hundred push ups: A training program to get you working up to doing one hundred press ups. I love that such focused and detailed things exist.
YouTube - Daily Show - Federal Bail Out: I could link to the Daily Show every day but here Jon Stewart *really* gets going on Congress. If you only have two minutes to spare, skip to 2:30 for a very fine, and justified, rant. Can we clone him for the UK?

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Links for Saturday 20 September 2008

phil — 2008-09-20T23:58:00+00:00

Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData: Oodles of pretty and obsessive charting of personal data. (via Boing Boing)
The School Of Life - Homepage: "A new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." A religion without religion? Intriguing. (via Kottke)
43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders: This post and a couple of other recent ones by Merlin Mann about his refocusing have been really inspiring. Great stuff. (via Kottke and Daring Fireball)
David Foster Wallace (Harper's Magazine): Harper's have put all their DFW writing online. 'Shipping Out' is one of my favourite reads. (via Kottke)
Citadel Miniatures: Proof that large chunks of my memories will sooner or later appear, scanned, online. Fantastic.
Locating Postboxes - Dracos.co.uk: Matthew Somerville's new thing -- help locate post boxes for OpenStreetMap etc.
YouTube - The Late Edition - Britain's Own War On Christmas: Watch for the first 2 minutes 30 seconds rant about Christians complaining that "Christianity is under attack". Brilliant. (via Haddock)

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