2006-12-20 (Wednesday)

Links

1. Running Movable Type 3.3 with LightTPD and FastCGI (Tapirtype Blog)

   Detailed instructions for doing this on TextDrive hosting.

2. FLV Online Converter - vixy.net

   Free online Flash video converter, can convert YouTube videos into something usable. (via Daring Fireball)

3. The Taiyo Yuden FAQ - Blank Media - Club CD Freaks

   How to identify which CDs/DVDs were made by Taiyo Yuden. (via Daring Fireball)

4. How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera

   Use DVD+R discs manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, if you can identify it. (via Daring Fireball)

5. Caring for Your Introvert

   Meet me. Scarily excellent description of being an introvert and why they/we find extroverts frustrating.

6. Apophenia: suckage explained

   Having no spare time, not wanting any more email, microfame, attention. (via Haddock)

7. Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

   “Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.”

8. Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » The World’s Longest Diary

   For me to come back to whenever I start documenting my life just that little bit too obsessively. (via Boing Boing)

9. Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot

   Not very complicated, but a good idea and a nicely done demo. (via ChrisDodo)

10. Playwright Nina Raine on the difficulties of directing your own work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts

    What it says.

11. Karen Scott Photography

    Photographer who does actors’ headshots, apparently popular with people at college in the past, for future reference.

12. The London School of Osteopathy

    Someone at college was recommending these folks as a reasonably cheap way of getting a work-over. For future reference.

13. The Ten Thousand Things

    I was following this eclectic MP3 blog a while back and somehow missed that Blake Leyh is also music supervisor on ‘The Wire’, which you must watch if you haven’t already.

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