2008-07-13 (Sunday)

Links

1. Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: … be good, get good or give up.

   Guidelines for using cron nicely. (via Simon Willison)

2. LRB · Iain Sinclair: The Olympics Scam

   Very good long article on the 2012 London Olympics and its effect on East London. I was getting won over by the Olympics until this reminded me how I really feel.

3. ‘Grand,’ but No ‘Godfather’ - WSJ.com

   On why ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ is very good but isn’t great art in the way the best films are. (via Infovore)

4. 493. South Park, San Francisco.

   South Park around 1860 or 1870. One of many great old photos on this University of California site.

5. Dan Grossman » Open Calais Tags

   “a PHP class for extracting entities from text using Open Calais”

6. Frobisher Crescent : Coming Soon

   Work has started on 69 new studio, 1, 2 and 3 bed flats in the Barbican. Pointless un-informative Flash site.

7. Houston Futures Home - Houston Futures

   A new unofficial student / staff / alumni-generated wiki about the Future Studies course I did in Houston.

8. Features are a one-way street - (37signals)

   Yes. (via Daring Fireball)

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