Links
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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)
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Caring for Your Introvert
Meet me. Scarily excellent description of being an introvert and why they/we find extroverts frustrating.
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Apophenia: suckage explained
Having no spare time, not wanting any more email, microfame, attention. (via Haddock)
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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.”
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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)
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Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot
Not very complicated, but a good idea and a nicely done demo. (via ChrisDodo)
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Karen Scott Photography
Photographer who does actors’ headshots, apparently popular with people at college in the past, for future reference.
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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.
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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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Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog
Lots of very funny, obfuscatory and incomprehensible diagrams about Web 2.0. Couldn’t be spoofed better. I thought diagrams were supposed to make things *simpler*. (via Haddock)
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How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine
Looks a bit laborious but might be handy sometime.
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vi-R-us » Blog Archive » Planets
Total Perspective Vortext / Powers of Ten style images to make you feel very, very tiny.
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World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games
Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School
Europe-based map game. I’m embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
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Geosense: an online world geography game
What it says. Good one, you can play against others (or click ‘Visit’ then ‘Play alone’). (via Haddock)
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World Map - countries of the world
Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
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Voice of a City Paris
A group blog about Paris — get the hang of the place from what the locals say I think.
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Things magazine - Images from The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings
Nice wood cuts, for inspiration. (via ChrisDodo)
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eG Forums -> Best Pastry/Cake shops in London?
Mmmmm… cake. To my shame I haven’t even heard of most of these. Must explore… (via ChrisDodo)
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Musical copyright terms ‘to stay’
Yay. Is making money off your work fifty years after you did it not good enough!?
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Hawk Wings
Apple Mail blog. I was thinking of switching to Apple Mail from Eudora when I saved this link, but probably won’t now. But just in case…
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Twitter / philgyford
I’m enjoying Twitter much, much more than I thought I would. Strangely addictive, and I love hearing what my friends are up to during the day. All a bit oddly broadcast rather than conversational, but still nice.
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LRB | Jonathan Lear : Can the virtuous person exist in the modern world?
More ethics, morality, philosophy stuff for me to delve into one mythical day when I have loads more time to read books. (Subscribers only)
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Codejedi.com - Home of Shadow Plan for Palm OS
Notebook, outliner, etc to maybe try one day, although the website design makes me distrust the software before I’ve even looked at it.
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Mori | Hog Bay Software
Mac notebook app to try one day. Maybe I can sync it with my Treo somehow?
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Piano Forums at Piano World: Digital Pianos - Synths & Keyboards
The web is oddly thin on the ground when it comes to reviews of digital pianos. Some discussion here though.
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Aurelian Koch
This chap teaches one of our classes at LISPA and he showed us some of these photos. Fab costumes and seats made using some interesting materials.
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Theatre of All Possibilities - Gallery
Interesting-looking London/Santa Fe theatre company, and these videos hint at doing interesting things with computer generated stuff.
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Indie-Film Star ‘Suicide’ Stunner By Philip Messing, Mark Bulliet and Dan Mangan - New York Post Online Edition: Seven
Hell. Adrienne Shelly, who starred in Hal Hartley’s ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ and ‘Trust’ (two of my favourite films) has “apparently” committed suicide. I was always surprised she wasn’t in more films.