Links
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146 miles without a map
And he’s off! You can still sponsor James Wallis on his walk (click the “How to sponsor me” link). Good luck James!
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Sound Effects, Production Music, Royalty Free Music, MP3 AIF WAV Sound Effects
Lots and lots and lots of pay-for sound effects.
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While Supplies Last
RSS feeds for the refurbished items available at US, UK and Canadian online Apple Stores.
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PalmMAME Arcade Emulator for PalmOS
Haven’t tried this yet either.
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Firestorm gbaZ - A Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator
For Palm. Haven’t tried it yet.
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CaSTaway - Portable Atari ST for Palm OS, Zodiac, GP32 and Sony PSP!
I installed the Palm version on my Treo 650 but it says there’s not enough RAM to run.
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Flatlife - Google Video
Fantastic, simple, funny animation you should watch. (via City of Sound)
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Saturday in the Park with Friends Painting Seurat on the Rock River - a photoset on Flickr
Recreating a Seurat painting in real life. Lovely, although the positioning of people in the photo is pretty off. (via Drawn!)
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GUIdebook > Splashes
It’s like TV Cream’s archive of 1970s TV idents, but for geeks. Photoshop 2.5, Quark 3… ahhhh. (via Drawn!)
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Illustrationclass.com
Some nice tutorials and ideas there. (via Drawn!)
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Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
$30, looks lovely, but can’t be installed or administered using Win IE. Doh.
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Digerati Consulting: awstats on TextDrive
How to install AWStats on a TextDrive server. Actually worked.
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Peastat
“Peastat is a simple, free, ‘live’ web stats analyser.”
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1,500 of Your Favorite 80’s Videos!
No idea why it’s at that domain, but there’s enough there to pretend you’re a guest on your own “I Love the 1980s” clip show. (via Ted Mills)
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Changes to the Movable Type Platform for v3.3 (Movable Type Documentation)
For when I get round to upgrading.
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Movable Type Beta Weblog - Converting from dirified title to basename
Because I keep losing this article and need it occasionally.
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SIMILE | Timeline | Documentation
DHTML thing for creating nice scrollable timelines. (via Yoz)
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Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music - Forums -> Viva Piano
Handy for tips on buying pianos, for when my fingers get twitchy and I need to window shop again.
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My So-Called Life, Episode 19
We finished watching the series this week. I feared it wouldn’t have stood the test of time, but it was mostly good, and the final scene had me in tears.
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Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan
Movable Type plug-in that automatically updates an .htaccess file with IP addresses posting spam comments/trackbacks to your site, banning them.
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Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
If you download a WebKit nightly build there’s a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
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Juneberry78s.com
What was Norm’s 78 Record Room. Oodles of old country, blues, regional US records downloadable as MP3s.
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Where the Hell is Matt?
Pick-you-up, swing-you-around uplifting, brilliant, simple genius. Would be 33% even better without the sponsor’s logo at the end. (via Haddock)
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Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English
I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).
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Jacob Borshard
‘The Last Brontosaurus’ is my current favourite album and it’s free! Treading the fine line between twee and heart-breaking. (via Said the Gramophone)
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A List Apart: Articles: The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes (and other notes on the distinction between style and design)
I’m sure I’ll need this again at some point. On why so many “designers” are actually “stylists”.
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Take Your Medicine - UK Music Podcast
Now I’ve found a podcast I like I *finally* see the point of them.
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Bristol school of art media & design - UWE Bristol - Major Redevelopment for Bower Ashton Campus
My old college is having a £11.5 million makeover. I can’t work out if our old “giraffe house” building is to be replaced or not.
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LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe
Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)