Links
-
43 Folders - A bunch of tricks, hacks
Loving this weblog about being organised, particularly using OS X. Makes me feel like a woolly-minded scatterbrain by comparison.
-
Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Replacing HTML text with Flash-rendered text just to make it look prettier seems like precious designer overkill to me. But it’s very clever and it does work.
-
Tricks of the Trade
New weblog. Brilliant!
-
History flow
Yummy visualisations of how Wikipedia pages change over time (look in the Gallery).
-
How to be rich and famous
As Webb said,
-
Analysis of an artificial meme - nodalpoint.org
Graphs showing how a meme spread through websites.
-
SCPlugin
Mac OS X Finder plugin providing an interface to Subversion (and one day, CVS). In case I ever need it.
-
Sparkly Trainers | The travels of Mary Loosemore: Heavenly Herefordshire
What I did on my summer holidays.
-
Brochure for my 1 bed flat in Hackney (PDF)
Want to buy a flat in a cool art deco building? More details to follow shortly.
-
The Morning News - Tricks of the Trade
Different professions. Landscape architect:
-
phil’s big whiteboard of scenarios on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Me in action at Euro Foo Camp last weekend.
-
Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Quaint essential
Raves for Frinton-on-Sea and (slightly less so) Walton-on-the-Naze.
-
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | David Blunkett can’t take on the yobs all by himself
I’m not sure agreeing with Max Hastings is a good thing, but even so…
-
Economic History Resources - How Much is That? (British Pounds)
Handily converts the value of money in past years (back to 1264) to 2002 values.
-
Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters
Interesting article. 4
-
Fontus - London model
3D map of central London.
-
TOOOL - The Open Organisation of Lockpickers
Someone’s giving a talk on lockpicking here at Euro Foo Camp. More non-computer talks please!
-
Centricle : css filters (css hacks)
A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
-
Johannes Koch’s How to hide CSS from buggy browsers page
The URL that almost every website points to is now broken and this is the new home, which is a bugger to find.
-
Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
A decade and more ago it was
-
Japanese
Insanely complex interface, but very handy.
-
Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser
I’ll need this at some point I’m sure.
-
Why we’re reaching our limits as a one-hour city - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
Throughout history cities have been an hour’s travel across. I’m not convinced
-
Usability News - 6.2 2004 — Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
The importance of white space in online reading.
-
Black and White Photography: London Tube Map
Wonderful aerial photo view of London with the tube lines overlaid on top. Crossed off the to do list.
-
This week’s UK television
Beautifully minimal, customisable UK TV listings, including XML versions.
-
MT Tag Quick Reference
MovableType help in your browser’s sidebar (Netscape 6 /Mozilla or PC IE 5 or a framed version for everyone else).
-
The Snowflake Process for Writing a Novel
Sounds rather formulaic, but then it’s also similar to how I imagined the process would be if I ever wrote one.
-
OpenPhoto.Net | Version 1.5b_FINAL
Creative Commons photo library. Ideal for illustrating that presentation, website, etc.
-
Collage - An iTunes Visual Plugin
Displays images off of the Internet depending on the currently playing tune. Best when the images are apparently unrelated, like a no-budget interpretive video.