Links
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Candace: even more critical mass
Don’t you love living in a free country? Grrrrr.
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Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code
Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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Royal Festival Hall
I’m not sure when it redesigned, but I’m really liking the RFH’s site. Beautiful.
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Old Walton Pictures Index
Loads and loads of old photos of Walton-on-Naze, where I often go on holiday.
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Innocent in London
Fascinating and scary account of being arrested for acting very slightly suspiciously. I don’t want to go out.
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Technovia: What to do when a PC goes wrong
Ian’s excellent guide to what to do if something you buy (not just a PC) goes wrong.
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Bigger than Doonesbury (Pete Ashton’s Weblog)
On Doonesbury disappearing from the new Guardian, and then being reinstated.
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Whatever: Being Poor
Reality check.
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StickyBrain
To remember in case I ever need a more comprehensive notes/to dos/actions application than simple .txt files.
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Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s - New York Times
I was thinking/hoping that solar energy companies must have bright futures. (via Annie)
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Stuff I Find Interesting - Rsync, RsyncX 2.1 & OS X
Never got round to looking into this, but when I do…
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Everything Linux - A Tutorial on Using rsync
Never got round to looking into this, but when I do…
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Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
Never got round to looking into this, but when I do…
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GSM Phone as Mac OS X Modem
On my to-do list.
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[thelist] XHTML 1.0 Strict -no target attribute allowed?
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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Fullinsert_high.pdf
Preview of the new Guardian Berliner format. I’m probably more excited than I should be.
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Hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists
Matt Biddulph doing clever stuff. Would be good to try this with some Pepys stuff I think.
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The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
An even newer way of getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport or the content.
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Open Tech 2005 - a photoset on Flickr
Lovely medium-format photos of geeks by Matt Locke. Includes me, but my favourites are: Coates, Hammond, Nelson, Webb.
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LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 15
The first letter describes how US corruption in Iraq is a direct descendant of the US corruption in Vietnam.
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LRB | Ed Harriman : Where has all the money gone?
Excellent but despair-inducing article outlining some of the mind-boggling corruption in post-invasion Iraq.
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oe magazine - photofakery
Guide to spotting fake photos (via Yoz via Kottke)
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Futurismic: Blog
Futures weblog I’m unsubscribing from for the moment.
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FUTURES
Futures weblog I’m unsubscribing from for the moment.
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FORESIGHT
Futures weblog I’m unsubscribing from for the moment.
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IFTF’s Future Now
Futures weblog I’m unsubscribing from for the moment.
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Wonderland: New PSP advert
Cool TV ad by Alice’s sister, a smidgen of which was shot one Sunday downstairs on Beech Street.
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DaddyDonkey
Poor website, delicious burritos. In London! (Leather Lane market.)
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Free The Postcode!
Creating a free UK postcode database. Laudable, but I doubt it’ll be comprehenive enough to be usable or keep up with churn. (via Tom Carden)