Links
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PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column - Dethroning King Gillette
Robert X. Cringely (and correspondents) on the Mac Mini and where it could lead.
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Boing Boing: Romantic and sex relation structure of high school students
Juicy network diagrams.
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Houstonpress.com | Love It, Fear It | 2005-01-27
A play in London with a segment about a Brit finding Houston weird. I’m so going.
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Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
Ooh, fantastic. Not that I’ll even get round to reading the squashed versions. Bah.
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Drury Lane, The Producers | London Theatre Guide
I didn’t laugh much, but worth it for the climax of ‘Springtime for Hitler’ alone.
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Typophile Forums: The fonts of 2004
Rest of the forum is no doubt fascinating too. If only there was the time…
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Db.etree.org - The Traders Database
Looking beyond the swamp of Phish and Grateful Dead, this looks interesting - trading recordings of live music.
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | G2: Leo Benedictus profiles the immigrant communities of London
At bottom of page: related articles and particularly fabulous maps of the city by ethnicity and religion…
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Theatre notes
Weblog by an Australian theatre critic.
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TheatreVOICE :: opinion, debate, argument, reviews; word of mouth about theatre in London and beyond
Dumb Flash-heavy theatre site whose content I can’t even be bothered to find.
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Encore Theatre Magazine
Theatre-oriented weblog by a bunch of anonymous “writers, directors, actors, designers, administrators, theatregoers”.
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My London life
Weblog of Paul Miller, theatre director, currently recounting the rehearsals of a play in Tokyo.
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Recent Web Accessibility Articles - :: WATS.ca
Some handy articles on developing accessibly.
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The perils of using XHTML properly | 456 Berea Street
Things to watch out for when doing stuff in XHTML.
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Flickr: Archive of gac’s photos posted to Flickr on 19th January 2005
Gregory Carafelli’s beautifully simple photos of the Delaware River at dawn.
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Memorial Tiling on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
If you’ve seen the film ‘Closer’… it’s really there! (But don’t look if you haven’t - spoiler!)
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The Ward-O-Matic: The Polar Express: A Virtual Train Wreck (conclusion)
Interesting, fun post about computer modelling of humans for animation.
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UK Theatre Web: Drama Schools and Departments
For future reference.
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City Lit, Ways into text 1, the centre for adult learning
Currently the most thrilling, satisfying and emotional three hours of my week.
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Grange Hill Online - Mersey TV Pulls Plug on GH Online
Copyright issues beset the world of Grange Hill fandom.
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United States Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21
Lovely public domain photos. Why do the old black and white ones look better than the new colour ones?
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LondonFreeList - free and nearly free in London
Ongoing and daily events of many different kinds (lectures, readings, films, festivals, etc).
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Starck with Oregon Scientific
If they included a DAB radio, instead of AM/FM, I’d be positively drooling.
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Paranoidfish.org/notes/ : Subverting my weblog
Putting your home directory into Subversion (for keeping revisions of all the changes you make to files).
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House Prices (actual prices paid) in England, Scotland and Wales- MyHousePrice.com
Find out how much individual properties sold for a few months ago, for a pound per property.
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BBC - CBBC - Grange Hill
A new series, the 28th, starts this afternoon. Hurrah!
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Mezzoblue - DHTML ‘05
Benefits and drawbacks of Map.Search.ch’s impressive DHTML map of Switzerland which uses XMLHttpRequest a la Google Suggest.
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Nashville (1975)
Saw this for the first time last night… godlike genius. On at the NFT until 19th January.
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Bloggerheads (UK) - Jerry Springer, the BBC, Mediawatch UK, and those f**king c**ts at The Sun
Wonderful deconstruction of the insane rabid Christians’ and tabloids’ mindless campaign. The ironies keep on coming.
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The Linux Consultancy - Technical Information
Two wonderfully clear tutorials on PEAR’s HTML_QuickForm and Smarty (PHP stuff).