Links
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The Daily Chump Bot
Create a weblog automatically from URLs and comments posted to an IRC channel. Handy (if I used IRC).
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts reviews | Gillian Welch/David Rawlings
This was, I think, one of the most enjoyable gigs I’ve been to. Rawlings’ guitar playing was even more awesome than the rest of the show, which is saying something.
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Soul Sides
Soul Sides has started posting
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Techquila Shots: Topic Mapping Pepys’ Diary
Creating XML topic maps of Pepys’ Diary entries. This makes my head hurt in a very good way.
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Reggae-Riddims.com
Identifiying the source of that familiar ‘riddim’. Now, is there something similar for samples?
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Mountain Goats sessions MP3s
If you only try one go for ‘Dance Music’ or ‘Your Belgian Things’.
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Pepys’ Diary: The story so far is now up to date
Don’t have time for a dose of Pepys every day? How about an RSS feed of monthly summaries?
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BugMeNot extension for Mozilla/Firefox
Right-click on any page requiring registration and you’ll probably be given a username and password.
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Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: The last fantasy the 20th Century left us
JG Ballard on tourism:
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Soul Sides - So you want to start an audioblog…
Tips for new MP3 bloggers. Nothing extraordinary, but good common sense.
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Search.cpan.org: WWW::Odeon - A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website
Wouldn’t it be awful if large numbers of Accessible Odeon websites suddenly sprang up everywhere…
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Swens blog - Artists mentioned in the WIRE magazine
and links to legal MP3s of their music.
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MP3Blogs Aggregator
Quite handy, although I currently prefer sticking with a few blogs whose tastes I’m liking.
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People Like Us MP3s
Yay!
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Seinfeld DVD - It’s Official! - Seinfeld Blog Discussion
Finally. Although I bet many fans have long since given up waiting and downloaded all the episodes by now…
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EarthStation1.com - The Radio Propaganda Sounds
Some sample wavs/MP3s of the man who broadcast Nazi propaganda in English from Germany during World War II.
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Bowblog: Got Bokeh?
I’ve always loved out-of-focus backgrounds in ‘Sight and Sound’
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Matt’s PowerBook problems
I love using Macs, mostly. But Apple’s customer service is atrocious. Good luck Matt.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | John Barron
Awwww, CJ’s died. No, not West Wing CJ, Reggie Perrin CJ:
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BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - The Shock of the New Episode Guide
The whole series is being reshown, starting tonight. It *was* my art history class on my foundation course. Brilliant.
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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Man of the moment
A nice feature about me, me, me in the Guardian today. In the web version you miss out on the surprisingly vast photo.
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LRB | James Meek : Reasons to be Miserable
The strange world of distant, frozen parts of Russia, which really shouldn’t be populated.
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365 Days Project
Awesome collection of 365 very strange MP3s. All together now:
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City Lit’s September courses are now open for enrolment
So if you’re in London, why not learn to do something other than stare into a computer? Hurry!
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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
You never know, I might need it (it does start simply).
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Mac OS X port of Graphviz
I’ve re-done my only Graphviz graph in Omnigraffle, but this might be handy at some point.