Links
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Food Court Musical at Improv Everywhere
This video makes me all happy. (via Boing Boing)
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Lunch over IP: What social networking site is popular where
A map and charts showing relative popularity of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, etc in different continents. Amazing how much it varies. (via ChrisDodo)
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Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I’d fit in, but also wonder why I’m doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.
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Jaikoz Audio Tagger
Multi-platform ID3 tagging app, for most kinds of music file, using MusicBrainz and MusicIP. 15 quid, but powerful, even if a bit, you know, Java.
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Journal of ziggy (25)
Using perl to extract ID3 data from the iTunes Music Library XML file and then update the relevant MP3s with the correct data.
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The Joyent Community / Any news on IronPorts (or even spamassassin or grep -v “st0ckZ”)?
“A brief history of announced spam solutions from Joyent/Textdrive.” Since 2005. Still waiting.
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Condé Nast set for a flurry of launches - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
Apparently planning a UK edition of ‘Wired’. Hahahahaha Boohoohoohoo. (via Haddock)
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YouTube - Ignite ETech 2008: Matt Webb
Matt’s fun five minute whizz around fictional versions of the solar system. Wish I’d been in San Diego and Austin this past week.
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BBC Internet Blog - BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes
I’m liking this blog when it gives some insight into how things work behind the scenes. Shame about all the dumb comments though.
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Ironic Sans: The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists
What the people who do the drawings of court proceedings draw/paint when not in court. I like Patrick Flynn’s court work there. (via Drawn!)
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New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes
A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’. First thing that’s made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock)
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This American Life: 348: Tough Room
Click “Full Episode” then skip forward five minutes for a quarter of an hour of ‘The Onion’s staff talking about what makes a story funny or not. (via Jane in Progress)
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Using Smarty Templates With PEAR HTML_QuickForm
A handy guide that’s moved since I last bookmarked it.
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Litmus: Pricing and signup
24 hours passes now available for this Browsercam-like site for testing web pages and emails against different rendering engines. (via Daring Fireball)
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Yahoo! Developer Network: Fire Eagle Launches - O’Reilly Conferences
Tom Coates launching Fire Eagle. Yay congratulations Tom (and team)! We miss you over here you know.
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Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks
Spacing things out horizontally with CSS. (via Simon Willison)
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Fundable Online Fundraising
Ask people to pledge money to something you do. No one pays anything until you reach your funding target. (via Kevin Kelly)
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Kevin Kelly - The Technium - 1,000 True Fans
The idea that you only need a relatively small number of people willing to pay you occasionally for your work in order to make a living. (Stewart Lee suggested he needed 7,000 fans in 2005.)
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AntiRSI - TECH.inhelsinki.nl
I’ve tried a few apps that nag you to take a break from the computer. I was using TimeOut but this manages to be both more subtle and more insistent.
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Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded
I keep Googling this, so bookmarking it might be easier.
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Leather Backpacks
More leather backpacks. Fewer recommendations for these that I’ve seen.
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Leather Briefcases, Backpacks, Custom Briefcase, Custom Backpack
More leather bags, including custom orders.
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Does anyone here have any experience with Saddleback Leather? - Page 2 - Ask Andy FORUMS
Photos of a Saddleback Leather briefcase.
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The Gadgeteer - Saddleback Leather Company Briefcase
Glowing review with lots of photos
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Flickr: J. Mark Bertrand’s photos tagged with saddleback
Photos of a Saddleback Leather briefcase.
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Briefcases from the Saddleback Leather, Co..
Expensive, lovely-looking bags. But comments on some forums suggest the workmanship doesn’t live up to this site’s hype.
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Laptop Backpacks by booq(R)
I’ve spent a lot of time researching nice backpacks, not finding much that’s practical and looks good. These are current front-runners.
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Save the Railway Path | The campaign to save the Bristol to Bath cycle path from being turned into a bus-lane
Protest site over some daffy plans to let buses run alongside the peaceful but well-used Bristol to Bath cycle path.
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Cityofsound: Robin Hood Gardens is not the same as a digital model of Robin Hood Gardens
Dan Hill’s excellent summary of the protest going on over plans to demolish the London housing estate. I hope they renovate rather than destroy.
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David Cameron: More people engaged in local life means local politics revitalised
Cameron wants more local government data published online in open formats for people to do stuff with. Cites TheyWorkForYou.com. (via Alan Connor)