Links
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How to be rich and famous
As Webb said,
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Analysis of an artificial meme - nodalpoint.org
Graphs showing how a meme spread through websites.
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SCPlugin
Mac OS X Finder plugin providing an interface to Subversion (and one day, CVS). In case I ever need it.
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Sparkly Trainers | The travels of Mary Loosemore: Heavenly Herefordshire
What I did on my summer holidays.
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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.
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The Morning News - Tricks of the Trade
Different professions. Landscape architect:
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phil’s big whiteboard of scenarios on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Me in action at Euro Foo Camp last weekend.
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Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Quaint essential
Raves for Frinton-on-Sea and (slightly less so) Walton-on-the-Naze.
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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…
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Economic History Resources - How Much is That? (British Pounds)
Handily converts the value of money in past years (back to 1264) to 2002 values.
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Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters
Interesting article. 4
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Fontus - London model
3D map of central London.
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TOOOL - The Open Organisation of Lockpickers
Someone’s giving a talk on lockpicking here at Euro Foo Camp. More non-computer talks please!
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Centricle : css filters (css hacks)
A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
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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.
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Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
A decade and more ago it was
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Japanese
Insanely complex interface, but very handy.
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Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser
I’ll need this at some point I’m sure.
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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
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Usability News - 6.2 2004 — Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
The importance of white space in online reading.
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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.
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This week’s UK television
Beautifully minimal, customisable UK TV listings, including XML versions.
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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).
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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.
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OpenPhoto.Net | Version 1.5b_FINAL
Creative Commons photo library. Ideal for illustrating that presentation, website, etc.
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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.
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Seinfeld Videos
Torrents for every season of Seinfeld (in a choice of low and high qualities).
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i’m writing a book (4 August 2004, Interconnected)
Matt is clever and nice. His forthcoming book, ‘Brain Hacks’, should be good. Yay!
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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.