Today’s Links (29/04/06)

• Internet Archive: Details: Despotism Great 1946 film that tells you how to spot whether you live in a despotic nation.
• BBC - collective - the sound of dubstep Nice little primer on dubstep from the Beeb.
• http://greylodge.org/gpc/ Great weblog - lots of good, obscure video and audio content.
• Cognitive Daily: The surprising effect of culture on vision
• Blog Comment Form Design Showcase | Smiley Cat Web Design Possibly of limited interest to anyone not currently redesigning a comment form.
• Flak Magazine: Review of Dump’s That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?, 05-11-01 Really need to get a copy of this (the bass player from Yo La Tengo doing an album of Prince covers).
• Tony Schwartz Nice page on the sound recordist/archivist/Moondog associate, with MP3s for download.
• del.icio.us/help/network A little more social added to the social bookmarking service. (It’ll be interesting to see what future features are planned.)
• Locomotive One click install Ruby on Rails (I like these ‘try before you buy’ type things - see also, MAMP).
• BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Massive wind farm gets approval Brilliant. Gotta love windfarms: they make the landscape look cooler and provide greener energy. (Enough to power all the homes in Glasgow, in this case.)
• The Blog | Larry David | The Huffington Post Larry David’s posts to the (generally quite shit) Huffington Post.
• s-copy.gif (GIF Image, 1122x765 pixels) - Scaled (79%) I’m thinking of moving one of the heads on my Copycat to get preposterously long delays.
• hackdiary: Last.fm isn’t just for humans "Ever wondered what a radio station’s best friends would look like?"
• Menuet An ‘iTunes companion’. Looks nice enough.
• Like reflections? Try the Reflector. "Like those shiny reflections on web pages? Here’s a little bit of code to play with. It’s called the script.aculo.us Reflector."
• Dean Reed, the Red Elvis | MetaFilter
• Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home "Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April, can scan it and upload it to this website where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration’s online gallery."

Posted at 2pm on 29/04/06 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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