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Today’s Links (02/04/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:46:08 +0000

BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama - Rise of the Footnote
Nice little doc on the footnote.
Ask Mr. Biggs! Recycling real talk radio phone calls since 2006. » Maintenance Mode
Tributes as artist Angus Fairhurst is found dead, aged 41 | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Very sad.
Exclusive: Hands-on video with the 3G iPhone - Crave at CNET.co.uk
Find Your Friends « Flickr Blog
Very slick. (Weird how many people I know have opened Flickr accounts without ever uploading photos.)
Microformats | weblog | This Fortnight in Microformats - March 17th–30th
These little summaries are great. (I’m interested in microformats and have implemented the relevant ones on my sites, but most of the stuff on the discussion lists/wiki sort of whooshes over my head.)
BBC - White Season - All White in Barking
Well worth a download if you missed it on the telly.
Macworld | The browser bunch
Good comparative review of browsers on the Mac. I use Firefox (mostly for the del.icio.us add-on and Greasemonkey, which I need on a couple of sites I use heavily) and WebKit nightly builds for when I know I’ll just be tootling around the web (it’s fast).
We Tell Stories - ‘Fairy Tales’ by Kevin Brooks
Oh dear, I’m falling behind.
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Children find human head on beach
At Arbroath. Jeepers.
YouTube - Full MoOn 4
I think this is from the opening night of the Full Moon, formerly the Acropolis, St. Jean d’Angely. Wishing we’d gone for my birthday now!
swg3.tv | Studio Warehouse Glasgow
The warehouse is turning into a bar for the duration of Glasgow International. Handy!

Robert Moog, May 23, 1934 - August 21, 2005

Jack Mottram — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:35:10 +0000

Cheers John

Jack Mottram — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:38:01 +0000

Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies

Few folk really deserve that epithet, legendary, but Peel was one of them.

Teenage Kicks will never sound the same again.

By way of a tribute, here’s John making a complete hash of things, as only he could, one night in the early Nineties (2.6MB MP3).

Paul Foot

Jack Mottram — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:09:02 +0000

Paul Foot, fine radical, fine campaigner, fine journalist at the Mirror, Private Eye and The Guardian, and, in his own words, top Bollinger Bolshevik, died on Sunday, aged 66

I don’t much like it when people turn the death of a public figure into their own personal trauma, but since Foot has been a part of my political life for as long as I’ve had a political life, I don’t mind saying I had a lump in my throat when I heard the news.

They don’t seem make them like that any more, sadly.

Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Foot, by Eddie Mair, first broadcast in April, 2000 on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, in which he speaks with typical good humour on the subject of his own mortality: Foot.mp3.

And here are some obituaries and tributes. The Telegraph’s is among the best; a sign that fellow travellers and sworn enemies alike held him in high regard.