Weirdly, 2005’s ratio of dead links was much higher than the previous two years. But with a bigger overall volume of links, I salvaged enough to make up two posts. Here’s the first:
- Baseball stadium tour via Google Maps / Some of these are a bit out-of-date (no more Shea Stadium) but I love this kind of thing.
- Debunking myths in newspaper design / Think I could actually get anyone to believe me about these? Not on your nelly.
- The Horseless Carriage… / A concise history of blogs by Tom Coates. Still stands up today, IMHO.
- Steward Brand’s seminar on cities and time / I had to Google for this as my original link was dead. Yes, there’s link rot at The Long Now website. I find that amusing.
- How time flies / “For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. Laura Spinney looks at how different languages reflect, and shape, our conception of time.”
- ‘Sarcasm’ brain areas discovered / Well that’s just fantastic… No, really, it is.
- Personagem: Talking With Arto Lindsay / Guitarist with no-wave luminaries DNA and a million other things since.
- Brick Journal / “The website for Lego enthusiasts of all ages.” But really adults, as we all know kids don’t appreciate Lego like we do.
- Sparkline generator / Glad I found this one; could prove very useful someday. Wikipedia has more details about sparklines.
- The Big Fish / “Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website.”
- The Folklore Of Our Times / A short story by Haruki Murakami (actually from 2003 but link saved two years later).
- Hyperlinks in Print / See also parts 2 and 3 of the series.
- A Rocket To Nowhere / Interesting to read Maciej’s thoughts on the shuttle programme knowing that NASA is scheduled to retire it this year.