links for 2010-10-21

Best. World. Record. EVER.

Having completely dismissed the concept as "unwebby" earlier this year (I mean who wants a terminal so dumb that it doesn't even know its own fonts) I'm increasingly drawn towards fontifying this site. I blame Dan Catt.

Fillerati is a fun greeking/dummy text alternative if you're not into lorem ipsum, but would love some literary copy.

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all"

"The BBC Complete Sound Effects Library is now available on Sounddogs.com. It consists of two collections, the BBC Historical Archives Sound Effects Library and BBC Nature Sound Effects Library". No idea what I'd do with it now, but WANT. (Secretly lamenting the huge amount of effort it used to take me to make ambient noise backing tapes for my gigs in the 90s)

Fascinating lecture from Emily on 'rebuilt journalism'

If I can stay this sprightly at 70 I'll be astonished.

"a thirtysomething Senior Software Developer living in London" with their take on Monday's #GDNsearch event.

"Sometimes it takes a little human intervention to make semantic applications easier to build. The Guardian newspaper has augmented its Open Platform API with unique identifiers for bands and books. In turn, the company has simplified the process of creating a mashup that uses multiple sources to focus on a single work, which may help its content spread farther".