Links & notes for this month

• • AJAX Activity indicators | Animated GIFs designed to indicate your site is doing something -- Some nice indicators in here - could come in handy. | ajax gifs graphics interface
• • hitherto.net :: writing: The World's Best Nut Roast -- Not usually one for nut roast, but this one seems like checking out. | food recipe vegetarian
• • Flickr.rb -- As seen in the new Rails screencast. It's very simple, and cleanly dewsigned. | api development flickr programming ruby
  • Why console FPS developers need to die in a chemical fire -- (this is good) | development earmarked games
  • XmlSimple - XML made easy -- It really is easy, too. Nice implemenation which wraps around REXML, I believe. As used in flickr.rb | development programming ruby xml
• • SBook is Simson Garfinkel's Address Book -- Interesting approach to search and data structure; ram it all in one field, AI-based search finds what you mean. Could be an interesting model. | database handling search
• • pasta and vinegar - Trip Hawkins about mobile games -- | games mobile
• • News: Prototype Dreamcast Controllers -- Interesting picture. Interesting concepts - and way more interesting than the prototype PSX controllers... | controllers dreamcast game interface
  • Flickr: Photos from uground1 -- Amazing - original photos from Andy Rosen, a punk photographer working in London in the late seventies and early eighties. Striking, beautiful, and vivid renditions of the era | flickr music photography photos punk
• • 7 Bad Mistakes that Good Game Journalists Make -- Definitely worth reading. I'm behind on my current review, too! | games journalism writing
  • Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Singles of 2005 - Article - Stylus Magazine -- Definitely worth a read - some good picks, and some interesting ones too. | list music singles
• • AkwaIRC - A Mac OS X native IRC client -- Looks nice, possibly an alternative to Colloquy | application irc osx
  • pasta and vinegar - Playing Pong on Cell-Phones -- | games interaction interface pong

• "...ask yourself if you want to get addicted and be thirty years old, typing on the internet about how the spiderman movie does not match up with the comic book"

  Lovely. From Toothpaste for Dinner | cartoon, comics, funny
• • Software Engineering for Internet Applications -- Looks rather good - generic, top-down. And thorough | application programming webdev