Links
A selection of links for a one-way ticket out of here
del.icio.us
The latest from my del.icio.us feed
- The Most Stunning Jet Set Radio / Jet Grind Radio Artwork
Some amazing fan art for one of my favourite games - CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices
A list of good CSS resources - The Perlin noise math FAQ
Useful FAQ about Perlin noise - Play Auditorium
Very interesting Flash audio game - pretty particle effects too! - YouTube - 80s Estonian Meat Commercial
This is possibly the best piece of advertising I've ever seen. BEEF! CHICKEN! BEEF! - Internet Archive: Browse music
The Internet Archive wins once more with a load of live music sets ranging from the unknown to people like Autechre and ZWAN - Repo the Genetic Opera
I must find a way to see this film - YouTube - Volkswagen Drivers Wanted
VW illegally used Psychic TV's Roman P for this advert - and then tried to sue the band when they found out the context of the lyrics - Microsoft XBOX Commercial That Never Aired
Pretty interesting X-Box advert - probably inspired by an episode of Spaced - Kuntz Manor
Finally found out who made "Tokyo Breakfast" - Acoustic Radar
A whole element of radar's development that I was completely unaware of. Effectively they're just massive ear trumpets. - Google changes the way it indexes SWF content
Very very useful article about how Google indexes SWF content and how this has changed since the initial release of Adobe's search engine version of Flash player
Elsewhere
Stalk me across the Internet
- Amazon wishlist
Buy me something! - del.icio.us
A collection of links, mainly concerning programming, design and the media - flickr
My photos on flickr - Google Reader shared items
Various posts from my RSS subscriptions that I think are particularly interesting or useful - last.fm
Judge me by my taste in music - SteamID
Laugh at my woeful on-line performance at Team Fortress 2 - Twitter
Updates from my microblog at Twitter
Friends
No really, I know these people
- Ali
Ex-colleague and talented designer - Alias
My Flash mentor - booface
“cancerous new media bitch with no respect for the rules of the internet” - Dan
Current flatmate and all-round top bloke! - Hellen
Talented performance artist and the only girl I know who works in the porn industry - Keith
Skilled programmer and designer - Laura
Musician, writer, publisher - is there anything she can’t do? - Matt
Awesome bassist who I keep seeing in adverts - Viv
Very creative artist and musician
Music
I love music, I really do
- Ad Noiseam
My favourite on-line music store (although ordering can be a pain) and a lovely independent label for industrial, noise, breakcore, experimental etc. - ant-zen
German industrial/noise independent label - Bangface
Best club night in London? Maybe not but it could easily be the most fun! - Girl Talk
Move over Soulwax, you ain’t got shit on this guy - musicradar.com
Combines all the features from Future Publishing’s stable of music magazines - Slaughterhaus 5
Calling it an industrial club is doing it a disservice, even though that’s what it is - Zan Lyons
Beautiful music combining glitch/noise with live violins and phenomenal visuals
Create
Inspiration and education
- .net magazine
Computer Arts’ web-oriented sister - Coding Horror
Programming errors to avoid or fix - Computer Arts
On-line presence for the magazine - CSS Vault
Useful site for web design and CSS - Envata
Network of sites with comprehensive tutorials and articles on a range of technologies - London Flash Platform User Group
London-based training and discussion about Flash - Pattern Tap
A great resource for design inspiration - Snipplr
Useful code snippets from a variety of different languages
Arts & Media
I pretend to be cultured
- Cgunit
Covering art across different media - londonist
Blogging about London and a great way to find out what’s going on - Unpop Art
Beautiful or offensive? - Urban Art Warfare
Showcase of different street art and how it intersects with creative industries - we make money not art
Reviews, interviews and coverage of important events - Wooster Collective
A great site for graffiti and culture jamming - Yardwear
A great blog for contemporary art and design. Has an entire section on camouflage too.
Comedy
Why so serious?
- Cook’d and Bomb’d
A great site for comedy, particularly focused on Peter Cook and Chris Morris. Also has one of the most interesting discussion forums I’ve found so far. - Ginglik
A converted Victorian toilet in Shepherd’s Bush that hosts a decent array of comedy nights - Richard Herring
Daily updates from one of my favourite comedians - Stewart Lee
Excellent stand-up comic - The Perry Bible Fellowship
The best web-comic ever - xkcd
a nerdy comic that references maths, programming and linguistics
