Solitude 

Albums, Birdmen And Unicode

The random links have been piling up for the last two weeks, so time to get on with it:

• Hostile Copy Protection - This is surely taking copy protection too far.
• Citizen Kubrick - Absolutely fascinating look at the archives of Stanley Kubrick. An amazing read.
• Hard Disk Risk - You really have to do some serious disk formatting to get rid of data.
• Album Covers From Memory, in Paint - Exactly what it claims to be. Some interesting renditions of familiar album covers.
• Unicode Sampler - Samples of different Unicode characters.
• PHP Iconv Handler - Why was I not informed that converting to UTF-8 would be this easy? I’ll be doing this soon.
• 39 Steps For Story Writing - Sound advice on writing more good.
• Switching from PHP to Zope/Python - Not entirely convincing, but worth a read.
• The Importance Of Fudgeability - Rigid systems die. Extensibility and the human factor must be considered.
• The Nightmare Of Localisation - There are more problems than you have considered.
• How To Be A Programmer - Practical advice for all would be professional programmers.
• Jailbird Man - A flash game based on the fantastic Harvey Birdman. Try and break out some characters you failed to defend.
• IECapture - See what your site looks like in a range of windows browsers. Useful resource for designers.
• RSS Shell Scripting - A shell script for parsing RSS feeds. Insane.
• 100 Movies That Deserve More Love - A list of classic films that do, indeed, deserve more love. Watch at least 5.
• GBA Crash Course - Learn to program a simple GBA pong game.
• Guide To Indie Rock Hair - Everything you need to know to have indie rock hair, for boys and girls.

And that’ll do.