Mini-linkspam

Some of these links are seriously old, but that doesn't matter, right? A good link is a good link.

Extreme Home Cinemas. The first gives new meaning to the phrase 'drive-in'

Make Me Mighty! Could be handy for naming characters ;)

Write your own academic sentence. I so wish this was an exaggeration...

Scroll Clock. This one doesn't really do anything, it's just weird to watch.

Link picked up from white_hart, thanks :) Dante's Internet.

Phone box becomes library. One of the most common conversations in librarianship nowadays is "what is a library for?" There's lots of answers, but I think this article illustrates that, for most people, if it's got books you can borrow, it's a library.

Did I link you to The London Skyline in Vegetables before? It's worth a repeat if I did.

I could spend hours and hours poring over the Victorian Infographics at Bibliodyssey. I need to do some practice for my 2nd Photoshop course next week, and think I just found my source material *drools*

Not my kind of thing, but this new white noise generator might be handy for some folk out there, ditto Universal darkroom, although the latter is a script rather than a DL-able programme, so I think there's little chance of my getting that one to work.

One new thing to me that I am having fun with is Fallen London, which I picked up through ar_gemlad on Twitter. RPG isn't really my thing, but clicking buttons is, so I'm enjoying prodding it gently and slowly to see what happens.

I've seen plenty of jokes about the iPad already (seriously, Apple? How many of you did it take to pick that name?), but the visual ones at Jezebel are my favouites.

And finally, because I know it'll be relevant to several friends' interests, the Bodleian's current exhibitions is Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures. There's no website with good pictures, but there's a brief description here and there's an exhibition catalogue available. The exhibition leaflet is pretty good, but given the lack of online presence, I'm thinking it's only for people who can actually come by Oxford at some point.

ION, I'm trying out Google Chrome at work as my main browser. We're getting on okay so far, although there's no way I would have considered switching before the decent number of extensions came out. It does some things well (so quick! so pretty!) but absolutely sucks at others (ask me where to save things when you download them! stop previewing this message as thought I'm signed in as heretoutopia and what the hell happened to my html?! *cough* that one was me...) My favourite so far is the gmail checker, because the little envelope rotates when you get new mail, or you read the message it's alerting you about. Simple things...

If the icon had a netbook rather than a paper one, it'd be totally accurate right now.

Relevant to your interests:

There are plenty of poetry lovers on my flist, so this one's for you: Know Your Words. I can't speak for the other writers in the collection, but Del posts poetry on her journal, and even I know it's good. Er. That's more of a ringing endorsement than it sounds - I know almost nothing about poetry, and rarely get through whole poems without wandering off in the middle, but Del writes the kind of thing that grabs you and won't let go. Highly recommended.

Relevant to my interests:

Er. We're ringing a mortgage company in the morning, then we're ringing the estate agent to put an offer in on a flat.

If anyone has a paper bag handy, I might need one to breathe into...