Art
The Katherine Nash Gallery at The University of Minnesota Art Department. Jean Dubuffet at the Fondation Dubuffet. PS1 and The Dia Center in New York. Insecula, l’encyclopédie des arts et de l’architecture. Mabuse. Niff Actuals.
Archive for March 2004
War
Faces of the Fallen: dead American soldiers. Coalition casualty report at cnn.com. Another at lunaville.org. Costofwar.com. Peter Bergen on Laurie Mylroie’s influence on the decision to go to war. The Guardian’s Iraq timeline: 7/16/1979 to 1/31/2004 and 2/1/2004 to the present. Empire Notes weblog. More Iraq weblogs: Baghdad Burning, Back to Iraq, Salaam Pax and Raed, Juan Cole, Healing Iraq, and Kevin Sites. See also Sistani.org. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting’s Iraqi Press Monitor. See also The Iraq Blog Count.
Employment
Overqualified applicants. A rejection letter. Some resume advice. A collection of employment data at Jobwatch.org.
Vim
A Vim regular expressions tutorial. One hundred and one reasons to like Vim. On using macros in Vim. Steve Oualline’s Vim Cookbook. comp.editors, a Vi-dominated newsgroup.
Coppermine
Coppermine is a package of PHP scripts that lets you serve galleries of images from a server. Coppermine has a FAQ, an online manual, and a forum full of help, as well as an online demo. There’s also a stylesheet guide that helps with changing Coppermine themes.
SQL, Especialy MySQL, Resources
Mike Dobson’s Squeek Machine reference pages, including clips of SQL code for MySQL. FAQts.com’s mySQL resources. Sanders Kaufman explains how to use MSAccess as a frontend for MySQL databases.
Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird
For Firefox: Mozedit text editor extension. Adblock and Flash Click to View to civilize commercial websites, and Linky and Magpie for chasing links and saving tabs. Spiderzilla for mirroring. Firesomething for rebranding. MiniT-drag enables tab rearrangement. Sort your bookmarks. Many more.
IceWM
IceWM theme creation HowTo. Jeff Covey’s “How to Create and Use Themes” page (cross-window-manager information — more on implementing than creating).
Images
Mars Rover images — here, too. Normalized Playboy centerfolds. A daily photo from a farm. A great deal of ASCII art and information about its history and production. The Untitled Project.
Hoarding
“Behind Closed Doors”: Garbage houses in the Twin Cities. A garbage house in Folsom, California. Residential hoarding in Fairfax County, Virginia. Understanding hoarding. “Saving the World” by Fred Penzel. The Usenet group alt.recovery.clutter at Google.