Drawings of Aliens by Human Children
Archive for April 2004
Editing
The newsgroup comp.publish.prepress on Google Groups. A plaintive page about curly-quote character encoding confusion. Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style and his Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors. On the long history of they/their/them as ungendered singular pronouns. The copyediting_l style FAQ, including some interesting prevailing wage data for freelance copyeditors (how obsolete is it?). Ben Yagoda on adjectives.
Databases
A FAQ on linking databases to Openoffice.org, another FAQ with answers about specific databases, and links to external resources addressing these issues, all at dba.openoffice.org. OpenOffice, ODBC, and MySQL HowTo (PDF). Using Microsoft Access databases in OpenOffice.org. Rick Morris asks “are there any good reasons to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?” and answers “yes.” Buy Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez. MySQL Gotchas and Why Not MySQL? Yet another PostgreSQL vs. MySQL review. How to relate tables and databases with MySQL using phpMyAdmin. phpMyEdit — a phpMyAdmin alternative? The MySQL Manual.
Photography
Soviet war photography at Howard Schickler Fine Art. A Mike Disfarmer gallery. Five thousand photographs by Bret Wallach. Photos of occupied Japan. The Bush asshole mosaic and the Ashcroft porn mosaic. The Bush dead soldier mosaic. Photos of derelict London and Britannia Moribundia. Rob Dobi’s photos of New England ruins. Some Japanese ruins. Photos of the ice-encrusted Sir William Alexander. Shaun O’Boyle’s ruin photography. Mark-Steffen Göwecke’s photos within photos.
Computer
“Exploring the Java Archive (JAR) Format” by Kulvir Bhogal. A terse Samba tutorial. Debian’s Apt How-To. Extant Gopher servers at Floodgap.com and Quux.org. Bash programming guides at arachnoid.com and Rutgers University. Furl, an online “filing cabinet” for saved webpages. Ad-blocking host files and advice about curbing ads and spyware under Windows. A big collection of links to online computer books at Ju Rao’s homepage.
Footnotes
Jukka Korpela on footnotes and endnotes in webpages. You can use OpenOffice.org, which records linked notes in its HTML-editing mode just fine. Don’t forget to count the words in footnotes.
Vehicles
Bicycles. A great deal of information about school buses. Mr. Sharkey’s compendium of information relating to house buses and house trucks. Truck painting in Pakistan. A gallery of Japanese Winnebagos and their owners. Fan pages for the AMC Pacer: Pacermania and The Washington Grove Pacer Farm. A fan page for the AMC Gremlin. The Web homes of The Catboat Association and the Beetle Cat. The Floating Neutrinos. Quite a lot about the Columbia space shuttle’s demise.
Gypsies
The European Roma Rights Center. Muzeum Romské Kultury. The Gypsy Lore Society. Etudes Tsiganes. Gypsy Collections at The University of Liverpool, including photographs. The Romany Gypsy Photograph Collection.