Links for 2006-05-04

Posted May 4, 2006 1:17 AM.

• if:book talks about how we will handle and publish literary correspondence in the age of e-mail My favourite part of this article is the conversation about how you'd create an annotatable, taggable and explorable resource around Dave Eggers' Inbox. Not sure I'd be enormously keen to have my e-mail on display in the same way of course...
• Catherine Saillant of the LA Times writes about the negotiations she's had with her daughter around MySpace A fascinating glimpse into the kind of things that teenagers are doing on MySpace and how confusing it can be for a parent working out how to handle, respond to and harness this activity...
• The KOMPAKT record label has a site where you can buy high bit-rate unencrypted MP3s of their output I can particularly recommend Hundred Million Light Years by KaitO - it's a wonderful seven minutes of twinkling explorations in noise. It's nice to find a new source of music to get on with...
• 'The essence of rabbit' is a shrine to the Illustrators love of bunnies It includes some work by the lovely Denise Wilton and a mandala featuring hundreds of different rabbits
• Doctor Who dog K9 is to get his own spin-off TV series The only important part of this story is that there's a picture of a revised K9 that I haven't seen anywhere else on the web. Has anyone seen a larger version?
• ABC.com's full episode streaming allows you to watch TV shows online for free Obviously the model is advertising funded. It's a pretty sweet angle because they can stop people skipping adverts. I don't think it's the model that 'wins', but it should sit nicely as one of the two or three along with season pass downloads...
• Think Secret posts notes from Apple shareholders' meeting Most notable for the last line in my opinion and the (albeit tiny) response to questions about Microsoft's Media Centre - a territory I've said repeatedly that Apple should just be invading right about now...
• The BBC's review of Mission: Impossible III contains this completely classic line... "The only real problem is Tom himself, who manifestly fails to convince as a human being. With his plasticised musculature and ten kilowatt grin, he's less of an action hero and more of an action figure"