links for 2007-07-16

• Remember your home phone number? Forget it! | Oddly Enough | Reuters
  The Socratic argument of writing/techne destroying organic memory (to summarise it unfairly) plays out amongst the address books and vcards of the technologised generation. (Though for those of us who never had a memory, technology remains a godsend.)
  (tags: mobile memory)
• Public Guardianship Office
  "The PGO is responsible for ensuring that receivers or attorneys are appointed to look after the financial affairs of clients, or donors, who are not mentally capable of doing so themselves"
  (tags: law health)
• Lock terror suspects up indefinitely say police | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
  Extraordinary: ACPO chief wants indefinite imprisonment for terrorists. "Whitehall sources said the PM was receptive to the association's demands, but believes an upper detention limit is essential to avoid a de facto Guantanamo Bay based in the UK"
  (tags: politics police)
• People Over Process » What IT Management Should Enable: Making Money
  (tags: technology management enterprise business toread)
• People Over Process » Update from RIA-land: AIR & Silverlight, What is an RIA?, Better GUIs, the Killer App
  (tags: ria design dev saas toread)
• sevensixfive: Vernacular Formalisms
  Nicely done by 765.
  (tags: architecture)
• Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
  (Are some of these subject to causality biases?)
  (tags: psychology)
• Apple: No BS iPhone Review - Gizmodo
  Gigantic iPhone review concludes: it's awesome but wait till they're fixed/upgraded it.
  (tags: iphone apple mobile)
• www.myspace.com/137376445
  CCTV building on myspace
  (tags: architecture via:sevensixfive remkoolhaas)
• Particletree » Web App Autopsy
  Wufoo (forms), Blinksale (invoicing), Feedburner (feeds) and RegOnline (reg systems) compared.
  (tags: analysis customerservice dev)
• Tour de France 2007 | Tour de France Results, News & Routes - Yahoo! Sport UK
  Yahoo Sport/Eurosport's Tour de France site is great. Essential, together with Frank Steele TdeF blog.
  (tags: sport tourdefrance bike)
• Design Observer: The Nazi Triangle
  An anon designer in the Third Reich "produced the basic templates for these camp materials and then turned them over to skilled inmates to produce. Some prisoners used this opportunity to survive, but for most this only prolonged the inevitable."
  (tags: design history war nazi)
• Stephen Roche: Gerdemann's stage seven success is a sign of a clean Tour
  The same Roche who, whilst one of the Tour's top riders, criticised his then friend Paul Kimmage's drugs-in-cycling memoir as the sour grapes of a lowly domestique. (I hope Kimmage feels vindicated now the Tour is finally trying to clean up.)
  (tags: tourdefrance bike)
• Paul Kimmage: Rough Ride (1990/2001)
  Brutal and brave account of 1980s peloton life and the pressures to take drugs to stay in the saddle. Bravo Paul Kimmage.
  (tags: booksreadin2007 tourdefrance bike sport paulkimmage)