An interesting, and recently done site devoted to the final Merzbau project of artist Schwitters, unfinished Merzbarn in Cumbria:
http://www.merzbarn.net/
there is also a wonderful Dutch site on the barn project - with detailed photographs and outline of the work.
in the above video clip, from a generously posted series, is Max Ernst and toward the beginning, short footage of the Merzbarn, and Schwitters during the war.
The simpler alternative to running MAMP or XAMPP on Os X is using the built-in PHP, APache and getting a binary of Mysql. Although MAMP and XAMPP are simple ways also.
When I first installed mysql for my mac running Leopard just after it came out (end 2007), it was a bit flakey and casued a lot of people problems. So here is a mini tutorial for putting MySQL on Leopard now, since it is easy now, and more timely given cake php RC4 just got released 
I can recommend these 2 guides as well as my notes here.
1) http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/01/installing-cakephp-on-os-x-leopard-1051/
2) http://www.givegoodweb.com/post/53/cakephp-leopard-virtual-hosts
This pic is what we are aiming at with this install!
Right,let’s go! I am just installing Cake on a Mac mini running 10.5.2 and I noticed that finally Mysql seem to have provided a binary .dmg mac package on their website.(I think this came out in November as far as I can tell).
So go get the package from mysql:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg
make sure and pick the right processor type for your machine!
while waiting for that to download, I recommend also checking out the guides I linked above and set up your shell / profile and Apache for PHP with virtual hosts. This will allow easy development set-up where you can change from one app to another.
Now you should have your mysql .dmg ready by now, and you can just run that. So iside the .dmg you shd have a .pkg for mysql itself. install that first. Then run the start-up item and then finally the preference pane. ( this had problems before with Leopard, I think it is fixed now though!) When it asks I would install for all users, rather than current user only.
try a logout and back in and mysql should start automatically.
that’s pretty much it - check out the 2 linked tutorials to get any more info you need on PHP and so on!
The final gotcha is a weird one. I odn’t know why but if you put localhost as the @host@ in your cake database.php config…you’ll get a socket error in your PHP, when you load up a cakephp app (once you have followed the instructions for virtual hosts and so on).
So, despite having a working mysql and mysql-connectability via something like CocoaMysql, or the terminal, it does not conenct via PHP.
Then I googled a bit and found arecent blogpost with a simple fix! Just put 127.0.0.1 instead. Or indeed read the rest of the blogpost and get a fuller answer/solution.
luv boobyWomack xxx and a Merry Chrimbo to all cakettes everywhere
…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.
A site by Infinite Eye for the new Glasgow Poetry Society: Vital Synz.
Really enjoyed the Oran Mor launch event, despite only snarfing one canapé…
Worth not staying in and installing Leopard on my new Mini for, even!
Nice work Craig (of Glasgow’s Infinite Eye) on Stand/ Tennent’s new site for Scotland’s Finest bars — including supporters and bar photos!
And well done to all the bars who have got passion & belief that we will go through, as you can see from all the photos!
this is my latest project - very much in alpha stage still, a record shop and vinyl junkie (secondhand collectors kind of people) community web site:
Not sure whether to go with the domain as it is now or another on vinyl-passion.com that I have. Thoughts?
flash site with pics of US urban scenes. Evocative, like Robert Crumb’s cross hatched drawings of cities, in the mixture of run-down background and advertisement shine.
Interesting, nosey, prototyping app by Nokia R & D. DigiDress. Less opportunity for disguising your digital persona than the chatrooms of yore. But perhaps opening up new possibilities of disguise based on your location’s context.
Wonder if this will be released? Maybe this kind of thing won’t be needed if Flickr keeps on going: stumbled upon someone else who not only takes photos of my street, but it turns out lives a few doors down (see below). And they have pics tagged with chess…or perhaps that just says more about Flickr’s Austen-ly narrow-defined social group of users.
superb…
just a .backwards class on your <span>, then in yer CSS
.backwards {unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl;}
(well done stunicholls.myby.co.uk!)