Blogs
Monday 5 January 2009
- Bioshock collage
- This is purty: By Meghan Stratman (she calls him Mr Bubbles, and you can buy her stuff here), and via Super Punch. Wonderland
- 2009
- I had a remarkably non-awful 2008. I take that as something of a personal triumph, since 2007 was, realistically, probably the worst year of my slightly non-eventful life. I can think of whole slews of gratuitously horrible events that have... Moolies
- More daunting than you'd imagine
- We had Nora's first "open evening" (ie: slightly late afternoon) aaages ago now but I totally failed to write about it at the time.It's the "feeling uneasy about it" thing which has got in the way. It's likely that it... Moolies
- Patapon tattoo
- Sent in by Masatomo Ueda, his new supercute Patapon tattoo. Brilliant work. Patapon... the combination of rhythm game with strategy game is very, very intriguing, but I don't own a PSP :-/ Wonderland
- Happy New Year!
- I did it: 14 days without any internet access. It was hellish. Never doing that again. So big hugs for a new year: 2009 is going to be great. I can feel it already. This may have something to do... Wonderland
Sunday 4 January 2009
- Central Asia Overland - now fully Flickred
- I do seem to have spent an awful lot of time getting the photos from my last trip (Central Asia Overland, with Explore) onto Flickr... but they're all up there now, in my imaginatively titled Central Asia Overland set. All... Sparkly Trainers
- Babylon at the British Museum
- Hazel and have just been to the British Museum to see the Babylon exhibition. Interesting, but a bit thin once you're past the first room which has the scale models, maps and the bas relief lions and dragon from the... Sparkly Trainers
Friday 2 January 2009
- Repeat after me: browsing share is not market share
- How many times are we going to have to go through this? Computerworld reports that "Windows lost nearly a full percentage point of market share for the second month in a row in December". Except, of course, it's not market... Technovia
- now, more than ever
- “Modernscience has imposed upon humanity the necessity for wandering. Its progressive thought and its progressive technology make the transition through time, from generation to generation, a true migration into uncharted seas of adventure. The [...] Anti-Mega
- Danny The Street has a question for you.
- Danny The Street has a question for you., originally uploaded by moleitau. 1) Think of the street you spend the most time on. 2) Think of a magical difference you could make to the fabric of that street (i.e. not the people that annoy you) 3) Tell [...] Magical Nihilism
- Shaping Cities?
- Thismorning began well, with Zaha Hadid’s guest-editorship of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme spooling some wonderful reminiscences and thoughts from Peter Cook onto the wireless and the web, including this audio slideshow about the work [...] Magical Nihilism
- Bruce Sterling’s state o’ the world 2008/09
- Drift Deck Joker Bruce Sterling, originally uploaded by JulianBleecker. Is beginning on The Well: “I always knew the “War on Terror” bubble would go. It’s gone. Nobody misses it. It got no burial. I knes was gonna be [...] Magical Nihilism
- Christmas and New Year round up 2008
- A quiet one all round, staying at home for Christmas and New Year, and I was at work for the three days between Christmas and New Year - very quiet there too. In the run up to Christmas we had... Sparkly Trainers
Thursday 1 January 2009
- (via tofuttibreak)
- (via tofuttibreak) Ben Hammersley
- Books in 2008
- I read 50 books this year, fewer than in the years before. Notably these: Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003 - a rather beautiful and moving novel on memory, anticipation and loss. Dave Hickey's Air Guitar, 1997 - Hickey... Rodcorp
- Books in 2008
- I read 50 books this year, fewer than in the years before. Notably these: Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003 - a rather beautiful and moving novel on memory, anticipation and loss. Dave Hickey's Air Guitar, 1997 - Hickey... Rodcorp
Wednesday 31 December 2008
- the year in pig cheeks
- I’moften asked what was my favourite meal, or most remarkable dish. I’m terrible at deciding, especially when put on the spot, but luckily I photograph to remember. 2008’s memories are dominated by trips to Japan and San Sebastian [...] Anti-Mega
- books read december 2008
- Books read December 2008, with date finished: Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1st, r.) When Species Meet, Donna J. Harroway (8th) Welcome to Mars, Fantasies of Science in the American Century: 1947-1959, Ken Hollings (18th) The Holocene [...] Interconnected
- i completed reading
- I completed reading 104 books in 2008 (I also completed 104 in 2007). There are individual monthly lists: January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; and December. Those lists have links too. Here I [...] Interconnected
Tuesday 30 December 2008
- The Online Photographer: The Worst Photograph Ever Made
- The Online Photographer: The Worst Photograph Ever Made: Certainly pretty bad. Such a pity. The shot from the same calendar they have all over the tube, the Vitruvian Man pastiche, is just lovely. Ben Hammersley
- Physicalising ebooks
- Like Russell Davies I’ve begun reading books on my iPhone using Stanza and I’m enjoying it more than I expected. I never read much on PDAs I’ve owned in the past but the iPhone’s screen is good enough, and Stanza is [...] Phil Gyford
- Backup system progress
- I mentioned an intent to build a backup system this Christmas. Well, I've not had two days to work on it yet; I've just had an hour and a half one evening, in which I've written the local-filesystem backend... But last night I had a dream about it [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
Monday 29 December 2008
- Design patterns
- I'd thought I'd had this little rant before, but as I went to find the post I'd had it in to link to it from a big ranty post I'm working on, I couldn't find it. So here it is. My opinion of design patterns. Design patterns are common structures [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- Sump plug woes
- It's time I changed the oil (and the oil filter) in the van, since it's been over a year now. So I bought myself some new oil, and a new oil filter, and prepared to do the deed according to the instructions in my Haynes manual. The first step is [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- New Year Resolutions
- Last year, I made 2 New Years Resolutions. 1. To wear make up and look more presentable every day, rather than slobbing around. (I managed to keep this one up through until the summer when it was too hot to... Babyblog
Links
Monday 5 January 2009
- Century Babies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Boötes void - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Barbican - Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
- Matt Jones
- Bad Science » The barefaced cheek of these characters will never cease to amaze and delight me.
- "I have emailed Nas Amir Ahmadi to inform her of her error, in the hope that she will be able to clarify on this issue, and look forward to her apology for misleading the 2 million listeners of the Today programme, and for incorrectly claiming [...] Matt Jones
- Digital guru Clay Shirky's media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian
- Matt Jones
- PushupFu turns iPhone into fitness gaming network
- Uses accelerometer to count pushups. Alice
- Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises To Be A Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!)
- Windows 7? Already? Alice
- Dollhouse: Eliza Dushku Frolics Among Her Dollhouse Lovelies
- Hurry up Dollhouse, I am short of television. Alice
- YouTube - Cult Procession Fail
- I could watch this all day. Alice
- 'Make' magazine debuts television series
- Make TV! Finally! Alice
- The Burgomeister's Books: Truly free ebook download library (#1)
- ebook 'library' Chris Heathcote
- BBC Common Platform: Saving Public Service Media
- Steve Bowbrick on top form: "A more open iPlayer, though, just highlights the absurdity of this artificial line drawn around public service media. ... People will wonder: if Five ... can claim privileged access to a public service video [...] Roo Reynolds
- To do: concepts of performance in design
- oooh. this is interesting... Matt Jones
- OSM 2008: A Year of Edits on Vimeo
- Utterly gorgeous visualisation of OpenStreetMap contributions over the past year (via simon willison) Yoz
Sunday 4 January 2009
- cityofsound: Work and The City, Frank Duffy (2008)
- Matt Jones
- Sue Blackmore: Atheists should be allowed on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day |
- Quite right, too. And phooey on the Daily Mail if they throw a fuss. Danhon
- ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse
- Yay, etc. Lee
- diamond geezer: daylight
- I wish a city's daylight hours were visualised in, say, iCal (or whatever). Lee
- House of Bendie
- bespoke hoodies Chris Heathcote
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand (Phil Gyford’s website)
- Matt Jones
- Euan Ferguson: For the sake of dear auld Michael | Culture | The Observer
- [[There seemed something stale, uninspired, workmanlike, bored, about the planning and execution of a bunch of the week's programmes]]. Also, so many repeats on all bbc channels, in the same week. Plus christmas specials that are just outakes [...] Chris Heathcote
- The Platform4 blog
- c4.com rearchitected Danhon
- NBC Universal Careers > Entry Level/Leadership Programs > Page Program
- OMG, Michael Eisner was an NBC Page: "In an industry where change is the only constant, it is refreshing to know there are a few things that have remained the same. Starting in 1933 and continuing to the present, the NBC Page Program has had a [...] Danhon
Saturday 3 January 2009
- Very Good Taste » blog » The Omnivore’s Hundred
- 93 on this one... (not tried: Nettle tea, Root beer float, Cognac with a fat cigar, Carob chips, Roadkill, Baijiu, Hostess Fruit Pie) Chris Heathcote
- Imbibers One Hundred
- I got 87 (not tried: kopi luwak, chateau d'yquem, Fernet Branca, Buckley’s Cough Syrup, Molasses & Milk, Tepache, Chicha, Rhum Agricole, Palm Wine, Mongolian Airag, Perique, Château Margaux, Screech) Chris Heathcote
- Glasses Direct | Buy Designer Glasses and Prescription Glasses Online
- Chris Heathcote
- adam simmonds
- Chris Heathcote
- Opera Opera Opticians Limited - For Frames Made in England
- Chris Heathcote
- Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page
- Big wiki cataloging "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations". Big, big time sink. Phil Gyford
- Moscot: Moscot Originals
- Chris Heathcote
- Ottica Carraro - Venice - Optics - Contact lenses - Optometry
- Chris Heathcote
- Bandwagon update - Bandwagon Forum
- I thought I'd check out how that iTunes music online backup software was doing and found this exercise in failing to manage users' expectations. 14 months of "it'll be ready soon..." Ouch. Phil Gyford
- Happy New Year by Electrabel - Fubiz_
- Stunning stop-frame animation advert done with thousands of candles. Watch it. (via Drawn!) Phil Gyford
- Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything... | Ask Metafilter
- List of scenes from movies that explain the different cliques within a school. Looking forward to the YouTube compilation. Phil Gyford
- ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
- Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post. Phil Gyford
- Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)
- Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison) Phil Gyford
- Slashdot | Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution
- Journal site operating for around 8 years wiped out. Yay, the cloud. Lee
Friday 2 January 2009
- Russell's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Transcendent Thrill Drive
- The old thrill-ride phrase is obsolete, it denotes passive movie watching; Transporter 3 is a thrill drive. It demands audiences intellectually appreciate its construction. Sequences where Statham cycles down a rail across a sweatshop work table, [...] Matt Jones
- 48 Hours in Montreal: A Guide to Eating | Serious Eats
- Chris Heathcote
- Amazon.co.uk: Code 46: MP3 Downloads: Various
- Matt Jones
- Comic Book Resources > CBR News: EXCLUSIVE: "Pax Romana" #1 Preview
- recommended by Ryan Freitas Matt Jones
- Helicarrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Ribofunk: Paul Di Filippo: Amazon.co.uk: Books
- Matt Jones
- Biopunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Code 46 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- Cittàgazze - His Dark Materials - Golden Compass Wiki
- Matt Jones
- Thriving in the Age of Collapse
- Matt Jones
- Edward Burtynsky at FLOWERSEAST, Kingsland Rd. London
- Matt Jones
- BBC - Today: Guest editor: Zaha Hadid
- Matt Jones
- BBC - Today: The technology of architecture
- Computer technology has had a huge impact on the way buildings are designed and constructed. Tom Feilden visits Lincoln Cathedral and guest editor Zaha Hadid's own offices to investigate a new, technology-inspired burst of architectural creativity. Matt Jones
- BBC - Today: The Avant-garde of architecture
- The Architectural Association, a design school in London, specialised in educating architects who deliberately designed the unbuildable. Reporter Sanchia Berg interviews two graduates of the school, Sir Peter Cook and Charles Jencks, about what [...] Matt Jones
- BBC - Today: Peter Cook on Archigram
- Matt Jones
- abandonedplaces: Abandoned HBO Soundstage for "The Wire"
- Matt Jones
- Standalone Applications with CouchDB - Daytime Running Lights
- Partially for the low-down and frothy excitement about how to run web apps directly on CouchDB, but also for the great nostalgic snippet about connecting two Ti-85 calculators with minijack cables to share software in school Yoz
- Jenni Russell: Shorn of the rituals of old, death maroons us in grief | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Not only has much of western society forgotten how to deal with death emotionally, it's remarkably awkward in talking about it. We have lost our etiquette references, so everyone has different expectations of the right thing to say or hear. ( [...] Yoz
- Schneier on Security: Matthew Alexander on Torture
- A former Special Operations interrogator who worked in Iraq in 2006: "In Iraq, we lived the "ticking time bomb" scenario every day. [...] Still, we knew that if we resorted to torture the short term gains would be outweighed by the [...] Yoz
Thursday 1 January 2009
- Robert Irving Burns - SOD - Search Menu
- Danhon
- Office Space to rent in London: east, south, central - KALMARS Estate Agents
- Danhon
- Commercial Property Search Knight Frank Commercial
- Danhon
- Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Announcing “Requester Pays” Option for ...
- this seems important... it's nearly micropayments. Chris Heathcote
- click opera - Hana Mochi and Re:Standard
- "Re:Standard magazine is published by Little More, an independent Tokyo publisher and gallery. It is a magazine dedicated to the re-assessment of the normal. The first issue carried the cover story "A Life With Thermos Flasks". A [...] Matt Jones
- Kit Pedler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
- Dan's fantastic, comprehensive review of the book that reflected 2008 almost perfectly. Matt Jones
Wednesday 31 December 2008
- Currell Commercial Estate Agents in London
- Danhon
- peHUB " Calvin & Hobbes On The Financial Crisis
- via kevin marks Yoz
- Basic Arduino Winter | *1scale1*
- This basic workshop will introduce you to the basic use of Arduino. The goal is to provide you with open source tools, introduce you to the creation of your own personal prototyping laboratory. Dotcode
- Private firm may track all email and calls |
- This has got to be perhaps one of the stupidest ideas ever. Danhon
- Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
- The code from James Bennett's superb book (which I've been unreservedly recommending to anyone who wants to learn Django) updated for 1.x. (via phil) Yoz
Tuesday 30 December 2008
- oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)
- "Heat maps are one effective way to present large volumes of aggregate data over a geographical area, so I've been exploring ways to make them legible for crime data." Matt Jones
- Property Week
- UK commercial property Danhon
- MadAlfred's WFRP Page
- Mad Alfred appears to be the pre-eminent creator of extra material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Phil Gyford
- Liber Fanatica Homepage
- Four user-created booklets for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Phil Gyford
- Winds of Chaos " Downloads
- More Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay stuff. Critical Hit charts made by doctors -- got to be good. Plus conversions for the Enemy Within Campaign to WFRP2. Phil Gyford
- Warpstone magazine - Downloads
- Lots of handy downloads for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Phil Gyford
- Strike to Stun
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay site: weblog, downloads, forum. Phil Gyford
- Fantasy Flight Games [Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Products] - Leading publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games.
- Current publishers of WFRP. Catching up on this after twenty years is a lot of fun. Phil Gyford
- Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition) - EN World D&D / RPG News
- Long discussion mostly on what's good about WFRP and why WFRP2 is better than WFRP1. Also, suggestions for what supplements are most useful. Phil Gyford
- The Demon-Haunted World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Matt Jones
- ZFS snapshot visualization in GNOME : Erwann Chénedé's Weblog
- Time slider provides an automatic way to backup your data on the same disc using one of Sun's ZFS filesystem unique features, snapshots. With time slider you can browse and recover files from snapshot backups using the GNOME file manager. Danhon
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun |
- ". Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby [...] Danhon
- Relax with CouchDB
- The full text of the upcoming O'Reilly book about Apache CouchDB. (Or rather, it will be. Right now there are only three chapters, but they're good.) Yoz
- SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound For The Web
- "By wrapping and extending Flash 8's sound API, SoundManager 2 brings solid audio functionality to Javascript." Yoz
- List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lots of fab stuff here (and in the discussion) across a wide range of topics; this one's going to get a lot bigger, I can tell Yoz
Monday 29 December 2008
- Kiva - Loans that change lives
- I was trying to remember the name of this micro-loans site the other day and today it popped up on Cool Tools. Phil Gyford
- Cnewton.com: List: Starbucks Terms of Art
- A list of jargon used by Starbucks employees. Industry phrases always fascinate me but... how about explanation of what they mean? (via Waxy) Phil Gyford
- Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
- For future reference if/when I have a look at this book, updated code examples. (via Blech) Phil Gyford
- 10 Insanely Useful Django Tips - NETTUTS
- I like insanely useful tips. Just dipping my toes in Python at the mo so this may come in useful. (via Blech) Phil Gyford
- Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips
- Lots of handy tips for people like me who have only dabbled in jQuery so far. (via Infovore) Phil Gyford
- Shoemakers.org.uk - Roosters
- I got a pair of boots from Roosters over twenty years ago and (after a long time of not wearing them) I still like them. Phil Gyford
- West End Whingers
- I'm enjoying this blog's theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure. Phil Gyford
- Twit 4 Dead: more silly nonsense with Twitter bots.
- They run a scenario, they bump into boss zombies, they find stuff, they get hurt (and help each other), they get scared (and reassure each other). At the moment, there are some dialogue overlaps; my main work at the moment is adding more unique [...] Matt Jones
- freesound :: home page
- The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. Danhon
- Google In-Game Advertising
- Adsense for Games Danhon
- Less killing, more kissing: new breed of computer games bring people together |
- Here we go again: "Of course, it has been possible to connect a computer to the internet and play a game with other people for a long time. Multi-player platforms such as World of Warcraft have been phenomenally successful and Microsoft has [...] Danhon
- How much of the telephone and Internet systems would survive a nuke? | Ask Metafilter
- Danhon
- What are some TV series with really good story arcs? | Ask Metafilter
- What it says on the tin. Danhon
- The Experimental Gameplay Workshop
- Would love to go to this. Danhon
- The Norden Bombsight and US Precision Bombing - WWII Magazine Dec 2008
- Max is quite brilliant Matt Jones