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Thursday 2 July 2009

iPhone SMS Vulnerability Found, Getting Patched - HotHardware: The only details Miller had were this: “The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network. The malicious code could include commands to monitor the location [...] Technovia
The Free Market for Snake Oil and the Age of Unreason - broadstuff: “For example, let’s say the icon of your choice spouts pure (but entertaining) cr*p to their 50,000 followers (who then re-tweet like good little acolytes), and a few experts in the field with a few thousand followers each rebut it, the [...] Technovia
Fast Company Co-Founder Has it Right: Steve’s Not a Role Model | Cult of Mac: “The most important question is not, “How do we become more like Steve Jobs?” The best question is, “How do we become the best version of our own company?” That might mean the kind of leadership Taylor espouses in the rest of his column, or [...] Technovia

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Guardian Activate 09: I went to Activate 09 today. “an exclusive one-day summit providing a unique gathering for leaders working across all sectors to share, debate and create strategies for answering some of the world’s biggest questions.” I was [...] Roo Reynolds
My body: Becoming non-fat is weird. As you become more non-fat, you can feel the not too subtle urges calling you to become thinner, quicker. If I stopped eating X that I enjoy, I'd lose weight faster. My answer to that is:... Moolies

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Reboot11. I did my talk at reboot 11 was a bit of a panic - as...: Reboot11. I did my talk at reboot 11 was a bit of a panic - as the previous speaker over ran by almost 30 mins - then we couldn’ t hook up my new mac book pro to the projector (i only had a dvi adapter and it was vga only, and a dvi - vga adapter [...] Mostly This

Monday 29 June 2009

Second Life versus Twitter: Showing you the money: Twitter isn’t as profitable as Second Life: Estimated revenue of Second Life holding company, in 2008: $96 million Estimated revenue of Twitter holding company, in 2008: $0 million via nwn.blogs.com I’ve been venturing into SL a [...] Technovia
Man cleared over Girls Aloud blog: A former civil servant who wrote an internet article imagining the kidnap and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud has been cleared of obscenity. Darryn Walker, 35, of South Shields, South Tyneside, was charged under the Obscene Publications Act [...] Technovia

Sunday 28 June 2009

ARGON: I've been tinkering with the design for ARGON since I was about eleven or twelve, I think. I was always an avid reader of books, and the local library's computing section had a mixture of "Learn to program in BASIC on your ZX Spectrum!" and [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
Posterous feels like the roots of blogging: If you look back through my blog to the dim and distant past - otherwise known as 2002 - you’ll notice something about it. There’s lots of short bits, links, pictures and quotes with comments. Later on, it changes. Posts become [...] Technovia
Chutzpah: via palmwebos.org You have to admire their balls. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
British music boss: we should have embraced Napster: Geoff Taylor, head of UK major label trade group BPI, wrote an op-ed piece for the BBC today in which he called Napster the “Rosetta Stone of digital music,” said it was “simple to understand and use,” and said that the [...] Technovia
Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » The Mainstream Media: “Okay, I’m making a new rule: whenever I’m reading something online and I see the phrase “The Mainstream Media,” I’m instantly deducting 40 credibility points from the author. It’s a meaningless phrase and to use it indicates either laziness [...] Technovia
Another massive fire in Margate - Grosvenor Place: http://www.kent.fire-uk.org/KFRS/pageid/518/offset/0/releaseid/987/Press/Press.htmlI've only just heard and haven't been down to see the damage yet. What a way to wake up on Sunday morning. Tragic, tragic, tragic. Come on Margate, you can do better [...] Margate Architecture

Saturday 27 June 2009

HostEverything: Web Server Failure: On Thursday the 25th at approximately 20:42 a power failure with another server in the rack cause a breaker to trip, powering down my server. Initially the server seemed to come [...] Dorian Moore
Uh oh: more productivity out of the window as Flight Control v1.3 Adds Peer-To-Peer Multiplayer: via appadvice.com Damn, just as I’d safely managed to stop playing the last version. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
Virgin Media’s first mobile phone TV advert in three years: via youtube.com One of the nicest ads I’ve seen for a while - by RKCR. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
Sign of the Times in Iran: via wickedstageact2.typepad.com Awesome picture. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
Great science presenter haircuts of our time: via broadstuff.com Yowzah! Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
The Loop: Apple’s netbook and why we’ll never see it: “The problem with a netbook is that it’s a netbook. I’m not a big fan of them in general because I expect something more from what is essentially a scaled down notebook. I think Apple does too and that’s why Apple’s netbook will never make it [...] Technovia
Apple to Nvidia: Get lost: “The word is that Nvidia is out of Apple designs, starting with the Nehalem laptops and iMac type things. We are told the arrogance and bluster of Nvidia proposals were greeted with a response that, paraphrased, said, “Go away and don&# [...] Technovia
Review: Sealed-In Batteries in New Apple MacBook Pros | Walt Mossberg: via ptech.allthingsd.com Walt does his usual thorough look, this time just at the batteries on the new MacBook Pros. And they really are exceptionally good. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
Why I use Evernote for all my notes: Image via CrunchBase This morning I was thinking back to the days when writing news was my primary vocation. A long time before Apple released its Intel version of OS X - in the phase when it was questioning the sanity of any reporter who [...] Technovia

Friday 26 June 2009

Ambulance crew attending drunk kids in the graveyard: All go at the graveyard tonight. It's a busy Friday night and an ambulance crew were called out to attend to a girl who was collapsed. There were more drunken and rowdy kids inside the graveyard itself and one other collapsed in a similar state. I [...] Margate Architecture
L4D custom bead sprites: Willya look at the Francis on that. He would hate it. I however, do not. Wonderland
Battle of the Planets (band) shirt: Band shirts. The quickest way to salute your tribe... my favourites: the original 'tendos, the L4D team, and now, Battle of the Planets from our Matt, who also produced the fantastic getexcitedandmakethings tee. Dial your nerd-hipster meter to 11: [...] Wonderland
Harvey Nicks' streetfighter-esque ads: Harvey Nichols, for you non-UK residents, is a very chi-chi department store selling expensive designer gear. And yet, they've turned to Street Fighter and pals for inspiration for their latest sale ads: That's just freaky. And it kind of works.... Wonderland
Another Perfect World: More4 (Channel 4's deep-thinking digital channel) did a documentary on virtual worlds, featuring no less than Raph Koster and pals. True Stories presents: Jorien van Nes and Femke Wolting's fascinating insight into online virtual worlds. Second [...] Wonderland
Cogs: I'm reviewing some indie games at the moment, and one of them is Cogs. I thought you might like to see it: it's one of those anti-dementia, hangover-fixing games, and The Escapist loves everything about it (except the price). Seeing... Wonderland
HP Releases Classic Calculators For iPhone: via jkontherun.com This is very, very cool. Only one problem - they’re also very, very expensive, at up to $30. For a calculator? Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream Technovia
The Pre Is Palm’s Last Chance: The reason it’s important that the Pre succeeds is so the mobile market doesn’t wind up like the desktop market — with just one single great experience, alone in a sea of crap. via daringfireball.net Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s [...] Technovia

Links

Thursday 2 July 2009

How busy is your train station? Every one detailed | News | guardian.co.uk: "amazing" but fatally flawed dataset. garbage in, garbage out. Chris Heathcote
auntie pixelante › level design lesson: in the pyramid: Great piece explaining the cunning design of a small chunk of Super Mario Land (1989). Note how the designers have balanced challenge, reward and fairness in a way that keeps the player interested. (via infovore) Yoz
Walls Come Tumbling Down presentation slides and transcript | For A Beautiful Web: designing in the browser? AMEN. Too right. About time that the outdated workflow detailed herein changes. It's old, it DOESN'T WORK, and it needs to be replaced. Dotcode
Designing for Urban Green Spaces: LIFT 09: Matt Jones
Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama | Media | guardian.co.uk: Matt Jones
Heathrow Terminal 5 to become art gallery - Telegraph: URGH. [["There is a proliferation of huge white wall space at Terminal 5 which the culture minister sees as a missed opportunity... Advances in digital technology mean that it is increasingly possible to reproduce high quality images and take [...] Chris Heathcote

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Thames River Boats: westminster to hampton court Chris Heathcote
ASTER GDEM: best. topo map. evar! Chris Heathcote
Welcome to Lummi Maker & Designer of the Worlds Smallest Brightest LED Torches.: crazy led torches. these would fall into @bruces' Buy Good Tools. Chris Heathcote
io9 - Grant Morrison Tells All About Batman and Robin: "Watching a billionaire Batman disarm poorly-trained, poverty-stricken muggers effortlessly or beating up skinny junkies might be fun for a scene or two but does tend to raise thorny issues of class and privilege that the basic adventure hero [...] Lee
World Digital Library Home: Matt Jones
Digital communications and the conduct of science: The new literacy: "This essay is a personal perspective on the emergence of a new form of communication, optimistically called the 'EUGRAM'. This form is based on the convergence of economical digital communications with computer-aided facilities for [...] Matt Jones
Green walls: the growing success of 'vegitecture' - CNN.com: Matt Jones
How Jim Fulton Saved the Space Shuttle | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference: Matt Jones
Nick Bostrom's Home Page: Matt Jones
Newspaper Club - A work in progress: Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome. Phil Gyford
The Viridian Design Movement: Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again. Phil Gyford
Scope (Schulze & Webb): More Matt Webb, his opening presentation at last week's Reboot. It was very, very good, and it's great to have the whole thing written much as he delivered it. Phil Gyford
Pulse Laser: Shownar: This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good. Phil Gyford
Slide 1 of 44 (Scope at reboot11, Matt Webb, S&W): Hmm, commit to 100 hours. It's either powerplate or painting. Maybe both at the same time. Alice
The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time - Lists - News - IFC.com: One of those rare "Top N" lists that has (nearly) all my favourites in it. I'm glad someone else agrees with me on the "Goldeneye" trailer. (Shame there's no "Primer", though.) Yoz

Tuesday 30 June 2009

John Graham-Cumming: The 1944 US Presidential Election was fraudulent: "If you look at the non-adjacent, non-repeated digits in the vote counts by state for Roosevelt and Dewey you discover that 59.38% of the votes are non-adjacent, non-repeated. If the numbers were truly random you'd expect 70%. That's [...] Lee
Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips | StayUpdate.com - Want to stay up to date?: Set Firefox to have fixed size of memory usage Dotcode
The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach: As simple as a grid-based CSS framework thing could be. (via Infovore) Phil Gyford
YouNotSneaky!: How to read The Economist: Several friends seem to rate the Economist, which confuses the lefty in me. But this is a handy guide. (via Haddock) Phil Gyford
Mathematical universe hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Matt Jones
Harrow Technical - Pentax Repairs, Pentax Spares, Pentax Cameras, Pentax Service: In case I need to get my old camera fixed. Phil Gyford
Give Me Something To Read: "Selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper." Phil Gyford
Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning: Free VLE. Need to investigate. Alice
russell davies: data / maps / narrative / adventure: See also: hypnotic moving line in week 1 of We Tell Stories Danhon
Edge: BRAIN TIME By David M. Eagleman: So, you know optical illusions, right? The things that show you that what you see isn't the real world? Well, how about this: time illusions. What you perceive as time? Not the real world. I KNOW, RIGHT? BLEW YOUR MIND, RIGHT? Danhon
Social game ideas – open ended, multi-sponsor ARGs « Searching for the Moon: Danhon
InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture: swillison calls it "The most detailed write-up of Twitter’s current architecture I’ve seen, explaining the four layers of cache (all memcached) used by the Twitter API" and I believe him Danhon
jwz - Facebook "pages" versus "groups": Facebook, sigh. Pages can't do what groups can do, groups can't do what pages can do, no migration strategy. Danhon
The Unwritten Blurs Conspiracy, Lit Into Meaty Metafiction | Underwire | Wired.com: I like metafiction, but I worry the rest of the world doesn't Danhon
Life after the VCR: Takeup of digital video services soars: "The number of personal video recorders such as Sky+ sold in the UK has reached almost 9 million, says Ofcom" - up to 9m households have timeshiftimg PVR capability now. I wonder how many of those are Sky HD STBs? Danhon
Big Spaceship | Think Blog - Further Reading on Advertising & Transmedia: Big Spaceship is curating a resource on transmedia and advertising Danhon
Rewired State Projects: WOW. Alice
Nokia’s ‘Search for N’ Begins « Nokia Nseries: Nokia's worldwide-ish treasurehunt for the N Series Danhon
Dawkins funds atheist summer camp (Derren Brown Blog): Atheist summer camp! In the UK! And why not, as most teens are atheists... Alice
Slide 43 of 44 (Scope at reboot11, Matt Webb, S&W): If anything else, Webb can always become a motivational speaker... Danhon
We Make Stories: First successor to We Tell Stories out of the gate. Go go Jeremy! Danhon
"Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics": Man, I really miss sociolinguistics Danhon
Print Article: 7 habits of highly effective creative directors: Sane. Danhon
Raph’s Website » Is game design songwriting or performance?: An interesting intellectual exercise, but it's not zero-sum and doesn't have to be either-or Danhon
UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in 50 years: Don't believe the hype that it's over? Alice
what's going on with the music formerly known as 'indie'?: "In 2009, a new settlement has arisen. The 'fleeting' and the 'timeless' are now split by a generational division of labour. In the age of myspace, Urban Outfitters, Londonlite, 'illegal'-but-actually-sponsored [...] Matt Jones
Daimlerstrasse 38 or How to get a fox to shoot portrait of itself - we make money not art: "Greenfort made "traps" using garbage he found in the area. He put a camera inside. At the other end of the camera flex is the sausage. When a fox bit in the sausage, it activated the camera and made an auto-portrait of itself. One [...] Matt Jones
Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair: Matt Jones
The Pirate Bay - for sale: "The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best [...] Alice
Gamasutra - News - NPD: Female Gamer Population Increasing On Consoles: "The percentage of console gamers who are female grew from 23 to 28 percent in 2009, according to the NPD's new market segment study. The rise is mainly attributable to the Wii, which itself saw a 19 percent increase in usage over last [...] Danhon
io9 - New York Teenager Finds Weird, Introverted Supernova - Space: How awesome? I'm totally jealous. One for NMM/ROG, I reckon. Danhon
Talent imitates, genius steals: RFP or Digital Scavenger Hunt?: Fun: ARGish agency treasure hunt brief Danhon
Shoot and Eat: Dim Sum at Pearl Liang - Londonist: Todo: dim sum Danhon
The 15 Games You Need For Your New iPhone (pg. 01) | Offworld: I've bought more games for the iPhone than I ever have for our DS Danhon
Elsinore Baby! New Hamlet Preview! (Magical Wasteland): The comments make this even more awesome. Danhon
Northern Line Extension Moves An Inch Forward - Londonist: Believe it when I see it. Would be happier with more frequent, higher capacity peaktime trains on the SW main lines, as well as an overground service that's more frequent than 4 times an hour Danhon
Steven Levy on Neil Young's Massive Blu-ray Project: The flipside to this is you'd better hope that any long-term archival project like this retains usable formats and codecs throughout its lifetime. Who wants to keep around a Blu-Ray player just to safeguard their investment in a Neil Young archive? Danhon
Dual Perspectives Article - web TV: "Advertisers prefer to target — and pay the most — for the largest audiences, which still can be found on the networks." - numbers over targetting Danhon
Wonderland: Sociable television (as it should be): I wonder if the Sky subs are going to be locked to a number of XBoxen, or if you can take your sky sub round to a mate's house Danhon

Monday 29 June 2009

Transport (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Is this the most British typeface? Matt Jones
Video: Axel Scheffler: 'A Gruffalo should look frightening but cute' | Books | guardian.co.uk: Great little interview with shots of him working, and the revelation that he and Donaldson don't work closely at all (via matlock) Yoz
DAN MOGFORD: Edward de Bono - Series Design: I really like Dan's redesign for de Bono's books on thinking. Matt Jones
Orange Cone: When bits meet atoms: Making things in a Read-Write World (LIFT09): "The end of Read-Only material culture, as I mark it, began in 1985, with the release of the Apple LaserWriter, which was the first mass market device that merged the flexibility of bits with the tangibility of atoms. It could provide the [...] Matt Jones

Sunday 28 June 2009

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Mostly amounts to: Design your systems to be solid and paranoid from day one. If you're playing whack-a-mole, you're losing. (via ian betteridge) Yoz
The Championships, Wimbledon 2009 - Families at Wimbledon: yum. food for saturday. Danhon
The Mother Load: Homemade Wendy's Frosty - The MomAdvice.com Blog: hot hot hot Danhon
The Mother Load: World's Greatest Homemade Slushies - The MomAdvice.com Blog: NEED Danhon

Saturday 27 June 2009

Interzone | > jim rossignol: Matt Jones
Lipton Ice Tea "Chase": I love the Bourne movies; I love ice tea. If only there was some way to combine the two? Lee
Scope: design, culture, scale, space, superpowers (my opening keynote at reboot11): Slides and notes online. Genmon
The Toaster Project: "The practical aspects of the project are rather a lot of fun. They also serve as a vehicle through which theoretical issues can be raised and investigated. Commercial extraction and processing of the necessary materials happens on a scale [...] Matt Jones
Temple Works 3.0 Alpha « matt.me63.com – Matt Edgar: Chris Heathcote

Friday 26 June 2009

Internet: House of Lords debates, 25 June 2009: Pharma-spam jokes in the Lords... Lee
Blog: It's time to redesign the guitar | Music | guardian.co.uk: "We demand piece-of-piss-to-play button guitars now. And pre-programmed "hurdy gurdy" guitars that actually play both louder and faster the harder you crank the handle. And living guitars made out of pain-sensitive clone flesh with [...] Matt Jones
The BLDGBLOG Book | > jim rossignol: Jim's review of Geoff's book Matt Jones
LA - "John Henry Von Neumann" (06.28.09): In the performance of “John Henry Von Neumann,” Chandler B. McWilliams will compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday. The drawings are algorithmic, such that each line can be calculated from the previous lines. [...] Matt Jones
Michael Jackson is Dead, Jeff Goldblum is Alive. Can Twitter Tell the Difference? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD: Insightful reflection about Twitter, Michael Jackson and the trust factor. Meg Pickard
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics: "Nike has discovered that there's a magic number for a Nike+ user: five. If someone uploads only a couple of runs to the site, they might just be trying it out. But once they hit five runs, they're massively more likely to keep [...] Matt Jones
Design Interactions | Vanessa Harden | The Subversive Gardener: "The Subversive Gardener explores various methods of disguising gardening paraphernalia in everyday attire and accessories, drawing on influences from militaria and spy gadgetry." Matt Jones
Edge 291: BRAIN TIME: Matt Jones
The Benefits of a Classical Education - Tim O'Reilly: Tim on Ancient Greece & Rome and the lessons he still learns from it. Fascinating. Alice