Blogs
Thursday 20 June 2013
- Bookmarks for June 18th through June 19th
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 18th from 14:30 to 06:29: Untitled (http://www.mapbox.com/labs/ [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Tuesday 18 June 2013
- Bookmarks for June 16th through June 17th
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 16th from 23:41 to 18:35: What Others Think of You Is None of Your [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Monday 17 June 2013
- Game and Microsoft open pop up concept store.
- This is pretty sweet, game and microsoft have opened a pop up XBox concept store, ahead of the One launch later in the year. Theres plenty of hands on with the 360, Surface RT/Pro and Kinect. No One yet :) Great friendly staff and and some site [...] Mostly This
- Original content is hard
- “Some will say this is just a small site bitching about a big site. Maybe. I believe there’s a larger issue here. The online publishing game is all about volume right now. It’s not about quality and originality. When volume … Continue reading [...] Technovia
- Bookmarks for June 16th from 00:11 to 21:20
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 16th from 00:11 to 21:20: Honest Phone Company Ads – [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Sunday 16 June 2013
- Emotion and technology
- We are an opinionated age. We obsess over it. Who’s opinions you follow define who you are and – that perilous belonging – what tribe you are a part of. We defend our own, and attack those who disagree. You … Continue reading → Technovia
- Bookmarks for June 14th through June 15th
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 14th from 17:07 to 22:22: I am James Bamford, one of the [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Saturday 15 June 2013
- Bookmarks for June 12th through June 14th
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 12th from 17:57 to 16:21: The Foursquare Time Machine – [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Friday 14 June 2013
- Roof repairs
- For some time, I have been spending much of my free time trying to make my workshop more habitable. Back in April last year, I started putting up shelves and putting things away; when we moved in, I had been able to set the furniture up and put [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- What we have been reading this week June 14, 2013
- http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Business_Technology/The_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1306 Who Made That? The Magazine's 2013 Innovations Issue BuzzFeedBen: Fantastic @nytimes piece by @ [...] Alex Balfour
Thursday 13 June 2013
- A tale of Tales of the Arabian Nights
- Last night Tom, Martha, Ed, Kevan and I spent three hours exploring the world of Tales of the Arabian Nights (3rd edition, Z-Man Games 2009). It was memorable. TOTAN is not a great game, it’s certainly not a gamey game, but it’s an [...] COPE
- Bookmarks for June 11th through June 12th
- This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 11th from 16:01 to 11:48: big up to the rss massive – Apple [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Links
Tuesday 18 June 2013
- Proxima Nova – Mark Simonson
- I do love this font. Seen it in use on a couple of sites and been wowed by it each time. Kim
- Bacon on the beech: My Top 10 Manchester Burgers.
- Antimega
- REDbot:
- " RED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of HTTP-related issues." Dotcode
- monsieurbleu.com
- Antimega
- YSlow - Official Open Source Project Website
- YSlow for PhantomJS Dotcode
- Cuzillion
- souders' tool for testing different page configurations Dotcode
- Why Gaming Is Still A Great Bet For Investors | TechCrunch
- Alice
Monday 17 June 2013
- At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR
- With theaters — particularly larger theaters — chock full of men's stories, where did the women go? Alice
- A Collectable Rubber Duck in Hong Kong - Fabbaloo Blog - Fabbaloo - Daily News on 3D Printing
- Alice
- Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation
- Very good. So rare to find a documentary that is complex or deep and isn't full of daft re-enactments or the presenter pretending to "discover" something. Phil Gyford
- russell davies: big up to the rss massive
- starred items / big up to the rss massive / from russell davies http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/ Via russell davies Kim
- Debug and test your API, webhook and mobile back end service integrations. · Runscope
- For inspecting your requests to/from APIs etc. Also a tunnelling thing for sharing your localhost, but only on the pay-for plan. Phil Gyford
- Restaurant HIGUMA
- Antimega
Sunday 16 June 2013
- Are Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode Conversion Killers? | Practical eCommerce
- This was going round Twitter today with people saying it shows Verified By Visa etc can reduce your site's checkout completion rate by 10%. But it's just the results of a survey, with 10% saying they'd "consider" stopping checkout. Phil Gyford
- Dodgy wind? Why "innovative" turbines are often anything but
- A good read about why many supposedly new-and-improved designs for wind turbines aren't improved, and sometimes aren't even new. (via @undermanager) Phil Gyford
- At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR
- On the tiny percentage of movies, especially mainstream, which is all most people get a chance to see in a cinema, which are about, never mind by, women. (via Paul Mison) Phil Gyford
Saturday 15 June 2013
- Convert CRS to latitude/longitude - Google Groups
- Antimega
- 36 Hours in Verona, Italy - NYTimes.com
- Antimega
- The English Can Cook: 5 best breads in Paris
- Antimega
Thursday 13 June 2013
- Little Black Book: Chef Nick Anderer's Favorite Roman Restaurants | FATHOM Rome Travel Guides and Travel Blog
- Antimega
- Code & form » Processing 2.0 released (links + notes) | Marius Watz
- starred items / Processing 2.0 released (links + notes) / from Code & form http://workshop.evolutionzone.com Via marius watz Kim
- Processing 2.0 Arrives; Where to Get Started Upgrading Your Creative Coding
- starred items / Processing 2.0 Arrives; Where to Get Started Upgrading Your Creative Coding / from Create Digital Motion http://createdigitalmotion.com Via Peter Kirn Kim