Archives for October 2004

Links for 2004-10-31 (October 31, 2004) Little Britain is being re-edited for broadcast on BBC One to remove some of the more extreme humour I watched Monkey Dust on BBC2 the other day and was suddenly aware how hardcore/shocking some of it was. My expectations...

Links for 2004-10-30 (October 30, 2004) Osama bin Laden has a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera that seems designed to do nothing but mess with the US election I can't tell what the effect of this is going to be - whether it will help Kerry...

Links for 2004-10-29 (October 29, 2004) Free Ruler - an elegant little application for helping you measure the width and height of things you are designing I really like this - I often find myself trying to work out what's gone wrong with a layout...

Links for 2004-10-28 (October 28, 2004) Kevan's extisp.icio.us visualisation of my del.icio.us links I'm only really linking to this because I seem to be trying to show it to someone every couple of days and this way I'll get to it more easily. Plus I've...

Five years of weblog data to rip apart as you please... (October 28, 2004) This weblog - originally located at barbelith.com but which subsequently moved to its current location at plasticbag.org - will hit its fifth birthday on Monday. That's five full years of random plasticbag.org posts - 4175 of them in fact, plus...

Links for 2004-10-27 (October 27, 2004) nutr.itio.us provides a more sophisticated interface with which to post to del.icio.us Appears to include a way of deducing common tags for a link as well as aiding you navigate through your own tags. The interface doesn't quite scale...

John Peel has died... (October 26, 2004) As of 2.00pm today, it's just been announced that John Peel - bastion of English radio - has died suddenly in Peru. Here are a few links that I've found following the announcement: John Peel has died - "Veteran BBC...

Links for 2004-10-26 (October 26, 2004) Creative Commons and Wired create the Wired CDWith a whole variety of random artists including the Beastie Boys and Thievery Corporation Paula LeDieu will be attending a session to talk about the BBC's Creative Archive Project later this weekThe...

Links for 2004-10-25 (October 25, 2004) Jonathan Miller's Brief History of DisbeliefA stunning BBC documentary tracing the history and key figures of atheism - and one I doubt you'll find accessible with BitTorrent Stunning pictures of 'the Gherkin' skyscraper in London The Donut Hole"It's the...

Links for 2004-10-23 (October 23, 2004) The Baghdad Blogger goes to Washington And the immigration people have the nerve to ask the stupid question, "Sir, are you religious?" Big Brother builds 'Truman Show' village People expected to "spend decades" in the built-for-tv town Jeff Veen...

Links for 2004-10-22 (October 22, 2004) From Wikipedia: The many meanings of Constructivism Across graphic design, teaching, philosophy and many others... Flash do-it-yourself Constructivist Compositionals This is really nice - flash posters in a Constructivist style that are covered in structures of colours and shapes...

Links for 2004-10-21 (October 21, 2004) A definition of Skeuomorph from Wikipedia"It refers to a derivative object which retains now useless design elements which were necessarily present in the original. Skeuomorphs may be employed to add an air of authenticity and/or antiquity. It derives from...

Links for 2004-10-19 (October 19, 2004) Cocoal.icio.us - Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X I've been looking for a URL manager app for a while, and Cocoal.icio.us also hooks in with tag-lovely del.icio.us as well CNN.com - Transcript of Jon Stewart on Crossfire I...

Links for 2004-10-16 (October 16, 2004) David Sifry's Wiki: BlogsAndPolitics This is an attempt at generating a comprehensive timeline of when weblogs had a significant impact on politics Poll reveals world anger at Bush Eight out of 10 countries favour Kerry for president - I...

Sandi Toksvig talks about politicians and gay rights... (October 15, 2004) Sandi Toksvig - a bright and highly entertaining British comedian and presenter - has this to say about the upcoming civil partnerships bill: About three years ago I asked a member of the Labour NEC why the government, with its...

Late breakfast plan proposed: Luna / Castro (October 10, 2004) It's a bit late in the day, but if anyone wants to join Jim Speth, Ben Cerveny and myself for a breakfast around 18th and Castro, we'll be at a place called Luna from around 11 until around 1ish. That's...

One last day in San Francisco... (October 9, 2004) I'm back in San Francisco after the Online Community Report summit and most of a reasonable night's sleep (didn't wake up until nearly 6am) and now trying to work out what to do for the next twenty-eight odd hours or...

A trivial complaint about the title field in Movable Type's posting interface... (October 9, 2004) Okay so here's a completely trivial little irritation of mine. Can someone please explain to me why it is even possible in Movable Type to put more characters in your title field than the system can record in the database....

What I did on my flight... (October 7, 2004) Eurgh - long flights. Or should I say: Eurgh - long flights, other people's screaming children, no room for a laptop unless you're in the most extraordinarily complex and intricate of positions and why do people feel the salmon-like urge...

Towards tag-based bookmark management in web browsers? (October 4, 2004) So since playing with Flickr and working on a little fun project at work on (cough) folksonomies with Mr Webb, I've become obsessed with tags and the ways in which they can be used to build better navigational interfaces. Currently...

Wikiproxy "enhances" BBC News Online... (October 4, 2004) So my old boss, bluntly, often talks quite a lot of balls. Having got that out of the way, I should also add that on occasion he does come up with some pretty bloody interesting (if almost certainly soon to...

Two minor brushes with fame... (October 3, 2004) So tonight I've had two minor brushes with fame. I decided to go and see Layer Cake at the Odeon Marble Arch but arrived a little early. And while waiting for the theatre to open, I suddenly heard Drop The...

Meet up with me in San Francisco... (October 2, 2004) Right. So I'm going to San Francisco again on Wednesday, but I'm only in town for a very short period of time as I'm spending Thursday and Friday in Sonoma for the Online Community Report Summit 2004 and then flying...

On Flickr, Favcol and my experience of weblogging... (October 2, 2004) So I love Flickr. I think it's absolutely awesome. I've been weblogging for five years (almost - see me in thirty days) and the fun I have using Flickr reminds me of the immediate joy and excitement that I used...

More about the onlineshop.us.com comment spamming debacle... (October 1, 2004) Another response has come through to me via Cory from the people at Amazon Associates about the comment spam problem I was having a while back. It's actually fairly interesting how little response I've personally had from Amazon (ie. none),...