Links for 2004-10-28

Posted October 28, 2004 11:53 AM.

• 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 now been using del.icio.us for a while and the tag patterns are starting to emerge...
  (categories: css delicious dhtml folksonomies graphic tags typography visual visualisation)
• An interesting article on a dream cocoa client for del.icio.us
  So this is a bit of a follow-up to a post I did a while back on tag-based bookmarks in safari which has had some interesting feedback. This article has some of the most interesting ideas that I've seen, and I'm definitely going to be thinking around this
  (categories: bookmarking bookmarks cocoalicious delicious design heirarchy interactiondesign interface osx relatedlinks tags ui userinterface)
• Catching up on Jon Stewart stuff (swoon) - here's his Daily Show summary of what happened to him on Crossfire
  "Tomorrow I will go back to being funny, but your show will still blow..."
  (categories: cnn crossfire dailyshow election jonstewart journalism media politics president satire tv video)
• Mobster is a companion application for iTunes that allows you to create playlists based on personalized music recommendations.
  Yeah I'm not convinced by musicmobs as a way of operating with the world. I'm sure it comes up with good recommendations, but the manual upload of your iTunes XML seems a little random to me.
  (categories: aggregation application audio collaborative itunes music musicmobs osx recommendations socialsoftware usertracking)
• Wikipedia entry on Edward Lear, nonsense poet
  My favourite Lear limerick: "There was an old person of Fife, Who was greatly disgusted with life; They sang him a ballad, And fed him on salad, Which cured that old person of Fife." Dude - I'm right there with you...
  (categories: biography edwardlear literature nonsense poetry unfulfilledpromise wikipedia writing)
• playlistmag.com has the best introduction to using Musicmobs and Mobster
  "Once you’ve uploaded the file, all your songs are added to a database. In this database reside the track names and play counts of all the songs of all of Musicmobs’ users. Musicmobs then creates a home page for you that lists all the artists from you
  (categories: aggregation applications faqs introduction itunes mobster mp3 music musicmobs osx playlists tutorial)
• Microsoft and Swatch offer thinner wireless watches
  So they're broadcasting interesting data in the air, which means that absolutely anything could use it and respond to the news or the weather or a stock price, and they put it in watches?! Where's the teddy bear that shivers when it's cold outside?!
  (categories: data microsoft smartdevice smartdevices swatch syndication ubicomp ubiquity watches wireless)
• DropCopy - Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN
  Interesting little application this - I've been thinking around something vaguely similar for a while. This has given me some possible UI pointers...
  (categories: apple application cool design easy elegant filesharing lan networking osx rendezvous simple software ui userinterface)
• Coolfer on UK artists that don't sell in the States
  Robbie Williams and the Manic Street Preachers - both artists I might add that I cannot stand the sight of any more - are releasing albums that will go #1 in the UK and will be completely invisible to Americans...
  (categories: america audio billboard charts manicstreetpreachers music robbiewilliams uk)
• John Peel tribute on Radio 4's Front Row
  A particularly interesting tribute to John Peel including Andy Kershaw's comments that just three weeks ago John Peel had said that he felt marginalised by Radio 1 and that the late nights were killing him...
  (categories: andykershaw audio damonalbarn johnpeel music musicindustry radio radio1 radio4)
• Inspired by Tufte - Weblog Continuum Sparklines
  Tufte's sparklines are "intense, design simple, word-sized graphics that can gracefully and intensely narrate on-going results in detail" - and this site proposes a way of using them to illustrate posting activity around a specific subject...
  (categories: blog blogs diagrams edwardtufte infographics information informationdesign informationvisualisation representation sparklines visualisation web weblog webloggia weblogs)
• Even more Jon Stewart (swoon) because I bloody like him, okay? This time on CBS...
  "[Dick Cheney] has been my favorite, because he just goes out there to a room full of supporters and says, 'You know we're all going to die, right?' You're going to die unless I'm in charge.'"
  (categories: america bias cool dailyshow dude interview jonstewart media news politics show swoon television tv usa)
• The New York Times on Jon Stewart (swoon) versus Crossfire, "No Jokes or Spin. It's Time (Gasp) to Talk"
  Of course you might not find it easy to break into the New York Times' heavily protected web edifice, but it's worth the effort to try: "Wait,'' Mr. Carlson said querulously. "I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny."
  (categories: brilliant cool crossfire dailyshow debate funny jonstewart media politics tv)
• George W Bush's re-election website has been made inaccessible to anyone outside the US
  "Since Monday morning (25 October) GeorgeWBush.com began rejecting web requests from outside the United States." Of course we should not in any way think this representative of this administration's foreign policy in microcosm. Oh no. Heaven forbid.
  (categories: american election georgebush gwbush isolationism isolationist politics republican usa wanker web world)
• Something Awful's literal interpretations of movie posters
  "This week the Something Awful Forum Goons got overly analytical and took the idea of taking things at face value to the extreme. The very same extreme that often gets stupid people killed."
  (categories: film funny humour literal movie poster satire somethingawful)
• iPod-related t-shirt reads, "I had an iPod before you even knew what one was"
  I may have to get one of them if only to make it clear that I'm really really hip and cool and trendsetting and stuff you guys kind of ... well ... it's difficult to say it out loud, but you just kind of aren't...
  (categories: apple clothes funny humour ipod slogan tshirt white)
• Buffy-creator Joss Whedon quits television production and shuts down Mutant Enemy
  "I have a bitter taste in my mouth with where TV has gone in the past five years," he told Variety, labeling the reality TV craze "loathsome." (thanks to Kerry for the heads up)
  (categories: angel buffy film firefly genre josswhedon movies mutantenemy realitytelevision television tv)