Links for 2004-10-31

Posted October 31, 2004 1:21 AM.

• 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 had changed because it was on BBC2. And my reaction changed because I had become aware of the possibility of my mother watching it.
  (categories: appropriateness bbc bbcone bbcthree bbctwo censorship davidwalliams graphicreferences littlebritain mattlucas monkeydust swearing television)
• iTunes 4.7 is a lifesaver! Now I can free up some space on my 40Gb iPod by getting rid of duplicate tracks
  On the other hand, who in hell thought that using iTunes to sync your photos was a good idea? Surely iSync is the app for that? Except of course PC users don't have iSync - so now Mac design decisions are based on non-Mac users...
  (categories: apple application design ipod ipodphoto isync itunes music osx photo photography sync userexperience userinterface ux)
• A picture from Flickr of "Hot Dogs"
  It's trivial. It's ridiculous. It's wrong in so many ways. And yet it's also really bloody funny. I apologise for how easily pleased I have become.
  (categories: dogs dumb funny humour photo photograph photography pun)
• Apple third quarter global market share falls to 1.8%
  While Apple generally seem to be doing pretty well, it looks like most of it is fueled by the iPod. Global market share continues to fall. I genuinely don't understand why this is the case - I wouldn't buy a PC today if you paid me to do it.
  (categories: apple computer desktop g4 g5 imac laptop marketshare osx pc powerbook)
• There's now more squid biomass in the world than human (and there's 6 1/2 billion of us)
  "Dr George Jackson from the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean studies in Tasmania said squid thrived during environmental disasters such as global warming."
  (categories: animals biology biomass creatures giant globalwarming science sea squid water)
• Mr Webb explores the possibility of iPod as a kind of wireless personal informational avatar
  "Put it in your pocket, run a radio station for the people near your desk, or the people you pass on the street. But the music sharing, because really it's a music device, has to start with photos, that's the big excuse. A long term plan."
  (categories: apple datastore future ipod localareabroadcasting music network personal photography portable server sharing socialsoftware thumbdrive webserver wireless workspace)
• Jonathan Ive speaks on design at an event that I failed to get organised enough to attend
  Motivations I share: "It has become more and more important to me that I work with a company I can believe in" and "We make money to support our desire to make nice things". These are the goals. Now, how to achieve them...
  (categories: aesthetic apple beauty creativity design designmuseum designprocess ethos imac ipod jonathanive stevejobs workethic)
• How to control a computer system by tracking the movements of the nose...
  I've been examining the way I move my head while reading this article to see if I could use my nose as the controller for a mouse pointer. Very impressed. Really interesting idea. Kind of want one.
  (categories: face facialmovement inputdevice mice mouse nose nouse pointer tracking userinterface)
• Metacritic reveals extraordinarily polarised reviews for Jonathan Glazer's Birth (2004)
  Eight reviews evenly spaced between 60 and 100, Nine reviews evenly spaced between 0 and 40. I wonder what divided the critics so much?
  (categories: birth cinema film jonathanglazer metacritic movie nicolekidman reincarnation review reviews)
• Attack of the Clones: How Britain came to be full of millions of identical trees
  25 million English elms died from Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, and the reason? Turns out that every single tree was a clone of a single elm introduced by the Romans...
  (categories: biodiversity biology britain clone disease dutchelmdisease england nature romans rome tree uk)
• Wikipedia entry on Apple and Typography
  A fascinating entry that covers Apple corporate fonts and brand identity, the fonts used on various Macintoshs over the years as well as going into some detail about font technologies in general
  (categories: apple brand branding brands font fontmanagement fonts glyph osx postcript system7 truetype type typography)
• Want to use del.icio.us as your authoritative snippet mapping / storage medium?
  If so, then pasta might well be the answer. del.icio.us keeps everything organised for you - and incredibly elegantly - but only if it's already on a web page. Pasta gets it onto a page quickly and then posts to del.icio.us
  (categories: brain delicious files filing folksonomies folksonomy internet mindmap pasta post posting storage tags thebrain web weird weirdtech)