Archives for January 2005
Links for 2005-01-31 (January 31, 2005) America hates spoilers! Kottke versus everything that's good in the world... (categories: jasonkottke america flickr flag antiamericanism antiamerica spoilers CNN)...
Links for 2005-01-30 (January 30, 2005) Former minister, Chris Smith, is HIV positive and has been for 17 years... I have tremendous respect for him for this whole thing - maintaining his life, and working at such a high level for such a long period...
Links for 2005-01-29 (January 29, 2005) Apple-like-styled sub-Sony Aibo 'iDog' Sings music from a stock set of phrases, responds emotionally to touch and can be plugged into an iPod - at which point it will dance (categories: idog technology sony aibo apple design beautiful music...
Bloggie, bloggie, bloggie, bloggie etc. (January 28, 2005) It's Bloggie Nomination time again and I'm up for two awards this year - Best UK / Irish weblog and - gulp - lifetime achievement. And of course, typically, as soon as lots of people start linking to my site...
Links for 2005-01-28 (January 28, 2005) Teen Bear - Awesome idea for new American gay magazineAlthough I'm slightly horrified by the idea that someone with about six chest hairs might be considered wild and manly. Ho hum....
Links for 2005-01-27 (January 27, 2005) The new BBC RadioPlayer, now with many many more hours of broadcasting each week, has now launched...Interestingly integrated with audio/visual stuff provided by News, Weather and Sport 2005 Oscar nomineesLots of films I've not been able to see yet,...
Links for 2005-01-26 (January 26, 2005) An edited-down video of the Apple keynote when they introduced the Macintosh There's a list of links that work over at kottke.orgWow. I was stunned by how emotionally affected I was by watching this. Please don't laugh at me....
Links for 2005-01-25 (January 25, 2005) Awesomely terrible / awesomely brilliant Flickr song (mp3)"I love my Flickr friends, I'm addicted to their images and photostreams, I love my Flickr friends, They've crawled under my skin and into my dreams" Anatomy for beginnersChannel 4 TV series...
Links for 2005-01-24 (January 24, 2005) The terribly named, but incredibly elegant tadalist from 37 signals - "Simple, sharable to-do lists. It's just what you need and nothing you don't..."The thing about 37 signals is that they not only do good consulting, but they also...
Links for 2005-01-23 (January 23, 2005) Bill Gates plots a Windows futureBBC News interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about home entertainment appliances and the digital hub Nokia brings 'Visual Radio' to mobile phonesWeird one this. Visual supplements to radio are generally considered...
Links for 2005-01-22 (January 22, 2005) Wanted - thirty Chinamen and a Zeppelin...And if you want to know why, you'll have to follow the link. BoingBoing releases five years of posts for people to download and muck around with, and cites me as an inspiration....
Why we must stop bloody Vodafone... (January 21, 2005) This evening I took some photos with my camera and sent them to Flickr. And when I went to Flickr, this is what I saw: Vodafone, my mobile phone provider have started to turn all outgoing e-mails that go through...
Links for 2005-01-21 (January 21, 2005) The Haddock Family TreeInteresting life and development of a mailing list this one. You can see me spring parthenogenically into the mix in 2001... Spandexman.com - Super Hero UnitardsContains an intensely scary number of grown men wearing super-hero style...
Links for 2005-01-20 (January 20, 2005) Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable?The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that...
Links for 2005-01-19 (January 19, 2005) Definition of Anomie from Wikipedia"Anomie, in contemporary English means the absence of any kind of rule, law, principle or order." "A vampire is on the loose in Birmingham. And an inept one, if reports are to be believed. Which...
Links for 2005-01-18 (January 18, 2005) Together in electric dreams: statistical analysis used to determine hit songs"From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their...
Links for 2005-01-17 (January 17, 2005) All of the net, all of the time... Warning - I'm about to be really scathing about this...Could this article on wifi access in bars and cafes be the most tedious article ever written by a human being?...
Links for 2005-01-16 (January 16, 2005) Pitchfork's had an interesting redesign that pushes it widescreen and almost unbrands itself - pushing enormous amounts of content onto the homepageAs ever with these things, you wonder if the obscurantism is partly intentional to make the brand zinelike...
Links for 2005-01-15 (January 15, 2005) Clearing up confusion about the Mac mini... "Yes, it will boot headless, meaning with no display or video device connected, enabling you to have what I like to call an iServe." (categories: mac apple macmini design computer computing server...
Is anti-gay sentiment on the rise? (January 14, 2005) I've been getting more hassle online for being gay in the last month or so than I think I've had in the preceeding couple of years. Mostly I'm deleting the nasty ones, arguing with the clumsy ones and ridiculing the...
Links for 2005-01-14 (January 14, 2005) Awesome bizarre beautiful Java animation that you need to watch immediately (thanks Mr Webb)The rules are simple, each time a ball reaches a branching point it divides. When the paths converge and two balls hit, they cancel each other...
Celebrity, historical, fictional Big Brother... (January 13, 2005) So after due consideration over lunch at Benugo the other day, here is our fully worked-through and comprehensive list of our ideal celebrity / historical / fictional Big Brother: Germaine Greer Jessica Rabbit Gizmo Marcel Marceau Princess Peach Captain Nemo...
Links for 2005-01-13 (January 13, 2005) So yeah the Mac Mini is nice and all, but have you seen the size of the power supply!?I want a Mac Mini. It would make emigrating much much easier in the future... Vote for me as Best British...
Links for 2005-01-12 (January 12, 2005) Airclick remote control for your stereo-connected iPod, via Mr Webb"AirClick USB is a remote for Mac and PC computers. The receiver module attaches to any available USB port (including hubs) and receives signal from up to 60 feet away."...
The iPod Shuffle and some entertaining cultural differences... (January 11, 2005) Just a brief note: the iPodShuffle was one of the products released today by Steve Jobs and the Apple team. It was long-rumoured and kind of makes sense in a do people really want something that can only take that...
Apple keynote time... (January 11, 2005) So I got the first block of my thoughts around media hubs out of the way before the Apple keynote, so that's good. I'm happy about that. For anyone who's interested, we're all 'watching' it via IRC on irc.apple-x.net and...
A really rough proposal for an Apple Media Hub (Illustrations) (January 11, 2005) This part is mostly about: Illustrations of what an Apple Media Hub might look like and how it might function. If you have not done so already, you should first go and read Part One and Part Two which do...
A really rough proposal for an Apple Media Hub (Part Two) (January 11, 2005) This part is mostly about: How to get a device into people's homes that opens up these markets and these possibilities and lets people do more stuff with their stuff. If you have not done so already, you should first...
A really rough proposal for an Apple Media Hub (Part One) (January 11, 2005) This part is mostly about: The drive towards digital media in the home, and changes in the media creation and distribution ecology: So I'm going to write this quickly because it's been stuck in my head for months, and even...
Links for 2005-01-11 (January 11, 2005) The Bastardization of Beta "It seems that every new web application now sports a "beta" tagline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an indeterminable amount of time" (categories: beta flickr labelling vocabulary drift concept googlenews google productdevelopment)...
On forcing oneself to do stuff... (January 10, 2005) So I've been thinking about the term to 'force yourself to do something' and kind of reeling at the absurdity of it all. I mean how can you force yourself to do something? Somewhere in your head you have one...
Links for 2005-01-10 (January 10, 2005) What happens to the water-cooler moment when TV is consumed on-demand? Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact... (categories: michaelsippey postbroadcast television tv tvseries broadcast pvr dvd alias media mediaconsumption grouplistening)...
A quick cartoon from Hugh MacLeod... (January 9, 2005) Given my Zen-like state of calm today, this is potentially not the kind of thing I should be posting on my site in full view of my boss (hey dude). But it's funny and it reminds me of a...
On writing to my father? (January 9, 2005) I'm still trying to get the Apple piece together into some kind of useful form which of course means that my mind keeps wandering and I keep writing other stuff instead. In a way, I'm quite enjoying it. Somehow it...
A brief aside on Jerry Springer the Opera... (January 9, 2005) So I watched Jerry Springer The Opera last night on BBC2. It was pretty rude, pretty funny and had an interesting and surprisingly sophisticated philosophical outlook. I'm delighted that we live in a country where such things are broadcastable and...
Links for 2005-01-09 (January 9, 2005) Bill Gates on Creative Commies "There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist."...
Being a filler post before the good stuff... (January 9, 2005) A while back I started getting really interested in home entertainment appliances and the future of pervasive computing in the home and stuff, but I haven't really had enough time to really pursue my thoughts in this area too much....
On Alexander and Uncle Tom... (January 8, 2005) The other day I was watching BBC Breakfast and they got their film critic on to talk about the premiere of Oliver Stone's new film Alexander. Now Alexander has not got terribly good reviews and they showed a few clips...
Links for 2005-01-07 (January 7, 2005) Who was Ayn Rand anyway: 'Her novels were based upon the archetype of the "Randian hero," a man whose genius leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values...' Given that description and my own...
On Six Apart and Livejournal... (January 6, 2005) So Six Apart have bought Livejournal after all. Here's a brief story about how I didn't find out about it... I was chatting to Mena yesterday about something else and couldn't resist querying her about the rumours. Very patiently, and...
Links for 2005-01-06 (January 6, 2005) CNN commentary on the new series of 'Alias' Alias never did terribly well in the UK - they're now showing series three on 'five' around 1am in the mornings on Monday or Tuesday nights. Which is a shame cos...
An addendum to a definition of Social Software (January 5, 2005) I'm loath to wake the old evil beastie of definitions of social software, but I came across some old notes that I sent off to someone in October and I'd like to keep track of it for later. Basically the...
Old news: Firefox in the New York Times... (January 5, 2005) Final old news entry of the night, I think. It's 1.30am and frankly I'm not as young and spritely as I once was. So anyway a while back I linked to a hooji whereby you could get your name in...
Old news: Bloggies... (January 5, 2005) What else is going on? Er... Well, The Bloggies are up for nominations again - of all the weblog awards these are the ones that I think most accurately reflect the community that I know and understand, even though I'm...
Old news: What happened with the Tiny Hat Project... (January 5, 2005) So I've been a bit low-key on the web recently so I thought maybe I'd post a few updates around individual themes. First up, old news about the Innocent Smoothies-inspired Tiny Hat Project. For those of you who don't know...
Links for 2005-01-05 (January 5, 2005) Preshrunk weblog about cool t-shirts Neat, niche and dripping in goodness, the Preshrunk weblog reveals the best in T-shirt design. I wonder if Cal's seen this yet. He has like 500 t-shirts... (categories: tshirt tshirts design weblog blog weblogs...
Links for 2005-01-04 (January 4, 2005) Gotta Get My Stuff Done Awesome animation about procrastination that pretty much sums up what I've been doing since Wednesday when I got back from my parent's place in Norfolk (categories: procrastination video quicktime animation fun humour entertaining) Mr...
Links for 2005-01-03 (January 3, 2005) Halo 2 for the next generation Xbox "The Voodoo Extreme site is reporting that the Bungie team may work on a project to port Halo 2 to the next generation Xbox, adding in additional content and improving overall gameplay...
Links for 2005-01-02 (January 2, 2005) Expo rumours continue - competition for Office? Garageband 2? Screenless super-cheap iMacs? "Apple will launch its new iWork '05 productivity suite at Macworld Expo, Think Secret has learned. The software, code-named Sugar (as alluded to in our previous Expo...
I bring you a message from the year 2005... (January 1, 2005) Wow. Dude. 2005. That's fucked up right here. Two thousand and five years into the Common Era. Which is like only a hundred generations or something. One hundred tiny links in the enormous chain that includes my mum, her gran,...
Links for 2005-01-01 (January 1, 2005) Video for Futureheads "Decent Days and Nights" - WARNING! RAM FILE! The Futureheads are currently occupying a lot of my attention because they sing good British-sounding smart sharp bouncy guitar songs and the lead singer is hot. (categories: audio...
