Links for 2005-02-20

Posted February 20, 2005 12:19 AM.

• A new version of FTP client Transmit has come out
  I've been getting cross with Fetch recently. I think maybe it's time to switch...
  (categories: transmit ftp osx application apple panic)
• Read Regular - an asymmetrical sans serif font designed to make reading easier for dyslexic people
  I'm quite charmed by what I've seen of Read Regular - there's something about it which is slightly Comic Sans-y, but with much more restraint and class
  (categories: readregular font typography dyslexia)
• Stewart Butterfield interviewed by the O'Reilly network about Flickr, metadata, social software and tagging...
  "When you're doing it for yourself, it's like a chore, its drudgery. When you're doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger."
  (categories: stewartbutterfield flickr socialsoftware folktags folksonomy tags tag ethnoclassification)
• PodBrix sells modified Lego minifigs that look like the people in iPod adverts
  Talk about having a niche audience...
  (categories: lego ipod apple design niche massamateurisation)
• UK users are responsible for 18% of all the peer-to-peer shared and BitTorrented TV show downloads
  Obviously they're doing it because of the sometimes enormous time-lag between a show being broadcast in the States and in the UK. There's one way to fix that straightaway...
  (categories: television downloads ondemand bittorrent downloading timeshifting p2p peertopeer)
• Kottke's webcam is back...
  Which is a good thing, if only because it meant I could ask him what good webcam software there is for OSX...
  (categories: jasonkottke webcam)
• EvoCam - finally some really good webcam software for OSX
  Not only webcam software, but also motion sensor, permanent archiving and a nice interface
  (categories: webcam evocam application software osx apple)
• NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars
  It's all to do with methane emissions from subterranean caves. Very hopeful about this one. Life on another planet - however trivial and basic - would blow the world open...
  (categories: nasa mars methane seti aliens)
• 'Fifty planets' could have life
  Half the planetary systems so far discovered could harbour life, and we might be able to see if they do within fifteen years...
  (categories: seti planetarysystems astronomy exobiology planets)
• Beautiful new idents and branding for Channel 4
  Some stuff here that's so clearly been heavily influenced by Flash-based web design, and some other stuff that you couldn't do in any other medium. Stunning.
  (categories: channel4 design branding brand idents video logo)
• The Iron Man Armory
  Enormous and detailed site about Iron Man - new patron saint of O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2005
  (categories: ironman marvel comics comicbooks superhero superheroes)
• Iain Duncan Smith on UK weblogging as the salvation of conservatism may unfortunately prove to be close to the mark
  Typical vile quote: "All this should put the fear of God into the metropolitan elites. For years there have been widening gaps between the governing class and the governed and between the publicly funded broadcasters and the broadcasted to."
  (categories: iainduncansmith conservative politics weblog weblogging warblogs warblogging)