Links for 2005-03-20

Posted March 20, 2005 12:22 AM.

• It's not funny because it's rude, it's funny cos...
  Well because it looks like it's funny because it's rude...
• Lions in coffee cream
  Beautiful, elegant and I hope it was intentional
• Mediocre reviews for Daft Punk's new album: Human After All
  I'll buy it anyway, of course, and pray that everyone else is just wrong...
• Rogue Amoeba is "Airfoil" allows you to pump any audio from your computer through AirTunes
  We tried it with some television last night and it was a full two-seconds behind. Someone has to fix this. It's too important...
• Many-to-Many: Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases
  Amazon pulling out improbable phrases from books - could they be used for fauxonomic tagging?
• Another year another "Is ETech discriminatory" thread
  I wish I could say I agreed and saw a cause here worth fighting for, but the argument is starting to sound a bit shrill to me now...
• Matt Jones on the new Doctor Who
  Interesting thoughts on the publically-leaked series from the BBC
• Another attempt to formalise and structure fauxonomic tagging which I fear is doomed to fail
  But it triggered some interesting ideas for me around how a site that aggregated tags should operate...
• If you hug a needie the other two bitch about the third one behind his back...
  Wonderful implementation of pervasively networked toys from Tom Igoe's talk at ETech 2005
• Junkie's Little Helper - as mentioned by Tom Igoe at ETech 2005
  Tracks your drug use and keeps all your friends informed about how high you are in a chatroom
• Cat fungus rots your brain, and makes you slutty or mean...
  I'm suspicious of the science, but I love the story. Thanks to Dan Pike for pointing me in this direction...