Links for 2005-05-08

Posted May 8, 2005 1:18 AM.

• Are You Thinking What Were We Thinking? Slightly changed the name, but anyway - a page full of hacks and adaptations of vile Tory posters.
• Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC An article for Make magazine that's available on the website about how to create home media centres that are better than Tivos
• The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals strikes down the US Broadcast Flag "And to the studio execs whom I faced across the table, who shouted at us and excluded us and told us that this was going to happen no matter what: NEENER NEENER NEENER."
• Fact of Matter "We are technical consultants, advising the entertainment industry's creative community. Whether you are working on a script or designing a production, we can help you give your project greater scientific veracity and plausibility."
• Clayton Cubitt and Tom Carden collaborate to create beautiful portraits merged in with generative art It's quite stunning - like you'd dropped beautiful women into a spirograph and they'd been hit by lightning and dropped into amber...
• The obsessiveness of Steve Jobs, The most successful paranoid in business history? What a strange, compelling and pointless little article. Still, it's made me want to buy the iCon book...
• MouseField: A Simple and Versatile Input Device for Ubiquitous Computing The application in question seems dumb and less easy to use than gui interfaces, but maybe the idea of smart sensing spaces where you can put and manipulate real-world objects has some scope
• Shuffle captures 58 percent of flash players market That's a pretty impressive number for a device that's only been out for six months...
• Blogger Mobile launches Somehow being able to send photos or text to your weblog doesn't seem as impressive all these months after Flickr...
• Type Cast is a nice little widget for Tiger's Dashboard that lets you preview fonts that you have on your computer I don't know that it's the best use of the Dashboard or that it's the right kind of interaction, but it's kind of neat...
• U.S. Dollar to British Pound Exchange Rate over two years... Webb found this. Fuck that's a scary drop in the value of the dollar. Still - makes things nice and cheap in the States!