Links for 2005-05-29

Posted May 29, 2005 1:19 AM.

• Congratulations to ex-co-worker and b3ta godfather Rob Manuel on the birth of his son, Angus I give it an hour before the child's picture is in three thousand viral animations...
• Firefox gets a question on US quiz show, "Jeopardy" "I'm now using the Firefox Web Browser that got its start from this Time Warner company's Netscape division"
• "Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon! Mushroom! Mushroom!" Awesome little video that makes me feel a little queasy, but is kind of funny and cool...
• "Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca" This one's really strange. One judge who believes in the ludicrously supernatural stops a divorcing couple from raising their son with other ludicrous beliefs. If it wasn't for the rights implications it would be difficult to care...
• The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds I'm interested in applying the Odeo model to centralising aggregator sites, and also in the exposed input box approach from BBC Radio sites...
• "All parents are supposed to think their children are attractive - but Canadian researchers claim that "ugly" offspring are treated differently." Bit old this article, but interesting in terms of the unconscious cues that govern our behaviour.
• A weird little almost-anti-long-tail story from Nature.com: How long did it take you to find this story? It's states that most people who are ever going to read an online news story (blog post) will have done so within three days of publishing...
• An awesome representation of the Internet on a Threadless T-shirt by Oliver J Moss They don't have it in my size unfortunately, otherwise I'd buy it right now. It could help me in my Nathan Barley aspirations...
• From the new issue of Wired: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea Two articles in the same Wired about highly implausible geniuses with theories that the mainstream are suspicious of - getting more visionary or am I reading Fortean Times?
• A co-worker went to TED and talked to someone at the Google stand who asked about me... Anyone know who this was? Would be cool to wave and say hi...