Links for 2005-05-31

Posted May 31, 2005 1:20 AM.

• A Joy of Tech "Blast from the Past" posted as a riposte to that Waterstones guy... "Mr Dewbottom! Get Into My Office Immediately!"
• How to Become an Early Riser An interesting post on sleep which mirrors a lot of my own experience
• Heather Champ joins the Flickr crew because she is so awesome and they're incomplete without her Yay Heather! Yay! Finally Ludicorp gets some classy people working for it...
• A new digital camera takes several photos at split-second intervals and throws away the ones where too many people are blinking... I love that we're at a place in the technology cycle where it becomes possible to conceive of ludicrously excessive ways of solving simple real-world problems inexpensively
• Yahoo's Mindset is an 'intent-driven search' interface that gives you a slider to help you influence the results you receive between 'research' and 'shopping' polar extremes It's an interesting concept. Two thoughts: Are the axes correct? Do the results correspond to them properly? Not sure about either...
• For Lost fans: The most important thing you'll click on today See the hidden trailer for next season's episodes, see the on-screen slogans and feel the lust for knowledge all over again...
• Homophobia "hard-wired" by evolution A slightly random piece of writing describes some slightly implausible research that suggests that homophobia might be an adaptive trait
• How to write a business proposal and tips for business proposal writing No idea how good this one is, but it looked interesting and I want to plough my way through it later...