Archives for July 2005
On "Liberality" for all... (July 31, 2005) Normally I'd linklog something like this, but I didn't think people would really get how jaw-on-the-floor stunned I was about it unless I wrote something a bit more substantial. So here we are. I'd like to introduce you all to...
Links for 2005-07-31 (July 31, 2005) Barbelith examines the shifting political narratives of American media by looking at the pro-Afghanistani tendencies of Rambo III 'These poor people, underfed, and under-armed? They're a noble people! You'll never beat them! They would rather die than be slaves...
"My name is Tom and I might be your son" (July 30, 2005) A little over a month ago I got a letter from Traceline saying that they thought they'd found my father. At the time I was in San Francisco attending a one-day workshop presented by Cal about Flickr and running around...
Links for 2005-07-30 (July 30, 2005) A pamphlet on the horrors (and very real problem) of blog-related depression Fascinating stuff. Not that I've ever suffered from it myself, of course......
On the DVD release of Alexander... (July 29, 2005) I keep seeing adverts for the DVD of Alexander and they keep using the words, "action-packed" and "a new version" and "director's cut", and all I hear is, "now with less gay stuff". I haven't seen it yet of course,...
Links for 2005-07-28 (July 28, 2005) The Mac Mini's specs have now been bumped - £429 for 1.4 Ghz G4, 512 Mb RAM, combo drive AND airport extreme AND bluetooth Now that's a decent specced little machine that's totally usable directly out of the box....
Links for 2005-07-27 (July 27, 2005) Ryan Carson writes about his experience of start-ups in the UK (and his theories on the class system) I don't quite buy the class thing - I think it's just that the British don't like anyone whatsoever to stick...
Semi-intelligent cloud-abstracting cows... (July 26, 2005) There's an advert on British television at the moment featuring two animated clouds looking for additives. One asks the other if he's seen any additives, the other says he's seen something that might be an additive. It looks like a...
Links for 2005-07-26 (July 26, 2005) Ancient phallus unearthed in cave "The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura." Pictures of David Tennant in his...
Where are all the UK start-ups? (July 25, 2005) I find myself thinking of my country and my industry - and what I see confuses and confounds me. This is a tiny little country that remains a world power, one of the few trillion dollar economies in the world....
Links for 2005-07-25 (July 25, 2005) Windows Vista is the new name for Longhorn Presumably there are a whole load of jokes I could make about seeing things from a way off, but I just can't be arsed... A Quick Peek at Longhorn Screenshots of...
A weekend without rest... (July 24, 2005) Busy weekend. Friday morning is frantic cleaning, followed by a work away-day that runs directly into my brother's arrival in town. Saturday is Open Tech (and fights with London Underground, and expensive taxi rides, and brief hanging outs and Blood...
Another bout of explosions in London... (July 21, 2005) Something new and bad is happening around London right now - apparently incidents have closed three tube stations, and Sky News has something about a guy with a rucksack that exploded, although there are no casualties currently reported. The standard...
A brief public "Thank You" to my friends... (July 20, 2005) I'd just like to say 'Thank You' to all the lovely people who came to celebrate my 33rd birthday with me last night at the awesome Back to Basics Seafood Restaurant in Fitzrovia last night. I had a lovely time...
The podcast of 'Reinventing Radio'... (July 19, 2005) After many months, it is with a degree of trepidation that I direct you towards the podcast audio of the ETech paper on Reinventing Radio that Mr Biddulph, Mr Hammond, Mr Webb and I performed earlier this year. As usual,...
On crap that gets in the way... (July 18, 2005) Funny weekend. Not what I was expecting. My list of things to do had some things struck off it, but none of them were really terribly exciting. The bits of writing I'd meant to do did not get done -...
Links for 2005-07-18 (July 18, 2005) Springtails - musical game, music-learning tool or musical instrument? Certainly it's a nice bit of Flash. You can imagine artists of emergence learning a new vocabulary of music where you set up patterns and let them roll against one...
Links for 2005-07-17 (July 17, 2005) There are seven words you're not allowed to say in kindergarten In which Nat Torkington encourages his children to rise up and defy the lunacy of American school restrictions 37 signals on Frank Gehry's proposed Brooklyn development So you...
Links for 2005-07-16 (July 16, 2005) Infosthetics weblog on information visualisation and aesthetics Oh this is so my new favourite site. Beautiful interesting interfaces to explore and play with. Ideas everywhere. Awesome stuff... Colin Farrell Joins The Sex Tape Elite You have to wonder sometimes...
Links for 2005-07-15 (July 15, 2005) Sharp to Mass Produce an LCD with Switchable Viewing Angle Oh this is so '24' it's awesome. Also I love that they're turning one of the traditional problems with LCD screens (narrow viewing angles) into a feature. That's so...
Two minutes of silence... (July 14, 2005) We walk out of the building onto Portland Place and there are people everywhere. Milling around every door of all the nearby offices are people chatting and smiling. A bus pulls up besides us and stops. The driver tells the...
Traffic Cone Mating Season... (July 14, 2005) I was walking through the back of Paddington, by London's Westway on my way home the other day and came across this strange orgy of traffic cones. This may explain why there are so many of the damn things...
Links for 2005-07-14 (July 14, 2005) The BBC launch their Open Source site Containing the software that the public sector broadcaster wishes to open to the world. Good stuff this. A photo of a crop circle from Telegraph Hill in Hampshire, 2005 Now come on...
What will Matt do next? (July 14, 2005) So I had this whole post written about Mr Biddulph leaving the BBC, but I threw it away because it was a bit too arch and tried to be a bit too clever. Basically, what I'd like to say instead...
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Links for 2005-07-11 (July 11, 2005) The Ruby on Rails introductory video makes a complete weblog engine in a few minutes It's all terribly impressive and perfect - I suspect - for small at-home developers who want to build things rapidly to test with... An...
In which Odeo launches... (July 10, 2005) I'm in the middle of writing a much longer post on the subject, but in the meantime I thought I'd just point people towards Odeo which launched yesterday. If you're interested in podcasting in any way but have found it...
Links for 2005-07-10 (July 10, 2005) Why would you need Search Engine Optimisers when Google has a whole page on what you should do? Google's information for Webmasters page pretty much contains all the basic stuff that you need to make your site work well...
Birmingham City Centre evacuation... (July 9, 2005) The week that never ends keeps on giving - first Live8, then the Olympics, then the explosions in London and now Birmingham City Centre is being evacuated. It's difficult to tell whether or not this is just over-cautious behaviour or...
Links for 2005-07-09 (July 9, 2005) Fox News Live comments 'impartially' on the situation in London (48 minutes is the bit you should be looking at) "That these people are, If necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular --...
A reaction to the last thirty-six hours... (July 8, 2005) This has been the second major terrorist attack on a major international city that I've felt I should write about on my site over the last five and a bit years. It's also the second that has left me speechless...
Three generated artwerks from Scribbler... (July 8, 2005) I'm still trying to work out what I think of all the things that happened yesterday. When I got home last night, I spent most of the evening watching Close Encounters of the Third-Kind and trying to distract myself with...
On Live Journal mood tracking and zeitgeists... (July 8, 2005) There are two or three major things I'm thinking about at the moment - and one of them is zeitgeists. Which brings me rapidly to The World according to LiveJournal which is an awesome tracking system of LiveJournal moods over...
Brief thoughts about the make-up of the G8... (July 8, 2005) While watching the lunchtime news today I was suddenly struck by what a strange assortment of countries constituted the G8 and so did a little research on Wikipedia. The G8 constitutes: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United...
A long time ago... (July 8, 2005) "As I was walking home this evening, a little girl was riding her bike in the middle of the street. She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to peddle. It reminded me of when I...
Links for 2005-07-08 (July 8, 2005) Jobs offers support to dad of teen killed over iPod Apple CEO offers condolences 'from his heart' to family of teen killed last week over iPod. London tube bombing on Flickr Apparently this is a picture from within one...
Explosions rock London's infrastructure... (July 7, 2005) I was in a meeting when the bombs went off - which it now looks like was the cause of the explosions that have been going off around buses and tube stations around the capital. At this moment in time,...
London wins the Olympic bid... (July 6, 2005) Wow. There's a surprise. London is hosting the 2012 Olympics! Who the hell expected that one!...
Links for 2005-07-06 (July 6, 2005) BBC intends to revive 'This Life' "The one-off show would bring the characters up to date, looking at their lives 10 years after the events of the final episode." Which Web Development Guru Are You? Turns out I'm Shaun...
BBC Listen Live OSX widget... (July 4, 2005) We've been developing a prototype widget for Macs running OSX at work as an experiment with network-enabled applications. It's allows you to listen to BBC national radio stations on your desktop computer as if it had a built-in radio (although...
Links for 2005-07-04 (July 4, 2005) Tom's Birthday from July 2003 Things just turn up on Flickr even years after the event and it's pretty cool to see my memories being filled in by other people... Jeffrey Veen's "The Art and Science of Web Design"...
Supernova '05: Byron Reeves on MMORPGs... (July 3, 2005) It's difficult to articulate how busy I've been since Supernova - what with servers falling over and jet-lag and work and general calamities. All of which probably explains why I'm still writing up Supernova notes almost two weeks after...
Links for 2005-07-01 (July 1, 2005) Radio 1 to be broadcast across America "It will be broadcast with a time-shift so that US listeners will hear Moyles' breakfast show while munching their early morning waffles" 'Tom is a Freak' t-shirt It's about Tom Cruise, all...
