Links for 2005-10-11 – plasticbag.org

Jet lag update: Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body “With a good night’s rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Ameri
The Ta-Da Widget from Keegan Jones looked really really sweet, until he accidentally deleted the whole thing… Will someone please fix the damn thing, because I could really do with a copy…
Subtraction on designing the grid for the Onion redesign project I’m really interested in grids at the moment. I think grids and swatches and styleguides and widgets are the new .psds
I’ve been trying to develop a rollyo search engine for social software related stuff, but I’d really appreciate any recommendations for URLs that I should add… I’m still kind of 50/50 on Rollyo’s utility, but I can’t deny the implementation is pretty amazing.
Online Information 2005 in Olympia looks pretty bloody amazing and I really want to go to it… Peter Morville’s speaking, as is my old colleague and friend Ms Margaret Hanley. Who rocks…
“Voters are becoming more rude to politicians – and the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman is to blame, a senior Tory says.” Balls. Most of the people in the country don’t know Jeremy Paxman from a hole in the ground. The reason they distrust politicians is because politicians are often untrustworthy…
In introduction to LambdaMOO I spent a fair amount of time on Saturday at State of Play using LambdaMoo as a backchannel with Mr Webb and Mr Hammersley instead of my normal IM. Sitting in the hot-tub listening to lawyers was a strange, strange experience…
There’s a great post on “Creating Passionate Users” called ‘How to speak at a tech conference’, which isn’t really about the style of talking but about how to get accepted to attend.. It’s a good read, it’s solid and it’s true – I’d recommend everyone who is interested in submitting papers should read it thoroughly…
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers “The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters’ village is annihilated by warplanes.”
“The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service.” Personal opinion – whatever Web 2.0 is, one element of the future is a network effect of services and an interconnected functional platform in which each new function added to the collaborative web adds value to every other app…
“Influential indie band The Pixies are stalling over the recording of a new album, for fears of ruining the bands impressive legacy.” If only all bands were like this. The Pixies are my favourite band of all time, and I have to say that I would not wish a new album out of them if it sounded like a bunch of old farts. They were always better than that…

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