Links for 2005-10-12

Posted October 12, 2005 1:17 AM.

• "British blogs have recently found themselves getting comments from a fictional character who promotes a household cleaner. Weblog Watch looks at a new, personalised form of advertising..." Interesting BBC News story that references the Cillit Bang fiasco from around these parts...
• An insanely thorough list of OSX keyboard shortcuts - very nice stuff... Lots of great stuff here - from collapsing and expanding folders, logging out, emptying the trash and the like...
• NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps is absolutely fascinating and well-assembled... I wonder if anyone's got the strength of character and will to try and do an equivalent for the London Underground
• 'ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.' I don't write a lot of JavaScript to be honest, but a lot of people I know do, and hopefully they'll get some value from this service...
• iWood nano - a beautiful slim natural wood case with a monogram on it that I want more than anything in the world... I wonder what wood I'd get... I'd have some form of pipe, and a wallet of the finest leather and I might have a monocle as well. For effect...
• I know it's fashionable to make Americans look stupid, so I'm going to preface this by saying that I fear you could make a video like this on the streets of most Western nations... Still, it's kind of terrifying. I notice suddenly that this is not the most useful or descriptive of comments about the content of the page... Sorry...
• Google Personalised Search adds tagging... "Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited."
• "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers." Remember - what starts in San Francisco ends up around the rest of the world pretty quickly. This is the future of your kids, and from where I'm standing it's pretty cool...