Archives for August 2006
Links for 2006-08-31 (August 31, 2006) E4's running a parody of The Sopranos credits sequence and it's awesome and YouTube has it Probably won't make much sense to people outside of the UK. Love the Wicker Man joke. Also Scunthorpe. The more I see of...
My dark secret is out.... (August 30, 2006) It seems my secret is finally out - I pay my bills and lead my decadent glamourous lifestyle through my experitise in online poker! And I live in the Castro Valley! And my beard is awesome! Thanks to Nikolaj for...
Links for 2006-08-30 (August 30, 2006) Ev Williams on why pageviews are obselete There's clearly a need for an abstracted measurement to help advertisers work out where they're going to get the best return on their investment, but god only knows what it is... Venn...
A week in the US nears its end... (August 27, 2006) Given that I've been running around like a lunatic for the last month or so - and I never have more than ten minutes to sit still in any one place - I guess I should stop trying to write...
Links for 2006-08-18 (August 18, 2006) Kevin Anderson's off to be Head of Blogging and Interaction at the Guardian Interesting and exciting. Well done old chap....
Superman vs. Wikis... (August 17, 2006) It's not really versus as such. I went for the sensationalist title. Apologies. Anyway, a depowered Clark Kent in the latest issue of >52 has an assistant use a wiki to look up a weird alien creature that has appeared...
Links for 2006-08-17 (August 17, 2006) Mr Hammond sent me this OK Go video featuring eight treadmills Bloody awesome. Bloody awesome. Gets better the more times you watch it. Very funny. Very cool. Treadmills....
Links for 2006-08-16 (August 16, 2006) An awesome flash representation of the music that's playing on US radio stations (in real time) Lovely bit of work this, built by the people who are doing a 'rate the music you hear on the radio' application that...
A quick disclaimer... (August 15, 2006) In keeping with my piece on Ethical Weblogging a few days I should declare that Nokia have sent me a piece of hardware to play with that they're looking to get geek feedback upon. I'm not going to be talking...
Links for 2006-08-15 (August 15, 2006) The UK alert level has been lowered and hand-luggage can not be taken on planes again Only about half as much can be taken on board, liquids are still verboten and they're asking people not to bring too much...
Links for 2006-08-14 (August 14, 2006) Ryan Carson talks about the value in a premium service for Web Apps Charging $99 for DropSend's premium service increased their revenue by 30% in two weeks... Pictures of beautiful metro stations in Stockholm Absolutely stunning. Beautiful bits of...
A brief tirade about totaphobia... (August 13, 2006) This is trivial and I will be mocked. More 4 is currently rebroadcasting The West Wing from the beginning and they have it surrounded by this sponsorship thing from 118118 which is some directory thing I refuse to use. And...
Why I'm looking forward to Leopard... (August 13, 2006) I've been letting last week's WWDC settle in my brain and have been thinking through the various features both announced and alleged. I'm not particularly overwhelmed by the whole thing, but there's enough evolutionary change to keep me comfortable as...
Links for 2006-08-13 (August 13, 2006) Rael Dornfest is heading off from O'Reilly to explore new territories Good luck old chap. It was lovely working with you on the ETech programme last year and I look forward to seeing your new projects come to fruition......
Links for 2006-08-12 (August 12, 2006) Hitwise report that del.icio.us' traffic has doubled since the beginning of the year I get to hang out with Joshua occasionally at work and it's always good fun. They've got so much done recently and there's lots more to...
Dash Clipping - why wait for Leopard? (August 11, 2006) I'd normally have linklogged this except it's quite sweet and I thought I'd slap up a picture to illustrate the first use I've found for it - Dash Clipping is a little OSX Dashboard widget that does exactly the same...
On Ethical Weblogging (Part Two) (August 11, 2006) One of the issues I agonise most around on this site are the ethics of weblogging - what I feel is acceptable behaviour and what I don't. I've written about it briefly before a few years ago, but I've never...
A major terrorist alert is crippling airports... (August 10, 2006) So pretty clearly the biggest news of the day is that - according to Scotland Yard - a terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been uncovered. The UK's threat level has...
Links for 2006-08-10 (August 10, 2006) Spirited Away hides inactive applications after sixty seconds This could be a really good way of not feeling swamped by the amount of open windows on your computer, while still making it possible for you to navigate between them....
On things that aren't fun, and fun that is bad... (August 9, 2006) Last Friday - around ten in the evening - Pentheus, my main character in World of Warcraft, hit level sixty. Thinking back, I'm now not entirely sure where he was when this happened, although I believe it was in the...
Links for 2006-08-09 (August 9, 2006) I note there's a new edition of Agile Web Development with Rails coming out sometime in the next couple of months... Unfortunately I can't find it on Amazon. Am I missing something? Does anyone know the precise date that...
On Massively Multiplayer Propaganda... (August 8, 2006) Simon drew my attention to a site called GIYUS.org the other day and it's been in my thoughts ever since, and I've come to think of it as a really troubling kind of troll-supporting political malware, representing a technologically-empowered massively-distributed...
Links for 2006-08-08 (August 8, 2006) $212 million dollars was spent last year marketing in the gay press and broadcasting networks "In its annual assessment of media buys advertising agency Prime Access Inc. and gay media representative firm Rivendell Media said that for the first...
On Carbonmade... (August 7, 2006) There's a site that I keep coming back to because it's so simple and well-constructed, and yet also represents so many of the visual and interface design principles of the current zeitgeist. It's a site that has design smarts massively...
Links for 2006-08-07 (August 7, 2006) The Musty Man talks about travelling, backpacking, hating America and I suppose - sort of getting older The lovely Mr Bergman through this in my direction and I'm bloody glad he did. It's a thoughtful and interesting piece on...
On super-bizarre BBC Adword placements... (August 6, 2006) It's probably the context that weirds me out, but still. I was watching this completely freaky acid-trip of a Simpsons parody (imagine David Lynch directing and you wouldn't be far off) made by the Something Awful crew and being slightly...
On the design of American State flags... (August 6, 2006) A few weeks ago I found a weird little sideline in the project I was working on that I decided to explore for a while and it drew me inexorably towards a subject that I'd never even thought about before...
Links for 2006-08-06 (August 6, 2006) Toward a Better Wikipedia "The founder of Wikipedia on Friday urged contributors to the free internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity." Etsy's browse by colour interface is extremely entertaining and playful Increasingly I think...
Links for 2006-08-05 (August 5, 2006) The biography of Atia on WIkipedia differs rather dramatically from her character in HBO's Rome, which I've recently started watching on DVD Awesome series - loads of blood and violence and sex and war and stuff. Highly entertaining. Not...
Links for 2006-08-04 (August 4, 2006) Looks like OK/Cancel have been meeting Dan Hill again And that is all......
Links for 2006-08-03 (August 3, 2006) Stephen Colbert 'analyzes' Wikipedia in this You Tube clip from his US TV Show I can't even imagine UK TV comedians talking about Wikipedia, which probably explains why the UK remains a second-class net nation. Funny but troubling piece...
Do you like crisps? (August 2, 2006) It's been getting such a lot of entertaining responses on Flickr that I thought maybe I should post this little creation of Paul Hammond and Simon Willison more publically: I mean, who's going to say no to that? More seriously,...
Links for 2006-08-01 (August 1, 2006) Geek in the Park is a day-long picnic cum happening cum informal conference for nerds in Leamington Spa at the end of August I was going to come along but unfortunately I'm off in the US at the time...
