Archives for October 2006

Links for 2006-10-30 (October 30, 2006) London Underground geographic maps from the Wikimedia Commons also include significant free geo information If you're looking to do mapping projects around open geo data, then having a significant data source like the location of all London Underground stations...

Links for 2006-10-29 (October 29, 2006) Pitchfork reviews the Goldfrapp remix album, "We are Glitter" Gayest thing I've ever said - Disco makes me feel good. I'm currently really really enjoying this album. It's somehow more interesting than the original album and I can really...

On Minilogue... (October 28, 2006) Right. Nice and simple request this. I've recently been exploring a territory of music that I'm not enormously familiar with. Thanks to Mr Biddulph, I've stumbled upon two EPs of minimalist progressive techno group Minilogue which have completely taken over...

Links for 2006-10-28 (October 28, 2006) Matt and Clare strip all the wallpaper in their flat with the motivating factor of a timelapse video I bloody love Gawker. It's got me to do all manner of dull jobs recently relatively quickly and efficiently. There's a...

Links for 2006-10-26 (October 26, 2006) It came up through the seat, into the ass of Timo If this doesn't undermine my professional image, I don't know what will. Hehehehe. Most fun ever: audio clips of the London Underground that you can play together to...

Links for 2006-10-25 (October 25, 2006) Jon Ronson goes behind the scenes of the UK's Deal Or No Deal Now that's one hell of an article, revealing some of the sad desperate lunacy of both Noel Edmonds and the people who hope and pray that...

Links for 2006-10-24 (October 24, 2006) Jeff Bezos talks about Amazon web services to Technology Review This territory—large corporations turning the massive services that they've had to develop as core competancies into commoditised services—seems to me to be one of the major tenets of the...

The unusual flakiness of the MacBook Pro... (October 22, 2006) I have had four MacBook Pros and even more power supplies for MacBook Pros since the top-of-the-range Apple laptops launched in March. I love the machines, but hot damn has my experience of them been unusual. Let's start with the...

Links for 2006-10-21 (October 21, 2006) Lost is moving to Sky One That's pretty much going to completely irritate a couple of million people. Television is so bloody confusing and irritatingly designed. British and American engineers have created a cloak that bends microwave radiation around...

Links for 2006-10-20 (October 20, 2006) Bid for the exclusive Colbert Report painting over on ebay He talked to Richard Dawkins last night and made lots of jokes about religion without being actually offensive to religious people. Artful. And one year old yesterday! Wired's Monkeybites...

Links for 2006-10-19 (October 19, 2006) The t-shirt every self-respecting nerd should be wearing this autumn And if you're not obsessed with Battlestar Galactica then you're barely worth talking to....

Links for 2006-10-18 (October 18, 2006) Phil gets his MOO cards and describes the whole experience of opening them and getting all excited by them I know I'm friends with a bunch of the MOO people, but the attention to detail that's got people going...

Links for 2006-10-17 (October 17, 2006) Mike Schinkel writes passionately about well-designed URLs and beauty... I agree with everything he says, and will try my hardest not to ask about the URLs on his own site which are ... less than beautiful. I know it's...

Links for 2006-10-16 (October 16, 2006) What's Maria Wearing? A sporadically updated weblog that bitches about what Maria's wearing on Yahoo's The 9. I wish I had as many types of top as she does! Seven Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup I'm interested...

The visual identity of the Future of Web Apps... (October 15, 2006) One thing you can say about Ryan Carson is that he knows how to make something look and feel ultra-sharp—you only have to look at the way he packaged up the Future of Web Apps conference to see that. I...

Podcasts and Presentations... (October 15, 2006) I've just noticed that Ryan Carson and the Carson Workshops crew have put up presentations and MP3s for the Future of Web Apps summit that I spoke at in San Francisco a few weeks ago. For some reason there is...

Links for 2006-10-15 (October 15, 2006) There's a story doing the rounds of del.icio.us popular at the moment: "Lost city 'could rewrite history'" It's about a city that was purported to have been discovered in the Gulf of Cambay in 2001/2002 that could predate other...

Links for 2006-10-14 (October 14, 2006) Wikipedia's article on Astroturfing I'm increasingly aware that the future of lying and propoganda lies in social media and astroturfing. It's a problem we should really be looking towards more seriously. A Terrifying Message from Al Gore (via Futurama)...

Does anyone know if this is real? (October 13, 2006) Spotted by Davezilla and displayed in his Flickr photostream, this screenshot purports to be from Fox News' coverage of the whole Mark Foley scandal in the US. I genuinely have no idea if it's an accurate representation or a mock-up,...

Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (October 12, 2006) Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally. Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested in finding...

Links for 2006-10-12 (October 12, 2006) Super awesome meta-classy episode of the Ze Frank show which I've watched three times I'm going to find out where he lives and buy him things and then I'm going to put them in a little circle around his...

Shiny TV lady watches me clean my flat... (October 11, 2006) Well here's something weird that happened to me today. Yahoo! has this thing called The 9 and it's like nine memes that they think are funny or cool or interesting or whatever and it's presented by this lady who is...

Links for 2006-10-11 (October 11, 2006) Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn Well there you go then. Quite a lot of money, that. Be lying if I said that didn't raise an eyebrow. A message from the founders of YouTube Never seen people look quite so...

Links for 2006-10-09 (October 9, 2006) The New BBC One idents launched yesterday I was going to link through to the BBC's own page on them, but it's in a pop-up and it's all nasty Real stuff and I couldn't easily get it to work...

Links for 2006-10-08 (October 8, 2006) I'd Love This Product Even If I Weren't A Stealth Marketer The Onion cuts right to the heart of the issue as usual. The Extraordinary World of Warcraft / South Park episode that was broadcast a few days ago...

Links for 2006-10-07 (October 7, 2006) Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms It's the right thing to do. Apparently. The Wall Street Journal says Google are in talks to buy YouTube Now that's an interesting bit of gossip. What with the parallel gossip...

Clean your flat in sixty seconds... (October 6, 2006) I just got back from the US after Hack Day and I've been away a while and I'd forgotten what a wreck my flat had become in the build-up to Future of Web Apps. Anyway, I'd been recently introduced to...

Links for 2006-10-04 (October 4, 2006) Netflix are offering $1 million to anyone who can substantially improve their recommendations algorithms The most interesting thing is that they're opening up a substantial dataset in order to help them work through these issues. I'd be really interested...

Links for 2006-10-01 (October 1, 2006) David Filo posts up the puppet video from yesterday's Hack Day Beck concert Now that was a strange and awesome experience. I'll write more about the whole thing when Hack Day's over and I'm a bit more relaxed. The...