Links for 2006-11-15
- How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in OSX This is sort of a niche thing to care about, but care about it I do. I keep wondering if I should put up any of my old abandoned doctoral work onto the web. Seems weird to have spent that much time on something and not be able to open up some of the results...
- Techcrunch (in July) covered the online sites that are hoping to replace paper TV guides Fascinating overview full of useful information that gesture towards the future of television
- The Cintiq—as described on Kevin Kelly's site—is basically a combination tablet and monitor that allows you to do illustration work in a way that resembles working on paper There's a substantial chunk of writing on the page from Scott McCloud talking about how he uses it too. It looks pretty extraordinary, actually. Wouldn't mind one of those, although god knows what I'd use it for.
- Medium-old BBC article about the perfect comedy face contains a great line from Ricky Gervais "All these years I assumed my global success as a comedian was down to my acute observations, expert directorial rendering and consummate skills as a performer. Turns out it's because I've got a fat girly face."
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I've put my grad school stuff on my site, and it's equally unrelated to what I do now. It's nice to have it not sitting unread, and I know it gets a decent amount of traffic from people looking for stuff on Marcel Duchamp or the other artists I wrote about. Every once in a while I get a nice comment from some student or other, or someone telling me they've cited it somewhere. I don't know, it seems worth at least getting it out in the world after all those years of work writing it.
→ Posted by: heyotwell at November 15, 2006 1:20 AM
I was pretty sure I'd learnt about Downing St petitions via plasticbag, especially as I've noticed you've also signed the copyright one.
I have added one of great importance to the country and thought you might want to be aware of it:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/goldanthem/
→ Posted by: DavidK at November 16, 2006 5:39 PM
Tom, you might be interested in the link below. A guy made himself a Cintiq type peripheral for 5% of the cost of an off the shelf Cintiq. www.bongofish.co.uk
→ Posted by: Matt Sephton at November 20, 2006 3:26 PM
Also, the best UK focussed TV guides I have found are:
www.tvguide.co.uk
www.mightyv.com
www.puretelly.com
→ Posted by: Matt Sephton at November 20, 2006 3:30 PM