Archives for January 2007

Links for 2007-01-31 (January 31, 2007) Oooh. Shiny. Apple have just announced they're selling lots of multicoloured versions of the iPod Shuffle I mean, I know I'll link to anything that Apple do, but still. Pretty. I wonder if I need another iPod....

Links for 2007-01-30 (January 30, 2007) Beautiful credits and typography for the movie Thank You For Smoking, as made by Shadowplay Dan Hill of CityOfSound.com found this. Bloody lovely bit of work - really nice combinations of old cigarette packaging and animated typography....

Links for 2007-01-29 (January 29, 2007) Simon Willison has pulled out another OpenID wonder from his hat - idproxy allows you to login to any OpenID supporting site using your Yahoo ID Really nice this one. As I understand it, it uses the BBAuth stuff...

Links for 2007-01-26 (January 26, 2007) Lord Mackay of Clashfern has protested against UK legislation that would make it illegal to refuse to give gay people equal treatment... He states, "What they are saying is if you are offering services you must be prepared to...

Incapable of restraint or idleness... (January 25, 2007) Mary is one of the last surviving members of humanity, sat on a boat in the Galapágos Islands in the book Galapágos by Kurt Vonnegut. She is accompanied by a handful of other survivors and Mandarax, a small portable information...

Links for 2007-01-25 (January 25, 2007) Nicholas Carr's written another one of those posts in which you sort of sit there and look at the world and its changes and you sort of heave your shoulders and sigh I feel guilty for getting stroppy with...

Social whitelisting with OpenID... (January 24, 2007) My ex-colleague Simon Willison has recently been doing some profoundly good work out in the wilds of the Internet promoting and explaining OpenID. In fact, the best articulation I've seen anywhere on the Internet of the OpenID concept is his...

Links for 2007-01-23 (January 23, 2007) The Seventh Annual Weblog Awards are running again... I think it's fair to say that it has not been a good year for plasticbag.org and that I've not written anywhere near as much stuff or at such high quality....

On Space Art in Sebastopol... (January 22, 2007) This is so much fun. Where to start? Okay. So in September last year a few of us went to the O'Reilly FOO Camp. It's an invitation-only event in Sebastopol in California where everyone's expected to present what they're thinking...

Links for 2007-01-22 (January 22, 2007) Hillary Clinton announces her candidacy for the Presidency of the United States on her site It's all a little bit Oprah, but it's certainly interesting. The Guardian reports on Jade Goody's eviction from the Celebrity Big Brother house I...

Links for 2007-01-20 (January 20, 2007) From a while back - Stephen Colbert wags his finger at Apple and the iPhone I've been distracted by other far more elaborate and confusing things than the internet for the last few weeks/months so this is a bit...

Links for 2007-01-19 (January 19, 2007) YouTube has video of the Jeep Waterfall I linked to something like this a while back - a system of valves programmed to open and close very rapidly release inkjet like blobs of water, creating a fountain in which...

Links for 2007-01-16 (January 16, 2007) Jeff Veen writes about the trends pages of Google Reader and mentions his increasing lust for recombinable life data streams I really think there's something here - life dashboards or something. I'd love to be able to see my...

Good luck, Simon Willison! (January 15, 2007) The most important news of the day as far as I'm concerned is that it's the last day of my little colleague Simon Willison's stint at Yahoo!, which means that our little inpromptu dysfunctional family that started with Simon and...

Links for 2007-01-13 (January 13, 2007) The BBC has an article about people who think all this technology stuff is just moving a bit too fast, really. It cites the iPhone as an example. It is a dumb article. In the UK, many people are...

Links for 2007-01-12 (January 12, 2007) Apparently Cisco are suing Apple for use of the iPhone trademark Apple are being typically bullish about the whole thing. Interesting to see which way this one turns out....

Links for 2007-01-11 (January 11, 2007) Jason Kottke has mocked up the size of the new iPhone in cardboard with pictures to get a sense of its form factor God I'm keen on that iPhone although it is the most expensive thing ever made in...