Archives for February 2007
Links for 2007-02-28 (February 28, 2007) BBC News reports that the gene that allows most Westerners to consume cow milk effectively only appeared in the last few thousand years Apparently it gave humans such an enormous advantage that it subsequently spread like wildfire through Western...
Links for 2007-02-27 (February 27, 2007) Phil wrote a month or so back on haddock's directory ceasing to publish its internal link log... We've been having conversations around it again recently, trying to work out if there's any useful way to bring it back without...
Methods for the social archiving of mailing lists... (February 26, 2007) Imagine you're on a mailing list that archives URLs that people share in some form, and that this creates indirectly some kind of archive or directory. Imagine that this archive has generally been maintained by hand and in a formal...
Links for 2007-02-26 (February 26, 2007) George Takei responds to Tim Hardaway's recent comments about being homophobic... Now this is where we should be. This is gay satire unashamed to take the piss out of idiots. This isn't apologetic rhetoric, it's full-blown ridicule assuming the...
Links for 2007-02-25 (February 25, 2007) New colleague Rabble is doing a track on social change and communications at this week's Emerging Telephony conference It's not an area I know a lot about, but it looks interesting and noble. With all the conversations about social...
Links for 2007-02-24 (February 24, 2007) The Virus 2 Flash Game lets you play a hexagonal virus as it spreads through a multi-coloured population Nicely self-referential, I suspect it mirrors the game's own viral spread through popualtions of OCD nerds. Reminded me a lot of...
Links for 2007-02-19 (February 19, 2007) The Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha presentation creator allows spontaneous presentations based on your last twenty links in del.icio.us We did a bit of this last night at BarCamp London before an endless series of games of Werewolf. Easy prey. Yum...
Links for 2007-02-17 (February 17, 2007) The difference between religion and science encapsulated in one easy to digest tiny little flow diagram As I get older I get less interested in the intellectual paradoxes that language allows us to get lost in, and more interested...
Links for 2007-02-16 (February 16, 2007) Hot Fuzz was probably the most fun movie I've seen in a long time and I can't really recommend it enough... Go and see it. It rocks. The big question is which of the main characters you most identify...
On being on the radio... (February 15, 2007) I was on the radio in the UK last night doing an interview on Click On about social software and Web 2.0. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed by how it turned out. The way it's been edited, there's not a...
Links for 2007-02-15 (February 15, 2007) Vitamin has a feature on 'How To Name Your Company' which I've found relatively entertaining... Been trying to come up with some good names for products recently without an enormous amount of luck. Tricky process....
Links for 2007-02-13 (February 13, 2007) Core Duo chips are going to look rather stupid compared to the 80 core chips of the future that Intel has been talking about... Massive parallelism is the word, apparently. Fascinating stuff....
On Ben Goldacre on Gillian McKeith... (February 12, 2007) There are times when I feel that Ben Goldacre—author of the Guardian's Bad Science column—should be knighted. His services to the British people are astonishing and crushingly under-rated. Occasionally I have questioned his style and on one particular occasion I've...
Links for 2007-02-08 (February 8, 2007) Slashdot's reporting on Bill Gates declaring Microsoft's support for OpenID I'm hearing rumours all over the shop, from AOL and several other large organisations that this is going to be the year that OpenID goes insanely mainstream. Time to...
Links for 2007-02-07 (February 7, 2007) Delettering the Public Space was a project in which all signage was replaced with flat yellow blocks It's weirdly decompressing to see these great expanses of yellow replacing sign after sign. Very beautiful. Very strange. Last week Flickr proposed...
On jet-lag and my self-image... (February 6, 2007) I spent last week in the US, visiting the great purple mothership, hanging out with Flickr and MyBlogLog and the Bookmarks teams, watching Schulze and Webb do their talks in Sunnyvale and Adaptive Path and catching up with enormous tracts...
Links for 2007-02-06 (February 6, 2007) Charlie Brooker talks about the Mitchell and Webb Apple adverts And while of course I love my Mac and am comfortable that its *nix underbelly is fully nerdcore and not merely design wankery, I have to admit that I...
Links for 2007-02-02 (February 2, 2007) The BBC Trust is asking for people's opinions about the BBC's proposed on-demand services If you have a strong opinion either way, you should probably express it to them....
