Links for 2007-02-26

Posted February 26, 2007 12:17 AM.

• 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 audience is on your side already. Awesome.
• Eric Meyer writes about the gender imbalance at conferences I've written about this before myself. We should be aware of the possibilities of bias and not be complacent, but at the same time we have to accept that there aren't enough women in the industry as a whole for 50/50 conferences to be vaguely plausible...
• Video of my Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha from Bar Camp in London in which I say a few clumsy clumsy things and dance like a gimp Loved del.icio.us pecha kucha. Totally fun. Think I called Mike Arrington a grumpy bastard though, which may be unfair. Never talks to me at conferences though. Sob.
• Simon Willison writes about six cool things you guys out there could go and build right now using OpenID I'm particularly interested in the SSO problems inside firewalls. This seems like a highly elegant idea. Use software that supports OpenID and then constrain it to your local provider. Tada! You have integrated SSO across multiple internal services...
• Rory Bremner apparently rang up a highly-placed government minister and had a conversation with her while pretending to be Gordon Brown... Margaret Beckett has said that if such a conversation took place it would be, "both an unprincipled and unpleasant breach of privacy" and I absolutely agree with her. Illuminating it might be, but it's also not really terribly cool.
• Bandwagon is a piece of software for the mac that backs up your music online every so often... I've not had a chance to play with it yet, as their first customers basically brought down the service with the scale of their iTunes libraries. I suspect mine would similarly cripple them. Lovely idea though...