Archives for December 2007
links for 2007-12-31 (December 31, 2007) Wallowing in Panda Bear and loving it... It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep as is so frequently the case at the moment. Panda Bear is there to calm me and bliss me out. Thank you...
links for 2007-12-29 (December 29, 2007) Flying Spaghetti Gingerbread Monsters, for the Pastafarian in your life! Aaron Straup Cope showed em to me. They look sacrilicious. (tags: pastafarianism)...
links for 2007-12-28 (December 28, 2007) Saint Delia's recipe for Roast Turkey and Sage, Pork & Onion stuffing is, I can confirm, pretty decent... It is not, however, better than her amazing recipe for Gammon. I bought a large ham the other day and cooked...
links for 2007-12-23 (December 23, 2007) The Archbishop of Wales has gone off on one about 'Atheistic fundamentalism' in which apparent lunatics declare religion to be 'superstitious nonsense' Fascinated by how he could describe the following of a logical argument and a willingness to be...
links for 2007-12-22 (December 22, 2007) BravoNation is a new (invitation only) service from Yahoo! Brickhouse. It's the brainchild of Gordon Luk (one of the Upcoming founders)... Also to be celebrated are Ernie Hsiung (of LittleYellowDifferent), Nikkil Bob and Kevin Cheng of OKCancel who also...
links for 2007-12-19 (December 19, 2007) Interesting news if you live in my tiny world - Chad Dickerson is to take over Yahoo Advanced Products from Scott Gatz, bringing him into extreme proximity with the Brickhouse team... Perhaps this is of niche interest, but I've...
links for 2007-12-18 (December 18, 2007) Lovely little BBC News piece on the tenth anniversary of weblogs which—probably for the first time—gets pretty much everything right! In late 1998 they say there were only 23 blogs in the world. By the time I started plasticbag.org...
links for 2007-12-15 (December 15, 2007) It's a classic - the Adam & Joe parody of 'The English Patient' "God you're gorgeous! Yes, but my heart is like a stone...." (tags: adamandjoe toypatient englishpatient film parody funny) Myth in a New Media World: A fascinating...
links for 2007-12-14 (December 14, 2007) dConstruct 2007 podcasts have been posted, including my talk should you be interested. I really need to get up the slides for it. I think the thing is that I spend so much time on my talks that I...
links for 2007-12-13 (December 13, 2007) Dopplr—the social network for frequent travellers—has launched and I would recommend that if you're a conference goer or business type you sign up immediately... Lots of lovely people I respect and love worked on it, and it's increasingly taking...
Links for 2007-12-11 (December 11, 2007) I'm afraid I got rather cross with Nick Carr again for doing another one of his posts about why everyone's missing the point... Arguing that the Web 2.0 rhetoric is keeping people too focused on the browser would be...
Links for 2007-12-07 (December 7, 2007) There's uproar around BlogNation (replicated here on owstarr.com) as a former contributor decides to eviscerate the founder, Sam Sethi God knows if it's true or not. Hm. According to Sam Sethi himself the writers will be paid before Christmas,...
Links for 2007-12-05 (December 5, 2007) Not safe for some workplaces: Late night potty mouth and all-round entertaining individual Charlie Brooker takes a look at the 'Ten Biggest Cocks in UK Advertising' Sent to me by my younger brother and possibly rather beyond the standard...
Links for 2007-12-04 (December 4, 2007) LiveJournal's moving to Russia! Bumped into David Recordon yesterday at an Oauth brunch and he mentioned that there was some kind of gathering today, but he didn't say why. I guess this is it. Anil kept schtum as well....
Links for 2007-12-03 (December 3, 2007) Super lovely video animation introducing the 2010 Olympic Mascots... Really like the visual style of this. Looking for more bits of illustration and animation at the moment that do landscapes in interesting ways... Ridiculous hysteria and computer illiteracy evident...
