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Archives for January 2008

Links for 2008-01-26 (January 26, 2008) Cowboys & Angels - just so I don't forget - I have found a decent haircut in San Francisco Just in case you're looking. A really good photo pool on Flickr details lots of Dieter Rams design work Dieter...

Links for 2008-01-25 (January 25, 2008) Canon's launched the new Digital Rebel - XSi or 450D - and it looks pretty nice I was a bit disappointed to see no upgrade to the 5D. I don't know that I could afford the 5D, but I...

Links for 2008-01-24 (January 24, 2008) New clips from BSG Series Four are out, complete with insane spoiler action if that's the kind of thing you're into Don't quite know how they're going to resolve this one, but it definitely can't wait to find out....

Links for 2008-01-23 (January 23, 2008) The Oscar nominations are out with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood leading the charge I have a sneaking suspicion that There Will Be Blood will end up being the film with the longest life,...

Links for 2008-01-20 (January 20, 2008) New York Times cartoon critique of the major US campaign logos The 'Kerry Edwards' logo of a few years ago comes in for particular ridicule. Insane electronic contact lenses contain the material required to create a small display in...

Links for 2008-01-18 (January 18, 2008) Insane Tom Cruise Scientology video I'm guessing everyone's seen this by now but just in case you haven't.......

links for 2008-01-10 (January 10, 2008) Urban Mapping opening up neighbourhood data through a SOAP interface I was talking to someone a while back who said that they'd talked to Urban Mapping and didn't see what their future was. Madness! It's bloody hard to come...

links for 2008-01-08 (January 8, 2008) Entertaining, if slightly grotesque, Christmas image as spotted on awesome website of the gods, Ffffound... I love this site so much. I don't get to play in it every day, but I pretty much love the times when I...

links for 2008-01-07 (January 7, 2008) Bizarrely, Amazon.com has an "I Love Bram Cohen" T-shirt for sale! Weird when this happens to people you've met. If you're not familiar with the name, Bram created BitTorrent. (tags: bittorrent bramcohen tshirt amazon funny)...

links for 2008-01-06 (January 6, 2008) What you sound like when you're playing Rock Band... Cal and I spent quite a lot of the break over Christmas and New Year obsessively playing Rock Band and World of Warcraft and ordering in the odd pizza. I...

links for 2008-01-04 (January 4, 2008) Entertaining video parodying the Feist 1234 iPod advert... Both good for its mockery of Apple for being fashionistas and PCs for... well, not being fashionistas. Equal mockery for all. (tags: apple pc video advert ipod parody)...

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