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  <post href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11928232/" description="A 2,500 year old sarcophagus has been found in Cyprus, covered with paintings representing scenes from Homer..." extended="Sometimes it's easy to forget that the history you read about in books actually bloody happened to real people. Moreover, how awesome is it that over two millennia since the time of the Greeks we're still finding more stuff and gaining more insight?!" hash="36139e681057a8f4bc2d10a57b417dd3" tag="ancientgreece classics sarcophagus cyprus archaeology history homer" time="2006-03-22T20:03:12Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Holocaust_denial" description="After a thread on Holocaust Denial appeared on Barbelith, I went and read this fascinating page examining the claims of the revisionists on Wikipedia" extended="It's really good stuff, thorough and interesting. It's not going to convince anyone determined to believe that there's a huge Jewish conspiracy at work, of course, but then they have other issues." hash="09c0c88602f8e95fd1ae0f22d9bacc08" tag="holocaustdenial holocaust judaism jewish jews" time="2006-03-22T19:49:26Z" />
  <post href="http://beebo.org/metalog/" description="Beebo's Metalog posts his Technorati 100-like list of the most-linked to weblogs in September 2000" extended="I remember the Beebo lists incredibly well - back when the community probably no more than few thousand weblogs. I'd taken a hit by moving from barbelith to plasticbag.org and no one really cared about what we did. Happy days..." hash="b2f31a207c118b09786f09958c023cd8" tag="beebo metalog technorati100 topblogs weblogs blogs lists" time="2006-03-22T19:00:28Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam" description="Wikipedia's article on Jam is simply fascinating. I particularly like the information on the EU jam directive (Council Directive 79/693/EEC, 24 July 1979)" extended="&quot;Fruit&quot; is considered to include many things that are not ordinarily classified as fruits: &quot;tomatoes, the edible parts of rhubarb stalks, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons and water-melons&quot;..." hash="031a6c77626f2a20667b9dcfd507c31d" tag="jam fruit eu funny wikipedia strangejams preserves jelly" time="2006-03-22T18:56:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.alttext.com/archives/2006/03/08/geekwolf.html" description="Ben Edwards report on the ETech Warewolf gaming experience..." extended="I think ETech's Warewolfing was some of the best I've ever played - even more enjoyable (if less well-played) than the stuff from FOOCamp last year. Brains! BRAINS!" hash="adfc75bc144dd36f3447f4f679eeeebd" tag="benedwards warewolf etech funny games" time="2006-03-22T18:54:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10317" description="The Cisco VPN Client has gone Universal Binary with 4.9.00.0050" extended="Ever since buying my Intel iMac a while back, I've been surprised by how many things need to be updated to work properly - and how quickly the binaries are appearing. It's quite exciting, actually." hash="b30a23aa69a10a39e01f4bc1c2b7158a" tag="intel cisco vpn ciscovpnclient universalbinary osx intelimac macbookpro" time="2006-03-22T18:49:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4833010.stm" description="Apple have attacked the proposed French law to force interoperability" extended="I don't know the specifics of the law, but personally I'm in favour of any move towards making it possible for people to buy from one place and play elsewhere. It may not be practical, but it should be a goal..." hash="31f801fd26efa13e08fa7c339a2741e0" tag="apple france music drm" time="2006-03-22T18:18:55Z" />
  <post href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/LETTERS/60307019" description="Roger Ebert publishes a letter from Kerry Bailey which pretty much summarises my opinions on the Crash Oscar victory" extended="Kerry's a friend who lives in LA. I think both of us felt that Crash was the worst possible film to beat Brokeback Mountain at the Academy Awards. He's just expressed it better than I have..." hash="610720fb31f7a1854e1bc8546e363aca" tag="kerrybailey rogerebert film movies crash brokebackmountain letter" time="2006-03-22T18:08:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/dont-shoot-the-puppy/" description="Today's awesome minimalist meditative game of choice is &quot;Don’t Shoot the Puppy&quot;" extended="Hint - the way to win is to very very patiently do absolutely nothing at all. It's kind of zen." hash="1cac2ccf3990e1441e9c86d8702fe385" tag="game flash fun puppies silly" time="2006-03-22T18:05:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.odeo.com/audio/151226/view" description="Odeo has an old BBC radio report on blogging in which Heather Armstrong and I feature" extended="Nice flash interfaces, Odeo - I wonder if they make them available for people to present in post audio on their sites - sort of You Tube-ishly. That would be pretty cool." hash="f1ed4f67d67b19accde1088448b2be2c" tag="odeo audio bbc blogging interface widgets flash heatherarmstrong" time="2006-03-18T16:52:55Z" />
  <post href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/16/news/economy/annie/fortune_annie0317/index.htm?cnn=yes" description="Be smarter at work, slack off suggests CNN money..." extended="It's an interesting theory - that creativity comes from associative thinking and focusing away from your main objectives for a bit. Not sure about the glowing Google representation, but hey..." hash="0f3ae6b93ee2922e8503be3aabe77610" tag="work workethics behaviour frustration creativity" time="2006-03-18T06:41:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70424-0.html?tw=wn_index_2" description="Wired News's review of V for Vendetta is a pretty fair representation of the film, I think..." extended="&quot;But as it bounces between genres -- a bit of melodrama, a dash of political intrigue, some half-hearted footage of a fascist dystopia -- the film doesn't seem to know how to look or feel&quot;" hash="a12f6d825435a3fffd2540c3b78634e0" tag="vforvendetta alanmoore review" time="2006-03-18T06:38:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,70436-0.html?tw=wn_index_8" description="Wired News reports on a French attempt to force Apple to use an interoperable standard for its music store" extended="I have to say my personal opinion is that this would be a very good thing. Holding your users to ransom seems to me a terrible idea and the agreement on a DRM solution that is popular and not limited to one supplier a much better one..." hash="45282c75e54564496035d46d79308a0a" tag="ipod apple drm rightsmanagement itunes france french law legal" time="2006-03-18T06:27:30Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=36099539665548298&amp;q=microsoft+ipod" description="Old but good and I've not linked to it before - the Microsoft iPod box redesign parody..." extended="Rumour has it that this was done by Microsoft themselves - probably someone relatively high up in a design department trying to make a point..." hash="022c99113eb0957346a4e9821966b9c8" tag="microsoft design packaging ipod redesign video parody funny haha sigh" time="2006-03-18T06:19:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/lego_aircraft_carrier.html" description="An aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego" extended="It's difficult to know how to react to this, except that it's pretty beautiful and fascinating. I'm interested to know whether it's based on any specifications or if it's more of an interpretative work..." hash="6cb94a9f1f7ca136ef90ec95a8f71d62" tag="aircraftcarrier lego boats toys awesome cool" time="2006-03-18T04:31:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pxn8.com/" description="PXN8 - it's a bit like the pixoh photo editing app I posted about a while back only much much more powerful" extended="It's not as superficially elegant as pixoh, but it's pretty stunningly hardcore - there's got to be someone out there who can give these guys a bajillion dollars? Surely?" hash="8c3511da8e6ae3ac9d982b409e01628f" tag="photoediting photos photography pxn8 web2.0" time="2006-03-17T21:32:16Z" />
  <post href="http://petition.publicgeodata.org/" description="There's an interesting petition on public geographic data in Europe that I think most of you should sign" extended="Free access to geographic data that the tax-payer has already subsidised heavily would create an amazing amount of creativity, and social and economic value. Web of data benefits from it muchly. Obey!" hash="6143ca06b066735e54f22a0c8fb28272" tag="geography webofdata petition publicgeographicdata publicdata europe publicgeodata" time="2006-03-16T15:13:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/03_15_2006.html" description="Heather Armstrong posts some SXSW photos in which everyone is wasted" extended="First time I've got to meet Heather and I had a great time. Lots of good parties and mucking around and eating sea bugs and drinking too much. Her panel with Kottke was pretty fun too..." hash="62f0fff390d6f854eb7a71eef59144ef" tag="heatherarmstrong sxsw sxsw2006 sxsw06 photography 2006" time="2006-03-16T06:15:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864T2BKQo_E" description="Simon Willison versus living shrimp in a restaurant" extended="I'm not sure whether I like the idea of serving living food in restaurants, but I certainly like the idea of Simon freaking out and leaping across the room..." hash="724c8e21679d4ae6e6cef10e31fd72d5" tag="simonwillison shrimp video funny entertaining food shock" time="2006-03-12T16:53:10Z" />
  <post href="http://backchannel.stamen.com/view/" description="Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech" extended="Seeing it near the end of the week basically freaked me out, but now with a bit of perspective this is one classy little app!" hash="ad42a6f2b1b8a2aa3d1b2b94a66b6742" tag="etech stamen stamendesign irc visualisation classy cool" time="2006-03-12T16:37:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dailychump.org/2006/03/11/2006-03-11.html#1142039546.183460" description="Matt Biddulph visualises the Personal Infocloud (from an idea by Dan Catt)" extended="I think they're missing the point a little, but it's still enormously entertaining." hash="77532a179efd0b3c7de89a31ca0f75bb" tag="infocloud personalinfocloud" time="2006-03-11T01:15:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fakegaynews.com/" description="FakeGayNews.com, &quot;Because real gay and lesbian news is too damn depressing&quot;" extended="Ang Lee's new film to feature ugly gays who get their comeuppance, NBC's new schedule to feature &quot;Christian Assassin&quot;, &quot;Devoted Housewives&quot; and a Will &amp; Grace that would scare the queer out of anyone. It's funny as hell, and just as depressing!" hash="4369bbe747bcfbeef469155bab728198" tag="willandgrace gay homosexual funny queer television fakenews satire" time="2006-03-09T23:16:50Z" />
  <post href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6YhO8lz-iQ&amp;search=The%20Real%20Simpsons%22" description="YouTube - The Real World Simpsons" extended="I'm pretty certain that most people have seen this already - apparently it's been a Sky TV ad in the UK. Still it pretty much rocks..." hash="4f9fbae5d0cb47849d82de36fd50f425" tag="simpsons thesimpsons skytv funny humour parody" time="2006-03-08T17:04:03Z" />
  <post href="http://pixoh.com/" description="Pixoh - a lovely little app that allows you to crop, rotate and perform minor edits on photos live on the web" extended="There's a bookmarklet and you can post directly to Flickr. The whole thing is lovely. Thanks to Pasha for the link" hash="c1d0b4ba09e0d19cfa4da1695ce3c173" tag="pixoh photos pictures applications webapps images startup" time="2006-03-07T19:53:45Z" />
  <post href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/" description="Kelly Dobson's Blendie - as mentioned in Tim O'Reilly's keynote at ETech 2006" extended="The Blender's speed and power is controlled by the pitch of the noise you make at it. The woman's noises sound a lot like my colleague Simon Willison when he's in a funny mood." hash="06038632862e9f319bdec977ce37c456" tag="kellydobson blendie interactiondesign embodiedinteraction blenders control remotecontrols" time="2006-03-07T04:26:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/16286" description="April 11, 2002 - Matt Webb proposes that Google's implementation of a SOAP API represents the first step in a recombinant 'level 2' web..." extended="Smug bastard. That's what I'm talking about on Wednesday at ETech. Grrrr. We'll all be using playsh in 2010..." hash="04c30dbffd2bc5808e7eeddadc7affe0" tag="mattwebb smugbastard" time="2006-03-07T04:02:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/108474388/in/set-72057594075863355/" description="Who's The Dick Writing Comments On My Blog" extended="Ladies and Gentlemen, your first ETech related post, and featuring the wit and style (and company)of Mr Dick Hardt!" hash="bb5e8d0199b727d6fe6d0a1969c46002" tag="dickhardt etech" time="2006-03-06T15:18:49Z" />
  <post href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY&amp;" description="YouTube has some video of no doubt dodgy IP of the notorious Apple keynote where Steve Jobs announced a huge deal with Microsoft..." extended="The audience were far far far from happy about the whole thing. In retrospect it's extraordinary how different the keynote was from ones today..." hash="065352a67351023fec0e0ad6242a18e1" tag="youtube apple keynote stevejobs microsoft video" time="2006-03-05T23:45:11Z" />
  <post href="http://whedonesque.com/comments/9718" description="Whedonesque is mentioned in the press as blog of the week, but Joss disagrees!" extended="Not about the quality - but about whether it's a blog. Worth a read this - flashbacks to definitional fun from 2000, with added 'he made Buffy' twist..." hash="d9f3b04f2ccdf256c86884a92b2a4e29" tag="josswhedon blogs weblogs definitions" time="2006-03-05T23:22:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.funny-games.biz/splash-back.html" description="Splash Back dumb Flash game" extended="By which I mean a dumb Flash game that kept me occupied for an hour or so when I should have been packing for San Diego." hash="e1dad6c571cde9b5e4953cba3be32f90" tag="splashback flash game fun stupid" time="2006-03-04T15:10:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/index.html" description="Media Central is a slightly less elegant (but much more powerful) free version of FrontRow for the Mac" extended="I can't rave about this enough - it seems more responsive than VLC, has iTunes and iPhoto integration and plays .avi / DivX files without the slightest protest..." hash="d0871a67d8fc2b5a91c133599ea103fe" tag="itunes iphoto mediacentral apple mac" time="2006-03-02T01:06:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/103708514/in/set-72057594068446573/" description="The Twelve Olympians on Flickr" extended="This is a nice piece of work - the twelve Olympian gods of Greek mythology - as represented in Lego..." hash="25157e581415ad38cc5db70e0dacb72b" tag="Lego GreekMythology Greece Mythology funny" time="2006-03-02T00:54:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hiddenpassageway.com/" description="HiddenPassageway.com will bring you the technology you need to fill your house with dumb secret passages" extended="My parents house has this awesome little cellar under the stairs and I keep thinking I could replace the door with a bookcase and no one would think there was a room down there. Mmm. Secret things." hash="6dd21a2876cfaccec250b585a9c1d386" tag="secretpassages hiddenpassages" time="2006-03-02T00:44:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html" description="Bit of a weird on this: Shock Absorber has a Flash site where you can compare the bounciness of breasts bra-free, wearing bras or wearing their sports bras" extended="I'm not really into girls as such, but it is strangely hypnotic nonetheless. This is probably not my finest moment of posting to my weblog..." hash="d75c2760eab9b4409f8f6e52cc004e32" tag="breasts women sportsbra bras" time="2006-02-28T22:25:56Z" />
  <post href="http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/zonetag/" description="ZoneTag Photos - from Yahoo Research Berkeley" extended="Quite nice this and works with many Series 60 Nokia phones - making it much easier to tag photos from your phone, complete with geotagging..." hash="55f28abfcd86d462f0f68b7d4da8a449" tag="zonetag yahoo yahooresearchberkeley" time="2006-02-27T00:43:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.petebarrwatson.com/archives/2006/02/eu_us_world_of.html" description="EU &amp; US World of Warcraft and how to play on both" extended="The thing I probably dislike most about World of Warcraft is that I can't play with friends in the US, specifically Cal. I'm not sure I'm really up for maintaining two World of Warcraft accounts but I'm certainly interested..." hash="6a8a3d2a39ada5dbf5875de96b9417d6" tag="worldofwarcraft internationalisation" time="2006-02-26T23:55:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060222/sirlin_01.shtml" description="&quot;World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things&quot; argues that the game encourages people to believe that hard work trumps ability and that people are more productive when they work together..." extended="I'm at a loss to see why this is wrong, to be honest. I agree with bits of the article - certainly 'being alone together' is a core part of the experience - but i can't help thinking that those of us who play mostly alone feel the costs are reasonable" hash="556fe100545ae4a38c1d6caf718f9d83" tag="wow worldofwarcraft socialsoftware collaboration alonetogether" time="2006-02-26T23:48:04Z" />
  <post href="http://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1770" description=" For Many AJAX is Not Degrading, But it Must" extended="Thomas Vander Wal writes about the perils of Ajax not degrading and breaking sites and services in anything but the most common - and often non-standard - browsers..." hash="55910f6724c7fa6458bfa73d30e8c1ab" tag="ajax browsers degrade functionality dontknowhowtotagthisone" time="2006-02-26T23:42:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/WellDesignedURLsAreBeautiful.aspx" description="Mike Schinkel's piece last year on well-Designed URLs" extended="This was one of the pieces that I've used as a source recently, although I'm not sure I agree with the idea of recommending alternative short URLs for print. Otherwise, pretty great stuff..." hash="49adcb92b79bbb771b9e3898f8fde6c9" tag="mikeschinkel url nativetoawebofdata webofdata urldesign usability addressability identifiers" time="2006-02-26T23:37:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html" description="Jakob Neilson's recommendations on URL in 1999 were pretty good even though he forecast that they would disappear within five years..." extended="As it happens, I think URLs are becoming more important if anything - as people start to understand how fundamental they are to giving your site or service all the benefits of being truly native to the web..." hash="1f95f880e4dac7f7ff523cbbf034a7f7" tag="jakobneilson internet web nativetoawebofdata urls addressability identifiers" time="2006-02-26T23:32:37Z" />
  <post href="http://mapwow.com/" description="Google Maps meets World of Warcraft" extended="Cal showed this to me and it rocks. Tiny captures of the minimap in WoW joined together to create a huge browsable, explorable map. Just wish it was more easily annotatable." hash="bce8be5d6af162ab2f948f951e92bb20" tag="googlemaps google worldofwarcraft wow mashup lovely game gaming" time="2006-02-26T19:37:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year" description="Kottke reports on the year since he appealed to open up his site to micropatrons" extended="It's an interesting reaction from him, but the conclusion is a bit disappointing - that he hasn't found it personally sustainable and isn't going to continue with the model. Shame." hash="7b68f29f2aea1121c3f33798ce6eb29a" tag="jasonkottke kottke weblogs blogs sustainable businessmodel weblog microcontent micropatron" time="2006-02-26T19:33:28Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4745104.stm" description="Clooney hits out at 'traitor' tag" extended="I saw Good Night and Good Luck the other day. The film was reasonable, but the sentiments of hte people depicted it in were much more impressive - particularly since we think of the 50s as so constrained. In some ways things are worse today." hash="6ed9aa005987800af5c95cf8cf920932" tag="GeorgeClooney Goodnightandgoodluck movies politics usa america censorship" time="2006-02-26T18:51:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925405.700.html" description="Quantum computer works best switched off" extended="And I quote: &quot;A non-running computer produces fewer errors,&quot; says Hosten. Nice. Really really nice. Also funny." hash="6c89c9e5247f2a68f6be5c4bc0bf1624" tag="quantumcomputers computing quantum funny humour science" time="2006-02-26T18:43:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/im_your_biggest_fan.php" description="I’m Your Biggest Fan, by Christopher Monks" extended="&quot;There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others.&quot; Unfortunately true." hash="41f0be5015ba703613d81cf7e7edf275" tag="christophermonks weblogculture blogculture" time="2006-02-23T23:17:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.generationchurch.org/" description="&quot;Generation Church ☆ Taking the Reality of God to This Generation&quot;" extended="Pretty much loving the star in the title bar, and the general CSS-elegance and stunning textural design of this site. Obviously I'm pretty much ignoring the specious religious rubbish that's written all over it, but hey..." hash="c3ea0b34f0b870a47bdeda7ccf03e8c9" tag="church design css elegant beautiful" time="2006-02-23T17:58:09Z" />
  <post href="http://cookinrelaxin.blogspot.com/2006/02/radio-signatures.html" description="Tristan Ferne posts some radio signatures he's taken of the major BBC radio stations" extended="Wonderful, lyrical, evocative little samples of all the programmes on a BBC radio network are spliced together and cross-faded automatically. I have no idea what you'd use it for, but it's pretty sweet. Radio 4's my favourite. Radio 2 just plays Coldplay." hash="8090f11d953f6425006639c53469cbf7" tag="music radio bbc" time="2006-02-23T17:55:26Z" />
  <post href="http://mbites.com/web_2_wave_or_bubble" description="Mike Butcher reports on the state of innovation and Web 2.0 in the UK at the moment" extended="He's asking all the right questions as well as pointing out the radical disjunct between the Future of Web Apps event and the Second Chance Tuesday crew. Got a few of the BBC and Yahoo details wrong, but nothing crippling..." hash="46a16812f0f5ce41dff1b8018022d684" tag="mikebutcher web2.0 innovation uk startup business culture" time="2006-02-23T17:39:22Z" />
  <post href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006338.html" description="How to give Oral Sex to Bloggers in Return for PR Favors (by Jeremy Zawodny)" extended="PR aimed at webloggers increases every day. I normally tell people that if they want to send me free stuff, they're more than welcome, but that I will on principle not write about it. That gets rid of most of 'em..." hash="e2ca39e6c10196e8d9b248c489d4fb3d" tag="pr publicrelations weblogs blogs sincerity integrity" time="2006-02-23T17:29:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kudurshian.net/highpriority/" description="High Priority toolbar widget for OSX handles to-do items..." extended="Haven't had much of a play with it so far, but I like the idea and I've paid the $6 to use it directly. I may actually need to start using to do lists more often..." hash="17d81c43990350b8db7590cd98e28920" tag="todo highpriority toolbar" time="2006-02-23T01:36:34Z" />
  <post href="http://superfantasticclothing.com/" description="Super Fantastic Clothing Company sells a range of medium-cool t-shirts" extended="I've got my eye on &quot;Why aren't we friends on MySpace&quot; and &quot;I {heart} Ryan Atwood&quot;" hash="23a13ff5ce200f1af76d269bbfe34473" tag="tshirts clothes clothing shopping" time="2006-02-23T01:17:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/27/brad_pitt_is_a_chameleon.html" description="Brad Pitt is a chameleon..." extended="This is actually a little creepy - Brad Pitt seems to completely change his look to resemble the person he's going out with / married to. This must be why all my dates are with fat, old people. Dammit." hash="1a88c3496c601d8077058f333e1d10de" tag="bradpitt gossip" time="2006-02-23T01:00:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.elatable.com/blog/" description="My newish boss has just started a weblog" extended="We're going to have to loosen him up a little, but so far it's pretty interesting stuff and relevant stuff." hash="50a9fe9db6b703b1d895b5a56496a785" tag="bradleyhorowitz" time="2006-02-23T00:30:18Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739432.stm" description="&quot;Experts have uncovered a serious security hole in the way Apple software handles downloaded files.&quot;" extended="It's more troubling conceptually rather than actually, since there are no live versions of these viruses in public. But now the hole is well-known, it's likely that people will try and exploit it..." hash="af9835cfc1da9331845bf5f258d3b997" tag="apple viruses trojan software security" time="2006-02-22T23:52:39Z" />
  <post href="http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/02/05/cocomment-semantically-forked-conversation" description="Ben Metcalfe on CoComment" extended="A well-thought-through interrogation of the premise behind CoComment and some of the problems it engenders. Nice post." hash="a5df1f127e1ff8e84110a9da9b28706a" tag="benmetcalfe cocomment" time="2006-02-22T23:45:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cocomment.com/" description="I've been playing with CoComment a bit, and - when it works - it's pretty nice..." extended="Things are always a bit flaky when they depend on people implementing their templates properly, but it's a nicely implemented and mostly functional potentially really useful system..." hash="b63407cc7e0624b7d119fd708ba3c64c" tag="comments blogs weblogs" time="2006-02-22T23:43:49Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5804139819441997248" description="Girl jumps through basketball hoop on Google Video" extended="It's pretty clearly going to be a fake one way or another, but it's a pretty impressive one." hash="617fa0f4205080385a949cd2f91520c3" tag="googlevideo basketball video spoof" time="2006-02-22T12:03:32Z" />
  <post href="http://neologasm.org/" description="neologasm: a weblog about the joy of new words" extended="I should send this to Matt Jones, really. He'd have a new Nokia product rolling off the shelves for each new word created. Which sort of rocks..." hash="2698d06a9d2f373fade4c78a2a351404" tag="blackbeltjones neologism" time="2006-02-22T09:27:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/apple-announcing-fun-new-products-next-tuesday/" description="Apple announcing &quot;fun new products&quot; next Tuesday" extended="I'm always intrigued by Apple  announcements obviously, but 'fun new products' really floats the boat. Could there really be more stuff for me to buy!? I'd practically run out." hash="4b2907050199cd222bf534c549f105ee" tag="apple products announcement" time="2006-02-22T09:18:47Z" />
  <post href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/17/are-we-held-hostage-by-yahoos-acquisitions/" description="Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions?" extended="It's always worth remembering that most acquisitions come at the point where sites are growing pretty rapidly and that scaling is a difficult and time consuming business..." hash="d722984939e57015402388e162024385" tag="yahoo acquisitions delicious del.icio.us flickr upcoming" time="2006-02-21T18:58:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm" description="Current state of the art in graphic design for the web..." extended="Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I'd put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that's just me..." hash="f8e7eaf84ea7f9ddc0c8b3c639344a9b" tag="design graphicdesign roundedcorners web2.0 usability typography nativetoawebofdata" time="2006-02-21T18:53:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8732&amp;feedId=online-news_rss20" description="'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - this may be more true of me than other people..." extended="“At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we’re not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things&quot;" hash="77e2692d848f284b9e7413b08fed17fc" tag="sleep decisions happiness sadness comfort discomfort" time="2006-02-21T18:42:36Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4665438.stm" description="From a month ago: Warner Brothers announce they're going to sell movies online" extended="I'm really interested in this whole selling TV and movies stuff online after my time at the BBC - mainly wondering why the BBC isn't working with these players to find a space for public sector distribution..." hash="9146e11772d6addd4d08b5ee8571cf02" tag="bbc warnerbrothers tv navigation movies films" time="2006-02-21T12:46:34Z" />
  <post href="http://theglasshouse.net/sct/index.php" description="Second Chance Tuesday aims to replicate all the mistakes of the last dot.com boom in London" extended="Some ways to fuck up a good thing: don't trust the people who build things, be parochial in your thinking, look for short-term gain rather than building something with a future, don't care about quality, take lots of drugs" hash="b1900676348147e7e71161a7d5a0ae31" tag="secondchancetuesday dotcom london business arseholery" time="2006-02-21T01:36:55Z" />
  <post href="http://campfirenow.com/" description="37 Signals release Campfire - providing 'simple group chat for business'" extended="As with many of the more recent 37 Signals products, I'm a bit at a loss as to whether it's really worth the money that they charge for it. It seems nice enough for a chat app. Um." hash="3494238e9448fbabf08fbe4d8efd4c8d" tag="37signals campfire chat im" time="2006-02-21T01:25:51Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4587788.stm" description="Jake Gyllenhaal rides into film A-list" extended="&quot;Jake Gyllenhaal's Bafta win is one of the highest recognition to date for a young actor who has managed to mix acclaimed offbeat work with mainstream offerings.&quot;" hash="98cbab0bb354bd466ee27a5a770bd0d6" tag="bafta jakegyllenhaal brokebackmountain" time="2006-02-21T01:23:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.photoshopblog.net/2006/02/13/brandmark-tutorial/" description="Photoshopblog.net has a tutorial in which flesh is branded..." extended="It's quite gross, a little sexy and highly informative! What's not to like? I mean, really. Seriously. What's not to like?!" hash="b325115e0f13db3845f0a1d1f718911f" tag="photoshop tutorials branding hot" time="2006-02-21T01:18:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15515051@N00/" description="Carson Workshops have a whole bunch of photos from the recent Future of Web Apps event up on their Flickr account" extended="And looking at them, I'm terrified by how exhausted and fried I look in every single photo of me. It's like I've been replaced by some freakish semi-dead lych..." hash="fd76c2bbad595cb0d9a93cb2f877f5c1" tag="tomcoates carsonworkshops flickr photography photographs" time="2006-02-21T01:09:48Z" />
  <post href="http://reprocessed.org/blog/archives/2006/02/16/albums_of_last_year.html" description="Matt Patterson's albums of the year for 2005" extended="Some good choices in his selection, many of which I also recommend wholeheartedly..." hash="21c916d6372c6224b166a29631f59004" tag="music mattpatterson" time="2006-02-20T16:09:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNkysVFQrA" description="Fun with LED Throwies" extended="In which Jones buys Webb a DIY Throwies kit and we assemble them in a bar and then throw them at metal things, and they don't stick. Later Jones puts one in his mouth and I stick one up my nose (not shown)..." hash="10e24c19d440dc8f19969100ded3fe4d" tag="throwies led tomcoates" time="2006-02-20T01:14:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.valleywag.com/tech/valleywag-hotties/valleywag-hotties-semifinals-jeff-weiner-vs-ben-trott-155337.php" description="Valleywag Hotties semi-finals: Jeff Weiner vs. Ben Trott" extended="The biggest debate coursing through Silicon Valley at the moment. Who would you rather nail? My boss' boss or that guy that did Typepad with Mena?" hash="0ece57974dcab602610f09155b4bce87" tag="jeffweiner bentrott" time="2006-02-16T20:07:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/exhibitions_prefab.php" description="New London Architecture" extended="&quot;Prefabulous London shows that a modern approach to prefabricated construction is flourishing in the capital with a new generation of designers and manufacturers building on the pioneering work of organisations such as the Peabody Trust.&quot;" hash="0e1f68e72cc489e29bcacf5958fb1843" tag="architecture design prefab" time="2006-02-16T17:09:08Z" />
  <post href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/02/do-bush-followers-have-political.html" description="Glenn Greenwald ask, &quot;Do Bush followers have a political ideology?&quot;" extended="I couldn't be more in agreement with Greenwald - the question is not whether or not people agree politically, but whether or not they're effectively able to engage in political debates in the political arena." hash="11c02aae003056f1a8bd161dacaf7ec7" tag="politics georgewbush america" time="2006-02-15T14:34:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060209.wxbrains09/BNStory/Science/home" description="Better living through video games?" extended="Apparently being bilingual or playing a lot of computer games keeps your brain responsive into your sixties allowing you to focus on specific things without getting distracted..." hash="2359bd0c829b263e5e4649ac9adeb1c0" tag="gaming computergames consoles language braindevelopment age" time="2006-02-15T14:23:06Z" />
  <post href="http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/02/alone_together_.html" description="A fascinating article on the social aspects of WoW: Alone Together in 'World of Warcraft?'" extended="My thoughts: it's difficult to co-ordinate playing with real-life friends when you also have to keep your levels roughly in sync. It seems a bit like WoW is a game suited to a period before MMORPG-playing becomes ubiquitous..." hash="7298a65db193b39fedfba6f468a340de" tag="mmorpg worldofwarcraft gaming terranova" time="2006-02-15T14:16:15Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3169638116761306921&amp;q=rejected" description="Rejected Family Learning Channel Cartoon" extended="Absolutely stunningly funny set of cartoons allegedly sent in to the Family Learning Channel. Simon showed them to me and I basically fell off my chair laughing in sick glee..." hash="ea81cdf3e401576bdec4ba056cef7434" tag="cartoons funny" time="2006-02-15T00:56:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/7DBB34EAEDFF1028A1FC001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS" description="LED Throwies!" extended="A fun way of playing with LED lights, magnets and batteries! With only a 75% chance of being making something that's bound to poison small animals and children!" hash="3cf50d01fcf1f067df823c96fccfc146" tag="throwies LEDs lights fun magnets dumb" time="2006-02-14T23:14:55Z" />
  <post href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/here-comes-measure-map.html" description="It's official! Google buys Measuremap!" extended="I've chatted to Veen a few times over the last few months but still this is a surprise. It's a lovely piece of work, which I imagine will fit Blogger very well. And I'm looking forward to hearing about Google's culture and swapping notes..." hash="39bba41b0ac34818d4e2c32f19c7e60a" tag="google measuremap jeffveen adaptivepath acquisition shock!" time="2006-02-14T23:00:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVI6xw9Zph8" description="Multi-Touch Interaction Research" extended="Interesting looking touch-based interface that reminds me a lot of the map display that people were showing off at last year's ETech..." hash="373576c907f96a2e829bde75960f1580" tag="etech oreilly interactiondesign touch hapticinterfaces" time="2006-02-14T00:48:38Z" />
  <post href="http://thumblicio.us/" description="Thumblicious - screencaps of popular sites in del.icio.us" extended="I only noticed this because something I'd written appeared in it (albeit briefly). I'm really interested in ways you can use screenshots to create an impression of a site quickly and effectively..." hash="01036da982e7ec27ec23980b70504a79" tag="thumblicious screencaps screenshots thumbnails" time="2006-02-13T16:36:43Z" />
  <post href="http://iamcaltrain.com/" description="Incredibly useful for the Silicon Valley run: Cal's &quot;I Am Caltrain&quot;" extended="Essential for those who commute to and from San Francisco to the major heavyweight Internet and technology companies." hash="61afbc6dfcd41926a31a3a971d5f7461" tag="iamcal calhenderson caltrain iamcaltrain trains siliconvalley transport api mashup" time="2006-02-13T16:20:26Z" />
  <post href="http://mixtape.exopolis.com/" description="The expolis agency have produced a kind of weird, if cool, flash mix-tape kind of thing. I'm surprised by how cool I thought it was..." extended="They sent it to me, which I normally find a bit weird and resist - it's really unclear to me whether or not I was being marketed at or they just genuinely thought I'd like it. I don't know that I know anyone at the agency. It's pretty cool." hash="c09407cf4600aa0bd0f17d9e1373faee" tag="design mixtapes audio music flash animation lowfi" time="2006-02-13T16:04:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4706092.stm" description="Ian McKellen talks about the problems of being openly gay in Hollywood" extended="&quot;It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality,&quot; the gay British actor said. &quot;And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It's very distressing to me that that should be the case.&quot;" hash="8414ca8192ed66229cfaa2aa9e66efd5" tag="bbc gay gaypolitics ianmckellan hollywood film movies filmindustry" time="2006-02-13T16:04:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/" description="Dave Gorman off the telly has a Flickr account and posts regular pictures!" extended="After several pretty awesome projects in a row, it seems he's now scouting around the nerosphere looking for new stuff to play with. That Flickr has taken his fancy is pretty awesome..." hash="dacaa1d704407cac2cda4810f975f852" tag="flickr davegorman" time="2006-02-13T15:46:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/wr-07-a-real-transformer" description="Awesome robot transformer... and it's real!" extended="You can see them in the labs building this thing and then completing their first Optimus Prime and suddenly having to work out what the hell they could do with it that would be in any way useful. Cool though..." hash="f986df67693210ca52ffd491d5af6a68" tag="transformers robots computers cars" time="2006-02-13T14:54:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/97126279/" description="I'm a URL fetishist" extended="Patrick takes one of my rather poor in-talk jokes a little too literally. Still, now I quite want it on a T-shirt..." hash="079807fb1252541402c638304cbe5f44" tag="tomcoates spoof funny urlfetishist" time="2006-02-10T00:43:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/28/omnidrive-online-storage-perfection/" description="Omnidrive ploughs straight into one of my areas of fascination - how you could make all storage social" extended="I don't know what I think about the implementation, and of course one major problem is that I can't easily test it." hash="da159a2e5d3527a87c2949843bac7a1d" tag="omnidrive socialsoftware socialfilesystem" time="2006-02-03T18:00:01Z" />
  <post href="http://phenomenologic.blogspot.com/2005/09/if-i-drew-detailed-map.html" description="Could Pledgebank help Wikipedia?" extended="Thoughts: (1) Pledgebank is about increasing the perceived effect of ones actions by connecting it to a larger purpose (2) Wikipedia already seems to have that mechanism but (3) I like the idea of building social processes alongside wikipedia a lot..." hash="528e816ae68ba04cf4a29b6a516a1ae4" tag="wikipedia pledgebank" time="2006-02-03T17:57:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2005/awardsandnominations.shtml" description="Alongside the Metacritic Critics lists, they've also compiled a full list of 2005 Film Awards &amp; Nominations" extended="Good to see Brokeback Mountain doing so well in that selection as well..." hash="560477a1fbeb05f9ede1bcf4c3f57180" tag="brokebackmountain metacritic critics film cinema" time="2006-02-03T17:55:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2005/toptens.shtml" description="Metacritic's list of lists reveals US film critics' 2005 Top Tens (and usefully aggregates them)" extended="There's so much more value in aggregation than people realise. All of metacritic could be rebuilt in a bottom-up kind of way using a few simple microformat style things and some decent aggregation tech..." hash="0df190936eec9ccf6b1741d9122031a0" tag="metacritic aggregation film movies" time="2006-02-03T17:42:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/wasp_performs_roachb.html" description="Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches" extended="Pretty fascinating, if creepy, story about how some species of wasp brainwash and then control roaches which they then steer back to their lairs, laying eggs in them while they're still alive..." hash="2087edb7c4e2becb2083b035ab370ecc" tag="wasp roaches boingboing slavery" time="2006-02-03T15:58:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.friib.com/mekwa/mekwa.html" description="Mekwa &amp; Beam Station Project" extended="A pretty fascinating presentation expressing a different kind of personalised toy avatar widget that sits on phones and can travel around the world. I don't know if I've explained it particularly well..." hash="498e9fe6b8ec242e00f7fabeddf010dc" tag="game mekwa beamstation fun mobile mobilephones travel mashups" time="2006-02-03T15:48:25Z" />
  <post href="http://teamsugar.com/movie/pink-stupid_girls-webrip.mpg" description="Pink's new video is a pretty entertaining tirade in favour of smart, ambitious women" extended="It's really cool to see some positive reinforcement in the mass media for a version of womanhood that isn't about tight clothes, booty, bling and boobs." hash="7e0d82d832efd4b24e497e6373eea704" tag="feminism pink politics music songs" time="2006-02-03T15:44:48Z" />
  <post href="http://drmcninja.com/index.html" description="The Adventures of Dr. McNinja" extended="He's an Irish Ninja whose parents are ashamed of him because he became a ninja instead of joining the Yakuza. What's not to like?!" hash="1b9e3576d52fbed04b41fe8b3882de93" tag="ninja pirates funny comic cartoon" time="2006-02-03T15:34:22Z" />
  <post href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Nude-male-painting-gay-interest-BROKEBACK-MOUNTAIN_W0QQitemZ7385700976QQcategoryZ20135QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" description="There's a ... specialist ... painting representing scenes from Brokeback Mountain for sale on ebay at the moment..." extended="It's actually not that bad. They were aiming for $50 to start off with, but now the price is up to $255. If we make it prominent enough, then I think one of their agents will buy if for their office." hash="db8261c264724f6f4d5c30a1a25cec31" tag="brokebackmountain fanart movies films" time="2006-02-03T15:06:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060118144601537&amp;lsrc=osxh" description="Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3" extended="Apparently Keynote 3 removed several of the transitions that were in the earlier product, including &quot;Burn&quot; which was Simon's favourite. It turns out that they're all there in the new version, just turned off. Very weird / cool." hash="f60ccf76f404ed8aeb7eb1ea86a290e9" tag="keynote apple transitions powerpoint" time="2006-02-03T14:59:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001246/" description="Dan Futterman's page on IMDB" extended="Dan Futterman was the cute American in Shooting Fish, the son in the Birdcage and object of a minor crush of mine. I'm stunned and impressed to see that he's also the Academy Award-nominated writer of Capote..." hash="9387436ff5f27984357bf165f011bb5b" tag="capote danfutterman hotpeople hotmen imdb movies academyawards" time="2006-02-03T14:57:52Z" />
  <post href="http://paulfisher.typepad.com/growth_technology_venture/2006/01/2005_venture_ca.html" description="2005 Venture Capital Web 2.0 investment statistics: US entrepreneurs raise ten times more than Europe" extended="I don't know how much faith to put in these numbers, but the truthiness of them is beyond reproach, and that's got to count for something, right? European start-up and innovation seems generally pretty troubling to me right about now..." hash="762eeea6ba6eab8a0295eaa3bf8e4654" tag="web2.0 entrepreneur capital money venturecapital bubble" time="2006-02-03T10:06:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgK0IoMKWZc" description="YouTube presents &quot;Brokeback to the future&quot;" extended="Okay now this is just genuinely awesome almost beyond the counting of the ways. Obviously it helps if you've seen Brokeback Mountain, were obsessed about the Back to the Future trilogy and had a bit of a crush on Michael J Fox..." hash="d28b1cbb91e21745f4a788e3dea44aa2" tag="michaeljfox backtothefuture brokebackmountain parody humour brokebacktothefuture" time="2006-02-03T00:29:52Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.nosv.org/" description="The Flickr logo-maker allows you to construct your own personalised logo in the Flickr style that we've all come to know and love" extended="it's potentially difficult to tell why such a device is so useful, given that the logo itself isn't exactly the most complex, but still - it's nice and it's sort of funny." hash="51109c447b7526a8799c76e33703d01c" tag="Flickr logo design toy" time="2006-01-25T15:15:21Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4638552.stm" description="The West Wing has been axed - the last episode will air on May 14th 2006" extended="I can't believe this - admittedly it went through a bit of a dull patch a couple of years ago, but it's been uniformly good ever since, and the whole Santos campaign has been astonishingly good stuff! What the fuck!?" hash="d9c90d5f637cc75e81394fbee1a048a6" tag="westwing" time="2006-01-23T10:07:15Z" />
  <post href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/009594.html" description="Firefox to include a new 'ping' attribute" extended="I'm quite interested in this one. It seems to have generated a fair amount of dissent on privacy grounds, but I've got two thoughts - what distributed services could you make with this, and how easy is it going to be to spam the trackers?" hash="210257a41bcfcd2f806bd7ed9f218593" tag="ping firefox disaggregation browser tracking clicktracking" time="2006-01-22T13:55:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.egosurf.org/search.php?search=tom+coates&amp;resource=plasticbag.org&amp;e-g=1&amp;c-g=.com&amp;e-y=1&amp;c-y=.com&amp;e-m=1&amp;c-m=.com&amp;e-d=1&amp;e-t=1&amp;ds=1" description="EgoSurf search for Tom Coates" extended="EgoSurf is possibly the least useful website I've ever seen - you can use it to give yourself a score about how nominally important you are online, with no positive scores at all - you're either a nobody, ordinary or stuck-up" hash="ffce75dd2f857fe4539b8376e7598582" tag="ego funny humour" time="2006-01-22T13:51:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/21/broadcast_flag_is_ba.html" description="Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too" extended="&quot;Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models.&quot;" hash="396eb736b08e76908f9591562c5c3db3" tag="boingboing corydoctorow broadcastflag tv television media distribution mediadistribution futuremedia radio video audio business" time="2006-01-22T13:50:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=153" description="Know Your Type - Starting points for Typographic Inspiration" extended="Very interesting primer in Typography that I don't entirely agree with, but has given me a different perspective on what I've been doing on plasticbag. Hopefully at some point soon an iterative redesign will appear" hash="9ee2e4a45332f9dd9bd435ea803109be" tag="typography" time="2006-01-22T13:49:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/sets/345910/" description="Darren Shrubsole - relentless Link Machine - reveals the doom-and-gloom agenda of London's Evening Standard headline writers" extended="He's produced a Flickr photoset of some of the best (read most alarmist) Evening Standard Headline's of 2005" hash="9ce79573653543e5206f88552bbfffa8" tag="eveningstandard darrenshrubsole flickr headline newspaper alarmist aggressive depressing sad angry" time="2006-01-22T13:33:34Z" />
  <post href="https://jobs.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Employment.woa/wa/jobDescription?RequisitionID=2533948" description="There's a job going in the Social Software team at Apple" extended="And it looks incredibly depressing! Apparently social software can be conflated with RSS frameworks. It's no wonder that Apple aren't exploiting this area if this is how they view it..." hash="4095be63bdc63b799eb302fe8db7e931" tag="socialsoftware apple" time="2006-01-22T13:30:06Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4630808.stm" description="The BBC reports that British teenagers think science is interesting and important, but not for 'normal people'" extended="'Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: &quot;Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family&quot;, and &quot;because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female&quot;.'" hash="82fa46ba26a1a7ef7e80fd5f3a3f96a8" tag="science atheism superiority approachable" time="2006-01-22T13:28:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/?p=130" description="Ferrofluid Sculptures by Sachiko Kodama" extended="Ferrofluid can be manipulated and turn solid in response to magnetic fields. Skip past the writing on the page to the link just above the comments - there's a video that will demonstrate this extraordinary material in action." hash="32f2d437d6dbf070cc47458820d7a78b" tag="ferrofluid design beautiful video art" time="2006-01-22T13:08:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lucasblog.com/archives/2006/01/cowardice_at_th.html" description="Lucas Blog talks about cowardice at the Golden Globes" extended="Despite the success of Brokeback Mountain and Transamerica, most of the established talent prefer to talk generically about the &quot;difficult circumstances&quot; of their characters rather than even mention that they could be gay." hash="7a2b27565b2e2970bddc85bf3478f589" tag="gay homosexuality gaypolitics goldenglobes brokebackmountain" time="2006-01-22T13:01:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/tom-cruise/katie-holmes-turns-27-amongst-other-imprisoned-playthings-143969.php" description="&quot;Katie Holmes Turns 27 Amongst Other Imprisoned Playthings&quot;" extended="For her birthday, she apparently got given a DVD boxed set of all Tom Cruise's movies. The picture on this article alone is astonishing. You know you shouldn't find this interesting, but it just is." hash="e31e36050f8ee1646e0103b147e99487" tag="tomcruise katieholmes weird" time="2006-01-22T12:59:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.onimoto.com/index.php?post=50" description="How to trace an e-mail, and report its sender for abuse" extended="The process of scouting around for trolls on messageboards is pretty similar, but e-mail makes it way way easier to find the information than web submission forms." hash="8748dc314a0a81c64d9642e8c0799b09" tag="email abuse trolls everythinginmoderation design" time="2006-01-22T12:49:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theslanket.com/" description="The Slanket is the best blanket ever - very large, very warm and with sleeves so you can change TV channels!" extended="If they hadn't sold out of these, I'd have already ordered one. They look toasty." hash="22f43ede94c1891a4f5496b5c3185f86" tag="slanket product blanket warm comfy sleeves awesome design" time="2006-01-22T12:46:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000706.html" description="Cameron Moll opens up a discussion about the new Apple iLife packaging" extended="Hot or not? I'd have to say not. I get why they've decided to change it, last year's one was beautiful but maybe not too clear. But the new one seems to play too much on the film metaphor. Could do better." hash="b1f47a00ca5c2af9ff1aee0bf807abbf" tag="apple design ilife" time="2006-01-18T18:08:41Z" />
  <post href="http://news.com.com/Jobs+suggests+Dell+should+eat+his+words/2100-1041_3-6027361.html" description="Apple pulls past Dell's stock price and Steve Jobs is delighted" extended="Apparently a few years ago, Dell suggested that Apple should be sold and the money returned to its shareholders. This was before Steve Jobs' return to the business, of course..." hash="bf7825ecb7a65804d4960e6489cf3a9f" tag="stevejobs apple dell computers" time="2006-01-18T18:04:35Z" />
  <post href="http://upcoming.org/event/51352" description="I hope you're all celebrating Calmas, in accordance with the wishes of our forefathers..." extended="One father, Two fathers, Three fathers, FOREFATHERS! Bad joke. See also - forebrain, forebears (FOUR BEARS!) I should probably retire it to my internal monologue, where I'm able to laugh at my funny thoughts without alienating anyone..." hash="4766d2930a21e8ebbe532abb62f87fe3" tag="calmas calhenderson birthday lame bears" time="2006-01-17T23:46:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/009792.html" description="Design Observer writes about the glacially beautiful pace of design innovation at the New Yorker" extended="A lovely article, which really explores the careful custodianship and development of a design pattern. I understand the authors frustration with the speed of design shifts now, but I think it's just what happens in response to a new medium..." hash="28c740140e90ec35fa615dc0b68dd7c1" tag="design slow speed newyorker" time="2006-01-17T17:32:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zmaAZwkhYeQ" description="YouTube hosts a video comparing the boot times of an iMac G5 with a new Intel iMac" extended="It's not the most scientific of tests, but the Intel Mac trounces the G5 pretty massively. I'm hoping to get myself a new Intel iMac later this week - I'll be popping in tomorrow in fact to see if they've got them in yet..." hash="d85a33721e2b8f5141288a137ce06511" tag="imac apple intel video" time="2006-01-17T17:25:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5070&amp;en=174f22f1e2b32563&amp;ex=1137646800" description="Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD talks about his 'problem child' to the New York Times" extended="This is one that's lurked in my stash of 'things I must post' for a good few weeks, but as usual I'm not prepared to actually stick it on my site until I've read it through. It's slight, but it's interesting." hash="95abc6c64fe137e76a32435cf7315ae1" tag="lsd drugs alberthoffman" time="2006-01-17T12:07:54Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5464505634137914176" description="The US version of 'Wife Swap&quot; features a woman called Margaret who at the end of one episode slightly freaks out" extended="Protesting about the ungodliness of the home she'd been visiting, she loses her mind in front of the cameras ranting about Darksiders and the devil. Watch to the end of this terrifying piece of Google Video for the pay off. If you can..." hash="545c59fd3514f5d1d2b1e8f0402c1864" tag="wifeswap christianity scaryladies eek funny terrifying" time="2006-01-16T22:31:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/534887/celeb-bbs-chantelle-offered-role-travelodge-ad-campaign/" description="Chantelle from Celebrity Big Brother offered role in Travelodge ad campaign" extended="Best line ever - Greg Dawson, a spokesman for Travelodge, told The Sun: &quot;Travelodge rooms cost from a tenner a night. That's a down-to-earth price that Chantelle's image would communicate brilliantly.&quot;" hash="55ea8ba840e6e3fa23d93eaadabc44b6" tag="celebritybigbrother chantelle funny humour" time="2006-01-16T22:04:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.yardley.ca/blog/index.php/archives/2006/01/11/yahoo-announces-acquisition-of-company-before-its-foundation" description="&quot;Yahoo! Announces Acquisition of Company Before Its Foundation&quot;" extended="Nice parody! It's a parody right? &quot;Yahoo saw the possibilities in the company I was thinking about building while waiting to get into a World of Warcraft battleground.&quot; Is this what happened to me?" hash="d4ff775a62497b9bb391317eb40b151d" tag="yahoo acquisition web2.0 bubble bubble2.0 worldofwarcraft funny parody" time="2006-01-16T21:53:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mobilecommunitydesign.com/archives/000152.php" description="Mobile Community Design address what they perceive as bad design points in the iPod" extended="I've read what they say a couple of times, and I'm really not that impressed. Most of the suggested improvements seem to me to be profoundly misguided, and the reinterpretation of design history and suggestion that Apple gets by on cool... Don't buy it." hash="602158cc6a8002ffefa2b0cb14d7277b" tag="apple ipod" time="2006-01-16T21:51:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4609968.stm" description="Bill Thompson declares that Mac users are 'too smug' over security, and you know what - for once I agree with him..." extended="But on the other hand, if - as he suggests - Macs are much safer against viruses and the like, then he should also be declaring Windows users irresponsible for using such a vulnerable OS in the first place." hash="a71f08930ad4ec1345cfdf6629738ce6" tag="billthompson mac apple viruses software" time="2006-01-16T21:42:07Z" />
  <post href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/dig/" description="Tim Berners-Lee is currently working for the rather awesomely named &quot;Decentralized Information Group&quot;" extended="&quot;The Decentralized Information Group explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments.&quot;" hash="72b1097e0908de429d1ee2946a2c3fce" tag="dig mit timbernerslee" time="2006-01-16T17:04:50Z" />
  <post href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/38" description="Tim Berners-Lee has started a weblog" extended="He doesn't sound enormously thrilled about it, I have to say. Probably it's a bit of a disappointment after all these years of inventing things." hash="5f02b09f8ed679583843264733c31fa8" tag="weblog blogs timbernerslee" time="2006-01-16T17:03:33Z" />
  <post href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,1683902,00.html" description="Laura Craik talks about how Brokeback Mountain is soft porn for girls" extended="I'm kind of delighted that she feels this way, although how she got more titillation from it than I did escapes me. Maybe I got too caught up in the plot or something. Who knew women could be more shallow than gay men!?" hash="eaa8efdbe711d0c867ee15a45e3fef38" tag="brokebackmountain" time="2006-01-16T16:54:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/index.php" description="The Million Dollar Homepage has sold every single bloody pixel" extended="Some of them are being resold by rather unscrupulous people, but what the hey. Obviously you have to hate the person concerned because he thought of it and you didn't. I can't imagine what good Googlejuice people get from this..." hash="fb15fe5564acf7ad4798cb94dde0e96e" tag="milliondollarhomepage google yahoo advertising" time="2006-01-16T16:45:04Z" />
  <post href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-something-beautiful/" description="Is Flock dead already?" extended="Fascinated to see such a melodramatic post from the creators of the Flock social browser, and also really interested to know whether they're pushing the concept further or moving in a different direction..." hash="42b10606b03a011899c0a016591bfa05" tag="flock socialsoftware socialmedia socialbrowser application" time="2006-01-15T21:24:02Z" />
  <post href="http://businesslogs.com/technology/iwebgenerated_source_code_is_awful.php" description="&quot;iWeb-Generated Source Code is Awful&quot;" extended="Hm. This is an enormous shame, but not an enormous shock - Apple have had considerable trouble working out how to operate effectively with the web, and this doesn't seem like an exception..." hash="861d292d78a8e72a393bb3201c43b64b" tag="iWeb apple blog weblogs blogs iLife" time="2006-01-15T21:21:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid23486.asp" description="Annie Proulx talks about how she came to write 'Brokeback Mountain' and what she thinks of the film" extended="It's a lovely article and fascinating - although frankly I'd read anything about Brokeback Mountain at the moment - it generated such an incredible resonance in me..." hash="2ec27748326586373940782cf75bfd0b" tag="annieproulx brokebackmountain writing" time="2006-01-15T21:20:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/01/14/sign-up-to-support-the-open-rights-group/#comments" description="The UK's &quot;Open Rights Group&quot; is now taking donations to support its work to protect digital rights..." extended="I should add a bit of a disclaimer on this one, in that I've agreed to become one of the ORG's (unpaid) advisors. But still, I've donated my cash and I'm expecting all of you lot to do so as well..." hash="6e5d7d032fbfde17be2f98a7c8665d69" tag="openrightsgroup rights digitalrights campaigninggroups politics intellectualproperty" time="2006-01-15T21:16:28Z" />
  <post href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1680381,00.html" description="Charlie Brooker compensates for all the positive reviews of King Kong with a critique of its hyperbolae..." extended="&quot;His bowels emptied, Kong plucks the planet Jupiter out of the sky and swallows it for no reason, while fighting 15 giant crocodiles. And a robot. And a pig.&quot; Great review. Even if you disagree." hash="e27484b37052e46b4d0e3734b9949244" tag="kingkong charliebrooker guardian film review movies funny entertaining" time="2006-01-15T21:14:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timeout.com/london/" description="Time Out London's website appears to have increased in quality dramatically over the last few months" extended="And now the site has all of the Time Out Film Guide's reviews on it as well. I'm not sure it's the most beautiful site in the world, but it's certainly now one of the most useful for Londoners..." hash="cb5209fdefafccab8efb31f50fcee48f" tag="timeout london publishing magazines reviews films movies" time="2006-01-15T21:09:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html" description="A New Scientist article describes the hyperspace work of Burkhard Heim that the Scotsman picked up on last week" extended="It's a more sober article than perhaps I was expecting, which points out the absence of peer review and the obscurantist qualities of Heim's thinking. Maybe there's something here after all. It would be awesome if there was, obviously..." hash="299967680295a05ebca07943170eca88" tag="burkhardheim newscientist spacetravel quantumphysics relativity" time="2006-01-15T11:22:04Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046393742348211186" description="Google Video has a clip of The Worlds Largest Nuke Explosion from The Discovery Channel" extended="The creepy bit is when it displays the effect it would have on London - with the city itself erased in the first blast and everything up to the M25 (and a way beyond) destroyed in a fireball..." hash="1d3067a04f0be74f4e4f78b60373adb4" tag="nuclearweapons explosion discoverychannel googlevideo" time="2006-01-14T21:16:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4608082.stm" description="George Galloway pretends to be a cat on Celebrity Big Brother" extended="I saw this last night on television and there was something altogether dirty about it. This middle aged man role-playing with a motherly actress. You couldn't help but get the impression he (they!) enjoyed it too much." hash="1d5423cc0be10d2cc17a9deb5c06039d" tag="georgegalloway furries celebritybigbrother bigbrother television politics uk respectparty" time="2006-01-13T13:52:26Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4608882.stm" description="&quot;Apple has been criticised over a new version of its iTunes program that can keep track of a user's listening habits.&quot;" extended="So whatever the rights and wrongs of the whole situation, it's pretty clear that the PR effect has been far from positive. Apple, look to last.fm! There's a whole world of the future hidden in that little site..." hash="ec111d856906099e5babcb7534cfcfea" tag="lastfm data privacy recommendations navigation apple itunes future" time="2006-01-13T13:49:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.speeddater.co.uk/event_query.cfm?eventid=6356&amp;safetyID=80524956&amp;CFID=3909380&amp;CFTOKEN=484e7fd6afa44456-C0B962BE-E081-2C1D-C0E7E187C97D8C80" description="London Gay Speed-dating in Turnmills" extended="So a couple of my straight friends have just decided that I need to go on a speed-dating evening in Turnmills in a few weeks time. I have no idea what I think about this whole thing. Votes from the floor?" hash="190ab6834ccbf062ffae8404c3325d8f" tag="gay speeddating relationship sexuality london dating weird funny scary odd" time="2006-01-13T13:44:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4605756.stm" description="&quot;Music giant Sony is launching a venture aimed at promoting talented gay and lesbian recording artists.&quot;" extended="What a strange move. I suppose it makes some sense to have a team surrounding gay artists that can understand the issues that they might be confronted with, but at the same time it does smack a bit of ghettoisation. I'll be following this..." hash="5e70f45b7dacddaf1c5e782ebfb74465" tag="sony gay music radio pop lesbian artists homophobia ghetto" time="2006-01-13T13:43:37Z" />
  <post href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-mac-tech-support&amp;t=14711&amp;p=1&amp;tmp=1#post14711" description="World of Warcraft 1.9.3 will support Intel-powered Macs" extended="Well that's another thing ticked off my list of reasons not to go out and buy a new iMac then..." hash="9f2f339c9c427a07ba27401a9f4bcfa5" tag="intel mac apple imac wow worldofwarcraft" time="2006-01-12T12:52:25Z" />
  <post href="http://bigdaddymerk.co.uk/mailwatch/mwvote/" description="Vote for the Daily Mail ludicrous headline of the year!" extended="More entertaining / scary than you can possibly imagine. It's almost a hard process working out and analysing exactly which headline was most scurrilous and damaging..." hash="3e49666abf061600df5c1bf7503744f5" tag="dailymail mailwatch newspapers rightwing headlines funny quiz poll" time="2006-01-12T12:51:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/correcting_the_recor.html" description="Cory Doctorow details another fight he's had with Andrew Orlowski, and runs through how different it is to a fight he had with Wikipedia" extended="It's an interesting article that again explores Orlowski's continued journalistic license and the hypocrisy of many of his attacks on Wikipedia." hash="f7bba275b2884ae1678b2fd48dc871c9" tag="wikipedia andreworlowski corydoctorow journalism" time="2006-01-12T12:12:07Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4446981554735098778" description="Internet is for porn (World of Warcraft edition)" extended="I first heard this song in a car in Los Angeles from a friend of a friend who was doing a doctorate on technology and the porn industry. This version has a World of Warcraft video full of dancing moo cows and trolls. Awesome." hash="7397ac8e2a4a08bc8409347dbba28bb2" tag="funny video worldorwarcraft machinema parody music song" time="2006-01-12T00:41:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mises.org/story/2007" description="The Bureaucrat in Your Shower" extended="Fascinating little article with a bit of a Libertarian perspective about how the US government stops Americans having proper showers like they had when they were kids..." hash="e44faba9927e6ed1cfb4cdefa0cb64bd" tag="america showers water conservation libertarianism politics funny" time="2006-01-12T00:38:55Z" />
  <post href="http://beta.cergis.com/george/" description="Get back to work, George Galloway!" extended="&quot;As Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway MP earns an annual basic salary of £61,708. Paid by you, the British taxpayer.&quot;" hash="11645fd877eacc51c3fd86fe2ea2f892" tag="mp politics georgegalloway bigbrother celebritybigbrother television" time="2006-01-11T09:17:39Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4583924.stm" description="Totally random BBC news article about rebuilding the Newsnight set in Second Life" extended="I completely missed this, and I can't believe i missed it. It's so gutting. I bet it was awesome. Does anyone have a clip?" hash="20602b2fc91f6e23e2569c63a9cd3ae7" tag="bbc jeremypaxman newsnight secondlife mmorpg" time="2006-01-10T16:45:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1651047,00.html" description="&quot;Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson finds that putting his work online has invited a deluge of less than flattering correspondence&quot;" extended="I think the one thing I like most about real world people moving onto the internet is how much they have to deal with the same crap as the rest of us - nutty people leaving abusive comments, flame wars and the like." hash="e2a841cf58ccc25162e20e1891785e35" tag="flames martinrowson publishing community" time="2006-01-10T16:38:05Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4595228.stm" description="Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?" extended="Interesting BBC article on the history of the Menzies / Mingis name and why it is pronounced the way it is. Good bit of history and linguistics stuff with a nice sideline in the impact of new technologies (ie. printing press)" hash="66853fd111b1dea9b71f8860475c24b1" tag="names etymology linguistics menziescampbell" time="2006-01-10T16:34:22Z" />
  <post href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/01/09#welcomeToTheLongRun" description="Doc Searls writes a really interesting post about DRM, but it's one that I need to respond to in detail" extended="Someone really needs to explain to the wider web about the rights situations inside most large organisations and how they really have legal obligations at the moment to support things like DRM. It's not good, but it's true..." hash="348be15f69ccb53f02af68010b6649fa" tag="drm docsearls google" time="2006-01-10T16:32:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.celestron.com/skyscout/hp_land.php" description="SkyScout - awesome device that identifies celestial objects that you use like a telescope" extended="I so want to get one of these, but it's kind of pointless given that I live in London and can't even see any stars most of the time. The sky is a perpetual red horror of light polution. I miss the countryside..." hash="c840e441b71f0d2a0c678f5e27073f43" tag="astronomy technology science stars telescopes" time="2006-01-10T16:29:27Z" />
  <post href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~cs97/social_facts/" description="Social Facts - the course notes for Clay Shirky's teaching around social software and group formation" extended="I've not had time to really interrogate this yet, but I really really need to and want to. God if only I had more time in my day to get my head around things..." hash="32067cc035db721aa92f0da88108e3d3" tag="socialsoftware clayshirky" time="2006-01-10T16:26:01Z" />
  <post href="http://wiki.playagaingames.com/tiki-index.php?page=MonopolyHomeRules" description="Alternative Monopoly rules put an entirely different perspective on the game!" extended="Monopoly hacks to make the games more interesting. I love the idea of joining together two boards to make a figure of eight..." hash="40e27834c6d8a375d288aaee0130f0ca" tag="monopoly games gaming rules fun" time="2006-01-10T16:22:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.caymag.com/index.php/proteggi-culo-dainese-per-snowboarder.html" description="So I don't understand how this underwear works or even which way you wear it, but it looks terribly exciting..." extended="It's for snowboarding in, apparently, but it's difficult to tell whether it's padded, armoured or has dedicated hatches for personal releases. I can't even tell if this is the front or the back..." hash="fc124222a7f3cebe1dc40d4046483484" tag="snowboarding underwear weird" time="2006-01-10T16:06:23Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4594508.stm" description="The BBC ask what people should call Menzies Campbell's supporters..." extended="Given that his name is shortened to 'Ming', then they're suggesting Mingnons, Mongos and - the obvious but entertaining - Mingers..." hash="94fdc8bbbb26ec38c0c1f0cff66b996c" tag="ming menziescampbell politics funny humour" time="2006-01-10T16:04:05Z" />
  <post href="http://newsdesigner.com/blog/" description="Newsdesigner talks about the work on the Observer redesign that launched on Sunday" extended="I missed it, which is the most unfortunate thing. Matt Webb says it's a pretty solid piece of work. Looking forward to exploring it properly this coming weekend." hash="31c8ae0fa7cab917376a685bdcd693da" tag="observer newspaper typography design" time="2006-01-10T15:58:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/rootofevil.html" description="Channel 4's two-part series, &quot;Root of Evil&quot; sees Richard Dawkins talk about his understanding of the dangers of religious thinking" extended="I'm watching the show and - as usual - I'm stunned by what I see as the credulity of religious people in defiance of all reason. But I'm also noticing that Dawkins is not a sympathetic character, his rationality manifesting quite aggressively..." hash="0c2b67bf09f7b5c08f11b2f8d4fc80ac" tag="richarddawkins evolution creationism atheism christianity television channel4" time="2006-01-10T00:23:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2006/01/exclusive_apple_plasma_displays_to_rock_mwsf.html" description="The weirdest Apple rumour going around at the moment is HDTVs with LCD remote controls and built in OSX running on Intel" extended="Interested to see if it's true, obviously. Not going to stake the farm on it - but I have heard it from a friend in the industry as well, who was flailing around trying to find sources to support it..." hash="560527f8d123e240a39f45a9ac665b0c" tag="apple rumours macworld keynote stevejobs HDTV mac" time="2006-01-08T11:15:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060105230546.shtml" description="Mac Rumors do their rumour round-up before MacWorld on Tuesday..." extended="They don't know bloody anything this year! Or at least, I'm hoping they don't - because the stuff they're talking about at first impressions is all a bit meh... I'm hoping for Apple Home Entertainment Appliance stuff..." hash="8218c94390c33d583452932799a00ec9" tag="apple mac stevejobs keynote homeentertainment rumours" time="2006-01-08T00:43:09Z" />
  <post href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1677772,00.html" description="Behind the magic curtain - how Steve Jobs prepares for the Apple keynotes..." extended="Mike Evangelist reveals how the keynotes work. What's really interesting for me here is how much of this stuff is organised around demanding top-down management. God knows what it's like to work with Jobs..." hash="4e68a50ff2d09ef381894d44604d9fc0" tag="stevejobs apple mac keynotes presentations management" time="2006-01-06T16:18:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.barbelith.com/topic/23265" description="Barbelith discuss &quot;Brokeback Mountain&quot;" extended="And they do so with a characteristically entertaining title, &quot;The Cowboy who went up a mountain and came down a gay man&quot;. Charming..." hash="af0694fa8eeb44900fb7d7c9d0bf774c" tag="gay brokebackmountain movies film barbelith humour" time="2006-01-06T16:17:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.podzinger.com/" description="Podzinger makes podcasts searchable by performing speech recognition upon them..." extended="Media analysis is only one of the three ways you can accrete metadata around a media object. Also worth considering - production metadata and post-release public annotation..." hash="901120b1d19bcfb077c79870d2d17ceb" tag="annotation speechrecognition medianavigation discovery navigation podcasts podcasting audio" time="2006-01-06T16:15:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1680257,00.html" description="The Guardian reports on the attempts to work out the feline evolutionary family tree..." extended="Cats appear to be everywhere - from the top of mountains to the toughest and hottest deserts on the planet. The first domestication? 12,000 years ago. The first identifiable breeds? Only a few hundred years..." hash="36a6601df21e3df7fb1a4849a557219f" tag="cats felines science evolution guardian lions domestication" time="2006-01-06T16:12:04Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4585530.stm" description="Best news in ages: Jon Stewart is to present this year's Oscars. He rocks." extended="It's just a shame it's always on in the middle of the bloody night in the UK. I always doze off at the wrong moments, ten minutes from the Best Picture gong..." hash="a17d8ad4e4456fde443ca08f2f4be64b" tag="jonstewart comedy movies film oscars academyawards" time="2006-01-06T12:26:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=958" description="Adam Greenfield ships Everyware, now available on Amazon pre-order..." extended="I get a thanks on his post on the subject, which I'm not sure I deserve, but hey. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of this - albeit with that dread that it'll be great in which case I'll be jealous or that it'll be terrible in which case" hash="ee48026eea509110e8fe9a888d8b5266" tag="adamgreenfield everyware pervasivecomputing ubiquitouscomputing ubicomp book amazon" time="2006-01-06T12:00:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006" description="The Scotsman reports that the US Government are exploring an area of physics that could result in practical faster than light travel..." extended="There's remarkably little about this news story on Google News or elsewhere, and I have to say that I'm not sure I trust The Scotsman as a source for science stories. But still, it's a fascinating story..." hash="c7291f360c1a27278147b38b612460cc" tag="hyperspace science usa america government sciencefiction warpdrive magneticfields potentialmyth hokum?" time="2006-01-06T11:08:18Z" />
  <post href="http://expialidocio.us/" description="expialidocio.us is a flash interface for viewing your personal del.icio.us tagcloud for any given period of time" extended="It kind of choked on the sheer number of tags I have, but still pretty cool. What I really want to see is a Flickr-style top 50 tags but animated over time, so I can see new words appearing and disappearing in response to news stories and my interests..." hash="3b2c98941e9047b7f6ce97701f794ede" tag="tags folksonomies fauxonomy fauxonomies del.icio.us delicious" time="2006-01-06T10:54:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&amp;contentid=17278&amp;countrycode=2057&amp;yearcode=&amp;archive=false" description="New Lego Mindstorm products works with Macs, has sensors and Bluetooth stuff..." extended="Co-worker Simon Willison is dribbling over this as I type. Cal - if he hasn't seen it already - will die immediately if he doesn't get his hands on it. Webb will scratch at his skin to get a set..." hash="48e6cb82f0eaca44996d549e5f076131" tag="lego legomindstorm mindstorm bluetooth game toy" time="2006-01-05T12:05:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2006/01/new_musical_exp.html" description="Dan Hill on &quot;New Musical Experiences&quot;" extended="Dear God, I only wish I had the time to read this all the way through. It really looks like an abridged version of a book than a weblog post. Probably a book I'd like to read. About design? Wow. Sigh. Whatever happened to our attention spans..." hash="2f826541ccbfcc33793181d49274ca04" tag="danhill music newmusicalexperiences packaging design" time="2006-01-05T00:46:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.slate.com/id/2133551/?nav=navoa" description="Slate's astonishingly weird piece on Germany and 'Dinner for One'" extended="'British TV executives see it as fit only for foreigners, or they would rush to broadcast it themselves. Why Germany finds it so funny and the British don't is, according to Der Spiegel's Sebastian Knauer, &quot;one of the last unsolved questions of European i" hash="6c067d8f97d910ab6ca31c0ad00a8dc2" tag="dinnerforone tv newyear germany europe television bbc" time="2006-01-05T00:30:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966086.htm" description="The Patent Epidemic from Business Week" extended="One of the weirdest things I've had to get my head around over the last couple of months is the US patent culture. There's no patents for software in Europe yet, so it's been a total culture shock..." hash="b738102c9f295aef1e6851afe68e755a" tag="patents business" time="2006-01-04T23:58:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hbo.com/rome/cast/character/titus_pullo.html" description="Current favourite character in all drama: Titus Pullo" extended="Probably just toppling Doctor Jack from that Lost TV series. I believe the term is something like 'silver fox' or something. Dodgy tough old boots grey-headed soft-hearted tough old grumpy bastards. Cough." hash="7cf4aa6197a8bb1c810dd18e5ba8b9e0" tag="tituspullo hotmen foxy rowf silverfox" time="2006-01-04T22:19:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/lushlush/190093.html" description="What's the deal with the self-referential sign...?" extended="A sign that warns you about itself? That sounds like Banksy to me, but it can't be - surely? Speaking of which I saw another weird traffic cone orb in London yesterday. I wonder if it was him..." hash="85ff251ffc7dad9bc93a7a45f364ec3d" tag="banksy prank design sign funny humour parody alarming" time="2006-01-04T17:23:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.extratasty.com/" description="My favourite new Social Software enterprise is the beautiful and well-developed extratasty.com!" extended="For sheer class, check out the submit a recipe page - all the ingredients come from a controlled vocabulary, are translated automatically into tags, and it even writes the recipe for you as you submit each component. Plus you can register on the creation" hash="0e457218e9069733b6ad7497a6ea9ade" tag="socialsoftware cocktails drinks alcohol booze tags folksonomies fauxonomies fauxonomy controlledvocabulary design interface threadless classy" time="2006-01-04T17:17:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/webcomments/index.html" description="Blogger Web Comments for Firefox" extended="The most interesting thing about this is how the weblog is becoming the default platform for pretty much everything and individual expresses online. Why would you use a dedicated web annotation service when you can just integrate it into your site?" hash="11c387b5a6b545a7dac9ad45aaf4ed48" tag="weblog blogger weblogs firefox webcomments annotation webannotation plugin" time="2006-01-04T16:44:29Z" />
  <post href="http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf" description="Allegedly psychic Flash game works out what number you were thinking of..." extended="Or at least so it seems for about the first three minutes you play with it. Have a couple of goes and then see if you can figure out how it's done. There's at least one ingenious twist in the whole thing..." hash="cbcd983546b6dfe8bfde7b11790fc1a8" tag="flash game psychic brainteaser interesting entertainment mind mindhacks play humour astrology mindreading" time="2006-01-04T16:40:14Z" />
  <post href="http://technoranki.com/" description="Technoranki - a weblog ranking and authority service" extended="I have no idea whether this is any good or not as a service, except that it seems to be being used by the BritBlogs people for their charts at the moment. Anyone got any experience or thougts about it?" hash="fc13c461be2bd039553f69c24dd75639" tag="technoranki api webservices weblogs blogs technorati ranking reputation" time="2006-01-04T16:29:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/hidden_virtual_world_prison_revealed/" description="Weirdest moderation technique ever - Second Life griefers are sent to 'The Cornfield'" extended="If you misbehave a fair amount you are sent to this weird environment with only a slow tractor, lots of corn and a depressing film playing in black and white on an old TV for company. The big question is whether or not curious people will act up to see th" hash="85806b2de01287b2aa889f7ca8b33fad" tag="cornfield secondlife moderation everythinginmoderation griefer avatar game mmorpg" time="2006-01-04T16:28:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stokke.com/product.asp?p=Xplory&amp;la=EN&amp;na=UK&amp;div=C" description="The Stokke Xplory series of prams and pushchairs elevate children so they can see what's going on around them..." extended="They look beautiful, but they also look really unstable to me - almost dangerous. I'm intrigued by the height question too - is it useful for children to be elevated, or should they be getting familiar with the way the world looks at their height?" hash="fb26ac1fa534ae9c0f7dcd3bbe744439" tag="children strollers buggies prams pushchairs stokke xplory infants kids" time="2006-01-04T15:58:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bodytag.org/" description="Bodytag - a glorious selection of explorations in web programming, visualisation and play" extended="Mr Willison, co-worker extraordinaire, introduced me to this cornocopia of beautiful fragments of insight and play. Very very classy indeed. Yay the web!" hash="2a4ccc7b5f1c9935812bc86e2dd79164" tag="play bodytag java flash experiments design art illustration beautiful" time="2006-01-04T15:55:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-dec29-05.html#wikipedia" description="Weinberger writes a really interesting and solid piece on why (and how) the Media gets Wikipedia wrong so often..." extended="&quot;Jimmy has been all over the news telling people that Wikipedia is not yet as reliable as the Britannica, that students shouldn't cite it, that you should take every article with a grain of salt.&quot;" hash="fc467bc918dc2474afada5506aaa7c16" tag="wikipedia davidweinberger socialsoftware collaboration collaborativecreation" time="2006-01-04T15:53:43Z" />
  <post href="http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/" description="Retrievr allows you to draw sketches in an MS Paint style and then find similar Flickr photos..." extended="It looks like they've gone and done some analysis on some of Flickr's most interesting pictures to try and match them up. If you play with blocks of colour you get some really nice and occasionally startling results..." hash="d252c6b731caaa91f258caa27be3bdaf" tag="retrievr api flickr draw photography photographs navigation analysis" time="2006-01-04T15:39:26Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4580002.stm" description="Ricky Gervais and Matt Groening have a little love-in as Gervais completes his first full Simpsons episode..." extended="&quot;The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said Ricky Gervais did such a good job writing an episode of the hit US comedy show that he wants him to do more.&quot;" hash="fe5bd0f525e669a1b6a8a3ad979bf505" tag="thesimpsons simpsons tv mattgroening rickygervais comedy television" time="2006-01-04T15:31:03Z" />
  <post href="http://recoil.org/~avsm/wow-remash.gif" description="World of Warcraft remix of Lord of the Rings..." extended="Particularly guffawing at the LFG, rez, aggro and breath jokes. No one who isn't familiar with WoW will have the slightest idea why it's entertaining..." hash="0370236adb1c77fc2a64caaed0d08335" tag="humour worldofwarcraft funny game" time="2006-01-03T23:09:21Z" />
  <post href="http://2006.bloggies.com/" description="It's January, so it must be time for the Bloggie nominations!" extended="The only weblog awards thing that I ever participate in, the Bloggies are voted for by the community itself and have been going almost as long as my weblog! Try and celebrate the more obscure sites this year!" hash="0e47f7d97df7ca9978e08eb009fb1346" tag="weblogs awards bloggies fairvue nikolainolan" time="2006-01-03T16:01:32Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/momorgan/75736704/in/photostream/" description="Mr Morgan cut all his hair off!" extended="This is almost certainly of limited interest to those of you who don't know early UK weblogger and notable grumpy bugger Mo Morgan. But for those who do know him, woyzer!" hash="0344e03edf33aa7af4c618394da84fe7" tag="hair momorgan" time="2006-01-01T21:37:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suw/sets/1533191/" description="A Flickr photoset of the notes taken during the inaugural ORG meeting, designed to try and capture the major issues that people felt about digital rights..." extended="Named, &quot;Digital Rights in the UK: Your Rights, Your Issues&quot;, this gets to the heart of many of the core issues that people are worried about w/r/t digital rights, although I'm sure there are more. Probably worth annotating for clarity?" hash="86c13230e2dfbc0720b9e31bb31c1014" tag="flickr photoset ORG openrightsgroup digitalrights drm identity" time="2005-12-21T13:15:04Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4540226.stm" description="'Gay weddings' first for Belfast" extended="&quot;Two women, Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close, exchanged vows at Belfast City Hall, followed by a gay couple and another lesbian couple.&quot; Lovely. And about time, frankly." hash="6fae68a62d56b429c6fe7f55560a6c15" tag="gayweddings marriage civilunions belfast lesbolians lesbians" time="2005-12-21T13:10:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/18/GOOGLE.TMP" description="&quot;How Google woos the best and brightest&quot;" extended="One thing occurs to me is that such structures should either be well known, or kept very secret. All recruitment seems to be a gameable system. Ideally they should be well-known, so that everyone has equal access to the cheats..." hash="f0b786f78628f58d4b2476e51912fcd3" tag="google recruitment humanresources employment weird gameablesystems games" time="2005-12-21T13:05:36Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frey" description="Wikipedia has an awesome article on Freyr full of enticingly obvious symbolism!" extended="&quot;The most important Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the giantess Gerðr. Eventually she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his magical sword.&quot;" hash="f5f0917af11f64d3d8bc65b9dc1101ec" tag="Freyr norse mythology religion christianity christmastrees" time="2005-12-21T13:02:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flyingfists.org/archives/003113.html#003113" description="An awesome post by a Barbelite colleague on &quot;Christmas Trees and the God of Yule&quot;" extended="I bloody loved reading this - it's all about Freyr, a Norse god of fertility, one of whose symbols was the Christmas tree - within which each Winter he would be reborn. This is way more fun and spiritually satisfying than Christianity!" hash="a8b939e75587324943c813d794c9f48d" tag="christianity religion frey norse christmas christmastrees" time="2005-12-21T12:59:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fabiosirna.com/journal/39/diy-paper-bookmarks" description="DIY Paper bookmarks" extended="This has been all around the web, but still - it's a neat and simple idea. Printable corners that you can stick on books to keep your place or to annotate the content at that point. Annotation is everywhere." hash="f38969cd9a71c8d6640b5584fb5727fa" tag="annotation bookmarks paper origami books reading hacks nice" time="2005-12-21T12:51:19Z" />
  <post href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_epeus_archive.html#113507038298648131" description="Kevin Marks explodes Susan Cheever's ludicrous take on the copying of digital artifacts..." extended="&quot;It's a strange experience to see your own property so appreciated. It's disorienting and beguiling. You've been quoted. That's how it feels when something of yours suddenly appears in cyberspace...&quot;" hash="c2a0add8defecc7ffffc47eab2b44ed0" tag="drm rights copying digital replication filesharing" time="2005-12-21T12:46:24Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115806.stm" description="&quot;One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows&quot;" extended="And the Odeon website is explicitly named again! That must be years now after they were first taken to task for it. They've made some improvements it's true, but how long will it take for them to realise that it needs root-and-branch rebuilding?" hash="352506e1e2e53af8b8de7f6db6f012ed" tag="firefox uk browsers web websites odeon accessibility webstandards" time="2005-12-21T12:42:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4545822.stm" description="A court in the Pennsylvanian town of Dover has declared it unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design in the town's schools..." extended="I think my favourite comment about the whole thing comes from Pat Robertson who said that the move risked provoking the wratch of God - despite the ID prononent's assertion that it wasn't a religious theory..." hash="4fa0a5097e6f5a528637863cb8cca6bf" tag="religion christianity inteligentdesign theology evolution school teaching pennsylvania america" time="2005-12-21T12:28:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0" description="Saturday Night Live's &quot;The Chronic of Narnia Rap&quot;" extended="This one's really spreading - I heard about it on a mailing list from a friend in the US about six hours before Cal sent me the URL. I'm guessing it'll have eaten the internet by Thursday." hash="8b90512c5980caa02b9f0ddf2363d21e" tag="snl saturdaynightlive tv parody narnia rap funny humour" time="2005-12-20T20:25:20Z" />
  <post href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/COMMENTARY/512180302" description="Roger Ebert describes his best 10 Movies of 2005, and mentions a whole lot of other films that nearly made the list or deserved a mention" extended="It's a fascinating group of pictures. I can't quite fathom why everyone in the US was so taken with Crash - it didn't work so well for me, and I don't think it did enormously well in the UK box office. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Lots of films I haven't" hash="114254abf008fcc22754d88fc3da625f" tag="rogerebert movies films cinema 2005 bestfilms bestmovies" time="2005-12-20T16:28:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.suprnova.org/?op=showLong&amp;aID=80" description="The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago..." extended="He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also seems like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next." hash="03577287208b2ac564f92e879c915162" tag="suprnova torrent bittorrent torrents television tv distribution mediadistribution downloads" time="2005-12-20T16:26:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/internet_growth.html" description="One Billion Internet Users (from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)" extended="&quot;Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, w" hash="507306eefa344deecce5c18ec91d3384" tag="jakobnielsen usability internet web internationalisation world business computing" time="2005-12-20T16:20:53Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4536990.stm" description="John Spencer, who played The West Wing's Leo McGarry, has died aged of 58" extended="God, what terrible news. I'm astonished that he was only 58 - he looked ten years old at least. HIt turns out that he was younger than my stepfather." hash="83b91aeabc520759717e768d55ab1868" tag="johnspencer obituary death westwing television leomcgarry" time="2005-12-17T16:11:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm" description="Wikipedia survives research test" extended="&quot;The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.&quot;" hash="a5a9dec0d6767fb86676fddac9676466" tag="wikipedia encyclopaedia science study news reliability socialsoftware collabroation" time="2005-12-15T18:52:50Z" />
  <post href="http://websearch.alexa.com/welcome.html" description="Alexa Web Search Platform" extended="&quot;The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools.&quot;" hash="62001e105a55ddab4445dac43f9c0cd8" tag="alexa webservices internet web2.0" time="2005-12-13T17:44:01Z" />
  <post href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10415455/site/newsweek/" description="Hotwiring Your Search Engine" extended="Repulsive SEOs wallow in their own crapulence over on Newsweek, happy to ignore the evidence that search engine position based on lies is always going to be under attack from search engines eager to reduce spam." hash="617c96851d174abc9e710260fbf00cd9" tag="seo searchengineoptimisation arseholes bottomfeeders scum" time="2005-12-12T23:28:51Z" />
  <post href="http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&amp;storyID=uri:2005-12-12T051918Z_01_FOR219060_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-YAHOO-BLOGS.xml&amp;pageNumber=0&amp;summit=" description="Yahoo! offers Movable Type as part of its offering for small professional outfits" extended="&quot;Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type for small business users, taking advantage of its scale and efficiency, Anil Dash, vice president of professional products for San Francisco-based Six Apart, said in a phone interview.&quot;" hash="949e1c2a15bf4bb3a5135bcca7020e57" tag="movabletype sixapart anildash yahoo socialsoftware weblogs blogs business" time="2005-12-12T23:04:23Z" />
  <post href="http://openomy.com/" description="Openomy - an online file-system with tags" extended="Haven't had a play with this yet, but I'm intrigued by the idea of enhancing the very idea of online storage in various ways. Bears further investigation..." hash="ceb124cf400b1b84f3a19e42b81921c3" tag="socialsoftware socialfilesystem filesystem onlinefilesystem openomy" time="2005-12-12T20:06:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkphotos/" description="Punk photographer Andy Rosen has signed up for Flickr and is starting to post his private collection..." extended="Astonishing stuff - and apparently confirmed by various people around the place. Mass amateurisation goes both ways, as professionals start to take advantage of the more innovative tools of the little guys..." hash="098ca67d972729fc7c0be2fa0fa939c6" tag="photography punk flickr massamateurisation andyrosen" time="2005-12-12T19:57:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.slackermanager.com/slacker_manager/2005/12/the_several_hab.html" description="The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users" extended="I know pretty much all of this stuff, but del.icio.us can have a bit of a learning curve for new users. It's generally worth it in the end though. Explore away!" hash="3d4bccf920b141c4b77b6ecf725e6408" tag="delicious del.icio.us socialsoftware socialmedia web2.0" time="2005-12-12T18:59:47Z" />
  <post href="http://web2.wsj2.com/the_best_web_20_software_of_2005.htm" description="The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005" extended="I'm not buying the Web 2.0 = web app concept as such, but this is still a pretty solid list of good web apps out there and hence (at the very least) pretty much a place to find the gold standard to get inspired by..." hash="1d52a9a428eb92ac36118dfdb7ccb219" tag="web2.0 socialsoftware webapp del.icio.us flickr" time="2005-12-12T18:52:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/brokebackmountain" description="Another film I'm looking forward to a lot - Brokeback Mountain" extended="89 out of 100 for a gay cowboy movie. It's difficult to see anything here that's not worth investigating in greater depth..." hash="cff58e172b70923b9fc057c7ba5fe5d9" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-12-09T03:51:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/lionthewitchandthewardrobe" description="Metacritic reviews The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - and likes it!" extended="I've fallen over with a revolting stomach bug overnight and feel like crap, but I'm still completely looking forward to the Narnia film and King Kong. Maybe I can persuade Cal to go too..." hash="5aea4bf789eabcb25ec8b1ab72dbecb4" tag="narnia thelionthewitchandthewardrobe film movie review" time="2005-12-09T03:45:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.consumating.com/about/news/entries/2" description="Consumating.com gets bought by CNET" extended="There really does seem to be a bit of an explosion of really early-stage acquisitions going on around the place at the moment. It's interesting..." hash="301f587f0582f28deca471268a417d1b" tag="dating tags acquisitions technology" time="2005-12-07T23:06:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.meetwithapproval.com/" description="MeetWithApproval.com - &quot;Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone &amp; keep track of who is coming.&quot;" extended="This is a lovely piece of kit - pretty easy to assemble, but really elegant. This would be a charming component of a larger social calendaring enterprise." hash="d2bff3646e407f4150651ed393f808ee" tag="meetings socialsoftware events calendar upcoming" time="2005-12-07T23:05:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/24/product.shtml" description="The BBC has investigated the product placement claims I linked to a few days ago..." extended="&quot;The investigation found that ... where products had been sourced for free, this was done in accordance with the BBC's guidelines. However, the investigation found ... there were instances of product prominence that were not editorially justified...&quot;" hash="196d6a3674f3621970093b7beb67d67f" tag="bbc productplacement advertising" time="2005-12-05T04:13:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ethomaz.com/onlife/" description="Onlife - keeps track of pretty much everything you're doing, keeping an impromptu record of your life..." extended="I wanted to write about this when it came out, but as usual decided it needed a greater degree of depth than a linklog post and - as a result - wrote nothing. The idea is great. The execution is pretty good. It slowed down my mac a fair deal though." hash="2423091b1e4b059aeffd08d505891951" tag="life digitalaggregator osx application" time="2005-11-30T10:03:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1785536,00.html" description="Clearing out my Inbox of things to write about, I find that the BBC has been inadvertantly (geddit?) broadcasting product placements..." extended="&quot;Companies are paying fees of up to £40,000 to advertise their products covertly on BBC programmes, often in breach of the corporation’s rules.&quot;" hash="5c4a9f6588123b38765e0ac1f59635b0" tag="bbc advertising" time="2005-11-30T10:00:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/" description="Firefox 1.5 is launched" extended="And although I had some weird confusions trying to download it through Safari, I can state without question that the page works perfectly in Firefox 1" hash="578bbf894a825a1b59aa768ee3f7fa22" tag="firefox website web download browser" time="2005-11-30T08:20:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990501-000014.html" description="Interesting Psychology Today article on training yourself to wake up in the mornings..." extended="I've not had an alarm clock for about six years now, and I'm always awake at roughly the right time. If I have a special event I need to be up for, I look at the clock and visualise the hands turning around until the time I want to wake up, and then - alm" hash="2d2292ca7e129246b1585635dd3661ab" tag="alarm time body psychology" time="2005-11-30T08:07:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000643.html" description="Cameron Moll talks about 180 days of freelancing..." extended="I work freelance for a few months about four / five years ago and I was a disaster. I had no idea how to promote my work, manage cashflow. Total nightmare. I'm only now beginning to think that I'd be capable doing it properly." hash="15742b209c72ad88b6d90a983ef1b8a4" tag="freelancing" time="2005-11-30T08:05:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/uosc-scs112805.php" description="Surprise! Computer scientists model the exclamation point" extended="I find myself newly interested in the science of the exclamation mark after joining Yahoo(!) I'll be honest, the brand's punctuation offends my grumpy old sod tendencies and desire to write non-offensive English... Perhaps science can help..." hash="49653d6094fff2d08233fea61c2f0085" tag="brand surprise yahoo" time="2005-11-30T07:56:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nickdenton.org/002173.html#2173" description="Nick Denton spells out the web apps and businesses that every start-up should be using..." extended="Some great stuff here, although much of it is more appropriate to the US than it is to us poor saps living in Start-Up Free Britain..." hash="f381538fcaf0056c7f8ab049484cd463" tag="startups webtechnology lists nickdenton lifesucks" time="2005-11-30T07:48:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.scaryideas.com/project.html" description="There's an entertaining web development kind of cartoon over at Scaryideas today" extended="And you know what it indicates to me - that you'd be much better having fewer people on a project and that communication is above all the most important element - hence rapid iterative multi-disciplinary work is best. Which I knew already!" hash="684fccde4adbadee1b6df65eec2f49ec" tag="webdevelopment web internet funny humour cartoons" time="2005-11-30T07:47:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.jonstewartlive.com/" description="An evening with Jon Stewart of the Daily Show - in London, in about a week!" extended="No idea if they have any tickets left, and I'm not going to be able to go because I'm in the US, but I can't imagine that it would be anything but pretty bloody awesome. Go if you have motor function anywhere." hash="e8974ffa35a68952b9873517de572ad2" tag="jonstewart dailyshow london event" time="2005-11-30T07:42:57Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4469098.stm" description="&quot;Boy band Take That have announced that they are to reform for a tour - 10 years after they split up.&quot;" extended="Odds of Robbie Williams joining in are substantially less than zero, I would imagine..." hash="45f04daee3d6e1e79527889390efc603" tag="takethat robbiewilliams pop music" time="2005-11-25T14:36:29Z" />
  <post href="http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/yahoo.html?pg=1&amp;topic=yahoo&amp;topic_set=" description="Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe." extended="A Wired Magazine article about Yahoo that features my new boss Bradley Horowitz. There's not quite enough about him online for me to feel that I know him well though..." hash="05c70909e82048eda929470d11cabc10" tag="bradleyhorowitz yahoo television video search searchengines work" time="2005-11-25T11:23:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/" description="Monkeyhub presents a music video to the single JCB by band Nizlopi" extended="It's a pretty fluffy song, and kind of gimmicky, but the sentiment appears genuine and the video is pretty amazing. They want to be Christmas #1 and I see no reaason not to help them achieve it..." hash="1a27dea91a7ba26acd90a2c6763aef57" tag="music audio video animation funny cute sweet song nizlopi monkeehub jcbsong" time="2005-11-25T11:18:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds26516.html" description="Channel 4 rapped over 'Lost' ad breaks" extended="Sixty-four minutes of apparent programming contained only thirty-six minutes of new editorial content. I buy Channel 4's excuse a bit, but it's still a shame - bad advertising spaces and overlong breaks make shows less watchable. It hurts them in the end." hash="8d7e22546c428ba4842c6b4beb67349a" tag="channel4 advertising lost tv video" time="2005-11-25T11:10:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.just-jessica.com/transtraffic/" description="Jessica's Trans-Traffic" extended="Interesting little thing this - it's a bit of javascript you add to your weblog which tells you which other weblogs your visitors are reading. I quite like the idea of it helping people find unexpected peers." hash="007335e7efe1f2a4546d4c68283de37f" tag="weblogs blogs blog search navigation javascript" time="2005-11-23T23:15:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.firewheeldesign.com/rootkit/" description="Celebrate your love of Sony BMG with an 'I {heart} rootkit' t-shirt" extended="Show your love for the arch super-villains today!" hash="aab9e73836a9005a373d86882bd7689f" tag="sonybmg rootkit tshirt funny humour satire" time="2005-11-22T16:47:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wonkette.com/politics/butterstick/what-would-you-do-for-the-stick-138672.php" description="Zoology student will go to extraordinary lengths to get to see the baby panda in Washington zoo..." extended="This story is mostly interesting because there's a picture of the panda and it's seriously cute." hash="b87667ce936a85ff629f5c1d5510a2d6" tag="panda handjob sex gawker" time="2005-11-22T16:46:10Z" />
  <post href="http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/27259" description="How many steaks (or how much meat) is there on a cow and how long would it take you to eat at the rate of one meal a day?" extended="I asked Metafilter for an answer to a question that was puzzling me, after a dumb comment in a news article. And boy did they come up with the goods!" hash="36973505b89e1fd856a67669a212264e" tag="meat cow steak food metafilter" time="2005-11-22T15:05:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557" description="Penn Jillette says, &quot;There is No God&quot;" extended="I'm an atheist, and I have been since I seriously thought about it. My mother has 'converted' too. I agree with everything Mr Jillette says. I'm still stunned people have to actually say it any more though." hash="f91d18223072d7f0f836ee155f194c8a" tag="atheism god atheist religion pennjillette" time="2005-11-22T10:59:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/11/16/ruby-the-rival.html?page=1" description="Ruby the Rival - an investigation of whether Ruby is proving a potential replacement or rival to Java" extended="I'm increasingly finding this stuff interesting as time passes. I guess I'm getting nerdier." hash="25586666b333433427328fa3a496cefe" tag="ruby java scriptinglanguages" time="2005-11-18T16:32:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00.html" description="Wired News explore the Sony malware installation and questions why anti-virus and security companies did so little about the whole thing..." extended="I'm kind of stunned by the Sony move - installing software without the permission of your users, software that exposes their computers to viruses and worms. That's astonishing movie-villain behaviour, surely?!" hash="8eaa151cbb799fa60c473f6612cf7968" tag="drm sony wired malware mcaffee antivirus" time="2005-11-18T16:21:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_48/b3961120.htm" description="&quot;E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago&quot; - Business Week talks about how the abuse of e-mail as broadcast has led to its redundancy and looks towards IM, wikis and blogs as replacements..." extended="It's all pretty obvious and the tools are useful. I wouldn't be without a decent workplace wiki now. But the aggravating thing is that internal e-mail only got so useless because of corporate insistence on broadcast messaging. Idiots." hash="0c0e251db4d90e3fa637043d10849c7b" tag="email wiki socialsoftware collaboration weblogs blogs broadcast network" time="2005-11-18T16:09:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/11.html" description="The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles" extended="Popular Science must have the most aggravating pagination scheme of all time, but the story - about the project to find a way to create multi-coloured bubbles for kids - is weirdly amazing and the picture is beautiful..." hash="6843d1fb51cc95223e5713d296b68324" tag="bubbles toys dyes colours colors colour science technology business entrepreneurs" time="2005-11-18T16:05:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673" description="Doc Searls writes about how to protect the internet from the hands of the carriers" extended="&quot;We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before.&quot;" hash="3b02c2e161ca5488c5b2d4c5da169d24" tag="docsearls internet carriers pipes publishing web net" time="2005-11-18T14:13:54Z" />
  <post href="http://oncotton.co.uk/peter/paper/paper.html" description="More of the beautiful paper creations by Peter Callesen that I linked to earlier in the day" extended="Mostly larger scale items, including ladders and replicas of architectural features constructed entirely out of paper with an astonishing attention to detail" hash="d502c1af41ab58f8c8b4fcc75a3b5ccd" tag="paper origami petercallesen design art installation" time="2005-11-18T12:05:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=CH6-2UizHfI&amp;search=science" description="A video of strange things you can do with air, weird liquids and vibrations..." extended="It starts off slow, but the last thirty seconds or so are absolutely mesmerising and extraordinary. A definite must-see..." hash="a8eccffdfa1dd9aa11abe86c84fa442a" tag="experiments liquid vibrations video fun beautiful astonishing science" time="2005-11-18T11:58:51Z" />
  <post href="http://blog.joins.com/media/folderlistslide.asp?uid=bdaisy&amp;folder=8&amp;list_id=5105133" description="An astonishing set of images of scenes and structures constructed out of paper that sit on or with the original sheet, the negative space of which add context." extended="It's really difficult to describe. You have to see this, and scroll right down to the end when it starts getting astonishing and almost confusingly great..." hash="2aefd004b800f3738637674ba66b71c0" tag="origami paper art design illustration beautiful" time="2005-11-18T11:41:43Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4446242.stm" description="A BBC analysis column explores the politics and positioning behind the Internet governance discussions" extended="&quot;Internet professor Michael Geist explains why the arguments over who runs the internet are far from over&quot;" hash="bc7cb1b051b821afa3ec6886230cb971" tag="governance internet www web icann unitednations" time="2005-11-18T00:08:00Z" />
  <post href="http://hrc.org/tom/" description="'Tom! The token gay friend!' is best thing I've seen recently about our new status as happy nice desexualised and funny little pet people who don't have anything to worry about..." extended="&quot;As we learn from Tom, talking to friends and family about equality isn't always easy. In fact, it can be an adventure.&quot;" hash="9d70c6dbb8fca858a2749ab2918a8aa7" tag="gay gayrights sex sexuality politics humanrights" time="2005-11-17T14:46:47Z" />
  <post href="http://riya.com/" description="Riya - photo search by face recognition" extended="This looks totally fascinating, although unfortunately since it only works on IE6 for Windows I can't look to see how well it works." hash="a0dddf15474a8ece39b5d170cafc1b5d" tag="facerecognition photos images information faces metadata analysis" time="2005-11-17T11:57:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.megnut.com/2005/11/weve-got-so-much-blog-we-dont-know-where-to-put-it-all" description="Five years after Meg and Jason were featured in the New Yorker's weblogging article, Meg has an announcement to make." extended="&quot;So for everyone who's been reading for five years, I just wanted you to know: a few months ago Jason and I got engaged. We're going to be married early next year.&quot;" hash="eb2d8e028cc2ee069829fd7f1b6bae19" tag="meghourihan jasonkottke marriage weblogs blogs blog alist superstars awesome exciting happy cool" time="2005-11-16T17:08:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008689.html" description="Russell Beattie talks about his own experiences with the world’s most user-hostile bathroom" extended="&quot;Foreign bathrooms are hard enough to operate while dealing with Jet Lag, but man that one wins a prize.&quot;" hash="4f11ba353f5c55f0ab0b840f6a01d9e9" tag="designofeverydaythings design donnorman donaldnorman usability lavatory doors" time="2005-11-16T15:01:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/sets/1372188/" description="The world's least usable lavatory - my Flickr photoset of the confusing ablution arrangements at Yahoo..." extended="Mr Willison and I decided that we had to document the whole experience. Do not mock us. This is important &quot;Design of Everyday Things&quot; kind of stuff..." hash="16e93259060b9ebc35ff94ba4e790da9" tag="lavatory restroom look usability design door yahoo" time="2005-11-16T15:00:05Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit" description="Wikipedia has an article on the &quot;Two-Spirit&quot; identity that Native Americans with unconventional sexual or gender identities have claimed for their own..." extended="&quot;Two-Spirit is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body. It is a" hash="fe3c137f3ad1ce610f4069937104c48e" tag="homosexuality twospirit nativeamericans gender sexuality gay queer" time="2005-11-16T10:49:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/58697220/" description="Bill Gates stands before a hideous and apparently meaningless slide about Windows" extended="God, does anyone have the slightest idea what Microsoft are on about?" hash="d082f14166310efbbf9ad76fa7dad69b" tag="microsoft billgates powerpoint" time="2005-11-15T16:35:32Z" />
  <post href="http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/09/boob-war-climax-everybody-loves-power.html" description="The history of Power Girl is a history of enormous comic book breasts. There's a lot of insight into the minds of teenage male comic book readers in this piece..." extended="&quot;Seriously, she has got to be the most sexualized – dare I say, objectified? – heroine in mainstream spandex comics.&quot;" hash="d3710f0ef8864a47fd9890fa312bad9c" tag="comics powergirl feminism breasts" time="2005-11-15T11:17:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,1129448,00.html" description="The Flickrization of Yahoo" extended="&quot;How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.&quot;" hash="5c6b62d0c0b002c9c93d1297347cb668" tag="flickr yahoo socialmedia socialsoftware search boring" time="2005-11-14T23:57:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/analytics/feature_overlay.html" description="Google Analytics has a really nicely implemented site overlay feature" extended="The analytics service basically looks like a good web stats product with extra features to help people optimise advertising and keywords. The overlay feature is particularly interesting." hash="a888dfdbd691b96c504aa220584ea787" tag="google googleanalytics webstats" time="2005-11-14T14:57:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2005520189,00.html" description="The Sun newspaper reports on a new calender full of men from British universities" extended="I had a quick glance in the interests of science and have come to the conclusion that it's not terribly good." hash="9aa1bac479dc6b109430399fed1691cf" tag="men shirtless university students" time="2005-11-10T12:46:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/006397.php" description="An old &quot;We Make Money Not Art&quot; post details the French Yellow Pages using clean tags to promote themselves around Paris" extended="I {heart} the idea of clean tags - even though it puts advertising in completely inappropriate all-pervasive places - there's something great about people accidentally performing public services in the name of advertising..." hash="6f04e85d4b003706e769fc42b3a30e05" tag="marketing advertising roadart streetart cleantags art design city" time="2005-11-10T00:02:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fuckthiswebsite.com/" description="FUCK this website" extended="Using stickers with rude words on them to deface and detourn official signs and warnings is big and clever and kind of designy..." hash="35033c7c99c0aed4d59845bbcba3b0cd" tag="fuck rudewords gosh gasp art pranks" time="2005-11-10T00:00:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1577348,00.html" description="&quot;Implosion researchers have found that if water is put through a spiral, its electrical field changes and it then appears to have a potent, restorative effect on cells.&quot;" extended="&quot;This is not a cultural issue, and this is not about alternative science versus western medicine. It is about the far simpler issue of a proper media organisation presenting made-up marketing rubbish as if it was scientific fact.&quot;" hash="780bc2aff1d79b4314dba1767798a191" tag="science bbc factchecking journalism badscience" time="2005-11-09T23:48:36Z" />
  <post href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500" description="Blast from the past: In 2001 Macrumors users were not impressed by the recently announced iPod. It took them a couple of weeks to work out why it was cool. It took me about a month - when I bought my first 5Gb iPod for £350..." extended="&quot;I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?&quot;" hash="4366d5df17efd9c517fb35cb5e76d627" tag="ipod apple history hype rumour" time="2005-11-09T17:17:52Z" />
  <post href="http://justin.everett-church.com/ymaps/pirateMaps.html" description="An implementation of the Yahoo maps API turns the whole thing into a pirate map. S'pretty." extended="There's also a radar screen. It's pretty cool, all things considered. Shiny." hash="6f63aacc738a4e2d6d94ec71da9ef454" tag="yahoo yahooapi api maps mapping geocoding flash" time="2005-11-09T15:39:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html" description="Front Row - as installed on the Apple iMac G5" extended="So I had a play with this the other day in the Apple sotre and it's pretty bloody sweet frankly. I'm going to need this in my flat..." hash="8765aae4df10e0ce45dcd94f9b120310" tag="frontrow apple imac mediacentre settopbox media video audio homeentertainment homeentertainmentappliances" time="2005-11-08T18:27:10Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Kinney" description="Fern Kinney - as written up by Wikipedia" extended="Currently I'm mostly in love with the song, &quot;Together we are Beautiful&quot; by the lovely Fern, which apparently charted at number 1 in the UK but disappeared without trace in the US" hash="8f89fc5bb99795198a24949b32c8c734" tag="fernkinney music soul disco pop" time="2005-11-08T18:05:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22769" description="Barbelith discusses &quot;The Psychology Of Trolling&quot;" extended="My community are so cool - and sometimes it's great to remember how many skilled professionals are on the board - including mental health workers - who can really give an interesting perspective to these questions..." hash="8982502b9436e88d03651262d7617f12" tag="troll moderation spam community barbelith" time="2005-11-08T17:58:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1583.shtml" description="Public could help BBC to index archive" extended="&quot;Inspired by Flickr and Wikipedia, the project is a private, early-stage pilot of social software produced at BBC Radio and Music Interactive that lets listeners slice programmes into chunks that can be identified by using tags.&quot;" hash="78f426a3c498f4a9a97e95c0ac23df5b" tag="annotation annotatable audio wikipedia wiki bbc radio media navigation" time="2005-11-08T17:07:00Z" />
  <post href="http://bjfogg.typepad.com/bj_foggs_weblog/2005/10/stealth_mode_is.html" description="&quot;In growing my company from a research question to a launched internet service, I've learned an important lesson: Stealth mode is overrated.&quot;" extended="My personal opinion is that you need to get your product up to a point where its purpose is well communicated and simple and then get it out in public as quickly as possible so that you can rapidly iterate on top of it..." hash="94542fd24c6c52400a0e7f9b21f21c2e" tag="productdevelopment iterativedevelopment iterative stealthmode" time="2005-10-29T08:35:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hypergene.net/ideas/amazon.html" description="Hypergene on &quot;Amazoning the News&quot; - a classic article / presentation / bit of design from 2001 that people really ned to re-examine..." extended="In so many contexts, as navigation and findability emerges as the fundamental challenge for media in the early 21st Century, we need to be re-reading this stuff..." hash="e0a170070d4631b8294c72d2830cf562" tag="amazon news media navigation discovery findability design informationarchitecture informationseeking" time="2005-10-28T13:13:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.typeradio.org/" description="Typeradio.org - a podcast and internet radio station about typography and design" extended="The site is beautiful if you're into Flash and contains some nice interface and audio preview widgets. And it's about typography which never sucks..." hash="4d437827ce6a1068b702c043790967ec" tag="design podcast podcasting radio typography flash userinterface elegant" time="2005-10-28T13:07:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?id=1662" description="&quot;Lie Girls&quot; - dirty girls who will tell you anything you want to hear" extended="It sounds porny, but actually it's much much worse than that - it's political!" hash="fdea3043b2a7de3adaa6c86836073a63" tag="politics satire humour funny racy porno parody gwbush" time="2005-10-25T22:46:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.devoted1.com/" description="Oh this is too sweet - a replacement lanyard for your iPod Shuffle that makes it look like a big crucifix" extended="For all your eighties Madonna-inspired retro-fashionistas and people who like to make clever statements with their clothes" hash="2076c31d5b07377c524160d8bed75b81" tag="clothing lanyard ipodshuffle christianity god crucifix funny humour" time="2005-10-25T07:41:10Z" />
  <post href="http://thefifthrule.com/T5R/?p=76" description="&quot;Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You’re In Luck!&quot;" extended="I'm really interested that Apple decided to use software to get people to buy a new iMac rather that putting the software on every computer that could run it. Although clearly, people are excited enough to want it on all their computers..." hash="37484b4c411dd402c16082ab517b9d49" tag="frontrow mac apple computer mediacentre mediadistribution medianavigation navigation" time="2005-10-25T07:31:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051021.gtgoogle1021/BNStory/Technology/" description="Google's stock soars higher" extended="&quot;Google Inc.'s market value briefly surpassed $100-billion (U.S.) for the first time Friday, its stock scaling new heights after an earnings and revenue spike that astonished investors.&quot;" hash="dbdfb7c7440a31992e46268567be95d0" tag="google yahoo stock investments money" time="2005-10-25T07:25:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/23/rice.straw.reut/index.html" description="'Mr. England' bemuses Alabama locals" extended="&quot;British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw joined Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a weekend tour of her home state to promote understanding of the Anglo-American alliance, but Alabamans struggled to name him.&quot;" hash="8b88f800fedff6803c0d8b0b30b609f8" tag="jackstraw condoleezarice america politics" time="2005-10-25T07:23:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.purecalifornia.co.uk/" description="Pure California - I've finally found a decent juice bar in Central London" extended="I'm so happy I could burst with ground- up fruit and dubious dried chemical supplements. Mmm. Sweet and delicious. Sweelicious!" hash="10526306cbf6531dd713a608685afa40" tag="juice food drink london soho bar" time="2005-10-21T22:19:12Z" />
  <post href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/video-ipod.ars" description="Ars Technica - the definitive home for comprehensive reviews of tech stuff - has a stab at the Video iPod (and generally likes what it sees)" extended="Personally, I'm looking at the return of the classic form factor in the iPod Nano and wondering if Apple are looking to gradually discontinue the larger sized iPods" hash="41c542d4b1a71fe5a55be8bf797d3657" tag="ipod mac review apple design television mediadistribution media tv" time="2005-10-21T22:16:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.idiottoys.com/2005/10/nokias-trend-inspired-mobiles-nokia.html" description="&quot;Yet more 'fashion inspired' phones for people who live in London and work for the BBC and are gay and have blogs.&quot;" extended="So I live in London, work for the BBC, am gay and have a blog and I think these phones look a bit rubbish. On the other hand, I'm also a little narked about gay jokes from grown-ups, but what can you do. There's no shortage of fuckwits in the world..." hash="f74f53a7727902150d009acd8cb2beba" tag="humour phones nokia design gay irritating" time="2005-10-21T21:02:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/powerbook/" description="Apple Powerbooks now with better screen resolution, faster hard discs, cheaper RAM, fall-over buttons, same-old weird-ass scroll functional trackpads and the right..." extended="So basically my current Powerbook is nice and stuff, but it's kind of falling apart and I think God should give me a new one..." hash="e0ac92c68d4f544cc08bf4065e6b1e01" tag="apple powerbook mac computers laptops" time="2005-10-19T21:49:43Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4354286.stm" description="They've discovered a zombie worm or some crap in the ocean or something. Could you care less?" extended="How about if I tell you that BBC News translates the name of said worm as &quot;bone-eating snot-flower&quot;!? BONE-EATING SNOT-FLOWER!? That's so cool..." hash="48a07fa27c64b277ba8da42eeef3f390" tag="science animals worms snot funny" time="2005-10-19T21:26:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.magazine.org/editorial/13730.cfm" description="The American Society of Magazine Editor's top forty covers of the last forty years..." extended="There's some stunning stuff here - iconic images. Mostly they're more about the photography than the design though..." hash="5f468d40770abcf393edfcbe45973725" tag="design covers entertainment history magazine photography media art" time="2005-10-18T10:37:06Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report" description="Wikipedia's article on the Colbert Réport, which I really want to see..." extended="&quot;The Colbert Réport (/koʊlbɛɹ ɹəpɔɹ/) is a television program announced by Comedy Central that will star Stephen Colbert, currently best-known as a correspondent for The Daily Show. It is said to be a comedic counterpart to media pundit programs s" hash="2579dd644674613f2a33cefb142d5a6f" tag="comedy satire dailyshow humour parody politics" time="2005-10-18T10:27:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4349120.stm" description="&quot;A 'sexy, funny' spin-off from the Doctor Who television series, is to be made by BBC Wales and set in Cardiff.&quot;" extended="Featuring Captain Jack from the series, I can't help but hope that this paranoid thriller isn't as lame as it quite possibly could be. Would be good to get some adult sci-fi on the BBC though..." hash="dad4aa1a9cf11646f44f78883d5fba5f" tag="scifi doctorwho sciencefiction johnbarrowman" time="2005-10-18T10:23:55Z" />
  <post href="http://mugwump.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/10/are_you_a_sinne.html" description="Kerry Bailey talks about God, atheism and being a &quot;Lincolnist&quot;" extended="So basically, the stuff I've done that I'm ashamed of just stays with me and continually torments me when I least expect it. I really identify with his description of the homespun ethical principles of Lincoln..." hash="9458ba387edf13b5ce8f14f071456561" tag="ethics atheism god abrahamlincoln religion" time="2005-10-18T00:08:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/53324789/" description="Mr Jones saw my announcement and mocked up a t-shirt for me..." extended="Obviously now I've started, the cool factor has just er... well... um... well it hasn't gone down too much... I hope..." hash="370ff1b7c82243413b3bf2f0aaf2f753" tag="humour yahoo cool funny" time="2005-10-17T09:37:55Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4331654.stm" description="&quot;Sci-fi film Serenity has ended Pride and Prejudice's four-week reign at the top of the UK film chart.&quot;" extended="&quot;Serenity, created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind Joss Whedon, took almost £960,000 in its first weekend.&quot;" hash="b80f2e706fbbbdf86f2eeee50dd7fdc9" tag="film serenity josswhedon movies cinema scifi sciencefiction" time="2005-10-12T08:05:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.reemer.com/archives/2005/10/08/web_20_conversation_with_five_teenagers/" description="&quot;Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers.&quot;" extended="Remember - what starts in San Francisco ends up around the rest of the world pretty quickly. This is the future of your kids, and from where I'm standing it's pretty cool..." hash="6ea2e4c30668fbebc61259b937f74201" tag="web2.0 technology futurology teenagers sanfrancisco future" time="2005-10-11T21:43:18Z" />
  <post href="http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/10/10/google-adds-tagging/" description="Google Personalised Search adds tagging..." extended="&quot;Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited.&quot;" hash="1b51c23da2206f3a101545ef0dfa30b3" tag="folksonomy fauxonomy tags google search" time="2005-10-11T21:38:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/3029/CNNNN_On_The_Streets_Of_America_2.html?autoplay=true" description="I know it's fashionable to make Americans look stupid, so I'm going to preface this by saying that I fear you could make a video like this on the streets of most Western nations..." extended="Still, it's kind of terrifying. I notice suddenly that this is not the most useful or descriptive of comments about the content of the page... Sorry..." hash="2493c9da592d75b48630db5b8cd50e56" tag="maps america" time="2005-10-11T21:33:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.iwoodnano.com/miniot/index.htm" description="iWood nano - a beautiful slim natural wood case with a monogram on it that I want more than anything in the world..." extended="I wonder what wood I'd get... I'd have some form of pipe, and a wallet of the finest leather and I might have a monocle as well. For effect..." hash="7c2197d5ab412dad23cb6da1ae615068" tag="ipod apple beautiful design wood" time="2005-10-11T21:23:56Z" />
  <post href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/shrinksafe/" description="'ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript &quot;compression&quot; system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.'" extended="I don't write a lot of JavaScript to be honest, but a lot of people I know do, and hopefully they'll get some value from this service..." hash="991afe4677d5c47c2f7be3484d49f0a2" tag="javascript ajax optimisation compression" time="2005-10-11T21:06:18Z" />
  <post href="http://nycsubway.eyebeamresearch.org/" description="NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps is absolutely fascinating and well-assembled..." extended="I wonder if anyone's got the strength of character and will to try and do an equivalent for the London Underground" hash="1bce4328dba31234b147c7971b9f3747" tag="mapping maps API geocoding flash vector api google" time="2005-10-11T20:53:28Z" />
  <post href="http://creativebits.org/keyboard_shortcuts_in_os_x" description="An insanely thorough list of OSX keyboard shortcuts - very nice stuff..." extended="Lots of great stuff here - from collapsing and expanding folders, logging out, emptying the trash and the like..." hash="aa13ffe302541ee559922d740dc6eccd" tag="osx keyboardshortcuts mac apple" time="2005-10-11T20:48:08Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4326446.stm" description="&quot;British blogs have recently found themselves getting comments from a fictional character who promotes a household cleaner. Weblog Watch looks at a new, personalised form of advertising...&quot;" extended="Interesting BBC News story that references the Cillit Bang fiasco from around these parts..." hash="13e6dd139eb1c9a21f2a5318f7662598" tag="cillitbang blogs weblogs marketing bbcnews" time="2005-10-11T20:37:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stereoboard.com/artistnews/news-1259.html" description="&quot;Influential indie band The Pixies are stalling over the recording of a new album, for fears of ruining the bands impressive legacy.&quot;" extended="If only all bands were like this. The Pixies are my favourite band of all time, and I have to say that I would not wish a new album out of them if it sounded like a bunch of old farts. They were always better than that..." hash="756c4263cc970c37b8920347adf6fea2" tag="pixies music 4ad album cool" time="2005-10-10T19:26:24Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect" description="&quot;The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service.&quot;" extended="Personal opinion - whatever Web 2.0 is, one element of the future is a network effect of services and an interconnected functional platform in which each new function added to the collaborative web adds value to every other app..." hash="f933b0afb36aafe4eea74ec36c6cf842" tag="web2.0 networkeffect" time="2005-10-10T19:06:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/wsmurf08.xml&amp;sSheet=/news/2005/10/08/ixhome.html" description="Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers" extended="&quot;The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.&quot;" hash="9c474a3c3ea338820497e040b7020964" tag="animation cartoon cartoons horror news propaganda tv weird smurfs war" time="2005-10-10T12:31:06Z" />
  <post href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/how_to_speak_at.html" description="There's a great post on &quot;Creating Passionate Users&quot; called 'How to speak at a tech conference', which isn't really about the style of talking but about how to get accepted to attend.." extended="It's a good read, it's solid and it's true - I'd recommend everyone who is interested in submitting papers should read it thoroughly..." hash="edb88671f9777a67af048a0aaa1b39cf" tag="conferences proposals conference etech oreilly" time="2005-10-10T12:26:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lambdamoo.info/" description="In introduction to LambdaMOO" extended="I spent a fair amount of time on Saturday at State of Play using LambdaMoo as a backchannel with Mr Webb and Mr Hammersley instead of my normal IM. Sitting in the hot-tub listening to lawyers was a strange, strange experience..." hash="ca1e15d74a85bcb649e3b8eed184a987" tag="lambdamoo virtualworlds games muds moos" time="2005-10-10T12:17:38Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4307654.stm" description="&quot;Voters are becoming more rude to politicians - and the BBC's Jeremy Paxman is to blame, a senior Tory says.&quot;" extended="Balls. Most of the people in the country don't know Jeremy Paxman from a hole in the ground. The reason they distrust politicians is because politicians are often untrustworthy..." hash="2cae0a16f76caf2d200fb6af9db33216" tag="politicians bbc jeremypaxman politics uk" time="2005-10-10T12:14:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/" description="Online Information 2005 in Olympia looks pretty bloody amazing and I really want to go to it..." extended="Peter Morville's speaking, as is my old colleague and friend Ms Margaret Hanley. Who rocks..." hash="9e9f63bf4b4e767e2f248cb4b8c294e6" tag="conference onlineinformation2005 conferences ia informationarchitecture informationsystems" time="2005-10-10T12:10:17Z" />
  <post href="http://rollyo.com/search.html?sid=3386&amp;f=share" description="I've been trying to develop a rollyo search engine for social software related stuff, but I'd really appreciate any recommendations for URLs that I should add..." extended="I'm still kind of 50/50 on Rollyo's utility, but I can't deny the implementation is pretty amazing." hash="69bbdf18a34a298d417f63b242481e06" tag="search personalisation share web2.0 rollyo" time="2005-10-10T12:08:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/0901_the_funniest.php" description="Subtraction on designing the grid for the Onion redesign project" extended="I'm really interested in grids at the moment. I think grids and swatches and styleguides and widgets are the new .psds" hash="86bf5f3c081b7761ca3d70b6e9e4c5df" tag="grid grids design web2.0 onion" time="2005-10-10T12:06:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.keeganjones.com/widgets/tada/" description="The Ta-Da Widget from Keegan Jones looked really really sweet, until he accidentally deleted the whole thing..." extended="Will someone please fix the damn thing, because I could really do with a copy..." hash="cf1dfab65778f40824c84d61b85a3582" tag="widget osx dashboard 37signals" time="2005-10-10T12:03:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801405.html?sub=AR" description="Jet lag update: Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body" extended="&quot;With a good night's rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Ameri" hash="03fd64fa9d716e09f5f818cb99653eb9" tag="health sleep science research medicine" time="2005-10-10T09:09:25Z" />
  <post href="http://chameleon.simplebits.com/" description="Chameleon: an icon set from SimpleBits that changes color..." extended="&quot;Chameleon is a unique stock icon set for the web that features simple, friendly, universal shapes designed and hand-crafted by SimpleBits&quot;" hash="7c9402b6305cd75048205792f5ebca30" tag="icons design pixels iconography" time="2005-10-08T14:28:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/reader/" description="Google has launched an RSS reader / aggregator called &quot;Google Reader&quot;" extended="It's frankly a bit weird. It's going to take me some time to get my head around it..." hash="d1ddc327699e2c4a0a8f932c5be395b4" tag="google rss newsreader aggregator" time="2005-10-08T11:34:24Z" />
  <post href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/itunes_99_cents_across_the_board_or_mix_it_up.php" description="Signal vs. Noise asks its readers whether iTunes should keep all its songs at a flat-rate of 99c or follow the wishes of the record industry in putting in price variety" extended="Lots of people have argued that songs should be sold at different prices because then the market can be optimised. But that assumes Apple have a monopoly. Other vendors can try variable pricing - if it works, Apple will follow suit..." hash="5a43b2a96412f2022d9be89786ccecf9" tag="music itunes drm sales pricing business" time="2005-10-08T11:30:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/iamnotananimal" description="Metacritic starts running TV reviews, and one of it's first celebrated shows is Brit animated classic &quot;I am not an Animal&quot;" extended="&quot;Its mix of twisted laughs and surrealist visuals smacks of something you’d see between Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Harvey Birdman on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim hours.&quot;" hash="04c3d12e25522b51bca62d7935263e19" tag="iamnotananimal tv tvshows television reviews" time="2005-10-08T11:24:49Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1583256,00.html" description="The Guy Ritchie film &quot;Revolver&quot; got terrible terrible reviews, but on the poster there was a quote saying it was &quot;Ritchie back to his best&quot;. The quote came from a PR microsite the Sun was paid to carry... These marketing types are so ethical..." extended="&quot;We try to connect with niche audiences in their home environment,&quot; says Hamm. &quot;We use bloggers as much as online journalists.&quot;" hash="44f00043ff90af322f20785806d92dfa" tag="revolver movies reviews marketing ethics publicrelations sicktwistedevilfucks lies thesun" time="2005-10-08T11:15:15Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust" description="Wikipedia's article on the Scott Trust, the financial structure that allows that keeps The Guardian ticking over" extended="&quot;The Trust is responsible for appointing the editor of The Guardian ... but apart from enjoining them to continue the paper's editorial policy on &quot;the same lines and in the same spirit as heretofore&quot;, has a policy of not interfering...&quot;" hash="76f76b7f387d2624bd18726b39a1c006" tag="trust theguardian business journalism money independence" time="2005-10-08T11:06:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.jotlive.com/" description="JotSpot Live - basically SubEthaEdit on the web - feels quite good and appears to mostly work" extended="The most interesting aspect of this for me is that it assumes that in the office you're online all the time. The assumption of always-on mobile connectivity is something that would have made this seem ridiculous a few years ago." hash="96ec50f3b7c326b020bc6db072e5e0bf" tag="jotspot wiki subethaedit web2.0 web internet editing socialsoftware" time="2005-10-08T11:04:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/051010crat_atlarge" description="Malcolm Gladwell on selection policies for Harvard (much more interesting than it sounds, and weirdly much less judgmental than it could have been)" extended="&quot;If Harvard had too many Asians, it wouldn’t be Harvard, just as Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard with too many Jews or pansies or parlor pinks or shy types or short people with big ears.&quot;" hash="eb35d26e10f403712badb7ca940a7992" tag="malcolmgladwell harvard university selection racism antisemitism" time="2005-10-07T11:13:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007141.php" description="We Make Money Not Art reports on the height of Dutch design - Amphibious houses" extended="&quot;The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses rise upwards as well&quot;" hash="f0102b7f3a90cdea569dcc7501a4fee8" tag="housing globalwarming flood holland design architecture" time="2005-10-07T11:11:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0954831837/202-4021195-5559035" description="Tim Worstall's got a book coming out: &quot;2005: Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere&quot;" extended="&quot;Featuring writing from the rising stars of online journalism, this is an entertaining guide to the year 2005. From dedicated bloggers to total Internet virgins, this book will be useful for those who want to look back at the big events of 2005, as seen t" hash="a91f7945bd530437b7904153b0d65b9e" tag="bloggers blogs weblogs journalism writing" time="2005-10-06T23:20:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1585687,00.html" description="Cleaner caught playing dirty  on the net" extended="&quot;Household products usually promise to help get rid of dirt, but one leading brand has been shamed into cleaning up its own act after an internet marketing campaign backfired spectacularly.&quot;" hash="ab25f06ee7252a9e8f5ef453b8c6fc09" tag="weblog blogs cillitbang marketing fun" time="2005-10-05T23:36:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thomasscott.net/imp-screenshots/" description="A review with screenshots of the BBC's iMP - currently released to a trial for a few thousand British citizens..." extended="Generally favourable response so far. Interested in what else people make of it." hash="86fabd7f5a686362fbab1285342124f5" tag="imp bbc television tv iptv" time="2005-10-05T22:13:44Z" />
  <post href="http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1114381,00.html" description="Katie Holmes is pregnant with Tom Cruise's demon child" extended="God this is creepy and wrong. I mean Katie Holmes was meant for Cal! He told me that years ago..." hash="06b4937a9d97ef57baf50ba7f2706d13" tag="calhenderson tomcruise katieholmes creepythings" time="2005-10-05T21:58:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/combined" description="Joss Whedon's Serenity hits #118 on the IMDB all time best movies" extended="Whether this high opinion will last is unclear. Currently, however, it's beating Return of the Jedi, is the eighteenth best movie of the 00's, and the 38th best fillm ever as voted by women (but not by men)" hash="c1c27d5eedc34af03b614377cede8c2b" tag="film serenity josswhedon movies cinema scifi sciencefiction imdb ratings" time="2005-10-05T08:19:13Z" />
  <post href="http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4032" description="Yahoo! have only gone and bought upcoming.org" extended="Now that's pretty interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. Seems like everyone's going to work with Yahoo! nowadays." hash="3adf875a8689a776e62e3d94d6039e2f" tag="yahoo upcoming diary calendar" time="2005-10-05T07:15:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.whizzvidshosting.com/noitulove/BWread.html" description="The new Guinness advert &quot;Evolve&quot; is pretty bloody awesome - although this tiny tiny version doesn't really do it justice" extended="You know what I don't understand - people pay a fortune to put the ads on TV, but normally they don't make it possible for people to find them, watch them and link to them online. Seems like it would be an easy win..." hash="c7e12de72a9c396dbafdb845e9abd1e4" tag="adverts guiness tv advertising" time="2005-10-04T21:35:55Z" />
  <post href="http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/655/655348p1.html" description="Serenity takes $10 million in it's opening weekend - not enough to topple Flightplan from the top of the charts" extended="Will it build momentum on word-of-mouth? Will this be enough to ensure it a sequel? I'm not convinced at the moment. Get people to go and see it! It's good! Really!" hash="bf43d40437b4401bd3861f8bce02ea13" tag="serenity film movies cinema josswhedon" time="2005-10-04T09:44:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/otherlives/story/0,,1584450,00.html" description="Today the Guardian carries an obituary for... er... Tom Coates?! But that's me?! Surely?!" extended="&quot;People recognised his quiet, seemingly effortless ability to influence others.&quot; How true." hash="feedc507324e2a1345cbc8bab80356b1" tag="obituary death tomcoates" time="2005-10-04T09:40:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/anildash/31609791/?#comment13462326" description="I'm famous! Check out the front of the DVD kiosk at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco!" extended="It's a review I wrote for the BBC's film website several years ago. Not my finest piece of work, although it looks pretty classy like that. Wasn't for BBC News though..." hash="683b1e24e89233670a1c13c5f6ae4986" tag="bbc tomcoates review picture yay" time="2005-10-04T09:37:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69036,00.html" description="Wired News' take on Joss Whedon's Serenity" extended="Yet another pretty glowing review. It notes some of the script's shortcomings and structural problems, but still comes to the conclusion that you really shouldn't miss it. How many people have to tell you this before you'll believe me?" hash="925e7348fae226d5b3b80fe7cb879789" tag="serenity movie scifi sciencefiction film movies cinema wired review" time="2005-10-02T15:33:53Z" />
  <post href="http://odeo.com/listen/widget" description="There's a lovely little widget available for listening to podcasts available on Odeo.com at the moment" extended="It's just been updated to make it even shinier. Lovely bit of work this that Apple can't / haven't competed with..." hash="5b043a9afb55601ec2579e02ca1e62f0" tag="podcasting audio radio odeo apple itunes distribution" time="2005-10-02T15:32:21Z" />
  <post href="http://regender.com/swap/http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/36/sessions.html" description="Last year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 'regendered'" extended="I was trying to find something with a lot of names in it, and this kind of seemed a perfect (if controversial) choice. Whatever my disagreements with people about the reasons for the lack of women at ETech, I'll agree with them that it's far from ideal..." hash="5265beaee62fc570554ac628a773cf94" tag="conference etech feminism women gender" time="2005-10-02T15:23:27Z" />
  <post href="http://kinkless.com/articles/2005/09/30/introducing-the-kinkless-gtd-system" description="Introducing the Kinkless &quot;Getting Things Done&quot; System for OmniOutliner on the Mac" extended="Really interested in this, although not tried it out yet. I think you might need OmniOutliner Pro, which is an upgrade for me. Will ponder further..." hash="79b1689c6e3cec1649c2ce7bce06624c" tag="gtd gettingthingsdone davidallen productivitytips" time="2005-10-02T14:57:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/01/black_bumwad.html" description="Boing Boing link through to a site that sells black loo-roll" extended="No 1980's style bachelor pad filled with American Psycho-style stylish corporate types should be without it. I might have to get some..." hash="516f1e3d6e7fd922d8e3f0c634446068" tag="black" time="2005-10-02T14:36:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/01/MNGG9F16KG1.DTL" description="Google offers San Francisco free Wifi..." extended="&quot;Google Inc. has offered to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet access at no cost to the city, placing a marquee name behind Mayor Gavin Newsom's effort to get all residents online whether they are at home, in a park or in a cafe.&quot;" hash="b3d2a0473969aaad5f3e6353c3375bc2" tag="wifi google sanfrancisco technology connectivity internet" time="2005-10-02T14:25:38Z" />
  <post href="http://beta.news.com.com/2300-1044_3-5884639-1.html" description="Mock-ups of the proposed MIT $100 laptop" extended="It's a nice bit of design work, all things considered. I hope it's true and achievable. At the moment it looks rather better than a lot of much more expensive machines..." hash="604482279d61cb375b23f348563514db" tag="laptop thirdworld development computing computers design illustrations mockups" time="2005-10-01T17:16:44Z" />
  <post href="http://oddlaa.com/2005/09/19/vector-safari" description="This is a bit random: An illustator vector mockup of the Safari toolbar for those webdesigners who build in Illustrator and may need to show off their designs in print or on a projector" extended="Basically it stops all the nasty pixellation things happening when you make things bigger. Except why do it with Safari? That's got to be a bit random, surely?" hash="0754a5c3c8955bad82c5a4d7d60e07a4" tag="illustrator webdesign design safari mockups presentations print" time="2005-10-01T17:15:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/050930wpvsgoogle.html" description="There's a weird article on Socialtext about how Wikipedia is eating Google and I'm pretty sure I think most of it's rubbish." extended="Apparently Wikipedia is linked to by lots of mediocre sites and has lots of internal links. This is why it has the world's top pagerank. I checked. Wikipedia's homepage has a pagerank of '8'. The BBC's is '9'. I suspect the whole thing is rubbish." hash="3f20ec63df82f2b862644444800f7a97" tag="wikipedia spam google search searchresults" time="2005-10-01T17:06:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/09/30/serenity/index.html" description="Salon gushes over Serenity, only pausing to lament that the only thing better than it would be to have Firefly back..." extended="&quot;Joss Whedon's unfairly canceled TV series &quot;Firefly&quot; comes to the big screen -- and marvelously. But for all its wit, it's just not the same.&quot;" hash="db9d877dc939ba2e504ee6ed58a3bb83" tag="movies tv firefly scifi sciencefiction film cinema" time="2005-10-01T16:51:01Z" />
  <post href="http://lost-forum.com/showthread.php?t=15077" description="Early Season Two **spoilers** for people fascinated by &quot;Lost&quot;" extended="Symbols on sharks! What the crap!?" hash="787a01e4b6837fac7a9da89f9c584196" tag="lost tv television spoilers rumours" time="2005-10-01T16:45:24Z" />
  <post href="http://primermovie.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=541" description="A timeline of what happens in the movie Primer" extended="Thoroughly enjoyed the movie although was a bit off my game and had absolutely no idea what the crap was going on. Need to get on DVD." hash="c51bc43093491041f2a90dd63ff2cf8b" tag="primer movie movies timetravel paradox time" time="2005-10-01T16:27:06Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4292854.stm" description="Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled" extended="&quot;Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has been outlining designs for a sub-$100 PC.&quot;" hash="6da77436e767d0d385e2658563ba4244" tag="computers MIT informationtechnology aid" time="2005-10-01T10:55:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/23BrendonLloyd.html" description="McSweeney's Internet Tendency: 7 Habits of Highly Successful People." extended="Some good ones here that I really ought to try and incorporate into my daily work..." hash="2a9b51bed11945189990cba3bb2ce94d" tag="humour funny parody gettingthingsdone gtd" time="2005-10-01T10:49:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.web2con.com/" description="Web 2.0 is next week in the States, and I'm not going to be there, even though I'm completely thinking about this a lot at the moment..." extended="I really need to get the stuff I'm thinking about around this area out in the open as quickly as possible before my brain melts..." hash="0ae6be0fccd60acd667c9332b16be8e3" tag="web2.0" time="2005-10-01T10:34:09Z" />
  <post href="http://rollyo.com/index.html" description="ROLLYO - roll your own search engines where you can define groups of sites to search - and then share those groups with everyone else. It's the last bit that makes it interesting and cool..." extended="And one other thing - while only I appear to have a clear idea of what Web 2.0 consists of, I can spot the design tropes of Web 2.0 a mile off, and they are pretty..." hash="e5d4af38295102c0b5376c5a2c1b3d14" tag="typography design web2.0 socialsoftware socialmedia search sharing" time="2005-09-30T21:12:30Z" />
  <post href="http://pootling.blogspot.com/2005/09/stupidity-nice-people-and-religion.html" description="Stupidity, nice people and religion: a Good Thing or not?" extended="&quot;There's a cause/correlation problem here - isn't it just as possible that people turn to religion because there are these problems in a country.&quot;" hash="901332f591d90be55b2a5834ff342606" tag="religion atheism science politics usa uk christianity" time="2005-09-30T18:32:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.channel4.com/more4/" description="More 4 launches October 10th in the UK, and has a really bloody odd logo" extended="The advertising for this channel has been stunning. I just wish I understood why every organisation doesn't put their ads online. It seems like such a no brainer..." hash="e004b49731d82d6e1d0a70bab40895f0" tag="more4 tv television channel4" time="2005-09-28T22:31:16Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4286294.stm" description="Apple admits to iPod Nano faults" extended="&quot;Electronics firm Apple has admitted there have been problems with its new iPod Nano music player, after a string of complaints about damaged screens.&quot;" hash="dbaf3a43fe09321a38c8944b310584ff" tag="apple ipodnano electronics music audio" time="2005-09-28T22:23:55Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4289446.stm" description="At the Labour party conference, Tony Blair enters to a Sham 69 song" extended="&quot;If the kids are united, they will never be divided&quot; - what a strange song. You can watch the entrance via the news player as well. Shame it's not so easy to link directly through to the clip concerned." hash="4053e88a764a27fb5cc872a5ea4fa16e" tag="labour song music sham69 punk" time="2005-09-28T22:14:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html" description="Societies 'worse off when they have God on their side'" extended="“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.&quot;" hash="e26bd4ff9744efd2f402e2a599928a56" tag="religion god atheism america england britain uk science rationality christianity" time="2005-09-28T00:40:47Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4558075.stm" description="Words 'can change what we smell' - A rose by any other name might not smell as sweet, UK research suggests." extended="Yet more evidence, if you ask me, that the entire sense is made up (but more interestingly, it may explain some of the complexities of my lack of sense of smell)" hash="16eae93c7c452b548f8a80088b0f75d6" tag="anosmia smell senses scent psychology neurochemistry" time="2005-09-26T07:20:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html" description="Turning the Pages™, the British Library" extended="&quot;Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the details&quot; - lovely, beautiful, and a great use of rich media to do something that couldn't be done easily with web pages alone. Not totally sure about the interface though..." hash="1df5895a8800c0b5d7ebdd112e59fb4c" tag="literature books flash" time="2005-09-25T21:30:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66356,00.html" description="Wild Things Are on the Beach" extended="&quot;A self-styled god, Jansen is evolving an entirely new line of animals: immense multi-legged walking critters designed to roam the Dutch coastline, feeding on gusts of wind&quot;" hash="619854eb9a439901cde5bbda116aec58" tag="theojansen art automata robotics" time="2005-09-25T21:00:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/" description="World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures" extended="This will be in London at the beginning of October. Looks pretty awesome, actually. Kind of fascinated by it." hash="99be7125191c0861cab6c02588760ad1" tag="conference" time="2005-09-25T19:39:37Z" />
  <post href="http://scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=32468" description="&quot;Most of the cast of the upcoming SF movie Serenity told SCI FI Wire that they have signed on for two more movies if the film version of Joss Whedon's canceled Fox TV series Firefly is a hit&quot;" extended="Can I please, please, please remind people to go and see Serenity when it comes out. I really really want a bloody sequel here. The film deserves one..." hash="1e1e63f00bc6f1f0e3de7905b6bea645" tag="serenity josswhedon scifi drama television film movies" time="2005-09-25T18:33:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gbax.com/indexgp2x.html" description="Is the GPX 2 more interesting than the PSP?" extended="Well it's running Linux, can show photos, play music and has a MAME emulator onboard so you can play all MAME'd games. No denying an open platform portable is interesting..." hash="0890017efe203c6bb15ea902e98317be" tag="psp portable linux handheld mobile" time="2005-09-25T15:52:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season02/210/" description="Wow. Pretty bloody astonishing episode of Battlestar Galactica. Reboot of an old classic. Lloyd Bridges has changed a bit..." extended="Don't look if you don't want to be spoiled for episode ten of season two. Is all I'm saying." hash="ab28991db2414b453c8f27ad1091ca56" tag="tv television spoilers battlestargalactica" time="2005-09-25T10:34:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/09/tivo_72_os_adds.html" description="TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows" extended="Lots of discussion about this one. Basically it's a PVR with rights controls imposed from the studios and broadcasters - designed for pay-per-view stuff..." hash="52c016c2296a883cd350fcd13aecdece" tag="media television tivo pvr mediadistribution rights broadcastflag" time="2005-09-24T14:44:06Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1576006,00.html" description="Hm. Bit of a clumsy set of comments about user-generated content from my colleagues, there... Still, never mind..." extended="'&quot;User-edited&quot; versions of the talkboards will be created, said Mr Mermelstein, because he said many of the messages posted were &quot;crap&quot;, repetitive or boring.'" hash="e82ad5485e9d2c2468a45c1162cb3e17" tag="news usergeneratedcontent ugc socialsoftware citizenjournalism stupid bbc" time="2005-09-24T13:19:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stewdio.org/jed/" description="Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)" extended="A stunning video for a Grandaddy song that uses an Apple II to create 'expressive' typography. Wonderful." hash="8febae4afd706b7ebf64707e6469ca46" tag="typography musicvideo music visualisation retrotech retro apple" time="2005-09-24T13:16:23Z" />
  <post href="http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1273" description="Apple may build video cams into future Macs" extended="&quot;A recently published Apple patent application reveals that the company last year toyed with the idea of integrating a tiny video camera into the latch of a future laptop design, presumably with intentions of leveraging its iChat audio-video conferencing" hash="0c8635155b2174c151bfb3f017df40b6" tag="apple camera video videoconferencing ichat ichatAV laptop design patent rumour" time="2005-09-24T13:12:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.liquidsculpture.com/" description="Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes" extended="Stunning. Beautiful. Really worth exploring in substantial detail. And if you work in ceramics or glass or plastics, there are some forms here you should be exploring. Awesome." hash="375bf64a3b9f8bc027f189c137ced6c1" tag="beautiful organic liquid photography translucent illustration art colour drops splashes water milk" time="2005-09-24T13:08:49Z" />
  <post href="http://typetester.maratz.com/" description="Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen" extended="Beautiful piece of work that allows to compare and explore fonts for screen use and then even get the CSS so you can use them on the web" hash="98318e94fcc1173e17efcad57dad02c1" tag="typography design type fonts utility tool applications cool" time="2005-09-24T12:52:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.returnofdesign.com/81/ethical-seach-engine-optimization.html" description="Ethical Search Engine Optimization - not bad little article this, chiming nicely with my own views about SEO (mostly bunk, build better sites)" extended="&quot;The time, effort, and money spent on search engine optimization (particularly of the exaggerating or deceptive kind) can often be put to better use by working on improving the quality, content, and structure of the website itself.&quot;" hash="2b1bd8e0f76ab1ed508cc3e4e2619955" tag="searchengines searchengineoptimisation search ethics" time="2005-09-24T12:49:23Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4265374.stm" description="A nice entertaining little story about how the iPod Mini looks a bit like old transitor radios" extended="Quite how these things make BBC News I don't know, but the pictures are nice, I work with John Ousby and it mentions Flickr which is good" hash="1ce376b5b57cc0a185ec5f9b0815f1cb" tag="flickr johnousby bbc music radio technology design ipod ipodmini apple" time="2005-09-24T12:45:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1541732.html" description="Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain" extended="&quot;An enormous pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years.&quot;" hash="0bd22cda216ea9e92e652e47b7e4cd11" tag="funny art humour pink rabbits" time="2005-09-24T12:43:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/45491564/" description="Insight into the Google master-plan (sort of)" extended="My suspicion... No master plan. That's all I'm saying. Lots of people doing stuff instead. Probably not a bad thing." hash="c581d88347ff28b5ec05f7df898f5f3a" tag="google flickr joke funny" time="2005-09-24T12:31:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4263590.stm" description="BBC News presents a multiple choice maths quiz so you can see if you've got any brains left" extended="Turns out there are some things I don't remember from school maths, but not that much..." hash="7353572c7054acf2ae666701684d97c9" tag="maths mathematics school test quiz fun" time="2005-09-24T11:10:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.themodernage.org/2005/09/what-do-antony-todd-haynes-and-david.html" description="Beautiful Victoriana-inspired poster for the Third Annual Creativity Now poster" extended="Mm. Design is good. I'm feeling the wellsprings welling up again. Maybe there will be something other than white again..." hash="04dabc26d840a07bd63c69c156733168" tag="design typography" time="2005-09-23T22:39:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.englishcut.com/" description="The well-known and well-respected English Cut weblog, featuring stories and thoughts from a Saville Row tailor" extended="Much talked about, but never on plasticbag.org - stunningly written and fascinating site with a certain embarrassment / bluntness about the very idea that it's marketing. Great stuff..." hash="c6503c75a9bf36badc9408dd7d565769" tag="weblogs weblog tailoring clothes fashion" time="2005-09-23T22:19:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowArticle.action?section=en_GB_Products&amp;article=1123689905907&amp;site=odw_en_GB" description="Sony's new MP3 player actually has some elements that bear comparison to the iPod" extended="One element in particular appeals to me - various forms of shuffle including 'Time Machine Shuffle' and 'Favourites Shuffle'" hash="3eedac86bbbf489bccc6bdcc9cda4293" tag="shuffle navigation mp3 ipod audio music radio" time="2005-09-23T21:34:20Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4251968.stm" description="BBC News: &quot;A US psychologist says there are not that many differences between the genders.&quot;" extended="The complexities of the politics of same vs different, superior vs inferior, made vs born (etc) remain a perpetual focus for debate, argument and rhetoric..." hash="9cba68a81bddc6efc8c435fba58824de" tag="politics identitypolitics feminism gender women men essentialism contingency" time="2005-09-22T19:30:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/45609929/" description="It's kind of terrible, but it's kind of great - a new t-shirt slogan is appearing around London's tourist shops..." extended="I mean it's funny if you don't get all weirded out about bombs and stuff. Um." hash="fb70a6ecf5e9732be4bd0a7a54389e26" tag="humour london" time="2005-09-22T18:42:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/media/article/518287/sky-challenge-rivals-sky-two-three-launch/" description="Sky are to launch a freeview channel in the UK showing programming that hasn't been on terrestrial yet, but which is a year or so behind Sky One's shows" extended="It's pretty clearly a marketing move - there are loads of people using Freeview that haven't upgraded to Sky and with E4's defection to free, Sky really need to have a platform from which to encourage people to 'upgrade' to satellite." hash="ee77f1beade266bd25273014356b819f" tag="tv television sky freeview" time="2005-09-22T11:42:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/v-isan.htm#What" description="Frequently Asked Questions about the ISAN version identifier for audiovisual works" extended="&quot;The first 16 hexadecimal digits of the ISAN relate to the audiovisual work. This work segment is further sub-divided into two parts: a 12-digit root segment followed by a 4-digit segment for the identification of episodes or parts when applicable.&quot; Huge." hash="6b3ed7e27a8897aaf0e275adfc86035d" tag="identifiers television audio music video tv pointatthings" time="2005-09-22T11:31:56Z" />
  <post href="http://technovia.typepad.com/technovia/2005/09/what_to_do_when.html" description="Ian Betteridge explains (to folks in the UK) what to do when a PC goes wrong" extended="Bloody good advice. Really interesting. Little bastards won't know what hit 'em..." hash="8803a75f2bf235218f7ce279829aa9a8" tag="pcs computers rights sales" time="2005-09-21T20:10:04Z" />
  <post href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/ditty" description="Daring Fireball takes the piss out of the Dell MP3 player" extended="It's just a bit rubbish. It's all so dull. Why won't someone do something good. Surely it can't be that hard!?" hash="04ef2be17bf2d3e4276593d2df73932a" tag="design mp3 audio music digitalmusic" time="2005-09-21T20:06:47Z" />
  <post href="http://twinsparc.com/a/updated-htmlstamps/" description="HTMLstamps - intriguing and slightly random way for web designers to indicate how the pages should be coded up..." extended="I don't really know what I think about this, but then again I've always been slightly suspicious of designing web sites in Illustrator or Photoshop, even though I do it too..." hash="d8138c31d785506fbed684df50a43c57" tag="design csd clientside html markup semantics" time="2005-09-21T20:03:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/543178.html" description="How To Turn Your Hamster into a Fighting Machine!" extended="Really helpful. Lots of spelling mistakes. But at leaast now I know where I went wrong in strapping the spade to poor little Fidgit..." hash="8f30697269d97d7c9ab3f5e86f2954c2" tag="cartoon comic humour funny" time="2005-09-21T19:41:01Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4265434.stm" description="Apple head attacks record firms" extended="&quot;Greedy&quot; record companies are pushing for an increase in the price of music downloads, Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs has said." hash="0efa866cdbeb2d6493be60102a920288" tag="music audio recordcompanies apple stevejobs" time="2005-09-20T20:39:45Z" />
  <post href="http://jeffcovey.net/tmp/trazan/" description="Ja Da" extended="Another one from the archive - and classic late-Friday afternoon UpMyStreet fodder too, from before I worked at b3ta" hash="e7192d7a5591a0c125eb337667868aec" tag="flash cartoon funny song music" time="2005-09-20T14:31:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.yomgaille.com/bordel/un_lapin.html" description="sur matin un lapin" extended="So I never have to search for it again - a classic flash cartoon from the depths of internet history!" hash="1da7dbc37d1c9844659e3f9c7caaf758" tag="flash cartoon song lapin" time="2005-09-20T14:29:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-09-16&amp;res=l" description="A new Penny Arcade depicts a historic conversation between myself and Matt Biddulph" extended="So far, it all appears to be working quite well. Speaking of which, back to ETech stuff..." hash="5a1eedbdd3f77803345bf11a669e7889" tag="cartoon humour funny mattbiddulph cockthirsty" time="2005-09-19T21:21:24Z" />
  <post href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000763056530/" description="&quot;Flickr and Yahoo: please support open identity standards&quot;" extended="Interesting piece this. Open Identity standards are pretty complex things, but it does seem pretty clear that there would be enormous benefits to be reaped from being the first organisation to embrace these standards (ie. all your services would already w" hash="cf936c1f3c9a5eac36d9c66e6c4639bc" tag="identity openids openid distributedidentity login yahoo flickr" time="2005-09-19T18:45:53Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy" description="Consider this an appeal - can someone with clue please fix the Wikipedia article on &quot;Penis envy&quot;?" extended="So, I've studied a fair amount of psychoanalysis, and I know this article on penis envy is bullshit, and it's been on my 'to do' list of things to fix for weeks, and I've got nowhere. So I'm putting out an appeal - can you make this better?" hash="cb901b9d7f16c83f917b8930919f3948" tag="psychoanalysis penisenvy sigmundfreud wikipedia sexuality" time="2005-09-19T18:25:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.viktoria.se/fal/events/mobilemusic/" description="Mobile Music Workshop 2006 at the University of Sussex - looks pretty neat..." extended="&quot;How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences?&quot;" hash="739c3b524ac4f21c498698383df51c2b" tag="music locative mobile phone portable audio radio" time="2005-09-19T18:23:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pandora.com/" description="I can't quite believe I didn't recommend this at the time: Pandora Music Recommendations engine" extended="I'm talking to a lot of people at the moment who think that one way or navigating data is going to win over another. But it's ludicrous, we need all the dimensions we can get and user-generated sits perfectly well alongside and/or on top of top-down or ex" hash="a13177af56329018cc6e25d33e7ffa3b" tag="recommendations navigation music audio radio songs experts" time="2005-09-19T18:13:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article313482.ece" description="The Independent's coverage of the alleged comments by Tony Blair to Rupert Murdoch" extended="Greg Dyke's comment: &quot;It may not come as a great surprise that the Prime Minister aims to please Murdoch but it comes as a bit of a shock he goes this far.&quot;" hash="bb20b093d3d8c1bf75e4c1d3279e56d1" tag="bbc tonyblair us uk katrina journalism" time="2005-09-18T18:32:58Z" />
  <post href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,1572747,00.html" description="The Guardian's report: Blair attacks BBC for 'anti-US bias'" extended="&quot;The comments threatened a new rift between the government and the BBC following the Andrew Gilligan affair over events leading to the Iraq war and recent criticisms of ministers Today presenter John Humphrys, which were controversially leaked to the pres" hash="724a1944b13885700b16b4c1c9bfe5bd" tag="bbc tonyblair politics uk us katrina" time="2005-09-18T18:30:32Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4257190.stm" description="BBC News reports that Blair 'attacked BBC over Katrina'" extended="'Prime Minister Tony Blair believes BBC coverage of Hurricane Katrina is &quot;full of hate&quot; for America, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has claimed in a speech.'" hash="a132ec387d8b2518dd52bfcd9a7d1e67" tag="bbc news tonyblair uk us politics" time="2005-09-18T18:27:44Z" />
  <post href="http://money.independent.co.uk/personal_finance/invest_save/article313138.ece" description="How single people are facing financial meltdown..." extended="It's way way way more expensive to live by yourself, or to buy a home buy yourself, than it is to do so with a partner to share the burden..." hash="452d98c8e8d096d5e648f8e92deaf9a4" tag="expenditure relationships money property" time="2005-09-18T13:17:39Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4235010.stm" description="Beatles hailed 'best of British'" extended="&quot;The 1967 Beatles track A Day In The Life has been hailed the best British song of all time.&quot;" hash="a55524afc53d27b475a9af9f0e836dd3" tag="music audio uk" time="2005-09-18T13:11:30Z" />
  <post href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece" description="Global Warming 'past the point of no return'" extended="&quot;You're essentially changing land into ocean and the creation of a huge area of open ocean where there was once land will have a very big impact on other climate parameters&quot;" hash="d16a6473add369712ecc285e14847f17" tag="globalwarming climatechange science" time="2005-09-18T10:53:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www2.meebo.com/" description="meebo.com - bloody astonishing multi-platform IM client in your browser" extended="Doesn't seem to work so well on Safari - or at least not with the amount of tabs I have open normally, but still." hash="4bb6b7525671bcbdb89eefb2dbe0ab03" tag="im aim msn yahoo web2.0" time="2005-09-17T20:10:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952001.htm" description="Troubling Exits At Microsoft" extended="&quot;There's a plea for action to Gates and Ballmer to do more -- slash the bureaucracy, tend to morale, and make it easier to innovate. But is anyone listening?&quot;" hash="09ab4f093821b3ddb03296d7c6acdca4" tag="microsoft work google yahoo" time="2005-09-17T20:03:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.whoomp.com/articles/163/1/He-Man-does-4-non-blondes" description="He Man does 4-non-blondes" extended="So it's basically a gay joke and I'm a bit conflicted about it, but what the hell... S'kind of funny..." hash="e3060759e5dc09da33b37c9c7272c993" tag="cartoon remixculture cutup parody song heman" time="2005-09-17T19:54:05Z" />
  <post href="http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/09/you_are_cordial.html" description="There's a party over at the Flickr ranch on Monday (I think) and everyone's invited" extended="Of course, I'm several thousand miles away so I don't think I'm going to be able to make it..." hash="26e7fc6008c5bbffccd57b56ac0f6fae" tag="flickr event" time="2005-09-17T13:33:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1509691/20050915/index.jhtml?headlines=true" description="Nintendo Revolution Controller Unveiled, And It's Revolutionary" extended="Mr Webb will be please - haptic interfaces, accelerometers and the like make it unlike any other controller on the market. Game interfaces are up for experimentation for the first time in years and it's all nintendo's fault..." hash="9ba38af2be98c7d341f2e91ceb9f6710" tag="interface ui haptics hapticinterface nintendo consoles" time="2005-09-17T13:31:30Z" />
  <post href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article309691.ece" description="The Independent talks about Kate Bush's reappearance after twelve years..." extended="&quot;She was wacky, she was mysterious, she was a child prodigy who topped the charts... and then she disappeared without trace. This month Kate Bush is back with her first single in more than a decade&quot;" hash="116cfe43cc11ebb54e769d53c5558388" tag="katebush music women rock pop awesome" time="2005-09-17T13:28:43Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4225013.stm" description="US teens 'reject' key freedoms" extended="&quot;Over a third of the 100,000 students questioned felt the First Amendment went &quot;too far&quot; in guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, worship and assembly.&quot;" hash="a82e235adbf77cc7c64369c3ef6a860e" tag="politics america freedom rights billofrights constitution" time="2005-09-17T12:43:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhammond/43769144/" description="You hate yourself &amp; you must die (on Flickr)" extended="Notes in offices got less and less subtle as the years passed..." hash="8aa8f6f2760e9489e177eec244bfb436" tag="flickr photographs work" time="2005-09-17T11:51:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1571366,00.html" description="The Question: Is it OK for a public figure to say arse ?" extended="&quot;What happens with a lot of these words, like arse and piss and shit, is that they're acceptable until about 1450,&quot; says Jonathon Green..." hash="4fda0336b5691f09f6cc84ae2e5d766e" tag="slang obscenity language english arse piss shit cunt" time="2005-09-17T11:50:17Z" />
  <post href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/brokebackmountainqt.html" description="Yahoo! Movies hosts the trailers for Brokeback Mountain" extended="What can I say - it looks moving, interesting, depressing and er... kinda hot. Um." hash="9e2fdd16379d8cd589418e5a90be7565" tag="movies gay" time="2005-09-17T10:22:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.benhammersley.com/" description="A new design over on BenHammersley.com" extended="A new aesthetic that reflects - perhaps - his new hairless kilted visage as seen down the pub this evening." hash="4d2931c2df7be6e2e3d745768f880375" tag="design benhammersley" time="2005-09-14T22:03:24Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/editors/archives/2005/09/13/doonesbury_returning_to_g2.html" description="The Guardian's Editor's Weblog shows immediately the discussions and background behind the decision to un-drop Doonesbury" extended="At the smallest level this really does seem to have been a way that the editorial team can talk outside the publication in a less formal voice than ever before. Interesting stuff..." hash="97630753c779c2b9bb9a1e11914da842" tag="newspaper weblog guardian weblogs" time="2005-09-14T01:06:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.merl.com/projects/privatedisplay/" description="Privacy Enhanced Computer Display" extended="A lovely bit of tech this one that makes what's on your monitor only visible through special glasses. Reminds me of the LCD screen that's completely unreadable from the sides..." hash="0770e8e6c1b1e58a5203675599b4a04d" tag="privay technology hardware monitor viewing" time="2005-09-14T01:00:03Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4237970.stm" description="Critics savage Ritchie's new film" extended="The ads have looked good(ish) but the reviewers aren't liking the it much. Interested to see what it's like..." hash="bb7b05a4ae5672849f7a3db243208031" tag="films movies guyritchie" time="2005-09-14T00:52:33Z" />
  <post href="http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2005/09/10/change-starts-at-home/" description="Shelley Powers takes Our Social World apart for being too dominated by males and not having enough minorities." extended="(1) I am gay, (2) I spent three post-grad years working around identity politics, feminism and queer theory, (3) There are iniquities that need to be rectfied, (4) I think this argument is illogical, insular, self-defeating and insulting." hash="8eaba3bb0f4bae9279363e5183621923" tag="identitypolitics gay feminism womensissues" time="2005-09-13T23:22:28Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4233902.stm" description="Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain takes top prize at Venice" extended="I'm kind of obsessed by this film, because it's been a long time since I saw a compelling mainstream drama with gay people in it. Plus they're cowboys. Hot cowboys." hash="936ff1f0458ddc501a163fe6bb8e60cc" tag="movies film jakegyllenhaal gay films anglee cinema" time="2005-09-13T23:15:26Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4222460.stm" description="'Proof' our brains are evolving - a really interesting BBC News piece on genes associated with acculturation.." extended="&quot;The microcephalin variant appeared along with the emergence of traits such as art and music, religious practices and sophisticated tool-making techniques, which date back to about 50,000 years ago.&quot;" hash="aa351eda33355fcbed238e228da80b03" tag="genetics science culture politics agriculture anthropology" time="2005-09-13T23:12:08Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu" description="Xenu - &quot;In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs.&quot;" extended="It's no wonder I'm an atheist - the faith of my forefathers is so dull. I want aliens and lasers. Now there's something to believe in..." hash="d1bf456fec6f4d888ca6b55732709aa8" tag="scientology religion bullshit funny" time="2005-09-13T23:09:22Z" />
  <post href="http://juicability.blogspot.com/2005/09/top-8-reasons-hci-is-in-its-stone-age.html" description="Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age" extended="This piece really reminds me of my old boss Stefan Magdalinski, except without the slightly crazed look, bead of sweat and slathering..." hash="de06876ed3a6d3246142a7c1ffc25d43" tag="hci design standards accessibility usability" time="2005-09-13T22:58:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/10/antigay_activists_wh.html" description="&quot;Anti-gay activists who stood up to be counted are counted&quot;" extended="I don't know what I think about this - it's like some kind of bigot-outing, which seems both poetic justice and a little cruel..." hash="0688b7ed08035b0e129dfdcd6c16d192" tag="gay" time="2005-09-11T23:01:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lafkon.net/tc/" description="An animated short film about trusted computing" extended="Pretty interesting and beautifully animated piece explaining the issues behind the industry's adaptation of the concept" hash="e56c0099fe5a017b4606a7780809af58" tag="trustedcomputing drm technology hardware rights" time="2005-09-11T22:55:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/scans_daily/826813.html" description="Some page scans from the first issue of the new Grant Morrison / Frank Quitely &quot;All Star Superman&quot;" extended="It's kind of nice to see a good old-fashioned super-intelligent super-villain again. Missed those..." hash="db9326d85738bcaa8a28878068313410" tag="comics grantmorrison comicbooks superman" time="2005-09-11T16:06:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whatson/1009.shtml#prom74" description="The playlist from the Last Night of the Proms 2005" extended="Watching it now, with Webb on IM, and thoroughly enjoying it..." hash="445a84223a11e7b1925042634c606d83" tag="music proms bbc" time="2005-09-10T20:31:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/08/30/ruby-rails-david-heinemeier-hansson.html?page=1" description="Ed Dumbill interviews David Heinemeier Hansson about Ruby on Rails" extended="&quot;Rails is opinionated software. It eschews placing the old ideals of software in a primary position. One of those ideals is flexibility—that we shouldn't pass judgement on one form of development over another. Well, Rails does, and I believe that's why" hash="3c52ee0c4910c8bd8aefbc514508683d" tag="ruby rubyonrails web" time="2005-09-10T16:25:29Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coates" description="While I was talking at Our Social World yesterday, Ross Mayfield added me to Wikipedia" extended="I kind of dread linking to this - I'm bound to get lynched for it one way or the other - but since it's there I thought maybe people could do an No Point Of View on it?" hash="41c41c3b3d49a61fbbf759cb7da2d475" tag="wikipedia tomcoates embarrassment pride" time="2005-09-10T15:32:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/bloggerson/heatherarmstrong.html" description="Rebecca Blood interviews Heather Armstrong as part of her series getting webloggers to talk about weblogging" extended="Interesting, rewarding stuff that all new webloggers should be reading, but very few will..." hash="5c50a6293f9a742fd19449c74f9a9007" tag="weblogs" time="2005-09-10T15:17:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.christianlindholm.com/christianlindholm/2005/09/i_have_seen_my_.html" description="So now this is interesting - Christian Lindholm runs off from Nokia and straight into the arms of Yahoo!" extended="Been noticing a fair amount of this recently, what with Flickr and all and a couple of friends in the States. All very interesting." hash="b72b7655a7e22432e3b907a51b5095dc" tag="yahoo business" time="2005-09-08T19:20:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.programmableweb.com/apis" description="ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 API Reference" extended="Dozens of good APIs. I can already see some interesting ones we've been playing with are missing, but it's a really really good start for some stuff I want to do at work..." hash="07aa3b1e31b0c201c79ca60348ca1e99" tag="api web2.0 web apis work" time="2005-09-08T19:14:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.haveamint.com/" description="Mint: A fascinating and kind of beautiful web stats package that's getting a bit of buzz" extended="It certainly looks great - but I'm certainly not paying $30 to see if it's any good. Anyone else?" hash="14c8ae1211f0e63c729eebf8ce641722" tag="web stats web2.0 design beautiful branding" time="2005-09-08T19:04:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/" description="Dear God, the iPod nano looks extraordinarily beautiful" extended="Must. Not. Buy. One. Have. To. Save. Up. For. Other. Apple. Products. Like. New. Powerbook. Cos. Current. One. Not. Fast. Enough. Nngh." hash="439cbdafd14598bfdbe3f289b29f7801" tag="apple ipod music audio design beautiful" time="2005-09-07T18:37:05Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/ipodlounger/41197718/" description="The first pictures I've seen of the iPod Nano" extended="Fucking hell. Thinner than a pencil. It'll be on the Apple store before this delicious post gets anywhere near my site, of course..." hash="7c58cfb1b405664368e6817177b35455" tag="apple ipod ipodnano music audio" time="2005-09-07T17:59:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5142" description="Philips produce a prototype of a 'smart-paper'-based appliance 'earlier than expected'" extended="No idea what the particular value of this one is yet, be fascinating to see what particular affordances this kind of display has..." hash="285786170378f2a45b1c89b376ca6a32" tag="interface displays devices appliances" time="2005-09-07T14:49:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.senseofsmell.org/feature/whitepaper/whitepaper.php" description="&quot;Quality of Life in Olfactory Dysfunction&quot;" extended="Interesting article about what effects not having a sense of smell has on your state of mind. I get the impression that it's mostly the people who lose their sense of smell who complain about it most. Wimps." hash="d7b5bce28e9983f76ad95d99eb69c380" tag="smell anosmia depression" time="2005-09-07T14:44:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=329" description="Finding Billie Piper: (Part One) - Possibly the most terrifying and yet most awesomely creative use of the internet to stalk someone I've yet seen..." extended="Only problem - there are lots of pubs in Belsize Park although I think I agree that England's Lane is a good bet for the butchers and hardware store..." hash="a00211dfe1302435db310272d6c5ceef" tag="celebrities london stalking belsizepark" time="2005-09-07T14:42:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/vaticanview.html" description="The Vatican's (frankly positive) official view of evolution is that it's real and true and compatible with the Bible" extended="Just to remind people - this whole thing is not a debate between religious people and scientists, as there are many many religious people who accept the legitimacy of evolution, including religious scientists and most major world churches..." hash="2b4ad9f1594a7884f8085ef7c2a760d2" tag="religion science evolution inteligentdesign" time="2005-09-07T14:33:05Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_authentication" description="Challenge-response authentication (from Wikipedia)" extended="I'm really interested - particularly after the recent delicious visualisations tool revealed some of the problems of passwords in the open - in ways of 'pairing' IDs on parallel sites without transferring sensitive information... More later..." hash="d496d7f68f446d10cc07161713a8db0c" tag="authentication web2.0" time="2005-09-07T14:29:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theregister.com/2005/08/18/berners_lee_award/" description="&quot;Germans hail Berners-Lee 'second-greatest' scientist&quot; - not because of the science, interestingly, but because of the open product / platform / concept he developed..." extended="&quot;Arguably even more importantly, he made the protocols freely available to the world shortly after his invention, and his solution became the world wide web.&quot;" hash="647d0514eb5aa2b3b3dc891f4911c2cc" tag="www web" time="2005-09-07T14:27:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.exbiblio.com/" description="exbiblio - a company doing interesting things with paper" extended="I met these guys at FooCamp and wait to see what they're up to with great curiosity" hash="ed0f98991625bff5524eeabee1f24ad1" tag="paper" time="2005-09-07T14:26:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com/" description="Antony and the Johnsons have won the Mercury Music Prize" extended="And frankly I'm well pleased about that. Some stunning and emotional music. Very bloody good - and familiar hopefully to the few on my Popcasting feed..." hash="957530bf6243ce2519bd8ccb8db9e95e" tag="music audio award" time="2005-09-06T22:12:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1764136,00.html" description="&quot;Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot&quot;" extended="Apparently a new scientific consensus is emerging that many dinosaurs may have been covered with feathers!" hash="f4a455b84d7eb70e5ab224b9c575c297" tag="dinsaurs biology evolution science" time="2005-09-05T14:09:12Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm" description="Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?" extended="Fascinating article which suggests that this particular crisis in the States has pushed the media into a position where it can be critical of government again, and interrogate it as it's supposed to. Fascinating stuff. Hopefully won't be an exception from" hash="ab65ba15c139dcabd6d1289e9e0e3b78" tag="news america media katrina disaster" time="2005-09-05T13:58:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509ipod.html" description="&quot;iPod mini to move entirely to flash and color, shuffle and phone details emerge&quot;" extended="An interesting, if predictable, move by Apple to replace the smaller hard-drive based iPods with the newer larger Flash memory units..." hash="f7fff4c446ccd143fe637c0dd2bc4c57" tag="ipod apple ipodmini hardware music audio" time="2005-09-05T13:52:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/features/tigertips1/index.php" description="It's been everywhere, but it's really good: Tiger Secrets" extended="&quot;Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system&quot;" hash="b846be5708f9331817cb1201d1320167" tag="tiger osx apple operatingsystems shortcuts" time="2005-09-05T13:50:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.blinksale.com/" description="Blinksale - The easiest way to send invoices online" extended="I was sure I'd linked to this a while back - anyway, Blinksale is a beautiful, simple and clear Web 2.0 application designed to fulfil a really interesting little (and profitable) niche..." hash="0832d419a7684af5142c437a0ac105c4" tag="web2.0 business b2b applications" time="2005-09-05T13:49:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/fb2changes" description="FeedBurner has redesigned and gone for a much simpler and more open, clean look..." extended="Ah, the new simplicity - this is the stuff. Beautiful bit of work and well worth ripping off wholesale. Makes the old design look incredibly dated and ostentatious..." hash="7f846a0d3ef548000999cd7f6b19d0ac" tag="design" time="2005-09-05T13:47:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00.html" description="One side can be wrong - scientists articulate their problems with Intelligent Design (from The Guardian)" extended="&quot;Accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences, warn Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne &quot;" hash="0efad83a9d177426d1557ae0f5d89df9" tag="evolution science intelligentdesign creationism religion" time="2005-09-05T13:45:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ftrain.com/cute_animals.html" description="Baffling Cuteness - an old Paul Ford post in which he finds cute animal cards and 'interprets' them" extended="&quot;The zombie is a panda. But it will not eat brains because he is too lazy. Get up, lazy panda, and eat brains! You are so lazy! But he is too lazy. All right, no brains today!&quot;" hash="2523d4b00cc138182b68592e03bac94c" tag="funny humour" time="2005-09-05T13:44:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4342312" description="Sisters under the skin - the Economist reports on the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome" extended="&quot;The genome of the chimpanzee—mankind's closest living relative—has been sequenced. Comparing it with Man's should help people understand themselves&quot;" hash="55cd8749a2b48ecceab6dcb753eb7741" tag="genetics science animals evolution" time="2005-09-05T13:43:26Z" />
  <post href="http://journals.aol.co.uk/thepauldaniels/PaulDanielsDiary" description="As far as I can tell, this is the weblog of Paul Daniels, famous UK magician and millionaire husband of Debbie McGee" extended="I mean it could be a parody, but if so it's so close to the truth that it's almost impossible to tell..." hash="c4fee9d1bdc0396191877ff8144f96ef" tag="pauldaniels celebrity weblogs" time="2005-09-05T13:41:46Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability" description="Wikipedia's article on falsifiability - a key concept in the philosophy of science particularly advocated by Karl Popper" extended="I think for me this is one of the core principles of science that Intelligent Design does not countenance or allow to be incorporated into their work. Which I find frustrating..." hash="5ea53be3deaaa1620417312963e2214d" tag="science philosophy" time="2005-09-05T13:37:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22269" description="The rumour is that Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely have designed the sleeve for the new Robbie Williams album" extended="I believe my brain just leapt out of my ear. That's it on the floor over there. Looking freaked." hash="738e6ef978a7753f0cc30da17ce4e184" tag="music grantmorrison sigil magic weird funny album art design" time="2005-09-05T13:29:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.oursocialworld.com/doku.php" description="Our Social World - a conference in Cambridge at the end of this week on weblogs, wikis and social software" extended="I'll be talking at this event along with lots of other UK and US experts, so register now if you haven't already done so..." hash="380531da4c43400903412be684c4dfe6" tag="conference socialsoftware" time="2005-09-05T13:25:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000070.html" description="Matt Biddulph talks &quot;Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists&quot;" extended="We've been having enormous fun at work at the moment experimenting with semantic network effects at the level of services. Totally worth a read this. Tip of the ice-berg..." hash="7681b140ee6636661d8d4e9d5e124253" tag="mattbiddulph api data web2.0 identifiers relationships mining tags folksonomies folksonomy socialnavigation analysis metrics" time="2005-09-02T22:14:57Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4201438.stm" description="Flickr fans have Yahoo fear eased" extended="That the controversy about Flickr and Yahoo's merging has hit BBC News is incredibly startling to me. Yahoo clearly have some perception problems. Also interested in Clay's comments." hash="32b304090fc9db92937da62515035dc5" tag="flickr yahoo internet web" time="2005-09-02T21:50:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40120" description="The Onion Magazine - America's Homeless: Still the best in the world?" extended="I'm sure that's the same title face as the Sunday Telegraph Magazine that my parents read... Almost as funny too!" hash="67b31c61a07f1bf1cd2bb28658b694d3" tag="design satire news funny humour" time="2005-09-02T09:14:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512" description="&quot;Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory&quot;" extended="Another stunning Onion article, and another satire of Intelligent Design. But is satire enough here?" hash="7a6d3ed8fc59c6d00beda15eade257e8" tag="religion satire intelligentdesign" time="2005-09-01T22:27:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/arts/design/29mons.html?oref=login" description="I said I wouldn't link to them again, but goddam is the New York Times article on Pastafarianism entertaining... Be prepared to get irritable about logins though..." extended="&quot;Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?&quot;" hash="86063d3fe8971e1a28d9b7cec4a31e79" tag="religion humour satire" time="2005-09-01T22:24:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.qoop.com/photobooks/flickr_user/" description="Get your Flickr books and posters printed out for you by QOOP (?)" extended="I saw some of these in the Flickr offices a while back and they looked really good, although I suspect they wouldn't look so good for camphone shots..." hash="9898795de7a1cfa6eb4865da60783d75" tag="flickr photography publishing" time="2005-09-01T22:07:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000637.html" description="&quot;1,2,3,4, I Declare IM War&quot; - an interesting theory about MSN, AIM and Yahoo conspiring to keep Google out of the multi-platform IM game..." extended="If it's true, it seems to me it'll have the opposite effect - as a real boom happens with Jabber clients that are interoperable instead led by Google. This could be about the platformising of the IM space for other people to build upon..." hash="2f672a993a43200fff214575bb15e131" tag="im socialsoftware instantmessaging msn yahoo google business" time="2005-08-31T12:41:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp" description="An awesomely useful web page that allows you to see how fast your current internet connection is..." extended="As of this moment this occupies spot #2 on my browser quick-links bar, next to my cache of things I have to work through. It's neat. Yum." hash="d8cfe5ceddeb4e310f49b2355f0977af" tag="internet network speed web" time="2005-08-31T12:27:39Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4196642.stm" description="File-sharers move from BitTorrent" extended="BBC News reports that people are moving towards using peer to peer software like eDonkey instead of BitTorrent, after trackers were shut down a few months ago..." hash="0f0f20aa69b070e9ce1243f4c7f028fd" tag="bittorrent peertopeer p2p edonkey distribution media" time="2005-08-30T22:22:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000343056568/" description="Engadget reports that Apple have made a deal with Cingular around the iTunes phone" extended="Again September 7th is the date that everyone's looking towards. I guess we'll see then. I can't imagine it make me switch to Motorola, and I wonder how long it will be before it's available in the UK..." hash="a5ac2f44fae119202f0e847c2fafeefa" tag="apple itunes phone mobile cingular motorola" time="2005-08-30T22:21:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/technology/30apple.html" description="An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent" extended="September 7th is the date that everyone is bandying around. Which franky is about time - they've been talking about this for months..." hash="e6ec3531d8fb7428967717031b7a2728" tag="apple ipod mobile telephones" time="2005-08-30T22:19:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/constantgardener" description="The Constant Gardener is getting pretty exciting reviews - collected here on Metacritic..." extended="&quot;Director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine put a human face on John le Carre's novel of sex, lies and dirty politics in modern Africa. Prepare for a thrilling ride. &quot;" hash="e4772b5ef032a5b3b6f62f671137053c" tag="movies films cinema literature drama" time="2005-08-30T22:13:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851295,00.asp" description="18th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey by PC Magazine finds Apple at the top again. The scores are so much better that their left to query whether Apple computer users are just completely barking." extended="&quot;For Apple, in both the desktop and notebook sections of the survey, every single score is significantly better than the industry average for Windows machines&quot;" hash="aa71e4b84d2a2fa156a88b309ec52c07" tag="apple computing hardware" time="2005-08-30T22:12:15Z" />
  <post href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=104073" description="Bizarre South Park cartoon in which &quot;Scoble goes to Google&quot;" extended="Compelling. Scary. Intriguing. Aliens. Rimming." hash="859ce5adcbc4bc10ad1e687602964ced" tag="humour funny google microsoft" time="2005-08-30T22:05:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1492122,00.html" description="I find myself equally unimpressed by the response to the Peter Tatchell article." extended="It attempts to cite strong gay black role-models and can only cite the most pathetic of examples, while in the meantime stating that referencing (not with a mind to discredit) aspects of someone's acknowledged sexual history is tantamount to an insult." hash="22ca9e05cbe25d4a5a3908abc16f8686" tag="history black race politics gay" time="2005-08-30T22:01:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1486997,00.html" description="Malcolm X - gay black hero?" extended="An older piece from the Guardian - written by Peter Tatchell of course - talks about Malcolm X's sexuality. I find it weirdly uninteresting and limited as a piece, despite my increasing sympathy for Tatchell as I get older." hash="ea448d83723fe203a796c775e104add5" tag="gay politics race black" time="2005-08-30T21:54:59Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html" description="Is Your Boss a Psychopath?" extended="&quot;Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless -- and very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's corner offices.&quot;" hash="a41fd974ec367b765e4c4f37b4369232" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-08-30T21:43:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.omninerd.com/articles/articles.php?aid=34" description="How Much Does iTunes Like My Five-Star Songs?" extended="Exploring the algorithm that choose songs in the Party Shuffle mode..." hash="a39cd3969a39fe61c9b983d595dd6a06" tag="music itunes audio shuffle recommendations" time="2005-08-30T21:12:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/blackboard/" description="Bye bye blackboard museum" extended="A blackboard written on by Einstein is supplemented by a whole range of contemporary blackboards by prominent politicians, artists and scientists..." hash="430c81ddbf65dd6d82004b2db84215db" tag="museum art blackboard science einstein" time="2005-08-30T20:17:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/thompson_edinburgh05.shtml" description="Mark Thompson's speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2005" extended="&quot;But the idea that, in the age of the i-pod, the public would not welcome the opportunity to actually buy a download of a piece of music they have heard on a BBC site ... seems to me ridiculous. &quot;" hash="132c3e812e7da3c538beeffbc7e788b4" tag="television business media music distribution homeentertainment tv video audio radio bbc" time="2005-08-30T12:14:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/27/New-Mac-for-Mom" description="An interesting block of feedback on getting a computer-naive parent to switch to a Mac" extended="I'm particularly fascinated by this one as I'm trying to get my family to convert to an iBook at the moment. I wonder if they'll be able to do it..." hash="abb4c638c7474ed7166a672027a85b5c" tag="apple mac usability" time="2005-08-29T23:31:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,68654,00.html?tw=rss.TOP" description="Some users of Flickr are more than a little pissed at the Yahoo acquisition. The whole thing is very interesting. Don't know what I think about it quite yet..." extended="&quot;A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic &quot;mass suicide&quot; to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo&quot;" hash="4f076e4dd16a5dc07e5300f5cb5875ae" tag="flickr yahoo business" time="2005-08-29T23:22:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers/commissioning/more4.html" description="More4 - the new channel from Channel4 - is commissioning new shows at the moment" extended="Apparently it will launch later in the year on Satellite, Freeview and Cable and will feature The Daily Show, West Wing and new drama / documentaries..." hash="a144ab4220074b524b5665a757558df9" tag="television uk" time="2005-08-29T23:08:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4192662.stm" description="The Dutch version of Big Brother is proposing to have a pregnant woman give birth on the show..." extended="I suppose we haven't quite got to those extremes yet. The woman apparently believe the child will be proud of their on-screen birth later in life..." hash="2fe2fa03b3b707217a2a788a03163814" tag="television holland" time="2005-08-29T23:05:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035763730@N01/sets/824678/" description="Matt Locke does some black &amp; white portraits of the usual suspects (plus Ted Nelson) at this year's Open Tech" extended="Webb comes off looking best, as usual. I look like a dribbling freak..." hash="46cce9245eb5a0983260addf90975e1f" tag="photography" time="2005-08-29T13:09:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.addisonlee.com/index.html" description="I've just started using Addison Lee for all my cabbing needs, and they're bloody awesome..." extended="I know this sounds like an advert. I don't care. They make me feel special inside..." hash="45a64e7fbd7f0ea89e0721dd195c00ae" tag="taxi transport cab london" time="2005-08-28T10:52:57Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4187036.stm" description="BBC plans to put BBC One or BBC Two out on the net within the next year" extended="Infrequently mentioned: to go alongside the ten national radio stations (among others) that it already simulcasts online..." hash="a5e2fc5e7630c8e530ab897b57d31d3f" tag="radio tv bbc media broadcast" time="2005-08-28T10:48:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076" description="How to configure iChat for Google Talk" extended="Interesting question - everyone talks about how Google represent a challenge to Microsoft, but I wonder what effect they'll have on Apple..." hash="4273eb4e26f9b75b7a1b21e8880f8b33" tag="apple google im" time="2005-08-28T10:37:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/37573967/" description="Pastafarianism makes it into the Times (London not New York)" extended="Thanks to Mr Jones for finding and Flickring it..." hash="588ae9e17f87bf4ae51497c8321afd53" tag="religion humour funny" time="2005-08-27T13:14:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.electrolux.co.uk/node35.asp?ProdId=14315" description="The Electrolux ZA1 Trilobite - The automatic vacuum cleaner" extended="After seeing (and playing with) Cal's amazing Roomba, I now have a craving for this £900 sonar-based robotic hoover..." hash="61bccd6e7de1790f5bab14b28bfffe19" tag="robots cleaning home domestic toy design" time="2005-08-26T08:39:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp" description="A Flickr API version of UK-obsession Sudoku done with any tagged pictures - this has got to have been absolutely everywhere" extended="One of the best uses I've seen for the API yet - which pushes the whole concept of what you might do with Flickr photos in an entirely new direction. Lovely, funny job... (Thanks Siobhan!)" hash="4aaa75f016d0c0cecd050a37ecea9b64" tag="game api flickr sudoku" time="2005-08-26T08:26:21Z" />
  <post href="http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/3999" description="Leonard has some video of a rave being broken up (and people being beaten) in Utah" extended="Extraordinary imagery - feels like something out of a movie." hash="594d3f713aff115d03bafa7e1fde7e0e" tag="politics" time="2005-08-24T16:37:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.odeo.com/audio/169071/view" description="From the sublime to the ridiculous - recording background noise from BarCamp and distributing it over the internet..." extended="When Podcasts Go Wrong! - this evening on Slightly Bitchy And Feeling A Bit Guilty TV!" hash="3d7f5fc78e09ec8d47afeb6371912422" tag="podcasting noise audio funny" time="2005-08-24T16:13:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/interviewwithjohngruber" description="Interview with John Gruber in which he discusses the Mac OSX interface" extended="Interesting stuff, although I'd be more interested in asking him which UI elements from non-Apple systems they should incorporate. I'm currently loving the palettes in the new betas of OmniGraffle for example..." hash="e7b76a4d945c730674d724c1dceea3ed" tag="ui design apple osx" time="2005-08-20T15:29:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/19/boing_boings_250000_.html" description="Boing Boing's $750,000 Intelligent Design challenge for the non-Pastafarian" extended="&quot;This brings the total purse for anyone capable of proving that Jesus is not the son of Flying Spaghetti Monster to $750,000.&quot;" hash="0348013887a6b07becf8466aed38e612" tag="religion" time="2005-08-20T05:02:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kottke.org/05/08/so-long-technorati" description="Jason Kottke takes the Technorati crew to task for being, well, a bit rubbish" extended="Don't know what I think about this - there's no denying the service is flaky, but then again the problem grows pretty quickly and it must be an enormous struggle to keep up with it..." hash="187333f4cd23bbcc6dd74a7908d69d38" tag="technorati" time="2005-08-19T23:46:03Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/jkottke/35397874/?#comment9643787" description="In which Jason Kottke makes a mockery of my gorgeous hat experience in the Flickr offices" extended="I'm going to get you Kottke. Watch your back and don't put any funny hats on. That's all I'm saying..." hash="e701d519d454f51ee987b964ccc09c4d" tag="funny humour" time="2005-08-19T23:44:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hotales.org/writings/universal-access-to-all-human-knowledge.html" description="A transcription of Brewster Kahle's piece at NotCon 2004 on the Universal access to all human knowledge" extended="Really interesting piece that estimates some of the stuff that's available or could be available in the future and how hard it would be to make it available to everyone..." hash="ae8dee12fb71714a3a28f05b59f38792" tag="information bandwidth storage digital media brewsterkahle" time="2005-08-19T23:40:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hairrison.org/woof/home" description="Randomly, the weekend of FooCamp is also the weekend of the Harrison festival for hairy gay men..." extended="I wonder - is there really no intersection at all between the two events / communities?" hash="fe87a7cf0aa6e26538c181832c411bc6" tag="gay festival sanfrancisco" time="2005-08-19T23:37:59Z" />
  <post href="http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2005/08/technorati_abou.asp" description="There's a rumour that a major US player is about to buy Technorati" extended="Seems to me that they really need someone with a huge and solid architecture to deal with the scale of the searchable space - if true this is probably a good move..." hash="57249a44a00518fdb242ef2095e012e0" tag="weblogs search google yahoo technorati" time="2005-08-19T23:31:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/09/bus2.feat.geek.camp/" description="On last year's FooCamp: When geeks go camping, ideas hatch" extended="Not sure what I think about the media-take on these things. Certainly the event has a reputation..." hash="533ba8c25963aff2f54dfd118948c3f0" tag="conferences media technology" time="2005-08-19T23:29:52Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4151510.stm" description="Bit of a weird one - BBC News does a Blur v Oasis timeline in Flash" extended="Don't quite get the point, but it is interesting to see the two bands move in relation to one another. More interesting would be to put people like Franz Ferdinand in there as well..." hash="44b3adaa92174f3e91329e7daf652ac2" tag="pop rock music audio flash" time="2005-08-16T10:03:15Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4155228.stm" description="&quot;Newsreader Michael Buerk has said &quot;almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women&quot; who &quot;decide what we see and hear&quot;.&quot;" extended="&quot;All [men] are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy.&quot;" hash="9afbe6a0aaadabe6fb8f8d51d9057d32" tag="sexism gender news politics opinion bbc" time="2005-08-16T09:59:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1542702,00.html" description="Charlie Brooker's dissection of this year's Big Brother in the UK" extended="&quot;Finally, the award for Unprecedented Dignitycide goes to Kinga, who ... celebrated her second night in the house by masturbating with a wine bottle in the middle of the lawn&quot;" hash="533d013eae785f1f8c47ad6fc970f345" tag="celebrity bigbrother television uk" time="2005-08-15T22:23:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=321" description="A fascinating article from the Ecologist Online about the UK's food culture and why it is the way it is..." extended="&quot;No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe&quot;" hash="ac794f49772cbb51d9d197f35b19cbf0" tag="uk europe food eating ecology shopping business" time="2005-08-15T22:17:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.venganza.org/touched.htm" description="Art that celebrates our creation by the Giant Spaghetti Monster" extended="For more on this emerging new faith, I can recommend venganza.org" hash="f7b6b5fbceeabbbad1ef437cb9dadf1b" tag="religion politics satire photoshop" time="2005-08-15T21:48:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/hardware/10237939.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA" description="Apple stocks are rising all over the place after rumours suggest that they may be about to annouce a deal connecting the iTunes music store with Google" extended="&quot;The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine&quot;" hash="62b26a40be5c718b38086ab2ebcfda93" tag="music audio apple google" time="2005-08-15T21:45:56Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaye_Davidson" description="Whatever happened to Jaye Davidson - Oscar nominated star of The Crying Game and Stargate" extended="Basically nothing - he just withdrew completely from the industry after two films and returned to working in fashion. Just didn't like it, I guess..." hash="9e18debf7d510ee32d0bb103ba81807e" tag="star jayedavidson celebrity" time="2005-08-15T17:59:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/about/cnet.shtml" description="One of my absolute favourite websites - Metacritic - has been absorbed into the belly of a larger beast. Hopefully it will find safe haven with CNET. I love you Metacritic..." extended="&quot;After relying on a small group of volunteers as well as our own hard (and unpaid) labor over the past six years, we are extremely happy to announce that Metacritic.com will now be part of CNET's Games &amp; Entertainment family of websites&quot;" hash="6a90fdb3a6503743641a66ff4501369b" tag="metacritic reviews business" time="2005-08-15T17:57:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gomechewatch.com/index.php" description="Ian Gomeche Public Information Service reports that Ian Gomeche is in custody and has been sectioned" hash="3266e0a901b721a752066ca09e249b14" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-08-15T17:56:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_08/web2-data-metadata-interface.html" description="An interesting piece on a Web 2.0 panel held in the US recently" extended="&quot;With Web 2.0 apps, the data might be from one place, the metadata from another, and the interface from a third party or a remix&quot;" hash="d90556c7a560b682b051411046aa0add" tag="web2.0 webapplications panel data metadata" time="2005-08-15T17:52:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/15/bbc_wikipedia_is_not.html" description="Rob Cooper from the Jamie Kane game replies with the BBC's line on the alleged Wikipedia spamming" extended="&quot;Just to confirm, the BBC would never use Wikipedia as a marketing tool. The first posting was simply a case of a fan of the game getting into the spirit of alternative reality a little too much&quot;" hash="2bb4caf207541ee67bd85ba83b3e2685" tag="bbc wikipedia spam gaming" time="2005-08-15T13:47:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/13/bb_punks_wikipedia_i.html" description="Did the BBC spam Wikipedia as part of a marketing ploy for alternative reality game, Jamie Kane?" extended="This is the first of two posts on this subject over the last day or so - read the other before making your judgement" hash="fe9b63cbb31ff4ef293ac810bf63d2bb" tag="advertising bbc journalism marketing media spam wikipedia" time="2005-08-15T13:44:58Z" />
  <post href="http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/dont_look_now_but_the_coroner_is_measuring_microsoft_for_a_black_suit/" description="An interesting - if slightly predictable - article about how Microsoft will die from an Apple website" extended="Bit old, sorry about that. Been a bit busy. You wanna make something of it?" hash="ac38f7eea243c37b6ff0cc904ce8ed48" tag="microsoft apple operatingsystems technology pcs" time="2005-08-11T11:58:07Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/41715395@N00/31541062/" description="You see the thing about Ruby on Rael is that it makes it so much easier to get complicated things done..." extended="Like, er... Pick apples from high trees or um... Keep Sam Ruby from getting tired..." hash="55abb94fca9997d6cdf0d6960bba8dc5" tag="humour funny" time="2005-08-10T09:00:17Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4127676.stm" description="BBC News' obituary of Robin Cook" extended="&quot;Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, 59, has died after collapsing while out hill walking in Scotland.&quot;" hash="e8c1163ae0b45467c7513c343452114e" tag="politics uk politicians" time="2005-08-08T22:33:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.infocusmag.com/05augustseptember/whedonuncut.htm" description="An uncut interview with Joss Whedon from In Focus..." extended="&quot;An interview with Joss Whedon, the renowned script doctor and ‘Toy Story’ scribe who created ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ – and makes his feature directorial debut with the sci-fi actioner ‘Serenity’&quot;" hash="c637f037b0e13096936b9c58416848e7" tag="josswhedon television film movies buffy scifi fantasy" time="2005-08-08T18:48:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/050808sh_shouts" description="What I'd say to the Martians (being a really funny New Yorker rant)" extended="&quot;People of Mars, you say we are brutes and savages. But let me tell you one thing: if I could get loose from this cage you have me in,  would tear you guys a new Martian asshole&quot;" hash="207e62a9fe38d737ef259235cf69c032" tag="mars humour funny editoial" time="2005-08-08T10:03:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rexx.com/~oinkoink/Ruby_v_Python.html" description="Ruby and Python Compared" extended="I'm just getting myself started in programming, after years of concentrating on navigation design, client-side design and code - Ruby is looking like it might be the language for me..." hash="9bebdf5c255dc2d36bb388a3c82e42a9" tag="ruby python programming" time="2005-08-08T09:21:09Z" />
  <post href="http://thedamnblog.com/index.php?y=2005&amp;m=07&amp;d=31" description="Apparently you can 'hack' lifts by pressing 'door close' and the floor you want to go to.." extended="I've tried this at the BBC several times and the results have been inconclusive. Treat with suspicion!" hash="ca503e502982ae2ce46d72fc351890db" tag="hacks" time="2005-08-08T09:18:44Z" />
  <post href="http://news.com.com/Bacteria+froze+the+Earth,+researchers+say/2100-7337_3-5815965.html?tag=nefd.top" description="Bacteria froze the Earth, researchers say" extended="&quot;Humans apparently aren't the first species to change the climate of the planet. Bacteria living 2.3 billion years ago could have plunged the planet into deep freeze, researchers at the California Institute of Technology claim in a new report.&quot;" hash="3bd2f50f5b765c2029a76fef06083629" tag="bacteria globalwarming climatescience" time="2005-08-08T09:04:19Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4011545.stm" description="&quot;American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus.&quot;" extended="I used to teach myth at University and for the most part the academic approach to this is to say that the myth or idea of Atlantis is way more important than any real place - and to remind people that Plato used a lot of metaphors and fables and literary" hash="13e2f8c79d72b7c8ccfe27ba8bbcee6a" tag="atlantis mythology history archaeology cryptoarchaeology" time="2005-08-08T08:53:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/08/04/technology-remote-control-humans_cx_lh_0804remotehuman.html?partner=rss" description="Remote-Controlled Humans - by delivering electric currents behind the ear, you can steer human beings..." extended="&quot;A demonstration video shows a young man walking down the street nearly run over by a passing motorcycle, steered to safety at the last minute by a guardian angel wielding a remote control. &quot;" hash="0aec79246891d6160a96db2d958e268b" tag="body biology hacking" time="2005-08-08T08:48:33Z" />
  <post href="http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/gmapez/" description="Google Maps EZ" extended="Some easy code and a walkthrough for using the Google Maps API on your own sites" hash="86eaaa8c2420e7f737442dbbd9e79c28" tag="google api maps javascript" time="2005-08-08T08:42:11Z" />
  <post href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/08/trusted" description="In which Daring Fireball takes Cory to task for a post on Apple and Trusted Computing" extended="Interesting one this - Cory treats any technology in his machines that could potentially be used to limit his freedoms as an invasion and an imminent danger, John points out that it's not in Apple's interest to utilise it. My head's with John, my heart's" hash="044dec7c7ba1a3720b533beec8f25c35" tag="apple drm corydoctorow rights" time="2005-08-08T08:38:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6278387-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd" description="Top 10 dot-com flops" extended="&quot;Few of these companies actually made enough money to recoup that cash, and when their investors fled to the hills, these start-ups died dramatic deaths. These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust.&quot;" hash="61fb1427e2e5f56a818bcc5ae2d6bcdc" tag="business dotcom money web internet" time="2005-08-08T08:29:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/telemarkskier/30939601/" description="After Apple's Mighty Mouse, comes their new - and funnier - Danger Mouse" extended="Probably only funny for British people of a certain age..." hash="d2de9f142f413cbde56ff57ba66cda85" tag="cartoon humour apple funny" time="2005-08-05T07:51:57Z" />
  <post href="http://audio.search.yahoo.com/" description="Yahoo! Search - Audio Search" extended="Now this is very interesting indeed. I'll be exploring this one a lot more over the coming days..." hash="ae9b3d777f89ff251c854bf0488facac" tag="audio yahoo search" time="2005-08-04T15:37:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/" description="It's kind of been everywhere, but Apple have announced their new 'Mighty Mouse' product" extended="Interesting design decisions - electronics replacing mechanics, non-obvious physical interfaces - but still kind of compelling..." hash="c836713ca567af47cad035734a505c7f" tag="hardware mouse apple" time="2005-08-03T17:13:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20041214.html" description="A body-modification project that builds eyeglasses that pass through the nose" extended="It's pretty stunning, although I keep wondering about magnets. Does that sound banally stupid? Magnets." hash="927e1d6f2a906c337cff7837a11ea363" tag="magnets bodymodification" time="2005-07-31T21:22:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1537039,00.html" description="Danny O'Brien: The right to digital freedom" extended="&quot;While these conflicts are tremendously important, they are more than 3,000 miles away. Battles for Britain's digital future are taking place more locally - yet we barely hear the fights here.&quot;" hash="edd8c8ddc3c145920c17df080ca038e9" tag="drm law politics rights freedoms copyright eff" time="2005-07-31T20:50:07Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4653423.stm" description="False breasts betray exam cheats" extended="&quot;A Russian youth wearing a drag outfit which gave him improbably large breasts has been caught trying to sit an entrance exam for a female friend.&quot;" hash="f47a4e731dd61d8bb76b228c80341b05" tag="humour funny" time="2005-07-31T20:44:12Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1653" description="&quot;Bloggers and journalists responsible for shades of gray between them&quot;" extended="&quot;Orlowski doesn't take the sort of chances that Winer is referring to.  He has, for as long as I've been familiar with his writing, taken liberties instead — liberties becoming of a buffoon.&quot;" hash="9ffeacc16187460968d9d424f3ed40c5" tag="journalism technology" time="2005-07-31T20:43:20Z" />
  <post href="http://thomashawk.com/2005/07/andrew-orlowski-sloppy-journalist-or.html" description="Andrew Orlowski, Sloppy Journalist or Bold Faced Liar?" extended="One of a series of articles that have emerged since Scoble and Orlowski broke into open warfare. My opinions of Orlowski's journalism are a matter of public record..." hash="dc12e817d918356838bd3e63118fa44d" tag="journalism technology" time="2005-07-31T20:41:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid401805?source=This%20is%20Money" description="Google look for an office in Victoria" extended="I wonder what proportion of the staff will be developers making new products and what proportion will be to do with localisation and sales" hash="8e097adac576bae6746052fcfdbea519" tag="google london" time="2005-07-31T20:22:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.aimfight.com/" description="AIM Fight - pit two AIM names against one another and see which is in the most buddy lists across the world..." extended="Got this one from Anil Dash ('anildash'). If you want to pit yourself against me, my IM name is plasticbagUK" hash="6e8a39d2827d25cbad0486a4aebe691d" tag="socialsoftware API" time="2005-07-31T19:33:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.agwright.com/blog/archives/000911.html" description="An old post from last year on a Google audio search" extended="Did anything happen with this? Does anyone know if there was any movement here. I'd be really interested to know what's going on..." hash="d00d07fc659a3bc365a23d0ffb250cff" tag="google audio music search" time="2005-07-31T18:56:11Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4707187.stm" description="BBC opens TV listings for 'remix'" extended="&quot;Developers and designers are being encouraged to come up with innovative ways of using TV and radio schedules by taking part in a BBC competition.&quot;" hash="6564fe0ecfb95bb81317858f7aa066f7" tag="bbc opendata developernetwork api tv television" time="2005-07-31T18:47:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pledgebank.com/refuse" description="Identity Cards? If you're not a fan, there's a Pledgebank thing you can sign up for." extended="I'm getting more and more fascinated by Pledgebank, but I'm mostly fascinated by why no Americans seem to be using it. This could be huge. Is the UK focus too parochial?" hash="f5d8437d64ecada160a2320d7224945b" tag="politics uk" time="2005-07-31T17:54:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/news/newsstory.jsp?id=1633" description="Orlaith leaves the Big Brother house" extended="I couldn't believe that Kemal got evicted. I loved Kemal. He was so cool. Orlaith - not so much..." hash="3cf1bfe5ecd1e9da53836b359e7e84c9" tag="bigbrother television tv" time="2005-07-30T13:47:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.barbelith.com/topic/21908" description="Barbelith examines the shifting political narratives of American media by looking at the pro-Afghanistani tendencies of Rambo III" extended="'These poor people, underfed, and under-armed? They're a noble people! You'll never beat them! They would rather die than be slaves under your rule!'" hash="f47dcbbaf59afffdc6363c4aa55549be" tag="film movies politics america" time="2005-07-30T12:17:11Z" />
  <post href="http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/a_nonist_public_service_pamphlet/" description="A pamphlet on the horrors (and very real problem) of blog-related depression" extended="Fascinating stuff. Not that I've ever suffered from it myself, of course..." hash="63ff3824611c660b9676099f11ea39d3" tag="funny weblogs humour" time="2005-07-29T23:00:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/" description="The Mac Mini's specs have now been bumped - £429 for 1.4 Ghz G4, 512 Mb RAM, combo drive AND airport extreme AND bluetooth" extended="Now that's a decent specced little machine that's totally usable directly out of the box. Interesting..." hash="4d07d1c87b7769b47a9c443843fb381b" tag="apple mac macmini" time="2005-07-27T21:52:16Z" />
  <post href="http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/violence.htm" description="The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games" extended="&quot;The Playstation era has, in fact, produced the most non-violent kids ever. But I thought video games were training children to kill? I’m sure I read something like that&quot;" hash="9b7adafed0880971adcb82e59fe10407" tag="games gaming psychology research violence" time="2005-07-26T23:56:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6268155-1.html" description="Top 10 Web fads" extended="Love it - banal memes from the last ten years collected together. This is the media history of our times." hash="65a342e10110112e9e66e61940308d17" tag="popular memes article" time="2005-07-26T22:43:54Z" />
  <post href="http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?productLearnMore=BA110" description="A beautiful intriguing gadget on the Apple Store: EyeTV for Digital Terrestrial TV. Currently quite wanting one of these..." extended="&quot;EyeTV for DTT allows you to watch, record, pause and rewind free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on your Macintosh in crystal clear digital quality.&quot;" hash="747d7f4d9f81d85769922ae9ebf82d04" tag="television pvr apple homeentertainment" time="2005-07-26T22:41:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/index.html" description="FogBugz 4.0 looks amazingly useful and clean and clear and I really want to have more of a play with it" extended="But I can't get past the fact that it's really expensive for a few people making web apps for fun outside work..." hash="1a41640a8afa65a7891d8ec25bbdc645" tag="programming projects ui web webdevelopment" time="2005-07-26T22:32:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/27747661/" description="Cory gets a comic for his birthday: &quot;Doctor O, a notional comic of which I am the hero&quot;" extended="Possibly the best present for a geek I've ever seen in my life - but probably dependent on having an exotic name to really carry it off..." hash="ec2758afcf3959f2b42339b0104585ee" tag="comics funny" time="2005-07-26T14:09:46Z" />
  <post href="http://widgets.yahoo.com/" description="Yahoo! buy Konfabulator and release it as a free download" extended="It's kind of a fascinating - if slightly peculiar - move. I don't quite know what to make of it. I guess it's probably a way to get people using their web services more..." hash="337c5f43bc271f89c40299f8d1a6803a" tag="yahoo widgets windows business" time="2005-07-26T11:25:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bd4d.com/blog/2005/07/26/how-to-build-a-successful-web-startup-in-the-uk-part-i/" description="Ryan Carson writes about his experience of start-ups in the UK (and his theories on the class system)" extended="I don't quite buy the class thing - I think it's just that the British don't like anyone whatsoever to stick their head up above the parapet. You only have to look at the tabloid press to see that..." hash="eb4e5e4ce8889aaafde795b66acdc5fa" tag="britain uk business class" time="2005-07-26T10:56:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pledgebank.com/rights" description="If you only do one thing today..." extended="'I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK'" hash="b155a806d3511a2c7fbb04aba8a1c29e" tag="politics rights uk" time="2005-07-25T22:27:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/tennant/index.shtml" description="Pictures of David Tennant in his new Doctor Who outfit" extended="I really like it - it wouldn't look completely out of place in any decade since the forties and the trenchcoat is absurdly dramatic and cool" hash="2ce1031d9b75f5a3a492c429b851984e" tag="doctorwho television bbc tv" time="2005-07-25T18:29:53Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm" description="Ancient phallus unearthed in cave" extended="&quot;The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura.&quot;" hash="2e38ef4ba3d251def4c14025d3a3501b" tag="funny news sex" time="2005-07-25T14:00:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=150617&amp;pg=0&amp;s=26945&amp;a=150625,00.asp" description="A Quick Peek at Longhorn" extended="Screenshots of the new Windows operating system do little to excite, I'm afraid..." hash="363b38d2952314b9e76f2f53e2f14dab" tag="windows computing operatingsystems" time="2005-07-24T17:27:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx" description="Windows Vista is the new name for Longhorn" extended="Presumably there are a whole load of jokes I could make about seeing things from a way off, but I just can't be arsed..." hash="9d053b1a85ec1cef0a05c7ee12dc7b61" tag="microsoft operatingsystems windows computers" time="2005-07-24T16:42:47Z" />
  <post href="http://primotechnology.com/index.php?art=articles/0705/optimus/index.htm" description="An interview with the people who designed the Optimus keyboard with the little displays under every key" extended="They're positing a price point in excess of $200-$300. If it's not a lot more than that, it's really practical..." hash="beaeca44b5c38dd1109efa6afe4b6211" tag="design hardware interview keyboard" time="2005-07-17T20:19:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boredomresearch.net/park/springtails.html" description="Springtails - musical game, music-learning tool or musical instrument?" extended="Certainly it's a nice bit of Flash. You can imagine artists of emergence learning a new vocabulary of music where you set up patterns and let them roll against one another.." hash="356cb3f25b019c5b929d25c7d9b165eb" tag="music technology interface design education" time="2005-07-17T14:04:41Z" />
  <post href="http://mugwump.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/jessica_rodrigu.html" description="Mr Kerry Bailey writes the funniest thing I have ever read about the Cruise / Holmes relationship" extended="&quot;'You adore him,' Rodriguez told Holmes when the actress was at a loss for words to describe her love.&quot; &quot;I adore him,&quot; Katy responded, then followed with, &quot;ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.&quot;" hash="d7208d5d498b025006168029eb1dd94c" tag="funny humour gossip celebrities" time="2005-07-16T23:34:57Z" />
  <post href="http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/" description="Planarity" extended="Interesting little Flash game in which you try to stop any of the lines crossing over. Strangely fascinating." hash="6570b04a3e188a560fb197d557668fc9" tag="applications flash fun games" time="2005-07-16T23:24:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/pateasonframe.htm" description="la Pate a Son - Flash music generation game or interface" extended="It has its own fiddly rule set and you learn by playing which is interesting. Weirdly fascinating..." hash="cb41db86be8c1a18045aff57f5cdc7b1" tag="design flash game music education" time="2005-07-16T23:23:21Z" />
  <post href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/locate_real_talent_encourage_it_to_break_the_rules_get_out_of_the_way.php" description="37 signals on Frank Gehry's proposed Brooklyn development" extended="So you see this confirms my theory - first you start off with real things, then you get ironic treatments of real things, then the ironic treatments become the real things - those skyscrapers look like a theme park to me..." hash="16e2cd1d3818a241868382f6c3e48d92" tag="architecture design process" time="2005-07-16T22:38:28Z" />
  <post href="http://william.torkington.com/movies/20050716-7words.mov" description="There are seven words you're not allowed to say in kindegarten" extended="In which Nat Torkington encourages his children to rise up and defy the lunacy of American school restrictions" hash="c3058fa5195bfce3f76910d8801a8340" tag="evolution politics education video funny cool" time="2005-07-16T19:22:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/" description="The Optimus keyboard has a tiny screen under each key, so that you can remap it easily to any combination" extended="Mr Webb informs me that each button costs tens of dollars at the moment, and as such it doesn't look likely to go on the market any time soon - but it rocks and I want one..." hash="71473c6f0324a8b631fd05c304ce3ca9" tag="computers hardware peripherals design keyboard technology" time="2005-07-15T23:07:32Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4110278.stm" description="Spin magazine recognise the most important albums of the last twenty years" extended="Radiohead's at number one, depressingly. But the Pixies' place at number six with their best album has cheered me up enormously..." hash="24955a11da2564bdaaa4f56a4c686d13" tag="charts music rock nostalgia lists" time="2005-07-15T23:04:30Z" />
  <post href="http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/colin_farrell_joins_the_sex_tape_elite.php" description="Colin Farrell Joins The Sex Tape Elite" extended="You have to wonder sometimes if they want this stuff to get out into public. Not that anyone would be interested in such a thing, of course." hash="7845fd913dd361f5bce8503aea846907" tag="celebrities sex funny" time="2005-07-15T22:59:55Z" />
  <post href="http://infosthetics.com/" description="Infosthetics weblog on information visualisation and aesthetics" extended="Oh this is so my new favourite site. Beautiful interesting interfaces to explore and play with. Ideas everywhere. Awesome stuff..." hash="e7838206da90d7a0d74c965831b7d508" tag="data infographics informationdesign visualisation weblogs technology interface interactiondesign ia design" time="2005-07-15T13:32:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/13/glowing_temperatures.html" description="Glowing temperature-sensitive sink-fixtures" extended="Loving this - visual feedback on how hot the water is from the tap. How useful would that be!" hash="770dfbb70180a3a6d2f15b54d9cde458" tag="hardware haptic design art technology feedback" time="2005-07-14T10:47:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1528079,00.html" description="Television took 30 years to reach a mass audience - broadband has taken three" extended="&quot;Ofcom predicted that virtually all British homes - 99.6% - would have access to a broadband connection by the end of this year. By 2010, it suggested that more people could be watching television over the internet than via analogue sets.&quot;" hash="26dfff0b1500a0b610f2757d5c177e70" tag="television broadband media mediaconsumption uk internet internetaccess" time="2005-07-14T10:14:07Z" />
  <post href="http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/050714_1.html" description="Sharp to Mass Produce an LCD with Switchable Viewing Angle" extended="Oh this is so '24' it's awesome. Also I love that they're turning one of the traditional problems with LCD screens (narrow viewing angles) into a feature. That's so neat!" hash="851280777a5367d728d60b27c35ee2a3" tag="technology hardware" time="2005-07-14T10:10:59Z" />
  <post href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/0222247" description="There's a Slashdot article about the music industry's reaction to the BBC's downloads of Beethoven symphonies" extended="Interesting coverage and discussion here, from a whole range of different perspectives - although I think there's some confusion about the remit of the BBC" hash="fb361fadf6e3d03db49f90169dd35d71" tag="bbc audio music downloads drm radio rights" time="2005-07-13T10:38:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005ay.html" description="A photo of a crop circle from Telegraph Hill in Hampshire, 2005" extended="Now come on - I mean it's obviously aliens, but now they're taking the piss..." hash="50f8a307104a147ca8238ee961d80cbb" tag="photographs game funny humour" time="2005-07-13T08:20:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/" description="The BBC launch their Open Source site" extended="Containing the software that the public sector broadcaster wishes to open to the world. Good stuff this." hash="dc216d7313943fe8d091419ae3a4be3b" tag="bbc publicservice web video APIs opensource programming" time="2005-07-13T08:13:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/07/12/supernova.html?page=1" description="I wrote a bit of a bland overview of Supernova for the O'Reilly Network" extended="I think it's a reasonably fair summary of some of the core papers and a few recurrent themes, but it's pretty far from good writing if you ask me." hash="3e6ec33b511ea929735799ce75dcbf8d" tag="supernova tomcoates conferences oreilly" time="2005-07-12T23:55:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4149493" description="The power of smell and the smell of power - women apparently find 'dominant' men more attractive only if they're already in a relationship and are in the most fertile part of their cycle" extended="It must be so weird for you people trapped into animal patterns by your primal sense of smell. Those of us without a sense of smell are clearly (by nature) more civilised!" hash="1cfb02b04907b6a886ca32b461ded9a8" tag="smell odour anosmia behaviour ethology" time="2005-07-10T22:12:10Z" />
  <post href="http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/07/tags_for_two.html" description="Del.icio.us start experimenting with the ability for someone to tag things for other people using a kind of for: tag" extended="My first reaction is that we should stop designing systems that will be spammed if they're useful, but I might be being unfair..." hash="b20f252ffbf3cea20fad938fa72424d6" tag="spam delicious folksonomies tags" time="2005-07-10T10:40:37Z" />
  <post href="http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/07/2005070801c.htm" description="An interesting / disturbing take on how much you reveal about yourself on your weblog and what impact that might have on job interviews" extended="Search seems to be the main problem - in that if someone looks for negative connotations in your posts, then they'll have them delivered to them..." hash="9b29d74925c33ca505ea959f3d41c880" tag="weblogs jobs work interviews" time="2005-07-10T10:36:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/media/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov" description="The Ruby on Rails introductory video makes a complete weblog engine in a few minutes" extended="It's all terribly impressive and perfect - I suspect - for small at-home developers who want to build things rapidly to test with..." hash="fc02581e63f281f1bfb92c68b525c301" tag="ruby rubyonrails programming tutorial weblogs webdevelopment" time="2005-07-10T10:12:27Z" />
  <post href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112017220998674726-_Dqp7Zfc_b1BHqloqmO_KKCFkzE_20060701,00.html?mod=blogs" description="Are Brits the world's worst lovers?" extended="It seems a little unfair to be honest. Just a little. Well, maybe not. Well okay then." hash="1a12ff0986dfd3dbaf61406983f67eb2" tag="sex europe survey" time="2005-07-09T21:57:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.podcastjuice.jp/" description="Podcasting Juice - a Japanese podcasting portal" extended="It's more interesting to me because of the beautiful Aqua-style effects than for the functionality. I must steal it." hash="92e2115ace1db86886c774ce33345907" tag="design aqua ipod podcasting" time="2005-07-09T21:30:41Z" />
  <post href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2121998/fr/rss/" description="The Madonna Code - Searching for the perfect music recommendation system (including an awesome one that correlates music with cultural traits)" extended="&quot;Thus, we can see that a high-energy vocal style correlates with the presence of dairy in a society's diet; a high degree of rhythmic blending between vocalists signals a high degree of social solidarity;&quot;" hash="511ca7d80293818d08675a005441a3f6" tag="music sociology taxonomy longtail recommendations navigation" time="2005-07-09T21:20:29Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/video_about.html" description="About Google Video" extended="&quot;Our mission is to organise the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day&quot;" hash="73d004d6f2206bf65bdc66a526d83b2c" tag="video tv google search" time="2005-07-09T20:52:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7616" description="New Scientist on &quot;Entering a dark age of innovation&quot;" extended="Seems like a pretty stupid and unfocused argument - lots more people in the world but we're not producing as many discrete units of innovation per person as we once did... Is that it?" hash="775d8597c9980c2ba0e9cdd1f63fb76f" tag="innovation science technology trends" time="2005-07-09T18:57:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Tech_of_cooperation_map.jpg" description="Harold Rheingold's visualisation of technologies of cooperation" extended="I don't feel I've been able to interrogate this enough yet to present an opinion on it, even though it's been available for weeks..." hash="3b9ecdc9c68aa067a4883e817948d64c" tag="socialsoftware collaboration community folksonomy visualisations" time="2005-07-09T16:18:30Z" />
  <post href="http://delivr.net/" description="Delivr Digital Postcards" extended="Built using the Flickr API, you can send any of the creative commons licensed photos to your friend as a postcard" hash="742a076ec08a7408d17ab2330f2166e7" tag="APIs flickr creativecommons photography webservices" time="2005-07-09T16:16:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.heyotwell.com/heyblog/archives/2005/05/thoughts_on_das.html" description="Andrew Otwell's thoughts on Dashboard mirror a lot of the things that I've been thinking about (and talking about to Adam Greenfield)" extended="It's a perfect environment for prototyping ambient informational devices around the home - like the orb that we were playing with a while back..." hash="28dbdb51c0c2b822ff355f9b235c3d68" tag="dashboard apple ambient design ideas interactiondesign interface tiger widgets" time="2005-07-09T16:13:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/radio_podcasts/bbclistenlive.html" description="The BBC Listen Live is now available on the Apple Dashboard downloads site" extended="Remember, this is the only official BBC widget - and we need your feedback to make it better..." hash="220e4b1b3c4e38b94f813703b057ee8f" tag="bbc widgets radio dashboard apple" time="2005-07-09T16:07:36Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4579681.stm" description="A step-by-step guide to charisma" extended="&quot;Scientists claim to have found the secret to that magical quality, charisma, and they say it can be learnt. But before you enrol for classes, don't think it will get you the job of your dreams.&quot;" hash="f51d8f482ae4dffd2c016afdfe8b3a8b" tag="charisma emotion psychology" time="2005-07-09T14:51:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/006396.php" description="Special keycases that only let people who are excited about driving get access to the keys" extended="Uses galvanic skin response sensors. Which rocks. Except it's for the Vauxhall Astra, which makes you wonder if anyone will ever get to drive the thing.." hash="8623650b0e125230fd1e7a144bd1eb21" tag="cars biometrics" time="2005-07-09T10:36:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005653.php" description="A place where it rains, but not on you" extended="&quot;A circular room made of iron clad in green leaves. It is raining inside the room, excpet where you're standing. No matter where you go in the rain, it will stop falling right above your head&quot;" hash="f35ecdef7a15b5bc9aa4b2086cfd8581" tag="rain weather art technology pervasive ambient" time="2005-07-09T10:21:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html" description="Why would you need Search Engine Optimisers when Google has a whole page on what you should do?" extended="Google's information for Webmasters page pretty much contains all the basic stuff that you need to make your site work well in search engines. Stick with that. Fire SEOs." hash="ef3ca0ee90545a75e4c4df2d0126c223" tag="searchengines google" time="2005-07-09T10:12:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tagcloud.com/" description="TagCloud - an automated tool for deriving folksonomic classifications from RSS feeds" extended="&quot;Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.&quot;" hash="aac4722d87dc3878bb4081407d345833" tag="api folksonomy navigation" time="2005-07-08T22:45:26Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa" description="The luffa - also spelt loofah or loofa - is a subtropical vine which can be harvested and stripped back to make a bath or kitchen sponge" extended="They do not grow underwater as you may have expected. Fool." hash="f7ddf4682513dc967bccc6b7c6fd6122" tag="luffa plant" time="2005-07-08T20:44:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1522351,00.html" description="]Ben Hammersley on the BBC's Creative Archive project" extended="&quot;So the question is, why are the creative industries in the UK allowed to take public money, without fulfilling the obligation to deliver publicly accessible value? Why is this even an option? We have paid for it, now let us use it.&quot;" hash="7da1e9bb114ed72b8212abe29815066c" tag="rights creativecommons creativearchive bbc" time="2005-07-08T14:48:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815" description="Wage Slaves - people are being paid sweatshop wages to farm MMORPGs for corporations" extended="Webb told me about this about a year ago. Terra Nova talk about it a lot too. Fascinatingly weird, the whole thing..." hash="22f1f96d14541d95b6b73843259eaca6" tag="mmorpgs games business technology" time="2005-07-08T14:06:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4127" description="Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?" extended="The Onion's in re-run territory, but what does it matter if they're all as good as this classic from the site..." hash="20efea3810288d8590778947425f1641" tag="humour comedy onion gay" time="2005-07-08T13:36:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/2382" description="Blast from the past: &quot;Did I miss something? Okay the bicicycle story that Barbelith, Megnut and Kottke have all blogged... what is this?&quot;" extended="&quot;I must have missed some inner circle of childhood memory bonding&quot;" hash="ddb8ee971dc21078ffd1e281eb4ae1b9" tag="jasonkottke weblogs" time="2005-07-08T11:29:46Z" />
  <post href="http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/food/features/12071/index.html" description="&quot;The Controversy Over Foie Gras - Does a Duck Have a Soul?&quot;" extended="The major question is where's the balance point between deriving human pleasure and inflicting pain on animals. As far as I'm concerned, there is a point at which inflicting pain for pleasure rather than necessity is sadistic and should be stopped. Where" hash="9bbe048648281893f043ea99bb57a812" tag="food" time="2005-07-08T11:21:54Z" />
  <post href="http://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=%22prepared+to+spill+arab+blood%22&amp;time=2875000&amp;page=1&amp;docid=-5170856634293456862&amp;urlcreated=1120815552&amp;chan=Fox+News+Channel&amp;prog=Fox+News+Live&amp;date=Thu+Jul+7+2005+at+6%3A00+AM+PDT" description="Fox News Live comments 'impartially' on the situation in London (48 minutes is the bit you should be looking at)" extended="&quot;That these people are, If necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of nonarab people living in London. &quot;" hash="ef587c81c2868c53f88e0ffa01a7a7d5" tag="foxnews news londonbombing" time="2005-07-08T09:43:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/posts.html?pg=6" description="Robot Wisdom on the Street - a weird and disturbing article about what happened to Jorn Barger" extended="&quot;Coined the term 'weblog,' never made a dime.&quot;" hash="29c3aaed05f18dc30151549abcb356d6" tag="history technology jornbarger weblogs" time="2005-07-07T22:04:43Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm" description="Software patent bill thrown out which is bloody good news" extended="&quot;European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented.&quot;" hash="595add2adfb51d96c927a6d98186c42b" tag="software patents technology law europe" time="2005-07-07T21:59:41Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1506282,00.html" description="The Guardian is to change its size to a 'Berliner' format halfway between broadsheet and tabloid..." extended="Clearing out the tabs brings this story about the Guardian's proposed change in size that I first heard about at a typography event last year..." hash="5ab1fa0e8b36ffcdb476046306f82c0b" tag="guardian newspaper design typography" time="2005-07-07T21:53:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.prweaver.com/blog/2005/01/29/108-google-employee-blogs" description="Google Employee Blogs" extended="A list of weblogs by people who work for Google - a good number of people then. I wonder what their policy on weblog stuff is (if they have one)" hash="a0c6502691df27e62f9273d370df19a8" tag="google weblogs corporateweblogs" time="2005-07-07T21:35:46Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_London_transport_explosions" description="Wikipedia article on the London bombings" extended="&quot;On 7 July 2005, beginning at 08:49, during the height of morning rush hour, a series of four explosions struck London's transport system.&quot;" hash="39f686f54c7c08c0ab1122d3dba8c629" tag="wikipedia london londonbombings terrorism" time="2005-07-07T21:32:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050627/full/050627-7.html" description="War of the fire ants - the extraordinary reproductive habits where &quot;Males pit their genes against females by chucking DNA out of eggs.&quot;" extended="&quot;The result is that both the males and females have their own, independent gene pools, leading some to speculate whether each gender ought to be technically classified as its own species. &quot;" hash="0e1e90370fc768c9416b92ed4c0a8233" tag="evolution gender" time="2005-07-07T21:16:35Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4659679.stm" description="Blogs respond to London blasts" extended="&quot;News of the suspected terror attacks across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos. &quot;" hash="357cfb8de130a10ac57dc1ec2b2b6480" tag="weblogs london londonunderground bbc web bombing" time="2005-07-07T13:56:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.random-international.com/sunlight-table" description="The &quot;Light Play&quot; Sunlight Table traps light in fibre-optic threads and uses it to create pinpricks of light in a table top..." extended="&quot;By doing so, it encourages a dialogue between work and nature and re-establishes a connection with the outside world&quot;" hash="2956e594580b0b711bb89050380ea315" tag="ambient ambientdevices technology design" time="2005-07-07T12:40:23Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/qwghlm/24230239/" description="London tube bombing on Flickr" extended="Apparently this is a picture from within one of the carriages (or leaving one of the carriages underground)" hash="cb9bcb887a45eb82d5da5d4a3629a4f6" tag="flickr london londonunderground bombing explosion" time="2005-07-07T12:26:33Z" />
  <post href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/06/news/newsmakers/stevejobs_ipod/index.htm?cnn=yes" description="Jobs offers support to dad of teen killed over iPod" extended="Apple CEO offers condolences 'from his heart' to family of teen killed last week over iPod." hash="3632a606af158a856ce95008a0a5e7ca" tag="ipod apple stevejobs" time="2005-07-07T10:53:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.carsonworkshops.com/flickr/" description="Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr" extended="Now coming for a workshop in London - very much recommended for anyone on the architecture / systems / software engineering side of developing a web app" hash="32febfb194f030bc78a076406176d09a" tag="webdevelopment flickr event" time="2005-07-05T12:40:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dontclick.it/" description="Don't Click It" extended="Interesting experiments with non-click interfaces that work really well up to a point (but I don't like the way that irreversible dialogues don't require an additional layer of confirmation)" hash="7bc54dd15a53635e491ce8d35b6f9688" tag="interface ui design flash" time="2005-07-05T11:08:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thewatchmakerproject.com/which-guru-are-you/" description="Which Web Development Guru Are You?" extended="Turns out I'm Shaun Inman, which is, you know, nice..." hash="c7a0900684b3abc72051b49da0feb730" tag="quiz" time="2005-07-05T09:55:23Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4649173.stm" description="BBC intends to revive 'This Life'" extended="&quot;The one-off show would bring the characters up to date, looking at their lives 10 years after the events of the final episode.&quot;" hash="4afc3ffd782003afa31e708c45b8e567" tag="bbc tv television" time="2005-07-05T08:20:43Z" />
  <post href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000257049127/" description="Flickr on your TiVo" extended="No idea why I'm on that picture, but it's kind of funny. I'm still waiting for subscribable Flickr live photostreams as a TV screensaver. That would rock." hash="6c4780fcca277c51ff46f5d6284fd7ab" tag="flickr tivo television homemedia settopbox" time="2005-07-03T21:51:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000747.html" description="Jeffrey Veen's &quot;The Art and Science of Web Design&quot; is five years old" extended="And Veen's only gone and released it as a PDF. Smart arse. S'kind of annoying actually. No, actually, it's just great..." hash="b5c65ec33569cd2093dc87c6ae9a63f5" tag="webdesign design jeffveen book" time="2005-07-03T21:50:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitschbitch/sets/532013/" description="Tom's Birthday from July 2003" extended="Things just turn up on Flickr even years after the event and it's pretty cool to see my memories being filled in by other people..." hash="0d1cc9b7ecbeb48d874517dd5bbf3883" tag="flickr tomcoates birthday norfolk" time="2005-07-03T21:14:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/ituneslyrics.html" description="iTunesLyrics Dashboard Widget" extended="Possibly the nicest unexpected widget I've seen to date - shows the lyrics of the song you're currently listening to..." hash="961f2fbf02068e631b19584c2e1f9570" tag="music audio radio" time="2005-06-30T22:27:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.surrendermartha.com/tisfrt.html" description="'Tom is a Freak' t-shirt" extended="It's about Tom Cruise, all right. Tom Cruise. Not me. Tom Cruise. There's a &quot;Free Katie&quot; t-shirt too that I've got my eye on..." hash="fc955ad271541246cbf52048593b6e7d" tag="gossip celebrity humour" time="2005-06-30T21:21:25Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,7521,1510771,00.html" description="Radio 1 to be broadcast across America" extended="&quot;It will be broadcast with a time-shift so that US listeners will hear Moyles' breakfast show while munching their early morning waffles&quot;" hash="797f8fc96a35fdebf1ea845685c6c583" tag="radio1 radio america" time="2005-06-30T09:59:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/20991769/?#comment6183719" description="Stewart Butterfield's weird mischievous side emerges on Flickr" extended="Funny chap. Short. Kind of ginger. You'd know him if you'd seen him around..." hash="1c20e53d9d84d713b20ad9fea0194188" tag="stewartbutterfield" time="2005-06-28T14:14:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/12/143721/743" description="Who Will Google Buy Next?" extended="&quot;Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?&quot;" hash="29b6f1ad5e1f1f4ea9758ce52ce4012a" tag="google" time="2005-06-27T22:43:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2005/tc20050524_0832_tc_211.htm" description="His Mission: Simplify Podcasting" extended="This is an old article that I've been meaning to post up for ages - but again, I decided in the end to just linklog it. Odeo = Good shit. Watch the skies." hash="5b8dbd5cbf054c2b9144e22f8a319d15" tag="odeo podcasting evwilliams" time="2005-06-27T22:39:58Z" />
  <post href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features/2005/05/why_adsense_for.html" description="Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)" extended="Matt Haughey penned this a while ago and I really wanted to write a more detailed agreement, but that was a month ago, so hey..." hash="ca3f45f706cb5f8ab122472798afdd84" tag="rss feeds atom google advertising" time="2005-06-27T22:21:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vista/20445943/in/pool-nextmap/" description="A freaky Japanese blog map of the world as spotted on Flickr, features an older and more flattering photo of me than normal" extended="And - as Mr Hammersley put it - Dan Gillmore's on top of RuPaul, which is not something that happens every day. Anyone know what all the verbiage means?" hash="b277afd759b5c89d830c4cbbf2f1ccbb" tag="weblogs tomcoates" time="2005-06-27T22:06:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ikmagazine.com/xq/asp/sid.8958E0B9-338C-457E-93BC-E245E4E779E9/articleid.1A6CE759-39C4-45CA-8C44-389FC031C967/qx/display.htm" description="Inside Knowledge interviews the BBC's Euan Semple" extended="&quot;A letter in our internal newspaper said that the people with time to waste writing blogs should be the first to go,&quot; he says..." hash="c5329fae87e0d1fdce5842a099e6b0d5" tag="knowledgemanagement bbc euansemple" time="2005-06-27T21:58:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.whitelabel.org/2005/06/27/londons-shame-frame-by-frame/" description="London Underground accelerated time disruption map" extended="Get past the post and click on the link to the Quicktime movie at the bottom of the page" hash="96fb63214fd45f8a6e37700d7c8f656a" tag="visualisation londonunderground underground" time="2005-06-27T21:52:03Z" />
  <post href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001658.php" description="Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday" extended="&quot;I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. &quot;" hash="fffd316a503e3ad0f952ef133b36cdfc" tag="tv media google googlevideo video broadcast television" time="2005-06-27T21:42:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/expensive.cities.ap/index.html" description="London is the third most expensive city to live in in the world, only beaten by Tokyo and Osaka" extended="&quot;The annual report released in London Monday ranked cities based on the comparative cost of more than 200 items including housing, public and private transport, food, clothing and entertainment.&quot;" hash="329b97d34a856fa857283dc5e3a4f07f" tag="cities costofliving london osaka tokyo" time="2005-06-27T21:35:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/06/24/20186.shtml" description="BBC's Cult TV website is closing down." extended="It's a bit weird that they have to take down all the content that they've already produced. Seems a bit barking to me." hash="dbce83787abc8b911e12aeed9095efe2" tag="bbc" time="2005-06-27T21:22:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodcorp/21915228/" description="London tube map traffic visualisation (guessed) by Rod McLaren" extended="I guess the data we'd need would be amount of people travelling between adjacent stations. I wonder how you'd get that..." hash="054e5c13e80e4a2043044db327319f79" tag="london underground visualisation data" time="2005-06-27T16:05:44Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4625119.stm" description="&quot;Television presenter and journalist Richard Whiteley has died just days after undergoing heart surgery&quot;" extended="The way these things happen so quickly is really disturbing..." hash="c735370b3033ca9c0108c63c1703e8da" tag="television" time="2005-06-27T12:17:06Z" />
  <post href="http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/" description="Awesome sparkline generator and web service" extended="Now all I have to do is think of things where sparklines would be useful..." hash="45e36aef75fb386b917c9a9d8a1250fb" tag="sparklines visualisations infoviz ui design" time="2005-06-25T17:34:53Z" />
  <post href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0623/p13s02-stin.html" description="How the Web changes your reading habits" extended="&quot;Thus far, search engines and hyperlinks, those underlined words or phrases that when clicked take you to a new Web page, have turned the online literary voyage into a kind of U-pick island-hop. Far more is in store.&quot;" hash="500c967f437d0f8bedad113da9a82253" tag="reading web literacty" time="2005-06-25T16:43:45Z" />
  <post href="http://johnvey.com/features/deliciousdirector/" description="del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker" extended="A lovely lovely shiny thing buried under quite a lot of brain-slide-offable verbiage" hash="bfab9e06ebc34e326a1435c4f72a954a" tag="delicious ajax ui" time="2005-06-25T16:16:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ripcord.co.nz/behaviour/" description="Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours" extended="Another geeky Ajax link - this one focused around keeping HTML nice and clean while still allowing rich javascript functionality" hash="4dbb597f560a10631ae8000854a3f62f" tag="javascript ajax behaviour css" time="2005-06-25T16:13:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/21126863/" description="&quot;I used to get invited to all the good betas&quot;" extended="The t-shirt that expresses the pain in the soul of all San Franciscans, by Matt Jones" hash="52776c08077dc335e5b0b50cb8b29365" tag="tshirt funny humour" time="2005-06-24T15:09:06Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4115806.stm" description="Websites alienate Firefox users" extended="&quot;One in ten UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows&quot;" hash="af568ae845c2b3fd314f95013e6f9105" tag="firefox web browsers webstandards" time="2005-06-24T15:04:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.geeksquad.com/main.asp" description="I love the fact that America has this tech-support task force company that they called 'Geek Squad'" extended="That would never happen in the UK - service industries aren't allowed to be quirky to be taken seriously..." hash="a5fee3bb61fb52ae8375eebfdca4db86" tag="computer technology serviceindustry" time="2005-06-24T07:09:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101714" description="&quot;John Poisson focuses on how cameraphones could revolutionise photography and communication - if people would only start using them more&quot;" extended="&quot;As the leader of Sony Corporation's mobile media research and design groups in Tokyo, John Poisson spent two years focused on how people use cameraphones, and why they don't use them more often.&quot;" hash="aeb9dc9d73c2604dbd3ce9ffa70b0a0e" tag="johnpoisson phones mobiles mobile camphones cameraphones" time="2005-06-24T02:46:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/" description="The Onion 2056" extended="Leather-Clad Nomads Seize Power in Australia / Million Robot Mark Attended By Exactly 1,000,000 Robots..." hash="6c4028b5c8d8bfdfd3535afb0b5ce28b" tag="humour future funny onion flash" time="2005-06-22T16:15:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t380.html" description="Very useful tutorial on how to empty the MT-Blacklist log when it gets so big that your server would rather die than show it to you..." extended="I reset the damn thing yesterday - this morning I'd had nearly a thousand spam filtered by it. Stupid intolerable spam wankers." hash="13d28bd12a9dcf97692c596673b7e948" tag="spam weblogs" time="2005-06-22T13:53:11Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4119194.stm" description="Royals cost Britain £36m a year" extended="Mr Reid said: &quot;We believe this represents a value-for-money monarchy.&quot; Love it. Value-for-money monarchy. Sweet." hash="b37fe1d4af81d8246fdbd5f084dc96d3" tag="royalty royals queen uk" time="2005-06-22T13:26:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160192,00.html" description="Katie Holmes' Missing Days" extended="&quot;Four days later, Holmes was still in New York and was photographed at VH1's &quot;Save the Music&quot; concert. She still had not met Cruise. The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, when she appeared in public as Cruise's girlfriend and love of his" hash="874e9645f224eaa852c4963251205202" tag="gossip tomcruise katieholmes" time="2005-06-22T13:24:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1511810,00.html" description="LA Times 'wikitorial' gives editors red faces" extended="At the end of a 1,000-word editorial about the war in Iraq, online readers were invited to &quot;Click here to Wiki this morning's editorial&quot;. But by Sunday, readers were met with the following statement: &quot;Where is the wikitorial? Unfortunately, we have had to" hash="258de0b6e1f77435ce446c3c74d45ed7" tag="wiki wikipedia socialsoftware journalism" time="2005-06-22T13:02:13Z" />
  <post href="http://dirac.sourceforge.net/index.html" description="Dirac Video Codec" extended="The BBC R&amp;D produced free video codec is available on Sourceforge (just in case you missed it a while back)" hash="4f20d411ea50ceef649291f2f9ce1efa" tag="video bbc rnd television codec sourceforge opensource" time="2005-06-21T16:32:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.skyscrapernews.com/index.php" description="Skyscraper News, the place on the internet where you will find everything you wanted to know about the brightest rising star in international architecture" extended="Despite being a World City, London has suffered years of neglect in the high-rise stakes as the conservatism of heritage bodies and the worries of planning bodies have scuppered any attempts at a skyline..." hash="a0da2cbe38d42fad57c1aca376203d96" tag="skyscrapers architecture london building" time="2005-06-21T16:29:44Z" />
  <post href="http://mike.teczno.com/giant/pan/" description="The Pan &amp; Scan &quot;Giant-Ass Image Viewer&quot;" extended="Once they get this working on IE effectively, then this is going to be a really nice and elegant way of displaying larger images and maps across the internet. And all inspired by work by Google..." hash="b310d6d4405c0c6d1824d6e527a7e377" tag="ajax images web web2.0 javascript" time="2005-06-21T16:25:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-10-2005-71368.asp?viewPage=2" description="A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their patent documents..." extended="&quot;Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at...&quot;" hash="6a58662756904cda15a59c637153171d" tag="google seo searchengines patents" time="2005-06-21T16:21:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/gossip/tom-cruise/pranksters-undo-ten-years-of-cruise-auditing-109139.php" description="Pranksters Undo Ten Years Of Cruise Auditing" extended="&quot;By lunchtime on the West Coast, it’s unlikely that there will be a single human being who hasn’t seen the video of Tom Cruise getting blasted in the face with water from a prankster’s microphone&quot;" hash="70426769b2645dd599e61b40521edb48" tag="tomcruise celebrity prank funny humour" time="2005-06-21T16:21:39Z" />
  <post href="http://eclectech.co.uk/clarkeidcards.php" description="The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister" extended="This Flash video about the National Identity card is possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen ever in my life ever." hash="b05d26938837c8ce8904605c9dfa52b3" tag="flash humour funny politics uk" time="2005-06-21T14:10:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.technorati.com/" description="Technorati relaunch with a shiny new front-end" extended="And very nice it is too. Suddenly appeared on my radar about ten minutes ago..." hash="43e9ca216a7317c8daecfcc1571ee80d" tag="technorati search blogs weblogs" time="2005-06-21T00:06:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/ifill/" description="Griffin Technology's iFill" extended="&quot;.. streams mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod.&quot;" hash="5fbfdbec7cd0ed89ee417d434782d99c" tag="music radio osx audio mp3 ipod apple applications" time="2005-06-20T23:41:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1450" description="Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent Technology" extended="This kind of thing was pretty much inevitable as the larger software companies look to find effective ways of distributing big files without crippling people financially..." hash="f3344e9e9b65c570cb0e0d7e635cd58e" tag="microsoft bittorrent p2p" time="2005-06-20T22:22:11Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4102854.stm" description="Tom Cruise engaged to Katie Holmes" extended="Godsmackingly weird - I mean what the hell is she doing? I mean, someone's clearly doing this for publicity of one kind or another. How come it feels like everyone is in on the joke?" hash="2697f84d80257f1ed0345496c0a8ef43" tag="tomcruise katieholmes" time="2005-06-19T10:21:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wiredatom.com/jobs_stanford_speech/index.html" description="Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech" extended="I haven't listened to this yet, but by all accounts it's pretty inspiring." hash="1952ee70c66478bedbd57f64bb2f4b3b" tag="stevejobs apple speech audio" time="2005-06-19T10:09:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickralbum.com/" description="Flickr Album - an elegant bit of Flash using their API" extended="You have to grab the corner with your mouse and literally turn the page over for it to work. Nice implementation though." hash="8db604c7032c950f9e3cb7a9410b338b" tag="flickr api" time="2005-06-17T11:38:48Z" />
  <post href="http://typographi.com/001009.php" description="The Helvetica Meditations from Typographi.com" extended="Some beautiful and oddly poignant pictures containing Helvetica. #24 is kind of darkly entertaining I suppose as well..." hash="04d384d5fb36bc2954c58e837e88b92f" tag="bbc helvetica typography type font pictures images photos" time="2005-06-15T10:42:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nachop/sets/450093/show/" description="The Futurama Taglines Flash Slideshow includes every tagline from every episode in seasons one to four..." extended="You can't really go far wrong with Futurama. Except the taglines. Which were rarely funny. Better here than on TV." hash="449fd1d03352c2cad79b9413ba83b592" tag="futurama credits television tv sciencefiction comedy humour funny" time="2005-06-15T10:31:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A1183394" description="How to avoid libel and defamation" extended="A must read for every British weblogger - a guide to defamation and libel under UK law..." hash="1818145fe86a02d411e40f0cc15b166c" tag="law libel defamation journalism ican" time="2005-06-14T18:46:17Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4090676.stm" description="Missing Dalek found on Glastonbury Tor" extended="&quot;A Dalek stolen from a Somerset tourist site has been found on Glastonbury Tor after thieves said it was &quot;too hot&quot;.&quot;" hash="ce083521f7b0e58341d1ce1c959d8ea6" tag="dalek doctorwho scifi television tv" time="2005-06-14T14:14:49Z" />
  <post href="http://sourcelabs.com/ajb/archives/2005/05/ajax_mistakes.html" description="Alex Bosworth's engaging and well thought-through articulation of mistakes that people can make when using Ajax" extended="&quot;Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems&quot;" hash="8684a4b24aa31c5b4349b16cb9369506" tag="ajax web webdevelopment" time="2005-06-14T10:20:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.igda.org/articles/erobinson_crunch.php" description="A really interesting article on declines in human productivity when working in 'crunch mode'" extended="I tend to encourage workstreams in three month cycles, limiting any crunch periods to the last two or three weeks" hash="099c8bfc1a2b7d5024c1cf0ba32e78eb" tag="work" time="2005-06-14T10:13:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009CTV5E/ref=ase_downandoutint-20/002-4620044-2348847?v=glance&amp;s=dvd" description="I really want to get the new DVD of The Daily Show's election coverage" extended="Unfortunately I'll be flying back from the States the day before it's released. Nngh." hash="5ffdced312176f289a4a4f05cc41a558" tag="dailyshow television tv election politics" time="2005-06-14T09:57:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/4/" description="OmniGraffle 4 beta version has been released" extended="OmniGraffle is one of those (not so) little applications that makes it possible for you to look really professional relatively quickly..." hash="d95b596de9e84786083a1dd29d24b9e1" tag="applications osx mac omnigroup diagrams design" time="2005-06-14T08:06:28Z" />
  <post href="http://virtualhana.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-felt-like-this-post-warranted-bit-of.html" description="Bottom Drawer weighs in on the issue of Britain's Missing Bloggers" extended="&quot;the UK sees the internet as a resource for information rather than a medium for personal expression, and the perception currently is that blogs are more vanity publishing than information resource.&quot;" hash="82a5af0f7ea0dbb59959f236469502bf" tag="weblogs unitedkingdom" time="2005-06-14T08:01:17Z" />
  <post href="http://marshallbrain.com/million.htm" description=" How to Make a Million Dollars, by Marshall Brain" extended="It seems so sensible when it's written down. I don't know why everyone hasn't done it, frankly..." hash="13b9d63fcc0e307fe47c8e79f61ee466" tag="money" time="2005-06-14T07:52:34Z" />
  <post href="http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/06/its-global-frequency-now.html" description="The pilot for the TV show of the &quot;Global Frequency&quot; comic book has found its way onto BitTorrent" extended="Apparently the show itself didn't get picked up by any networks, so this is all there is. No idea yet whether it's any good or not..." hash="298a09b0e80423dbe1f5c7d4c7056c13" tag="bittorrent tv television distribution" time="2005-06-14T07:42:58Z" />
  <post href="http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/06/new_thinkgeek_t.html" description="&quot;Joss Whedon is my master now&quot; - Where can I get one of these T-shirts?" extended="I just want to restate that Firefly was awesome and that Serenity will rock and that I'm not a huge nerd..." hash="b235d4945ce3a2da6b724992288732c7" tag="sciencefiction television" time="2005-06-13T15:35:59Z" />
  <post href="http://www.audioscrobbler.com/charts/track/1117969201-1118574001" description="This week's audioscrobbler charts show an extraordinary disposition towards Coldplay" extended="Mr Biddulph and I are really interested in the distributions - why are some album tracks being listened to by 3000 less people than other album tracks?" hash="fed19fef900a9360ea942dbc407e702a" tag="music coldplay audioscrobbler" time="2005-06-13T15:03:39Z" />
  <post href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1502601,00.html" description="Simpsons movie on its way" extended="Obviously I'm looking forward to a Simpsons movie, even though I don't really have any idea how they'd write it and whether it would work at all..." hash="c8e121743f88cc12e2de3500dac8e25b" tag="movies cartoons simpsons" time="2005-06-13T10:08:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2005/06/blogging_101_-_the_interview.php" description="Blogging 101 explains how to do an interview for your weblog..." extended="Apparently I'm a low-grade Tom Cruise. Someone should tell Vanity Fair." hash="11f2da26a04785d3efec368b4fbad5c3" tag="weblogs" time="2005-06-13T06:42:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/10/business/ptcell11.php" description="A mobile tale of three cities" extended="&quot;Amparo Lasén, a Spanish sociologist, is completing a study conducted for the Digital World Research Center at the University of Surrey in England of mobile phone users in London, Madrid and Paris to compare behavioral changes between cultures and over t" hash="c146949d6b59b26b0d4cc2f61e39c8b5" tag="mobile mobilephones phones telephony anthropology sociology" time="2005-06-12T23:41:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.broadbandstars.co.uk/britains_missing_bloggers/index.html" description="Where are Britain's Missing Bloggers?" extended="&quot;If you start from the more obvious people, you rapidly end up going in circles around the same small and overlapping groups&quot;" hash="b5a6f52ed2a7ad7093a2cc05839d2f40" tag="weblogs unitedkindom" time="2005-06-12T23:01:30Z" />
  <post href="http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/06/fridgeracer.html" description="Asynchronous slow-gaming on the front of your fridge with magnets (as described on Wonderland)" extended="Good idea for a family home - I wonder how you tell people who's turn it is." hash="fd939f89e05b97a64caea63f0f83bad4" tag="games gaming" time="2005-06-12T22:59:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.larryniven.org/stories/Man_of_Steel_Woman_of_Kleenex.htm" description="Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex - the original Larry Niven investigation of the physiological issues of Superman attempting to mate with a human" extended="Beautifully blunt. &quot;Were they human sperm, they would be out of luck. But these tiny blind things are more powerful than a locomotive. A thickened cell wall won't stop them. They will all enter the egg, obliterating it entirely in an orgy of microscopic g" hash="75757eabb4905627b8262142d02ae343" tag="superman comics" time="2005-06-12T22:17:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.trabaca.com/archive.php?bymonth=0506#050612000745" description="Bart talks about how much he wants children and how difficult he knows it's going to be for it to happen" extended="It's a post very close to my heart and one that I found quite surprisingly moving. I can't actually imagine anyone being a nicer parent than Bart..." hash="e8d2be209e668d78092f6d8c125f9a85" tag="gay" time="2005-06-12T22:05:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-826557_1,00.html" description="I can't believe it's true! Cats really do make men scruffier and women more attractive / slutty... Seems a bit unfair, really..." extended="So I'm so using this as the major excuse for not wearing my suit very often and getting a bit fat. Parents exposed me to cats at an early age." hash="87311544f91d7f9c689a8be3a3441462" tag="cats" time="2005-06-12T18:33:19Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.starwars.com/ghent/15" description="Quite cute this - a seven year old who has seen all the Star Wars prequels watches the original for the first time" extended="&quot;Why are red leader and gold leader the leaders? They don't know what they're doing...&quot; Ah so wise, and so young..." hash="f93e1f24dffb78440738b754a6bbbdb1" tag="starwars sciencefiction scifi movies" time="2005-06-12T18:25:46Z" />
  <post href="http://beta.technorati.com/" description="The Technorati beta redesign is up and it's pretty fine. Classy work by Mr Derek Powazek as always" extended="It really does look like a quantum leap in apparent respectability and makes them look much more obviously professional. Nice logo too." hash="f15e4efc1459819eec7ebf9245e11310" tag="technorati design derekpowazek" time="2005-06-12T17:44:03Z" />
  <post href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1449360,00.html" description="To cut a long story short - a Guardian feature about the cynicism of trailers and how comfortable they are lying about the films they represent" extended="Not sure I agree with all of it - a trailer that effectively sells a film but portrays it incorrectly, can bring the wrong audiences or spoil the film for the right audiencs. This affects word-of-mouth. Film flops." hash="6dbb7b38ae8a1501d15d1b1222b2efe4" tag="movies advertising film films diary cinema" time="2005-06-11T23:49:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cottonwoolecho/pool/" description="Five Years Later - British webloggers get together for the fifth anniversary of the first UK blogmeet" extended="God it was weird. Everyone's exactly the same only a bit fatter and a little more tired. Except Jen and Katy and Mo who remain slim.." hash="01379c6a9866951a6e3e37074e00fe4d" tag="weblogs" time="2005-06-11T23:35:14Z" />
  <post href="http://infrared.70cities.net/tomhappyslap.avi" description="Happy Slapping Webloggers - it's the new craze that's spreading across webloggia" extended="Yeah thanks so much Meg Pickard. Be warned - soon the craze will spread to your area..." hash="e5562b62b8734bc478611aabbc8e84c6" tag="tomcoates happyslapping" time="2005-06-11T23:27:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n11_v18/ai_19847180/print" description="On Bees, six-dimensional manifolds and a peculiar sensitivity to Quarks" extended="Another one found via Mr Webb of interconnected.org - this time on the waggle dance that bees do to communicate" hash="b8636262aa7c8258db2e818c04d260de" tag="bees maths geometry manifolds" time="2005-06-11T14:04:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4586755.stm" description="Brian Walden talks about &quot;the West&quot; as a term that emerged in response to Communism, and suggests that without that spectre the term will soon become meaningless" extended="Nice link found via Mr Webb which articulates nicely the emerging differences and conflicts between the major nations of the Western World" hash="ea1e87ced1f7a32b6f05d61ee0a1e942" tag="politics world america europe antiamericanism" time="2005-06-11T13:49:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/reboot/" description="I'm spending much of my time watching the Flickr photostream of Reboot with barely-controlled jealous rage" extended="When are Flickr going to do some kind of interactive TV client. I'd love to be able to watch these as they came in like a rolling webcam..." hash="2a1d1bc053838635fef961e3de845dc9" tag="flickr reboot photos" time="2005-06-11T12:06:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html" description="Robert Cringely thinks the Apple switch to Intel processors is about Apple+Intel vs. Microsoft" extended="I have no idea what to make of this article. It looks - frankly - like total balls to me, but...." hash="4f0425dc8806577ad8545c08cc094b2b" tag="apple intel microsoft" time="2005-06-11T10:55:20Z" />
  <post href="http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/wwdc2005.mov" description="Kevin Marks is hosting a video of the Steve Jobs WWDC keynote. The podcast section is particularly interesting." extended="Two reasons: Firstly because the BBC's In Our Time is beautifully promoted at the top in the middle, and because Steve calls podcasting the hottest thing in radio..." hash="6631644a43932adce024f6bbc3da1d8b" tag="ipod podcasting stevejobs apple keynote" time="2005-06-11T10:10:32Z" />
  <post href="http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/2005/05/media-fast-for-mojtaba.html" description="Webloggers are proposing a media fast for Mojtaba Saminejad, who has been arrested for reporting the incarceration of other Iranian webloggers" extended="&quot;Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression... to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers&quot; - Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights" hash="a758658056da40b1336ed4bf18a56372" tag="humanrights weblogs censorship activism iran" time="2005-06-11T10:07:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2002/07/10/the_dark_underbelly_of_holy_shit.html" description="Rands in Repose on the 'Holy Shit' moments that have defined his experience of computers and computing" extended="His list: Macintosh, Windows 95, Telnet, Mosaic, Napster, Ebay, Doom. Good list." hash="d1b825d4f623ec0be3514b223fb7210a" tag="computers computing gaming history" time="2005-06-11T09:53:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/ajax_design.asp" description="LukeW on AJAX Interface Design" extended="A couple of weeks old this one - but some useful tips for designers thinking of exploring AJAX" hash="f53b2ccdd4acc8601f625e4a6aae5099" tag="ajax design interfaces" time="2005-06-11T09:45:31Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4077698.stm" description="&quot;We are holding the Dalek captive and in isolation. For the safety of the human race we have disarmed and remove its destructive mechanism. We demand further instructions from the Doctor.&quot;" extended="Absolutely the best thing that has ever happened in the history of the world. They're going to get Colin Baker to talk to them. I think that's awesome." hash="7b6efdf4ba3daf9ff884a86f2b520668" tag="doctorwho news scifi humour funny" time="2005-06-10T11:39:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2005/04_apr/feature/feat_01.php" description="Graphic Design on Logo Trends for 2005" extended="&quot;Discover new directions. But remember: With any trend, it is better to realize how you arrived than to know you have arrived.&quot;" hash="a686c6f4580492558248166a217848ae" tag="design logo graphicdesign" time="2005-06-10T00:23:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.uncommonfolk.net/2005/05/marseille-figs.html" description="A good review of the Marseille Figs' awesome album Boum Boum Constant" extended="Marseille Figs are a definite new plasticbag.org favourite, only partly because one of the band is an awesome ex-coworker and friend" hash="bc52d34d56f0878042dfe8ca13410326" tag="music album review" time="2005-06-09T20:49:59Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1801_Act_of_Union" description="Many of my American friends have no idea that the UK, Great Britain and England are different things. So I thought I'd link to this page on the Act of Union..." extended="So first England and Scotland merge to become &quot;Great Britain&quot;, and then later Great Britain merges with Ireland to become the &quot;United Kingdom&quot;. Wales had been previously annexed in 1536..." hash="b169062d80411115862e5e721d61b379" tag="unitedkingdom greatbritain england scotland wales" time="2005-06-09T07:08:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/17903419/#preview" description="A picture of Stewart Butterfield wearing a suit" extended="He's also got a weird little Flickr Alien button glued to his belly. I wonder what that's about and where I can get one..." hash="6b2493ac510590abe1aa16faa6efbd00" tag="stewartbutterfield flickr" time="2005-06-09T07:00:32Z" />
  <post href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0436992/guests" description="Potentially enormous spoilers on IMDB's Guest Appearances for &quot;Doctor Who&quot; (2005)" extended="Don't know if it's accurate or not - and please God don't blame me if it ruins the surprise - but IMDB's list of guest appearances does appear to give the game away..." hash="85cca91d7d02889e17ff3b0816ec1316" tag="doctorwho scifi television" time="2005-06-06T16:10:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tvgasm.com/archives/miscellaneous_tv/000829.php" description="Eek! Video of Tom Cruise pointing at people who he cares about and is going to come after shortly after the interview..." extended="You! And you! I care about all of you! I'm going to come around your house and make you do something with your life! Because I care! These are not just words!" hash="4d67259cfb603e490919af99dc672cde" tag="psycho tomcruise scientology" time="2005-06-05T14:30:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/gossip/tom-cruise/intensity-photoblogging-tom-cruise-on-oprah-104673.php" description="Defamer photoblogs Tom Cruise's apparently bizarre behaviour on an episode of Oprah" extended="Katie Holmes, right.... Scientology, right.... Portrait in the Attic, right.... Getting scared yet?" hash="9bf4599b55a617303e252c680910dcbd" tag="tomcruise television tv celebrities losangeles scientology" time="2005-06-05T14:27:48Z" />
  <post href="http://wifinetnews.com/archives/005325.html" description="A café in New York turns off wifi on the weekends because the atmosphere is too quiet and the web-users are squatting for six or seven hours on the basis of one cup of coffee" extended="Foyles' café in London encourages people who are by themselves with their laptops to sit by the walls and free up the tables for groups of people to chat. I think this might be a good compromise..." hash="8267378cfd74e0501f7fd43e3db9b695" tag="wifi culture coffeeshop café" time="2005-06-05T14:21:48Z" />
  <post href="http://sfj.abstractdynamics.org/archives/005579.html" description="A music critic writes that they will no longer write about any music unless they have unlimited access to a portable version of it, rendered in CD, MP3 or vinyl formats..." extended="This is a particularly good, solid, irritated piece about the practice of getting music journalists in a room to sit through an album once or twice as the basis for a review..." hash="cfbbae4a4471a280a27a875960927dd6" tag="music audio review piracy mp3 entertainment reviews critic" time="2005-06-05T14:15:59Z" />
  <post href="http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2002/06/god_save_the_queen.shtml" description="God Save The Queen... An old piece of photoshop work I found today that I made for the Golden Jubilee" extended="Rather liked it. Quite well done. I might have to have another pass at things like this at some point in the future..." hash="e2bd2ae5aca013398ff25bf47f4c348c" tag="photoshop queen monarchy jubilee unitedkingdom design illustration" time="2005-06-05T13:29:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wholemovement.com/index.html" description="Wholemovement - A site about the art and geometry of folding circles by Bradford Handsen-Smith" extended="Wonderful origami site about folder paper circles - specifically 9 inch paper places. Fascinating and beautiful..." hash="1d9d7193f461108b1f48fa96a5b0d07d" tag="origami geometry maths beautiful art design" time="2005-06-05T13:07:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wow-europe.com/en/" description="World of Warcraft looks pretty compelling and interesting and I know a lot of people love it" extended="I have a 1Ghz 15inch Powerbook with 768Mb of RAM. Will it be powerful enough to play on?" hash="be902d0c75c3ee97d18d5c94511c5b9e" tag="gaming mmorpg" time="2005-06-05T12:50:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/01/surreal_furniture_by.html" description="Boing Boing posts about surreal furniture by Straight Line Designs (and brings down the server)" extended="As I get older and more objectionable, I sometimes wonder why people feel such an urge to pose with their furniture. Sits alongside my, &quot;everyone should wear the same clothes&quot; schtick, I suppose..." hash="c1ad4b4d46cf3ebb62354edf2c4e7c43" tag="furniture wacky cool" time="2005-06-05T11:23:20Z" />
  <post href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050605/482/mtv13006050516;_ylt=Ar95NB7QVYIlhYxINtl0w7YDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" description="Cast members from 'The Breakfast Club' reunite for the MTV Movie Awards twenty years after the film was first broadcast" extended="And don't they look well! Intriguing flashback time. Anthony Michael Hall's filled out a bit, I see..." hash="be340b089461a7f8b66726dfcd21726a" tag="movies film breakfastclub" time="2005-06-05T10:09:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/04/i_have_seen_god_in_a.html" description="In which the Doctorovian sees God in a cup of chocolate" extended="He's hanging out in Florence with Ben Hammersley and drinking hot chocolate until he falls into a stupor. Lucky bastard." hash="19fb0614589dcb641ec6b0d1bd62fbf8" tag="corydoctorow benhammersley chocolate" time="2005-06-04T23:25:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.slingmedia.com/index.html" description="The Slingbox from Slingmedia grabs your TV pictures and redistributes them to other devices and computers around your home (or elsewhere)" extended="I don't quite get why this is cool. Explore the product spec for an awesomely dumb neologism: &quot;Placeshifting: the SlingboxTM lets consumers shift the place they can watch TV the same way a VCR shifts the time they can watch.&quot;" hash="f64ee1bce246945cb6929366cb724cb8" tag="slingbox television tv homeentertainment connectivity" time="2005-06-04T21:28:28Z" />
  <post href="http://txfx.net/2005/04/29/is-trackback-dead/" description="A really snotty response to my earlier content that Trackback might be dead in the water..." extended="My counter response - I use MTBlacklist, and have an up-to-date installation of MT. I don't find Wordpress attractive, and I don't have time to spend my life in an arms race with spammers. For the value I derive from Trackbacks, it's not worth the bother." hash="10f1a8d9ffb5e3c2134215fa8550b363" tag="trackback weblogs wordpress irritant" time="2005-06-04T21:24:18Z" />
  <post href="http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM,+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=ai" description="The rumour that's everywhere: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips" extended="If nothing else, it ties together the fortunes of desktop computers so that if the architecture stops developing, no company gets an advantage... Don't know what I think about that..." hash="738abc57a71ad9af0163a8f8438e8ce9" tag="apple processors ibm intel" time="2005-06-04T17:58:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/98881922@N00/6607774/?#comment4785075" description="In which I get attacked by a Crow at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005" extended="Mmm. I have a big bucket of Coca-Cola. I could do with one of those right now. Nice shirt too." hash="f2526e846d3501b8f80d6117feefcc23" tag="tomcoates etech photo flickr" time="2005-06-04T10:38:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.badwolf.org.uk/" description="Bad Wolf - who is bad wolf? what is bad wolf?" extended="A BBC site launched today complete with more fodder to help support the Bad Wolf intrigue... Two weeks to go until we find out, I guess..." hash="a27c52e206388c4f1a9c603da108f849" tag="doctorwho spoilers television scifi" time="2005-06-03T16:19:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahid1/sets/286517/" description="Ben's chewing gum art - a beautiful and engaging photoset on Flickr at the moment" extended="This is really stunning - a guy kneels down and paints all the pieces of gum on the road with stylised imagery of houses and waves and people..." hash="2efb12ba769c1428c926db704bccb911" tag="london art streetart graffiti painting flickr" time="2005-06-03T09:24:03Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4603539.stm" description="Microsoft adopts web file styles" extended="The company is to base most of its document formats on XML instead of random propriterary formats" hash="ec86c2d3454a2e4b53dba010f8a51283" tag="xml microsoft" time="2005-06-03T02:21:23Z" />
  <post href="http://interconnected.org/home/2005/06/02/tom_coates_passed_me" description="Mr Webb takes the Musical baton and writes a huge, epic, rambling and rather gorgeous post about books instead" extended="Typically contrarian and typically engaging - well worth a read..." hash="9e7bddc1474d7defd749148bffca5e7a" tag="mattwebb books music literature" time="2005-06-03T01:16:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.techcentralstation.com/060205F.html" description="A quick pass through the regulatory framework concerned with the distribution of Thorium" extended="I don't know why this interests me so much, but there's something glorious and intricate in the form-filling and process. It's like coral..." hash="12c3c4b4e9003fd9786ac38bdd1207af" tag="government politics regulation" time="2005-06-02T10:12:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/050606crat_atlarge" description="The Record Effect, by Alex Ross" extended="&quot;How technology has transformed the sound of music&quot;" hash="2a538de38541d64a0c6f4127ecd6edb1" tag="music technnology contingency audio recording distribution" time="2005-06-02T04:36:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.threadless.com/submission/40290/Darth_enjoyed_gardening" description="Another threadless t-shirt: Darth enjoyed gardening" extended="Awesome, stunning t-shirt that unfortunately happens to also be green, which is not a colour that suits a lot of people..." hash="ead7c22dfa53dda2c94c76b15cd0878d" tag="tshirt design threadless funny" time="2005-06-01T17:19:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.threadless.com/product/63/Damn_Scientists" description="The classic Threadless &quot;this was supposed to be the future&quot; T-shirt has been reprinting and is available for sale again" extended="If I had a little more cash and T-shirts with words on them suited me a little more, I'd so be buying this..." hash="bec79bff0d970f0fbd73a42eeba43b66" tag="tshirt design threadless future" time="2005-06-01T17:17:24Z" />
  <post href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/quiz/index.html" description="The Desperate Housewives dumb &quot;Which Housewife are you?&quot; Quiz pegged me (and Matt Biddulph and Gareth Klose) as Susan..." extended="I really didn't think I'd get into Desperate Housewives, but the last episode just blew me away!" hash="48e7a339ac3bbfb74ab4bdc37c8307e3" tag="desperatehousewives tv television" time="2005-06-01T17:10:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html" description="Joel's Programmer's Bookshelf" extended="&quot;This is the short list of all the books that I honestly think that every working programmer needs to read, with my own book hidden in there in case you didn't notice...&quot;" hash="12e3a8fb3cde3a13b219862225b33612" tag="books programming design software" time="2005-06-01T15:26:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/" description="Open Tech 2005 - 23rd July in Hammersmith, London - from the makers of NotCon" extended="BBC Backstage is sponsoring the Open Tech low-cost micro-conference in London. NotCon was ace, I expect this to be as good..." hash="33dd5d1bc47aff111f60a2f896d26999" tag="bbc backstage opentech conference london" time="2005-06-01T14:48:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2001/12/a_proposal_for_a_really_divisive_website.shtml" description="A proposal for a really divisive website... (a post from plasticbag.org in December 2001)" extended="An old post I found on my site today which is kind of entertaining considering the whole kerfuffle over Blogebrity..." hash="5ad7fad3f8587319d8f13e2bfaac43cc" tag="celebrity weblogs popularity longtail" time="2005-06-01T13:33:37Z" />
  <post href="http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5/msg/9016eb5e0793154a?q=cltec&amp;start=10&amp;hl=en&amp;scoring=d&amp;rnum=18" description="Oh wow! I've just missed my ten year anniversary of my first (nervous) post to Usenet..." extended="And it would have to be a bloody Babylon 5 group, wouldn't it. This is not the life-history of a Nobel prize winner..." hash="447c096b0aac4fa02ba43b3fbab340ac" tag="anniversary usenet personal tomcoates" time="2005-06-01T13:09:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html" description="A Gamers' Manifesto" extended="Good fun read for people who have played a few console games over the years. Not a lot of vision, but some good solid opinions..." hash="d1c781bb406685f287d3e263670a50d8" tag="games consoles" time="2005-06-01T08:55:09Z" />
  <post href="http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details#waitingforloginwindow" description="John Gruber on some details of Tiger that you might have missed" extended="Really nice stuff here on interface improvements, tweaks, tips, shortcuts and apps. Highly recommended read..." hash="04de22bafa43fb774a23667cb68a6304" tag="osx tiger apple mac" time="2005-06-01T04:17:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/showflat.php?Board=UBB11&amp;Number=4521706" description="Enormously SPOILER-full thread about upcoming Doctor Who episode &quot;Bad Wolf&quot; seems to rather stomp all over my little theories" extended="Definitely don't read this unless you're okay with the idea that big chunks of the mystery might be dispelled for you (or not if it's all bunk, of course)" hash="cb546d37177649df27e265f4348fc9ca" tag="doctorwho spoilers television scifi" time="2005-06-01T02:22:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2005/05/i_have_played_w.html" description="Loic talks about the new Nokia N90 and drops a little interesting hint about Tiger's support for Nokia phones" extended="If it means that I have a little more choice in what phones I can use properly with my computer, then I'll be delighted..." hash="a7eb37fbda5dfa66060741ecdedf2ec9" tag="telephones mobiles mobilephones nokia tiger apple isync" time="2005-05-31T16:27:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/sitb-next/0679722769/ref=sbx_con/103-3740003-8460622?_encoding=UTF8" description="Some book pages on Amazon have Flickr-style visualisations of top words in the book, along with reading-ease analysis stats" extended="This is fascinating stuff - particularly because Amazon are clearly looking for ways to sell more stuff through the revelation of some quite complex data..." hash="52967e969ca2b1a66526260579bd9ee2" tag="statistics analysis readingease amazon ecommerce information books" time="2005-05-31T05:54:21Z" />
  <post href="http://geocities.com/jonathanqkirby/gasmaskshirt.jpg" description="Awesome Doctor Who-inspired T-shirts for people who really want to creep out people on the bus" extended="Apparently if you're interested, then you e-mail &quot;gasmaskshirt&quot; at the domain address &quot;comicfestival.co.uk&quot;" hash="57eae6cd92435bae8d7221b96bf0fa00" tag="t-shirt humour funny" time="2005-05-31T04:58:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.captureplanning.com/!hc_how_to_write_a_proposal.cfm" description="How to write a business proposal and tips for business proposal writing" extended="No idea how good this one is, but it looked interesting and I want to plough my way through it later..." hash="f9ece9d9bb1441b415a6770a02feebcf" tag="business businessplan" time="2005-05-30T16:42:37Z" />
  <post href="http://uk.gay.com/headlines/8588" description="Homophobia &quot;hard-wired&quot; by evolution" extended="A slightly random piece of writing describes some slightly implausible research that suggests that homophobia might be an adaptive trait" hash="62f2f33633e318a08d054e451eef0158" tag="gay homophobia psychology evolution biology science" time="2005-05-30T16:37:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9827" description="For Lost fans: The most important thing you'll click on today" extended="See the hidden trailer for next season's episodes, see the on-screen slogans and feel the lust for knowledge all over again..." hash="e32d59a36c2bfd92f137f54769a97fa8" tag="lost television tv trailer" time="2005-05-30T13:52:27Z" />
  <post href="http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/" description="Yahoo's Mindset is an 'intent-driven search' interface that gives you a slider to help you influence the results you receive between 'research' and 'shopping' polar extremes" extended="It's an interesting concept. Two thoughts: Are the axes correct? Do the results correspond to them properly? Not sure about either..." hash="5725eb15b03223bde5ae1cb8db71cb68" tag="yahoo search" time="2005-05-30T08:04:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7428&amp;feedId=online-news_rss20" description="A new digital camera takes several photos at split-second intervals and throws away the ones where too many people are blinking..." extended="I love that we're at a place in the technology cycle where it becomes possible to conceive of ludicrously excessive ways of solving simple real-world problems inexpensively" hash="d7cbe8a83d208661f516f84d20267b49" tag="photography computers ubicomp artificialintelligence" time="2005-05-30T07:54:38Z" />
  <post href="http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/05/heather_is_the_.html" description="Heather Champ joins the Flickr crew because she is so awesome and they're incomplete without her" extended="Yay Heather! Yay! Finally Ludicorp gets some classy people working for it..." hash="86de265cedcb120fea2519ec1f50a4a5" tag="heatherchamp" time="2005-05-30T07:02:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/" description="How to Become an Early Riser" extended="An interesting post on sleep which mirrors a lot of my own experience" hash="54efbf6490337af417ded24ec1d683ea" tag="sleep" time="2005-05-30T05:50:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/352.html" description="A Joy of Tech &quot;Blast from the Past&quot; posted as a riposte to that Waterstones guy..." extended="&quot;Mr Dewbottom! Get Into My Office Immediately!&quot;" hash="860f6d6b8a07dc99ed1c6d9d3a23005f" tag="humour cartoon" time="2005-05-30T04:13:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nickcrossland.co.uk/missingwordsround/" description="The 'Missing Words' Round (BBC Backstage prototype)" extended="A glorious, if impossible, game based on part of the popular &quot;Have I Got News For You&quot; TV Quiz" hash="1fc048dd4276a33d38dfddec25e10930" tag="backstage api feeds data game" time="2005-05-29T05:47:20Z" />
  <post href="http://ironflute.blogspot.com/2005/02/ted-kicks-off.html" description="A co-worker went to TED and talked to someone at the Google stand who asked about me..." extended="Anyone know who this was? Would be cool to wave and say hi..." hash="cdf642dda9f43edad77099e5c2b48d7b" tag="google tomcoates vanity ted conferences" time="2005-05-28T07:39:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html?pg=1&amp;topic=craven&amp;topic_set=" description="From the new issue of Wired: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea" extended="Two articles in the same wired about highly implausible geniuses with theories that the mainstream are suspicious of - getting more visionary or am I reading Fortean Times?" hash="71111346a096a9195b04a6cba0cd6a56" tag="science power water wired technology" time="2005-05-28T07:12:56Z" />
  <post href="http://threadless.com/product/234/The_Internet" description="An awesome representation of the Internet on a Threadless T-shirt by Oliver J Moss" extended="They don't have it in my size unfortunately, otherwise I'd buy it right now. It could help me in my Nathan Barley aspirations..." hash="7d43d024f936cd85f0f532007c4d4f68" tag="tshirt design threadless" time="2005-05-28T06:58:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050523/full/050523-10.html" description="A weird little almost-anti-long-tail story from Nature.com: How long did it take you to find this story?" extended="It's states that most people who are ever going to read an online new story (blog post) will have done so within three days of publishing..." hash="041d5a2eaffb471fbaf295c3823d9d8b" tag="longtail powerlaw news links web" time="2005-05-28T05:49:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4513193.stm" description="&quot;All parents are supposed to think their children are attractive - but Canadian researchers claim that &quot;ugly&quot; offspring are treated differently.&quot;" extended="Bit old this article, but interesting in terms of the unconscious cues that govern our behaviour." hash="910f11ce583fc1c366b297c9efca959a" tag="genetics upbringing children" time="2005-05-28T04:44:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html" description="The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds" extended="I'm interested in applying the Odeo model to centralising aggregator sites, and also in the exposed input box approach from BBC Radio sites..." hash="f1ac4df6a0286fa120532250d42e2b03" tag="rss feeds usability subscription xml" time="2005-05-28T03:54:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481" description="&quot;Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca&quot;" extended="This one's really strange. One judge who believes in the ludicrously supernatural stopping a divorcing couple from raising their son with other ludicrous beliefs. If it wasn't for the rights implications it would be difficult to care..." hash="bbefa30b73f717c81c57cc847df3f50d" tag="religion rights law america" time="2005-05-28T03:49:58Z" />
  <post href="http://funnystories.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_funnystories_archive.html#111725933458068072" description="&quot;Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon! Mushroom! mushroom!&quot;" extended="Awesome little video that makes me feel a little queasy, but is kind of funny and cool..." hash="89fd57862355bac4f7a264fd5c5f2028" tag="humour parody funny food" time="2005-05-28T03:42:52Z" />
  <post href="http://blakeross.com/index.php?p=134" description="Firefox gets a question on US quiz show, &quot;Jeopardy&quot;" extended="I'm now using the Firefox Web Browser that got its start from this Time Warner company's Netscape division" hash="3f1c25d83eedad762b2959648ca63cb6" tag="firefox browsers web television tv" time="2005-05-28T03:34:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.b3ta.com/board/4695858" description="Congratulations to ex-co-worker and b3ta godfather Rob Manuel on the birth of his son, Angus" extended="I give it an hour before the child's picture is in three thousand viral animations..." hash="e9886b13adf26df840e080c1c74e3cfe" tag="b3ta baby" time="2005-05-28T03:30:50Z" />
  <post href="http://troubled-diva.com/mostlinkedukblogs05.htm" description="The most linked UK weblogs as of May 2005, according to troubled diva..." extended="Interesting set of statistics which go to show (again) that links bear very little relationship to traffic" hash="1929f16bcd049a35986048daf84e4611" tag="weblogs uk" time="2005-05-27T16:00:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/scans_daily/448136.html" description="Rough scans of Jamie Hewlett's comic adaptation of the Pulp classic, &quot;Common People&quot;" extended="As found by Darren, the most well-oiled and spring-loaded linkmachine in the memetosphere" hash="4f85846dad17aac7ec101e7041ea7964" tag="comics jamiehewlett pulp music design" time="2005-05-26T12:43:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/winners2005.asp" description="UpMyStreet Conversations - the project that I was brought into UpMyStreet to develop has won an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Online Communities prize" extended="So give it up, if you will, for Stefan Magdalinski who came up with the idea and for Dorian McFarland and Dan Burzynski who made it with me.." hash="9143c29af3c2e0743657ab5900c532af" tag="upmystreet socialsoftware competition messageboards geocoding locative" time="2005-05-26T03:59:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hackdiary.com/slides/xtech2005/" description="The Application of Web-like Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse" extended="Matt Biddulph's paper at XTech talks about the work we did together on the PIPs project, and on identifiers and web services" hash="53f7af428b34b1fd07014f2e08dc420c" tag="mattbiddulph presentation paper identifiers pips url uri" time="2005-05-26T03:58:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=1376&amp;source=HOMETOP" description="Nokia 770 coverage from MobileBurn" extended="&quot;It is the kind of device that you leave on the coffee table or on the night stand next to your bed. When you need to check your email or do a quick Internet search, you just power it on instantly (like a PDA) and have at it.&quot;" hash="88ddf86ef7fbb28d98c17f8ffdabba20" tag="nokia portable mobile web pervasivecomputing ubicomp wifi" time="2005-05-25T15:36:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,75321,00.html" description="Nokia have announced their 770 - &quot;Internet Tablet&quot; - for the home" extended="It has a page on Nokia's site, but there's nothing on it yet. It sounds really interesting though..." hash="c28164ef06cd9ff51456107ee8c7fd36" tag="nokia tablet computers web portable" time="2005-05-25T15:32:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2005/05/media-2.cfm" description="Bubblegeneration talks about how Media 2.0 needs to get past the idea of building 'strong barriers around their goods'" extended="It references my recent comment on the New York Times, but actually I think it's more interesting than it seems - does this apply to all media? TV? Radio? DVDs? Movies? Software? Games?" hash="cd328b672f600799c2b3d4893d33822d" tag="bubble media distribution newspapers newyorktimes" time="2005-05-25T15:25:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.magazine.org/readon/" description="Magazine Publishers of America look to the future with a dumb flash site that tries to establish why they'll still be around in a hundred years" extended="Which I think is far from obvious. Also - like other people who've stumbled upon this site - I'm kind of stunned by how retro the future tech looks. I don't think the general public has the slightest idea..." hash="498a8adb262e293c73f2437ac9138cc4" tag="technology publishing flash futurology" time="2005-05-25T15:22:18Z" />
  <post href="http://kittenwar.com/" description="Kitten War... May the cutest kitten win..." extended="Most of these cats look moth-eared and grouchy. My kitten was much cuter when I was a kid. Bah." hash="71af15c9702e06f3d1fbf7b54d9341bb" tag="humour kittens cats" time="2005-05-25T14:46:44Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4576827.stm" description="Google's plan to put university libraries online has come under fire from a range of organisations" extended="The commercial considerations aside (which are incredibly important) many of the complaints seem small-minded, especially those from France..." hash="2bb4af10e04014cddbe3e2eef8dc6f56" tag="books google library publicdomain rights drm" time="2005-05-25T08:35:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67593,00.html" description="iPod Plug-In Sets Music Free" extended="&quot;ml_iPod, allows iPod users to bypass iTunes and manage music collections in Winamp instead. The iPod is supposed to work with iTunes only. A new version of the software was released Monday.&quot;" hash="cd0d1dbbab1a4346dfceee75e187552e" tag="music apple ipod audio drm" time="2005-05-25T08:26:18Z" />
  <post href="http://news.com.com/2061-10787_3-5716628.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5716628&amp;subj=news" description="A French commission doesn't approve of the word 'blog' and wants to replace it with the more gallic 'bloc-notes' or 'bloc' for short..." extended="I don't like the word 'blog' either. I liked weblog much more. I think Meg Hourihan experiences daily shame about the whole thing too. Oh those neologists, when will they learn?!" hash="f0498b9c8d00fef62fb0284ced017f19" tag="neologism language france french" time="2005-05-24T14:58:56Z" />
  <post href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1486053,00.html" description="Channel 4 documentary lifts lid on Labour PR machine" extended="&quot;Undercover in New Labour, a documentary to be broadcast on Monday, includes footage shot by Jenny Kleeman, a reporter who volunteered to work on the party's election campaign and ended up being drafted in to work at its national PR headquarters&quot;" hash="b91f16d57cd8a9196e7162b45fa2df79" tag="politics election labour" time="2005-05-23T22:36:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.blogebrity.com/thelist/" description="First I was B-list, but they realised their error pretty quickly when I told them dirty stories about Anil Dash" extended="I mean I won a bloody lifetime achievement award already. It's only fair. Right? Right?" hash="47df79474193b25eb1efa7bc00c4cfc1" tag="weblogs humour" time="2005-05-23T21:03:39Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1490151,00.html" description="Resume normal service, says The Guardian" extended="&quot;It is difficult not to have mixed feelings about today's strike at the BBC&quot;" hash="cc39ef9807380ce668706cb1584d8280" tag="bbc strike media" time="2005-05-23T11:52:04Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4564477.stm" description="Wormhole 'no use' for time travel (says the BBC)" extended="&quot;For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak.&quot;" hash="ab46653c8d174578dcf70b23f8a87f66" tag="timetravel science physics" time="2005-05-23T11:08:33Z" />
  <post href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/podcast_support.html" description="Podcast support in next version of iTunes" extended="&quot;He was slightly dismissive of populist podcasting, describing it as Wayne's World for radio and celebrating the arrival of professional radio stations into the market...&quot;" hash="99d1fb9230f9fd8ee92b4f00190083f4" tag="radio audio podcast podcasting itunes apple stevejobs distribution media" time="2005-05-23T10:57:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.afterhoursdrinks.com/" description="After Hours Drinks Company" extended="Will deliver booze to your door in London at any time between 11pm and 7am. For those of you who drink..." hash="b19ca2217401c06818e3ca40480352bb" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-05-23T09:12:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512.html" description="I, Cringely on the Inflection Point - &quot;So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to take control of, well, everything.&quot;" extended="Interesting article - but I wonder about Microsoft and Apple directly competing in the home entertainment appliance market. It still seems plausible to me that might happen." hash="1c775fbec646bb00a51cf89b6060d6b1" tag="distribution video music microsoft apple google yahoo" time="2005-05-23T09:07:48Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4538929.stm" description="Unions announce BBC strike dates" extended="&quot;BBC staff are to strike for 24 hours on 23 May and 48 hours on 31 May and 1 June in a row over job cuts&quot;" hash="7ee267a4359bedaffc785dcd73a97b00" tag="bbc strike" time="2005-05-23T08:55:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.verysmallobjects.com/" description="The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects" extended="Lovely, lyrical, flavourful and fun categorisation system for tiny little things" hash="9c7e00b159fa5a637869a669905abc75" tag="small little classification controlledvocabularies" time="2005-05-22T22:10:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-519ancienttext,0,2293185,print.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines" description="NASA science uncovers texts of Trojan Wars, early Gospel" extended="More on the use of multispectral imaging to read the hoard of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus" hash="4bac7e3ed19372b21a1e0df9b80b1a08" tag="papyri greece classics ancienthistory" time="2005-05-22T22:07:23Z" />
  <post href="http://stephan.com/widgets/locket/" description="Locket is a custom iChat widget that shows you when your special someone is online" extended="It's kind of neat. It's kind of dumb. He's charging for it, which seems a bit OTT. But he's also distributing unsexy versions for free..." hash="32aaae8c5d5d3e1d124847186b1b6174" tag="widget osx tiger dashboard" time="2005-05-22T22:01:05Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/2005/05/22/keyboard_for_uber_geeks.html" description="I may have to get this carefully weighted blank keyboard for work" extended="if only so I can look unbelievably posey when touch-typing and to stop other people using my desk when I'm out..." hash="bb9689bbd1a3a86d40062eaf4506a600" tag="keyboard ergonomics humour" time="2005-05-22T21:59:13Z" />
  <post href="http://9rules.com/whitespace/essential_books.php" description="The essential books a programmer or designer should have..." extended="Being banal for a moment, I'd really recommend the O'Reilly &quot;Web Design in a Nutshell&quot; as a back-up reference work for emergencies..." hash="357eb314e0c1d3fed6d4efb96e3ffc4a" tag="books design programming" time="2005-05-22T21:53:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-5-19/28902.html" description="Fossil of Ice Age Armadillo Found in Peru" extended="It's huge and awesome! Size of a Volkswagen Beetle! I want one!" hash="9e4e41f542e35ac19f0a04b972fc3fa0" tag="fossil armadillo" time="2005-05-22T20:00:56Z" />
  <post href="http://thenumbers.greatestjournal.com/" description="4815162342 - &quot;Lost&quot; Numbers Reference Guide" extended="A big page collating the incidence of the important numbers in the awesome TV series &quot;Lost&quot;" hash="251b1af349ff9aff2da4f23b0d42a5eb" tag="television conspiracy theory theories numerology" time="2005-05-22T14:43:15Z" />
  <post href="http://homepage.mac.com/jorgecortell/blogwavestudio/LH20041209105106/LHA20050520091532/index.html" description="Lecturer censored in Spanish University (UPV) for defending P2P networks" extended="This is a terrible story where someone talking about what is legal is forced out of his job by organisations putting pressure on the University. This is not an intellectually free environment. Terrible." hash="42ca6079e9252b35b27b1daf8c1bea62" tag="censorship education p2p law legal intellectualproperty ip" time="2005-05-22T12:41:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hippocrit.com/GUI/" description="A re-presentation of the Adobe Photoshop interface within 3-dimensional space" extended="It looks like a microwave that cooks software, but is also intriguing in that 3d metaphors appear to be taking a step forward in OSX and Longhorn..." hash="0470fc2beb003aabc74accf47d6f300f" tag="metaphors interfaces art photoshop interfacedesign" time="2005-05-21T23:10:22Z" />
  <post href="http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars" description="A History of the Graphical User Interface" extended="It's been everywhere, but I never linked to it. I can thoroughly recommend it if you haven't read it yet though..." hash="803809732e78709600a3d1300f1a0e44" tag="interface design gui" time="2005-05-21T21:40:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005740.php" description="R2D2 made in Italy" extended="&quot;A prototype of R2D2 has been built by researched at the MediaLab from the University of Pisa who wanted to build a ... companion robot with a friendly interface.&quot;" hash="85922a864eb8cc41ba2a6443f2eea81e" tag="robots starwars r2d2 interface uncannyvalley" time="2005-05-21T08:24:27Z" />
  <post href="http://mugwump.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/05/a_new_new_hope.html" description="Kerry Bailey voices the thoughts of a thousand dweebie early-thirty-somethings all around the world about Star Wars Episode III" extended="I want to see it now if it's good. I want to have seen it already and be putting the whole thing behind me if it's not..." hash="c94d2a47ef05e298d5b09f666546ee70" tag="film starwars movies" time="2005-05-20T23:01:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1481774,00.html" description="The film US TV networks dare not show" extended="The Power of Nightmares (remade as a film) is unlikely to be broadcast on American television because it questions the threat of terrorist attack" hash="20e997df0ab3a4651f7fa7c205067729" tag="politics us climateoffear television film cannes festival" time="2005-05-20T22:53:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.xroadsfilms.com/batescomedycentral/" description="Awesome Daily Show clip featuring Harlan McCraney, Presidential Speechalist" extended="Gloriously entertaining, subtle, elegant piece about GW Bush..." hash="ebf2e6576438d5fa533d94f9cf0f4932" tag="comedy humour funny television tv" time="2005-05-20T20:18:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/05/interview_natha_1.php" description="Awesome interview with a guy who works at Gosh comics in Bloomsbury" extended="It's the best comic shop in London, even though it's far from the largest. It's just classier than everywhere else..." hash="23b810a7a70e001d35364e9e0e0ce614" tag="london interview comics" time="2005-05-20T19:43:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm" description="Newsmap - it's not new, but it is classic and brilliantly executed and I see no reason why I shouldn't link to it again..." extended="I wonder whether something like this could be done with BBC News feeds through the Backstage project, I wonder what the size could represent..." hash="b4470252853dfa943b0998c40293d70d" tag="news visualisations treemap flash" time="2005-05-20T19:32:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67552,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2" description="The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth" extended="&quot;America's entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe's biggest broadcasters -- the BBC -- is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it.&quot;" hash="21587878b8f36eba5050aa555d3fd917" tag="bbc television media" time="2005-05-18T22:31:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-200.9203.html" description="Awesome real-world installation built with Flickr that does interesting things with mobile phones and tags..." extended="&quot;Mobile phone or internet social networks by means of visual communication linked through mob tags and or keywords... what?!&quot;" hash="1a90b88714b270239783a6034c138eaf" tag="tags folksonomies fauxsonomies flickr installation art" time="2005-05-18T22:29:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&amp;range=2y&amp;size=medium&amp;compare_sites=bbc.co.uk&amp;y=t&amp;url=http://www.flickr.com#top" description="A fascinating graph shows the relative daily traffic of two major international websites" extended="Dear God are Flickr doing well. That looks like exponential growth. Or logarithmic growth. wow." hash="ffba63cffedcc939ecfcb9c95291298a" tag="flickr traffic stats" time="2005-05-18T21:27:21Z" />
  <post href="http://littleoslo.com/eng/blogpoly.htm" description="Blogpoly board" extended="A new Monopoly-derived game board centred around the world of weblogging manages beautifully to avoid mentioning any weblogs..." hash="1a216187408b4b021c094311c74edd3c" tag="weblogs game design" time="2005-05-17T09:29:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA03Summer/theMermaid.html" description="The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl" extended="An awesome piece of investigation into the figure of the mermaid, the siren and representations of female sexuality centred around the Starbucks logo" hash="990791b36a35b73b650bbc20eb8b4ef3" tag="mermaid starbucks logo iconography design mythology folklore sexuality gender" time="2005-05-17T09:27:30Z" />
  <post href="http://53x11.com/?articleno=23" description="Anti-Anti-Piracy Seal" extended="A beautiful bit of design for artists to put on their albums if they don't mind it being shared online. I doubt we'll see it in the wild..." hash="ee5ce278e15a6fc1c18163436b965c0f" tag="music audio rights design" time="2005-05-17T09:24:47Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4554035.stm" description="Kylie Minogue 'has breast cancer'" extended="&quot;Singer Kylie Minogue has postponed her tour of Australia after being diagnosed with breast cancer, her tour company has announced&quot;" hash="85dedd69c80bec03deac99e624a555dd" tag="music kylie pop" time="2005-05-17T07:01:44Z" />
  <post href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/05/15#When:7:19:52PM" description="The guy who wrote this is an infant and doesn't deserve to be taken seriously" extended="If you're going to resort to calling someone an arsehole and mocking their accent as a way of getting your point across, then you can't really be surprised when people stop listening to you" hash="acb76b90ae5ed3f9098b0ad30c6e75da" tag="davewiner" time="2005-05-16T12:21:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/sudokufun.html" description="Sudoku Fun Dashboard widget" extended="I have no idea whether it's any good or not but I decided that I needed a sudoku widget and this is the only one I could find" hash="2beae9076ccbfec7d73715fa9f2f92ed" tag="game dashboard widget" time="2005-05-15T22:22:36Z" />
  <post href="http://services.google.com/demo/adsense/start" description="Watch Greg the hypnotically swaying Google AdSense Engineer explain AdSense to you" extended="It's terribly good and makes it absolutely clear that my site was not designed to have adverts on it..." hash="5f81c17ca3aa91c2c57781d3bf2208d6" tag="google advertising" time="2005-05-15T12:06:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/fathersday.shtml" description="The worst effects and the best plot to date - Father's Day is I think one of my favourite episodes of Doctor Who in this series so far" extended="And next week's looks bloody awesomely cool - it's all Blitz and London and rogue soldiers and zepellins and stuff..." hash="60c3107c7477ac222b537e8fcb2fb275" tag="scifi television doctorwho" time="2005-05-14T19:00:52Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4541603.stm" description="Hundreds of African boys have disappeared from London schools" extended="&quot;Between July and September 2001, 300 had disappeared, and police fear thousands may go missing annually. Child welfare experts say the figures hint at the scale of child trafficking, sometimes for labour or benefit fraud.&quot;" hash="d55b06a01abc6d652791a05ff2eed442" tag="news children london" time="2005-05-14T11:30:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/wired40.html" description="The Wired 40 companies are 'masters of technology and innovation'" extended="Every year I kind of vaguely hope the BBC will be among them, but I guess it's a broadcaster rather than a technology company..." hash="2fa01b87e37903e934aa3751b2000770" tag="bbc wired companies" time="2005-05-14T11:24:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/05/09/cbstar09.xml" description="A Daily Telegraph article about the Cybercandy shop in Covent Garden" extended="They're selling sweets from all over the world. They also have a website for distributing beautiful British candy to dirty foreign people who don't deserve it..." hash="6453e05238e8c168d5bb0a21d70a6ea4" tag="sweets candy ecommerce shop" time="2005-05-14T11:21:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" description="I cannot express how uninteresting I find &quot;The Huffington Post&quot;" extended="But I thought I'd better link to it anyway so that you guys don't think I just missed it or something..." hash="4c76a96714e2b2343b7281e0fb3dbaa7" tag="weblogs" time="2005-05-14T11:18:04Z" />
  <post href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/sip_chains.html" description="Six Degrees of Statistically Improbable Phrases" extended="Derive interesting phrases from books, and then hook books together by chains of them for a truly bizarre navigational experience..." hash="c94d752536ac7ab9c0e80a1771134ae7" tag="navigation amazon language" time="2005-05-14T11:16:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.imaginarygirlfriends.com/" description="Imaginary Girlfriends" extended="Tired of your friends and family telling you to get a girlfriend? Want to make that certain someone a little jealous?" hash="8423fe2cecfce7a60116758c4168680b" tag="humour funny scary weird" time="2005-05-14T11:13:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009F2C98/202-4919135-0719060" description="Royksopp's new album &quot;The Understanding&quot; to be released next month" extended="I hate the cover with a passion. I wonder if it's going to be any good?" hash="6a0cf54b7472b96142936f8b12285ad9" tag="royksopp music" time="2005-05-14T10:55:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569245134/ref=ase_4degreezcom/102-7436728-2280957?v=glance&amp;s=books" description="Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto" extended="&quot;Imagine you're a loner whose ideal home would be a cottage on the beach, miles away from the nearest neighbour...&quot;" hash="1822bc6360b953a8ce76f0b70a7b32d3" tag="psychology book personality" time="2005-05-14T10:40:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv" description="Ah what fun - A Personality Disorder Test" extended="You'll all be reassured to know that there's nothing excessively wrong with me that a few weeks on a beach wouldn't cure..." hash="18f2377c118fd71d408cce593b416be4" tag="psychology personality" time="2005-05-14T09:57:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.legrady.hu/sc.html" description="Is your screen dirty? This might help!" extended="One of the cheesiest links you'll ever see on plasticbag.org and thanks to Rebekah Ford for the pointer..." hash="da1aa75b19ce3f12a89e1585af715c91" tag="humour flash" time="2005-05-13T09:28:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1599218_1,00.html" description="The Disney Muppets: why that just isn't funny (by Caitlin Moran - ex-NME superstar - of all people)" extended="Disney bought the Muppets for $30m last year and is now relaunching them. Will the corporation get the show’s anarchic humour?" hash="db2b44e78bbb418595fe0cf727b9ccb6" tag="disney muppets comedy corporation corporatehell" time="2005-05-10T13:04:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/050516crbo_books" description="Malcolm Gladwell on Steven Johnson on pop culture and its capacity to make us more intelligent..." extended="&quot;At the elementary-school level, homework seems to be of marginal or no academic value. Its effect on discipline and personal responsibility is unproved... They could be playing a video game, and giving their minds a rigorous workout.&quot;" hash="b8efeb44c2bec762b69b603990c1a973" tag="book review stevenjohnson malcolmgladwell" time="2005-05-10T13:02:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000912502" description="A New York Times' internal study suggests starting a weblog to better connect with their audience" extended="It's not the dumbest idea in the world - more interesting was the stuff about putting supporting material onto the internet..." hash="131c43b0eaeb72da288eef4cf5080a85" tag="journalism internet weblogs newspapers publishing conversation" time="2005-05-10T12:56:41Z" />
  <post href="http://web.mit.edu/cms/bcc/2005/04/colonel-sanders-gets-face-lift.html" description="Colonel Sanders Gets A Face Lift" extended="The omni-present feel of smoothed-out Illustrator derived imagery is starting to alarm me a little..." hash="46c21222dfe4e86cbeff72cf6f281508" tag="advertising illustrator logo" time="2005-05-10T12:54:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/002559.html" description="On (Design) Bullshit - An interesting piece on the rationalisation for design decisions that people make on fundamentally aesthetic grounds" extended="I think it underestimates the value of the expert in knowing what will work but not being able to express it, but otherwise it's pretty interesting and funny / relevant." hash="5b8f5e71e8f7bd257bab7d17983d7dbc" tag="design" time="2005-05-10T11:14:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/12993813/?#comment3490785" description="Crazy Orbs on Flickr" extended="Mr Biddulph and I have been playing again. All terribly entertaining. More later..." hash="15fad66c758ff91b863c646301ed1978" tag="orbs widgets" time="2005-05-09T13:48:29Z" />
  <post href="http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection.html" description="The Great Flickr Tools Collection" extended="If this doesn't act as a good illustration of why people need to open up access to their content, nothing will..." hash="f8e642824d692f1810b602398cd1d86b" tag="flickr api photography" time="2005-05-08T21:14:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ted.com/conference/flashpage.cfm?conferenceKey=TG2005" description="TED Global in Oxford" extended="God I'd love to have gone to TED in Oxford in July, but it looks like they're all sold out. Which sucks..." hash="e0f7cad956de877edb4582ab37cc3255" tag="ted conferences" time="2005-05-08T20:56:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,67430,00.html" description="Judging a Book by Its Contents - exposing statistics to users to convey meaning and colour" extended="In Amazon's case using Statistically Improbably Phrases to sell more books. It's all about rapidly contextualising what you're look at and in a world of rapidly exploding choice, is probably more important than it looks..." hash="5effca038714406c72ad6cc47b02b7d9" tag="metadata data books sales navigation" time="2005-05-08T20:44:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2005/05/05/line-height" description="An interesting excursion on the typographic concept of leading / line-height..." extended="&quot;By definition, it is the vertical distance between two corresponding positions in two adjacent lines of text...&quot;" hash="9b46554cc6c7601ae0668c365ba4a6f7" tag="typograghy leading lineheight" time="2005-05-08T19:42:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~francis/themap.ppt" description="Powerpoint presentation that articulates some of the key differences and divides the UK electorate" extended="It's a really interesting way to articulate some of the major distinctions that people understand and to see overlaps between the parties" hash="6f9dca4655d76f13d22cbb1a0787d073" tag="powerpoint presentation politics election labour conservative liberaldemocrat" time="2005-05-08T19:26:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.threadless.com/product/237/Ask_Me_How_I_Became_A_Pirate" description="Ask Me How I Became A Pirate, by Tom Brazelton" extended="Awesome looking t-shirt that I fear just wouldn't suit me. Yellow is such an unforgiving colour..." hash="cb97149d01333a00468f5f2177404d76" tag="tshirt threadless pirates" time="2005-05-08T19:01:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/teens/lads/sexandlife/amiafreak/index.shtml" description="&quot;Am I a Freak?&quot; Flash cartoons for teenage boys going through puberty" extended="Some of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my entire life..." hash="bbe6e05f5399cebfec896c7640c58a0b" tag="puberty flash cartoon" time="2005-05-08T18:41:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.matthewman.net/archives/2005/05/03/bad_wolf_hunting.php" description="Bad Wolf Hunting - Scott Matthewman on the recurrent references to &quot;Bad Wolf&quot; in the latest series of Doctor Who" extended="Apparently it's appeared in almost every episode of the new series so far, leading people to wonder what it's all building towards... Could it be The Master?" hash="f8d8ceaeb887bc866f73de1276fdde37" tag="doctorwho scifi television" time="2005-05-08T11:47:02Z" />
  <post href="http://chancecube.com/products/flickit/" description="FlickIt Dashboard Widget handles sending photos to a weblog or via e-mail and IM to a friend" extended="It looks pretty polished, I guess. Probably would be better as a little dedicated application, but widgets are easier to write I guess..." hash="90693c168c9607f48ec612b8e432c882" tag="flirckr api widget dashboard apple tiger" time="2005-05-08T11:08:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lancearthur.com/archives/001063.html" description="We've Got Time to Kill (So Let's Smash the Clock) - Lance Arthur ruminates on goals and age and unhappiness" extended="The bit that stuck in my head was about not giving your job too much importance - I kind of don't agree - people get this wrong. Work isn't something you do to get paid, everything you do in your life that has a purpose should be considered work." hash="7946a0cb6eaa520c3ad07be4e0bcf438" tag="work lancearthur weblogs" time="2005-05-08T10:57:13Z" />
  <post href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/story.jsp?story=635815" description="Paul Morley on Oasis in The Independent, as found by Matt Jones I think" extended="&quot;Really, they were just a warm mug of artificially flavoured milky memories, passing quaint old-fashioned music through a post-punk, post-rave, post-Thatcher filter.&quot;" hash="f1808b0e13a5a46cdff573b1c1b0a88b" tag="oasis music pop indie" time="2005-05-08T10:03:24Z" />
  <post href="http://stephan.com/widgets/zaptastic/" description="Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction - on how Tiger Widgets could represent a security hole" extended="Kind of expected this, and completely agree about the lunacy of there not being any (external) interface for managing the removal of widgets - that's just insane..." hash="663af0936c2c57e8ee14abed3a41f0dd" tag="apple widgets osx tiger virus security" time="2005-05-08T10:00:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=5905&amp;display=photoshop#entries" description="Worth1000.com - Current Products in a Vintage Light..." extended="Make new things look old again. Some are awesome. Some are clumsy as all hell..." hash="3683fa5940d8059771818e65893afbaa" tag="photoshop design productdesign retro humour" time="2005-05-08T09:53:39Z" />
  <post href="http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=USD&amp;to=GBP&amp;amt=1&amp;t=2y" description="U.S. Dollar to British Pound Exchange Rate over two years..." extended="Webb found this. Fuck that's a scary drop in the value of the dollar. Still - makes things nice and cheap in the States!" hash="46c1692d40409ef1e1c4abbd3cabf96e" tag="exchangerates america usa pound dollar" time="2005-05-07T23:28:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.code-line.com/typecast/" description="Type Cast is a nice little widget for Tiger's Dashboard that lets you preview fonts that you have on your computer" extended="I don't know that it's the best use of the Dashboard or that it's the right kind of interaction, but it's kind of neat..." hash="ca3640c270711ed1ad42a75633ddfba0" tag="type typography fonts widgets tiger apple" time="2005-05-07T23:25:27Z" />
  <post href="http://go.blogger.com/mobile-start.g" description="Blogger Mobile launches" extended="Somehow being able to send photos or text to your weblog doesn't seem as impressive all these months after Flickr..." hash="fbff71041a1745f8e29d76cfdaaf4fb9" tag="moblog mobilephones phones" time="2005-05-07T23:00:39Z" />
  <post href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050504-4876.html" description="Shuffle captures 58 percent of flash players market" extended="That's a pretty impressive number for a device that's only been out for six months..." hash="98b71290dff7b8ac14895833501e9c86" tag="apple music audio mp3" time="2005-05-07T22:58:57Z" />
  <post href="http://mobiquitous.com/mousefield-e.html" description="MouseField: A Simple and Versatile Input Device for Ubiquitous Computing" extended="The application in question seems dumb and less easy to use than gui interfaces, but maybe the idea of smart sensing spaces where you can put and manipulate real-world objects has some scope" hash="b5fa32acabd8e3a67afa75e3abd05615" tag="ubiquitouscomputing ubicomp interface mousefield" time="2005-05-07T22:19:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3945589&amp;subjectID=348909&amp;fsrc=nwl&amp;emailauth=%2527%2528%2540Z3HNOTQA%25264%250A" description="The obsessiveness of Steve Jobs, The most successful paranoid in business history?" extended="What a strange, compelling and pointless little article. Still, it's made me want to buy the iCon book..." hash="9d3c464d3c2434f414581018c50fe181" tag="apple stevejobs paranoia operatingsystems tiger" time="2005-05-07T21:54:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.claytoncubitt.com/publish/metropop_denim/" description="Clayton Cubitt and Tom Carden collaborate to create beautiful portraits merged in with generative art" extended="It's quite stunning - like you'd dropped beautiful women into a spirograph and they'd been hit by lightning and dropped into amber..." hash="efe2354a1de5cd7351816fcfaad7bfdb" tag="art photography" time="2005-05-07T21:51:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.factofmatter.com/index.php" description="Fact of Matter" extended="&quot;We are technical consultants, advising the entertainment industry's creative community. Whether you are working on a script or designing a production, we can help you give your project greater scientific veracity and plausibility.&quot;" hash="57d71c6b4ba8f4aee4abb60216847b83" tag="film movies entertainment science consultancy" time="2005-05-07T20:18:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/06/vtv_day_we_won_the_b.html" description="The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals strikes down the US Broadcast Flag" extended="&quot;And to the studio execs whom I faced across the table, who shouted at us and excluded us and told us that this was going to happen no matter what: NEENER NEENER NEENER.&quot;" hash="d9cf4f79778f5417c72f3f5db7d6b1ea" tag="television corydoctorow broadcastflag distribution media software hardware homeentertainment settopboxes" time="2005-05-07T17:34:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.makezine.com/extras/4.html" description="Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC" extended="An article for Make magazine that's available on the website about how to create home media centres that are better than Tivos" hash="6170fa905945d3868bade1f3d3b037ea" tag="tivo dvr freevo mediacentre homeentertainment settopbox" time="2005-05-07T17:32:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.andypryke.com/pub/AreYouThinkingWhatWereThinking" description="Are You Thinking What Were We Thinking?" extended="Slightly changed the name, but anyway - a page full of hacks and adaptations of vile Tory posters." hash="3790a39ea568227aa1e805dc11211088" tag="politics election government conservatives" time="2005-05-07T15:30:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ivotedforyoubecause.com/comments/36" description="I Voted For The Liberal Democrats Because..." extended="Well, you can read my reasons on this nice little site that can feed your reasons back to your MP" hash="71de22e121f7baa5ec232279645a36db" tag="politics" time="2005-05-05T21:06:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.upmystreet.com/l/" description="UpMyStreet.com redesigns and bluntly - it's incompetent" extended="A screen width that will shut out 30% of its users, incomprehensible navigation, 'issues' like a print magazine distracting you from the database of useful information... WTF?! Plus more pages != more ad revenue if you've pissed off all your users..." hash="98d4e4c038dbe21531b0534598924c13" tag="design" time="2005-05-03T13:17:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/04/redefined_ninte.html" description="Niall Kennedy's Weblog hosts a Nintendo Acapella Melody" extended="Highly entertaining piece of musical history / art that demonstrates that Americans are less nervous about looking dumb in public than the British..." hash="baf35ef9eab0f50f083982c54c66c366" tag="humour music quicktime" time="2005-05-01T18:40:07Z" />
  <post href="http://fraserspeirs.livejournal.com/869471.html" description="Flickr Automator Action 0.1" extended="First version of an automator action to get your photos up onto Flickr. Very cool. Watching this one closely..." hash="68d8c14cf71742c4ee20aaaa978c2a99" tag="flickr automator mac osx tiger" time="2005-05-01T12:39:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.threadbared.com/" description="Homosexuality 101 from threadbared.com" extended="Awesome little site that posts old pictures from clothing catalogues / patterns with occasional witty captions..." hash="20ed0b78b69ff0f2f28af7ddcdbca8b7" tag="humour" time="2005-04-29T09:01:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2005/04/28/simple_is_the_new_black.html" description="Simple is the new black - Ben Hammersley redesigns" extended="There really does seem to be some stripped-back aesthetic coursing through webloggia at the moment - is it the new 'cred'" hash="57cf61f6eaca71983d939ce4c77048b1" tag="design weblogs undesign" time="2005-04-29T08:59:26Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4492469.stm" description="Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are in a relationship, their publicists have confirmed" extended="This breaks the half your age plus seven lower limit rule and as such is sick and wrong and must be stopped!" hash="f1304508adc75c202206d991093782fd" tag="celebrities dating katieholmes film moviestars stars" time="2005-04-28T22:52:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.marseillefigs.org/newdemos2005.html" description="A new CD of songs by the Marseille Figs is available and much much recommended" extended="&quot;The Figs recorded a set of demos at Hugo's Famous Speaker Palace at the beginning of January. They're available on an 8 song CD, for the very low price of nothing + postage and handling.&quot;" hash="fa656abe6216d237a4dd633acb7ddf35" tag="music audio songs marseillefigs" time="2005-04-28T20:41:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/2185" description="Making the world calmer through ambient technology" extended="A slightly banal overview of some of the work on ambient technology that's been going on..." hash="bc13ea0ad435907908ceb66ad4015e08" tag="ambient pervasivecomputing ubicomp" time="2005-04-28T20:19:46Z" />
  <post href="http://reboot.dk/reboot7/show/HomePage" description="reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen, denmark" extended="&quot;reboot is the european meetup for the practical visionaries who are building tomorrow one little step at a time, using new models for creation and organization—in a world where the only entry barrier is passion.&quot;" hash="f8aa190b0213fd0585a9afcfcd074b7a" tag="conference reboot denmark" time="2005-04-28T20:08:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.astrobiology.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16737" description="NASA Cassini Identifies Organic Materials High Above Titan's Surface" extended="Scientists believe that Titan's atmosphere may be a laboratory for studying the organic chemistry that preceded life and provided the building blocks for life on Earth." hash="a250276eb4e3f83ea5a1533406101e4f" tag="Titan Astronomy" time="2005-04-28T20:03:22Z" />
  <post href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/changenotes/netnewswire2.0b45.php" description="NetNewsWire 2.0b45 contains Automator actions" extended="Tomorrow is Tiger day. I might burst. Very very exciting. Looking forward to playing with all the sexy geek toys..." hash="edf741e39307f3b6d2f51ec22805be09" tag="automator osx tiger netnewswire" time="2005-04-28T19:47:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.evhead.com/2005/04/running-your-company-on-web-apps.asp" description="Ev Williams on the new productivity web-apps..." extended="&quot;One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on.&quot;" hash="b5dcb65c605de3271bf1b23988df9d39" tag="webapplications" time="2005-04-28T19:39:52Z" />
  <post href="http://mugwump.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/04/script_loglines.html" description="Kerry on bad film scripts: &quot;Three housewives leave their affluent community, with their suddenly catatonic neighbor and friend in tow, in hopes that a week-long vacation in the woods will snap her out of her daze.&quot;" extended="&quot;Part of their plan is to have a lumberjack screw her back to life. Seriously.&quot;" hash="3cc875401e6882bb3952abedd0616c2a" tag="film movies kerrybailey" time="2005-04-28T19:36:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1471070,00.html" description="E4 to cash in on the rise of Freeview" extended="Tremendously good news this - UK TV Channel E4 which carries a lot of classy US shows comes to Freeview" hash="56d1daf8dc497399f735fb2e61b7a163" tag="e4 television tv" time="2005-04-28T19:02:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/" description="The first trailer for Joss Whedon's Serenity movie is out and it looks kinda awesome, but also kinda like the TV show" extended="My biggest question is will this look cinematic enough? Will it be enough of a transition from the small screen?" hash="b04f8fb2795343353cb0e4a5a7fad649" tag="serenity scifi josswhedon movies films" time="2005-04-27T07:27:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/04/25/prix_ars_electronica.html#004566" description="Danah on the Prix Ars Electronica" extended="Interesting to hear about some of the discussion that's been going on behind the scenes" hash="e25825967d2515521c4e01087bd488b5" tag="prixars award community socialsoftware" time="2005-04-26T13:26:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.blogher.org/" description="The BlogHer conference is an overdue gathering on women and weblogging. The UK could do with a weblogging event of some kind, as could the gay community..." extended="I'm a little tense that some of the comments are characterising the event as an opposition to an apparent male hegemony, which I think is over-simplistic. Still, can't have everything..." hash="548cf501ca14bc4cc87c1f65ca665e4b" tag="weblogs feminism gender" time="2005-04-26T13:22:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/national/22gay.html?ex=1271822400&amp;en=f458105c884ad5f3&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss" description="Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill" extended="It looks like Microsoft have buckled under pressure from Christians threatening a Microsoft boycott. A better move would be to talk to all their competitors and go in as a united body." hash="3b09bbf6d2b010c4ef6cd1dcba4aa014" tag="microsoft gayrights gay employment christian" time="2005-04-25T14:00:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2005/04/25/business/bus16.html" description="Does anyone speak or read Turkish well enough to translate this article?" extended="&quot;Arama motorlarının yerini bloglar alıyor&quot; - Quite." hash="90647dcc4f6237d3392054e1b9c881c2" tag="turkish weblogs press" time="2005-04-25T13:54:40Z" />
  <post href="http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2005/" description="Microsoft Social Computing Symposium 2005" extended="God, I've been so distracted I didn't even realise this was happening. Drool. Sigh." hash="d8149b8420cff76a7d4765729015be25" tag="microsoft socialsoftware symposium conference" time="2005-04-25T13:00:34Z" />
  <post href="http://bokardo.com/archives/adaptive-path-working-on-ajax-app/" description="Are Adaptive Path working on an  Ajax app?" extended="And if so, can I come play?" hash="522f041425be2a561eb96dc5618e9c4e" tag="adaptivepath ajax design webapplications applications" time="2005-04-25T12:46:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/" description="Aardvark Firefox Extension" extended="This looks like a stunningly useful little Firefox extension for debugging and exploring HTML / XTML documents online" hash="2fd4253ca9d4415726f4217351507204" tag="web webdevelopment html xhtml firefox extensions" time="2005-04-25T12:44:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/election.php" description="The Public Whip's quick election quiz" extended="It's a nice piece of work this - you put in your postcode and how you feel about some core issues and it matches you to a party" hash="ddbb2ce0c4683b368a7083ff00146421" tag="politics election uk quiz publicwhip" time="2005-04-25T12:38:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macobserver.com/columns/firstmac/2005/20050422.shtml" description="A (Near)-Complete List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts" extended="Terrifyingly fun list of keyboard shortcuts for hours of entertainment with your Mac laptop" hash="13a068561cf6bd7d2e402c8ae1830d45" tag="mac apple shortcuts keyboard ui userinterface" time="2005-04-25T11:28:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/classified/index.php#PERSONALS" description="The London Review of Books' Personals column is now available online... Beautifully English..." extended="&quot;The LRB’s own Son of Jor-El, stuck in the Phantom Zone of the personal ads for three years now. Reckon I could still lick anyone of you wusses. Man, 36. Alone. Tonight, and very possibly forever. Box no. 07/12&quot;" hash="730c5fb13297ea6dcc041bc6abf6c2c8" tag="personalads humour funny londonreviewofbooks" time="2005-04-25T11:26:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/php_cheat_sheet.png" description="'Interesting' / useful looking PHP cheat-sheet" extended="I sometimes find it hard to remember whether it's Ruby or PHP that I'm trying to find the time to learn. Ruby's more fashionable..." hash="8d4a06163d4f192d4dc57d72fdd06ecb" tag="php" time="2005-04-25T11:24:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.misspoppy.com/catalog/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=16346&amp;cat=300&amp;page=1" description="Unborn Baby Ornament" extended="&quot;What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?&quot;" hash="a3115adeb1ae600a7becc2d0646ab2e3" tag="christian humour guns" time="2005-04-23T10:31:57Z" />
  <post href="http://eachman.com/" description="eachman.com - Caroline moves to a different domain, we can't call her 'prol' any more" extended="She also appears to be struggling with Wordpress. I'm really interested in what issues she's having. You don't hear much about people's dissatisfactions with it..." hash="eb3f02a89458521186bbf16fc1442833" tag="wordpress prolific design weblogs" time="2005-04-20T14:36:16Z" />
  <post href="http://maps.google.co.uk/" description="Google Maps for the UK" extended="This has to be the most blatantly obvious link of the day really. It's almost ridiculous that I'm referencing it at all..." hash="8a7da458047b765d4d81ba71d22cd138" tag="google maps mapping uk geography roads travel transport ajax" time="2005-04-19T14:30:43Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4447557.stm" description="BBC News reports on Radio and Music opening up 20 more shows as podcasts..." extended="And includes a classic picture of what they apparently think people who use iPods look like. Classy." hash="4c9601d74637c4210e9d56bdcda315c7" tag="ipods podcasting bbc" time="2005-04-16T11:57:06Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4450285.stm" description="Apparently twelve year old fluffy muppet man to take over as Doctor Who" extended="Although I'm still secretly seething about Eccleston's ponce-off..." hash="c0fc12029747f75644563c2ad1eecf49" tag="doctorwho bbc scifi" time="2005-04-16T11:55:17Z" />
  <post href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_epeus_archive.html#111355572203849558" description="Kevin Marks on the BBC's move towards more podcasts. He also suggests a 'world service hack' plus the creative archive could get around the UK-only restrictions." extended="Unfortunately as I understand it, the World Service isn't paid for with the TV licence fee, but instead by the Foreign Office. I don't think it gets free unlimited access to the BBC's archives in perpetuity like that..." hash="b1675e5632dc810913c1c4208346ef70" tag="bbc creativearchive podcasting" time="2005-04-16T10:08:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.britblog.com/" description="British Blog Directory also has charts to help people track the traffic of top British Weblogs" extended="It's a really interesting idea, and I've decided to register because I'm no better than anyone else and it's time people realised that I don't really get that much traffic..." hash="0dfd01930507b7a0a9912f52610cb87a" tag="weblogs" time="2005-04-13T23:21:21Z" />
  <post href="http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/" description="Creative Archive Licence" extended="I'm really interested in this - I wonder if it only applies to audio and video or whether this is basically a license that describes 'public service' uses of BBC content..." hash="609c92c1e1a52329c227424350a9c384" tag="licences creativecommons copyright" time="2005-04-13T22:05:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/" description="Tiger's launch date has been announced - April 29th" extended="So the question now is how best to get hold of it with the least hassle, and who's hosting the install party..." hash="d8d6b1e9a3cd4d1ae34cf1ed54683326" tag="apple tiger osx" time="2005-04-12T13:52:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/" description="Face transformer" extended="I can't believe I didn't bookmark this at the time - upload your photograph, and then you can feminise it, make it look older or younger or of a different race, etc..." hash="c0878e1fca5cedc4c9874566d18338cc" tag="face transformer photograph ethnicity" time="2005-04-11T13:25:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/alega/" description="FF Alega font family" extended="Currently much loving this intriguing little font. Doesn't look too good in the previews, but I think it has some interesting applications..." hash="6e4078cd4cfca6de9638323da97d0f19" tag="typography font design fonts" time="2005-04-10T19:20:54Z" />
  <post href="http://typenav.fontshop.com/main.asp" description="TypeNavigator - visual font identification system" extended="It's not as powerful as Identifont or What the Font, but it is quicker and easier to get to grips with..." hash="41c476ebaf3863e66b2f212a04514099" tag="typography fonts fontnavigator flash" time="2005-04-10T19:16:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/sets/98331/" description="Bronze Shields is a photoset on Flickr for images averaged from all the squared circle images that were around earlier in the year" extended="When smooshed together they look startlingly beautiful in a burnished copper kind of way. Interesting." hash="2278649dc83aacf2e550fafa1948d0dd" tag="photography flickr" time="2005-04-10T19:12:53Z" />
  <post href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1454525,00.html" description="Independent music labels are protesting the launch of a downloads chart when they're as yet unable to get their music on iTunes" extended="iTunes apparently has 80% of the downloads market in the UK and that means that songs that aren't on it pretty much can't make it into the charts..." hash="7b4d55ff0a3323f7a75c0050d4929d83" tag="itunes charts radio music audio" time="2005-04-10T19:10:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/469494/desperate-housewives-return-second-run-channel-4/" description="The US TV series &quot;Lost&quot; will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year (and by the way Desperate Housewives season two will be on C4 too)" extended="Finally all my friends who have heard me raving about Lost will be able to see for themselves..." hash="75cc905def881a1c720b7d107e0888fc" tag="television tv lost jjabrams channel4" time="2005-04-10T19:09:08Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4423809.stm" description="The EFF has offered guidelines on how to not get into trouble as a work blogger..." extended="The advice is pretty simple, be vague and keep it anonymous. The interesting part of all of this for me is how squarely the issue of publishing in public but only meaning it for a few friends is at the heart of it all..." hash="a821c53c2163fa8890050a44187c4660" tag="weblogs" time="2005-04-10T19:07:05Z" />
  <post href="http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6832" description="Prospect brings together a panel of thinkers to discuss what it means to be British" extended="Which is far from an obvious question if you're English, Welsh, Scottish or from Northern Ireland. Good, well-terrier-ed stuff. No real conclusions, though..." hash="f97fce4d2e145db51f92a89818198f76" tag="british nationalidentity nationalism politics identity" time="2005-04-10T19:04:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokogiak/8777595/in/photostream/" description="What would Googlemaps look like from the ground?" extended="This has been everywhere, but it's good and it's funny and it's well assembled. So I don't care." hash="edc6bf64b3c734c1d356f2679fa90d05" tag="humour funny google" time="2005-04-10T19:02:43Z" />
  <post href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&amp;q=Vambraces" description="The dictionary definition of Vambraces" extended="Vambraces are armored protection for your forearms, like Wonder Woman wears!" hash="4464be38c30c9d3dbf2a37df74c7b5a0" tag="definition vambraces armour" time="2005-04-10T19:01:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001472.html" description="The Pentagon's Flying Saucer" extended="Fascinating and awesome-looking hovering beastie developed by the US defence department..." hash="96bd0213553455fb2f530e57177daa87" tag="technology hovering military" time="2005-04-10T19:01:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.omniglot.com/" description="Omniglot is a fascinating guide to written language that I can't get enough of..." extended="It has stuff on various alphabets and syllabaries, abjads (like alphabets but with a different handling of vowel sounds) and scripts that defy translation..." hash="14c120fca10ba197fb4387e31f5e86a0" tag="omniglot language alphabet syllabaries character text translations scripts writing" time="2005-04-10T18:59:18Z" />
  <post href="http://populicio.us/newlinks48.html" description="I've made the populicio.us 48 hour view my homepage" extended="It's probably the best way to keep up roughly with what's going on in my community and it's slow enough not to drive me nuts if I don't read anything else..." hash="218d2503a3df09d87fea79b2ec980b72" tag="delicious newlinks" time="2005-04-10T18:56:05Z" />
  <post href="http://lightspace.biz/" description="Lightspace Corporation - Cutting Edge Interactive Lighting Surfaces" extended="They make shiny walls and interactive floors and stuff. It's very prety and cool and I suspect might eventually seem natural and obvious..." hash="4b7d4ccabd1cd67e571f8883e02ac1ee" tag="pervasivecomputing ubicomp design" time="2005-04-10T18:51:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.headshift.com/archives/002440.cfm" description="Lee Bryant talks about the Six Apart weblog conference thing I talked at and makes an interesting point about pent-up demand for this kind of event" extended="I couldn't agree more - I would like to attend, and would be prepared to speak at and help organise if that was any incentive (unlikely), other social software events in London..." hash="6c90e9300b083b0143e9ebe4c4050733" tag="socialsoftware weblogs leebryant events conferences" time="2005-04-10T18:49:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/97784.html" description="Japanize your ass!" extended="A beautiful and intriguing historical and cultural tribute to Japan's considerable lead in the International Poo-handling Race" hash="ad1a735f9bb31c8d78381522266a74d6" tag="design culturalcontingency lavatories toilets waste" time="2005-04-10T18:43:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm" description="A glorious response to essays on Hackers and Painters..." extended="&quot;Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do. Even not-so-great paintings - in fact, any slapdash attempt at splashing paint onto a surface - will get you laid more than writing software&quot;" hash="3e2ac4a8883b50d54102be6a8c69964b" tag="hackers painters essay parallels computerscience" time="2005-04-10T18:39:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.petebarrwatson.com/archives/2005/03/mac_os_x_mobile.html" description="Pete Barr Watson on an Apple themed UI for mobile phones" extended="It's very very pretty, although it still looks a little too much like a phone OS, which is never good..." hash="5d1f2549aa4de775651fc8d8ea597eb2" tag="apple design mobile" time="2005-04-10T18:33:32Z" />
  <post href="http://itconversations.com/" description="IT Conversations" extended="Awesome, if slightly geeky, podcast site that should explode in popularity when Odeo gets out.." hash="254084f2609e9202dfd8b1977e55aaca" tag="podcasting audio conference technology" time="2005-04-10T18:32:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/" description="Nicolas Ducheneaut's home page" extended="&quot;My research focuses on software and technologies that support and enhance social interactions. I observe interactions in online environments; I build tools to analyze these interactions further; and I design, deploy and evaluate new social technologies&quot;" hash="2c945eb56245c529b16ab69e01c920c4" tag="socialsoftware nicolasducheneaut research interactions technology web" time="2005-04-10T18:31:29Z" />
  <post href="http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2005/01/virtual_magic_k.html" description="Virtual Magic Kingdom: It’s a Virtual World After All" extended="Terra Nova comments on the Disney idea to make a MMORG or social avatar-based space online that resembles the Magic Kingdom..." hash="ea4731eb8d6ecdd8d6ddd4d78e912575" tag="disney mmorpg magickingdom avatar socialsoftware" time="2005-04-10T18:04:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/archives/2005/03/design_does_mat.htm" description="Blog Business Summit is down on RSS feeds, claiming that although people do subscribe to RSS feeds they never read them" extended="There's something in there about 'design' mattering as well. I'm a bit conflicted by this one - do people who don't have time to read their feeds have time to roam across the web either?" hash="9d5b06678ce0bbd069f5e5841e4d2e49" tag="rss design feeds" time="2005-04-10T18:02:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bainsware.com/accesstunes/" description="accessTunes shares your iTunes library as soon as you turn on your computer" extended="You don't even have to have iTunes open. I think this is interesting mostly because I don't think it'll take off. This needs to be a component of something that gives you a direct reward or it won't spread..." hash="a1f537da2e3b541dbbde1aa6300b1544" tag="itunes rendezvous sharing osx mac applications" time="2005-04-10T17:58:45Z" />
  <post href="http://homepage.mac.com/oligrob/syncOtunes/syncOtunes.html" description="syncOtunes" extended="A nice little thing that synchronises iTunes libraries across multiple computers..." hash="1f4a4cb2cd83cbaa6c8636c3b5abc613" tag="music audio itunes libraries synchronisation sync" time="2005-04-10T17:56:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.notapathetic.com/" description="Not Apathetic - not voting in the 2005 general election?" extended="&quot;NotApathetic was built so that people who are planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May 5th can tell the world why.&quot; I don't really approve of this, to be honest..." hash="e2e0ac1aeb05a5f699f5ce78a296a58a" tag="election politics uk voting" time="2005-04-08T10:01:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.millarworld.net/index.php?showtopic=47573" description="Mark Millar on voting for Labour but campaigning against Blair" extended="Apparently there's the father of an Iraq war vet campaigning against Blair in his constituency. Millar's idea - re-elect the Labour party, but make sure Blair can't lead it. Strange / intriguing." hash="0631ffea033a0d80be4848cc9e110da4" tag="politics uk tonyblair markmillar" time="2005-04-08T09:56:59Z" />
  <post href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1445404,00.html" description="Reader, I shagged him - on the mischaracterisation of Charlotte Bronte" extended="&quot;Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her.&quot;" hash="2efd003a7ad766587ce3beadb4548682" tag="charlottebronte literature biography" time="2005-04-06T15:01:09Z" />
  <post href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/weird.html" description="Science becomes art in 'Weird Fields'" extended="John Belcher and colleagues ... developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. &quot;It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like,&quot; he said." hash="46353d4ca7e97c46ca4165ecc8c261e5" tag="science visualisation beautiful art" time="2005-04-06T14:44:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.allpeers.com/blog/?p=76" description="A post on Peer Pressure about social television that comments on my Social Software for Set-Top Boxes idea" extended="Really interesting piece that references some of the work that other people are doing in the area..." hash="a7b12036ee4dba39af58fd11978853f3" tag="socialtelevision television tv socialsoftware" time="2005-04-06T14:39:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tetris1d.org/" description="The most compulsively addictive game of all time: 1D Tetris!" extended="Mm. Classy. Shiny. And most importantly - really really easy!" hash="fb8fc1bda3670cdc186e642f726488bb" tag="tetris game flash funny" time="2005-04-06T14:25:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.burj-al-arab.com/tennis/" description="World's Top Tennis Stars Practice at World's Highest Tennis Court" extended="Constructed on a helipad at the top of a skyscraping hotel. Astonishing. Extraordinary. Also a little bit freaky and dangerous looking..." hash="910e43533be5397858bcc121629b2b79" tag="tennis sport architecture skyscraper views sky" time="2005-04-06T14:11:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bitsonwheels.com/" description="Bits on Wheels - the first fully OSX native BitTorrent client" extended="And it has a really dumb little visualisation of the people you're getting your bits from..." hash="e7e00be4c15aa892c5f0713763c6ea68" tag="osx bittorrent applications" time="2005-04-06T14:05:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&amp;aid=78683" description="Microsoft's new fonts designed for screen and print use" extended="The article seems to imply that these should be used for web use - hopefully designers won't be stupid enough to go along with that..." hash="df786be812f252b43d30cafca0a2bb57" tag="microsoft font typography" time="2005-04-06T13:02:57Z" />
  <post href="http://comicfacts.blogspot.com/2005/03/is-batman-nuts.html" description="Is Batman Nuts?" extended="&quot;Lots of fans and even some pros characterize Batman as being crazy. However, the rationale given for this judgment has often had little to do with the realities of mental illness.&quot;" hash="2f6b58c7864a10ba4652a07d0508e62c" tag="humour comics mentalillness superheroes" time="2005-04-06T12:42:09Z" />
  <post href="http://interconnected.org/home/2005/04/04/joy" description="Mr Webb is using his new iSight to watch TV in bed" extended="Glad you like the toy, old chap. Missing you already." hash="6469e5393c375769f17de117b698e081" tag="television apple mattwebb" time="2005-04-06T12:23:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/b/beyonder.htm" description="And here is the Beyonder - one of the few people that we should now aspire to be designing for..." extended="&quot;Indeed, now that the Beyonder realized that he himself was not all that existed, he saw himself as incomplete and felt desire.&quot;" hash="f8fee1a35c2d6458db7df97036e367a9" tag="funny comics marvel superheroes" time="2005-04-06T11:59:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034358435@N01/167339/" description="Nico Macdonald's lovely title slide for his talk on what happens after Human-Centred Design..." extended="It's called Beyond Human-Centred Design. I want to design for Beyond Humans. That would rock." hash="168e503189962a839632565956184bc4" tag="design slide typography nicomacdonald" time="2005-04-06T11:52:02Z" />
  <post href="http://mbites.com/node/465" description="Ivan Pope has rebranded Social Software as 'sMedia'" extended="This is possibly the most ridiculously stupid thing I've ever read in my life. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Mike!" hash="4ed2b961d6bd2065235da4884a221d00" tag="socialsoftware idiotic" time="2005-04-06T11:25:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2005/" description="This year's BBC Reith Lectures are on technology and will be distributed as MP3s and podcasts" extended="&quot;This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers who is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.&quot;" hash="89202f78593a4f051e7c16bba9be95d3" tag="bbc reithlectures podcasting mp3 downloads lordbroers technology audio radio" time="2005-04-06T11:21:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/sets/164195/" description="The '50 people see' set on Flickr" extended="Inspired by Jason Salavon's work - merges together images with a similar tag to create ghostly beautiful composites" hash="ff2acf87531c84525059e8a568b96fde" tag="flickr art salavon imagery pictures photos digitalmanipulation" time="2005-04-06T11:20:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.socialtext.net/loicwiki/index.cgi?london_europablog" description="The wiki page for the 'Blogs in Action' mini conference I spoke at a while back" extended="I think it generally went pretty well - I'll post the notes sometime soon..." hash="5c77761a28b1aef743d9f66838893c65" tag="blog conference speaking sixapart weblogs" time="2005-04-06T11:18:46Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2004/party_policies_at_a_glance/default.stm" description="BBC News' Party policies at a glance" extended="A breakdown of where each UK political party stands on key issues" hash="cbfbbc1df9dd42df053129bbd96fb664" tag="election uk politics labour conservative liberaldemocrats" time="2005-04-06T11:17:19Z" />
  <post href="http://flickr.com/photos/mathowie/6738503/" description="A picture of the Odeo recording studio from Ev's presentation at ETech" extended="How do you get people to take up a new media delivery system? Help them create content for said delivery system. Very smart." hash="2777b5aa47e65c5847dcb73c337b0235" tag="odeo flash music audio radio" time="2005-04-06T11:12:22Z" />
  <post href="http://amaztype.tha.jp/" description="Amaztype - awesomely beautiful book search engine using the Amazon API" extended="It creates the search terms out of the books it brings back. You can click on the books too. Sweet." hash="e83b8be5284df734470f76ea497111bd" tag="flash api amazon search" time="2005-04-06T10:35:56Z" />
  <post href="http://www.replay-music.com/" description="Replay Music records music off the radio and automatically tags it" extended="Uses audio fingerprinting to figure out the beginning or end of the songs as well" hash="fa80269e57c2bda0197734057d25fe46" tag="radio music audiofingerprinting media distribution" time="2005-04-04T15:52:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timetraxtech.com/" description="TimeTrax - Timeshifting Software for XM Satellite Radio" extended="Apparently records individual songs as played on the radio as well. Interesting little thing. Love to know how well it works..." hash="81b7a0764ca250feab4661e64cf6bb68" tag="radio music timeshift media" time="2005-04-04T15:49:02Z" />
  <post href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,9061,1445366,00.html" description="Conservative MPs last in gay rights survey" extended="&quot;The gay and lesbian pressure group is currently trying to pull together a pledge from five major parties at Westminster to conduct non-homophobic campaigns...&quot;" hash="eb2ced43bbbfd0bfc44bfe412f278f1f" tag="gay politics" time="2005-04-04T09:40:42Z" />
  <post href="http://www.teevee.org/archive/2005/04/01/index.html" description="TeeVeePad - taking the piss out of celebrities and SixApart" extended="Highly entertaining piece of the incredulous 'you spent how much time on this?'-type...." hash="9cec33ecc369ecfcff2826f58691b030" tag="humour comedy" time="2005-04-02T13:14:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1193" description="Diesel Sweeties on Radio - with thanks to Matt Jones" extended="&quot;I like big butts and I cannot lie&quot;" hash="4236d3d7ac2c3c4e58a3021e2560ee16" tag="radio music" time="2005-03-31T13:41:45Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4395849.stm" description="Eccleston quits Doctor Who role" extended="I am surprisingly angry about this. I mean, TV series never get good until the third season anyway. No committment. Slacker." hash="61677e2bf8839f66a27df85b130dbd78" tag="doctorwho television tv" time="2005-03-31T10:07:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0503tiger.html" description="Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April" extended="I'm catching up on a lot of open tabs at the moment. Could be doing that on Tiger within a month!" hash="13f18bf1c75ff03a28115450dc98a397" tag="mac apple osx tiger" time="2005-03-30T12:58:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cio.com/archive/031505/security.html" description="Ludicrous bollocks about 'how to save the internet' from a whole range of people I would feel on-the-whole quite comfortable giving unpleasant labels" extended="If this is the kind of stuff that Cory Doctorow is dealing with on a daily basis, I guess I can understand why he's set himself up so strongly in opposition" hash="277fceec0c987e9fb51cf3c1737ea7ea" tag="corydoctorow cybersecurity security spam trolls moderation" time="2005-03-30T12:55:55Z" />
  <post href="http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-March/002554.html" description="Josh Schachter quits his job to take del.icio.us professional" extended="I really hope this one works out for him. I'm a bit nervous that it won't easily translate into a commercial space..." hash="71fc115695fe5179df561c026ecc7252" tag="delicious joshuaschachter" time="2005-03-30T10:07:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.glassdog.com/archives/2005/03/24/boing_boing_kaching_kaching.html" description="Glassdog on BoingBoing making money" extended="At the little weblog conference I was at the other day, someone said that BoingBoing was making $40,000 a month. I have no idea if this is true..." hash="8313e389a29539140db75fc126e81897" tag="weblogs publishing advertising revenue professionalwebloggers" time="2005-03-30T09:40:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.techcentralstation.com/032505B.html" description="The Coming War on Blogs by James D Miller" extended="&quot;I can think of three areas in which the MSM might successfully change laws and regulations to hinder their blogger competitors...&quot;" hash="08f07b2670d6117dc00c12d5e37d891d" tag="weblogs media freespeech litigation regulation" time="2005-03-30T09:38:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1444736,00.html" description="Branding the band" extended="&quot;What's the best band name ever? Is it Motörhead, Neutral Milk Hotel - or could it even be the Band?&quot;" hash="d7f33b464df6420d335efb8789e472f0" tag="music naming brand branding" time="2005-03-30T09:36:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4387205.stm" description="The Smiths set for academic study" extended="&quot;Morrissey has enjoyed an up-and-down solo career


Iconic 1980s indie group The Smiths are to be studied at an academic conference in Manchester, their home town.&quot;" hash="1ce4c0a63d0389d077439ec4bc3539ab" tag="music news academia queer sexuality class indie" time="2005-03-30T09:34:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/" description="Flickr Related Tag Browser - by the creators of the Flickr Postcard Browser" extended="This must have been everywhere in the last couple of days, but hey. Love it. Awesome. Beautiful." hash="bdad1664cda88c8dbdae8e824eee1817" tag="flickr flash photography photos browsers" time="2005-03-30T09:32:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/topic/21424/#comment132174" description="Flickr users discuss the BBC News story" extended="Apologies to anyone who thought I was belittling their work on the site - that couldn't be further from the truth..." hash="feaf0888891e641ff23b6d8875908aa7" tag="flickr photo photography news art socialsoftware" time="2005-03-25T20:35:35Z" />
  <post href="http://gaycomicslist.free.fr/pages/comics.php?comic=homogenous" description="From Homogenous to Honey" extended="A comic strip written by Neil Gaiman in the 80s in protest against Britain's Clause 28" hash="d9b42e6bf8139d0b7812f3231821912e" tag="comics neilgaiman gay clause28" time="2005-03-25T19:45:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.popimage.com/content/ybil-top.html" description="Entertaining Gay Comic strip - I give you, &quot;Young Bottoms in Love...&quot;" extended="I think maybe the title's the best bit though..." hash="2458cd6619a40e1b3c052289891fb4d7" tag="comics gay" time="2005-03-25T19:34:17Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4379975.stm" description="The editor of BBC News Online comments about the cuts at the BBC" extended="For us it means a proposal to close about 12 journalism posts directly related to this website in the coming year. We have yet to finalise our plans for years two and three... Will you notice? Probably..." hash="aa019e641e62e1ce60be45c2927dd957" tag="bbc" time="2005-03-25T14:02:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/03/wooster-exclusive-banksy-hits-new.html" description="Banksy improves some of New York's finest museums" extended="&quot;Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation.&quot;" hash="bc0ebb3a0d38046e7682b63d8b4a3021" tag="bansky art prank politics situationism" time="2005-03-24T12:40:07Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4376633.stm" description="BBC faces strike ballot deadline" extended="&quot;Union leaders have threatened to hold a strike ballot at the BBC if it presses ahead with its plan for 2,050 redundancies at the corporation.&quot;" hash="9ff1e43c892e83044ed4d61726eaae8a" tag="bbc" time="2005-03-23T21:25:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.slate.com/id/2115114/" description="Riding Shanghai's maglev, the world's fastest train..." extended="Sounds like a vaguely uninspiring experience, a waste of money and a tremendously impressive futurist folly. We need more of this..." hash="2268d9deac490a4034de329d71c1c54c" tag="shanghai trains transport maglev" time="2005-03-23T19:49:02Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4369389.stm" description="Jeremy Dear and Mark Thompson go head-to-head about the BBC cuts" extended="&quot;The BBC has announced more job losses in its programme-making divisions, bringing the total to 2,050 over three years, as it seeks to save £355m a year to reinvest in programmes.&quot;" hash="8a353c3131bbdc32055172240c3ee25e" tag="bbc" time="2005-03-23T19:47:50Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4366545.stm" description="BBC to cut 2,000 programme jobs" extended="The BBC is to cut more than 2,000 jobs in its programme-making divisions and new media..." hash="6e1eb5e56b95c9197e80bdc0e08b585e" tag="bbc" time="2005-03-23T19:46:12Z" />
  <post href="http://eboy.com/shop/detail/londonposter/EBY_LondonPS_22k" description="Awesome eboy poster of London that I ordered and arrived in the office today..." extended="It's beautiful and it's huge! I have no idea where to put it..." hash="1ce990c633f71ca417cb117ed0bb2c08" tag="eboy london pixelart design" time="2005-03-23T19:45:06Z" />
  <post href="http://jamie4u.blogspot.com/" description="Jamie4U is the funniest parody of a young gay weblog that I've ever read. Well done sir! Bravo..." extended="&quot;Then me and Craig were like boyfriends for a whole week, but then I got bored of him and dumped him because he was too clingy and I needed like SPACE and FREEDOM to BE MYSELF.&quot;" hash="bd8d1dae63962202d9f01e796518c7ab" tag="humour gay weblogs" time="2005-03-23T19:43:25Z" />
  <post href="http://sanity.ishavingamassage.com/" description="Sanity is Having A Massage - Flickr-style" extended="Ah. Back in the UK. Work. Flat. Computers. How very drole. {snaps}" hash="08cc8ce62fe4197c782c997c5e9afeb8" tag="flickr parody funny humour" time="2005-03-23T19:41:46Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4374971.stm" description="Phil Gyford writes about Flickr for BBC News (and talks to Timo and me as well)" extended="&quot;It's about capturing moments - things your eyes have got caught on - and doing what you'd do to a friend if they happened to be on the street with you, saying 'check that out, isn't that awesome'..&quot;" hash="96548d8032257ded9f993c92b57c9346" tag="flickr ludicorp philgyford photo" time="2005-03-23T19:36:57Z" />
  <post href="http://activism.greenpeace.org/whaleflip/" description="Whaleflip is a happy Greenpeace game of whales saving submarines" extended="The blue whales extrude bubbles, the pink ones pulse elevating noises. It's easier than it sounds..." hash="f1d4df0a0077335c49ad5feb6df25fdd" tag="denisewilton" time="2005-03-21T21:10:36Z" />
  <post href="http://signalplusnoise.com/archives/000261.html" description="Cat fungus rots your brain, and makes you slutty or mean..." extended="I'm suspicious of the science, but I love the story. Thanks to Dan Pike for pointing me in this direction..." hash="235751aa4d110285b4c32c5c7c4aa5eb" tag="behaviour parasite fungus cats" time="2005-03-19T17:28:50Z" />
  <post href="http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~mt807/fall04/network3.html" description="Junkie's Little Helper - as mentioned by Tom Igoe at ETech 2005" extended="Tracks your drug use and keeps all your friends informed about how high you are in a chatroom" hash="60065a22995666bf2fcaa50fa155c346" tag="drugs networkenabledobjects pervasivecomputing ubicomp" time="2005-03-19T17:23:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.needies.com/" description="If you hug a needie the other two bitch about the third one behind his back..." extended="Wonderful implementation of pervasively networked toys from Tom Igoe's talk at ETech 2005" hash="23c20a27b00c1e832b47a4cc95aa8b1a" tag="pervasivecomputing ubicomp networkenabledobjects" time="2005-03-19T17:22:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mcharper.com/wordpress/wordpress/index.php?p=17" description="Another attempt to formalise and structure fauxonomic tagging which I fear is doomed to fail" extended="But it triggered some interesting ideas for me around how a site that aggregated tags should operate..." hash="70224f96a7b6fc810e20e4f98c66c6eb" tag="fauxonomy folksonomy tagging folktags tags" time="2005-03-19T17:18:32Z" />
  <post href="http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2005/03/new_who_derbysh.html#more" description="Matt Jones on the new Doctor Who" extended="Interesting thoughts on the publically-leaked series from the BBC" hash="720e33d3bbc7a30f7e81eb5088651a52" tag="doctorwho" time="2005-03-19T16:56:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/03/16/why_sxsw.php" description="Another year another &quot;Is ETech discriminatory&quot; thread" extended="I wish I could say I agreed and saw a cause here worth fighting for, but the argument is starting to sound a bit shrill to me now..." hash="d58850098af55e441adeda3a7f5f3ea6" tag="etech" time="2005-03-19T15:59:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/03/18/amazons_statistically_improbable_phrases.php" description="Many-to-Many: Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases" extended="Amazon pulling out improbable phrases from books - could they be used for fauxonomic tagging?" hash="8ab4693ed3a8d81509011bedb3ec1315" tag="fauxonomy amazon tags" time="2005-03-19T15:56:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/" description="Rogue Amoeba is &quot;Airfoil&quot; allows you to pump any audio from your computer through AirTunes" extended="We tried it with some television last night and it was a full two-seconds behind. Someone has to fix this. It's too important..." hash="6f5a287c288be2c7aaebc287d65a35f4" tag="homeentertainment television rogueamoeba wifi" time="2005-03-19T15:43:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/daftpunk/humanafterall" description="Mediocre reviews for Daft Punk's new album: Human After All" extended="I'll buy it anyway, of course, and pray that everyone else is just wrong..." hash="ef07cbabde90fbb1d8e3fb1fbbae2413" tag="daftpunk music reviews" time="2005-03-19T15:40:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/1356415/in/set-48921/" description="Lions in coffee cream" extended="Beautiful, elegant and I hope it was intentional" hash="ef16b84d790ceb6389ee07065ddd3659" tag="photography" time="2005-03-19T07:08:00Z" />
  <post href="http://interconnected.org/home/more/barley/?a=funny&amp;b=obsessively%20self-referential" description="It's not funny because it's rude, it's funny cos..." extended="Well because it looks like it's funny because it's rude..." hash="1a1e70e5778b07a830bc51b0681e8441" tag="etech game toy mattwebb" time="2005-03-19T04:44:06Z" />
  <post href="http://www.chiverestaurant.com/" description="Chive restaurant in San Diego" extended="Pros: Food good. Cons: No obvious ones. Possible correlates: Felt a bit kak all evening." hash="43cfe7549733247d459e770e6b3f5ee2" tag="chive restaurant sandiego food" time="2005-03-18T03:13:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Route/Vertical_Route_Page&amp;c=am2Route&amp;cid=1081256322013&amp;ssid=132" description="The route of the trainline that we took down the West Coast of America" extended="Did you know there are no clear train routes between LA and San Francisco? Bizarre!" hash="3f6ac3055112404c728a18265d3bdc09" tag="train california america" time="2005-03-18T02:54:19Z" />
  <post href="http://typographi.com/000969.php#000969" description="I keep coming back to typographica's top fonts of 2004..." extended="...so I guess I should actually bookmark the damn thing. Currently loving the look of Neo Sans and Neo Tech..." hash="fdcaddd18bf3c9930a1a59ae6ae1ea5f" tag="font typography" time="2005-03-18T02:28:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/003804.html" description="David Weinberger summarises the &quot;Programme Information Pages&quot; paper" extended="A couple of the quotes could be misinterpreted, but otherwise not a bad nutshelling..." hash="37bfb4e0b38c6b4e89d80cb531bd769d" tag="davidweinberger paper summary pips weblogs" time="2005-03-18T02:27:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/003793.html" description="David Weinberger summarises the &quot;Reinventing Radio&quot; paper" extended="&quot;They end by asking what the social implications of networked TiVo would be.&quot;" hash="a20b3a0d7994924c2214d81a628e1d83" tag="davidweinberger paper summary weblogs" time="2005-03-18T02:24:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6701" description="Robert Kaye on the &quot;Reinventing Radio&quot; talk we did at ETech 2005" extended="&quot;I can only hope that some folks from US radio companies are paying attention to the BBC. If you aren't you'll be out of a job soon!&quot;" hash="85d48374bf143f40d74ed03a47ba10de" tag="etech radio paper robertkaye" time="2005-03-18T02:16:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.reemer.com/archives/2005/03/17/etech_the_bbcs_new_infrastructure_for_an_ondemand_world/" description="A really nice and positive response to our ETech paper on Programme Information Pages" extended="Yeah, I got quite over-excited by the end of the paper and couldn't stop droning on about it..." hash="17e20824b41de4bcf8d3ac446d72aba0" tag="programmeinformationpages pips etech metadata identifiers" time="2005-03-18T02:12:51Z" />
  <post href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/16/television.westwing.reut/index.html" description="It looks like The West Wing is coming back for another season" extended="Which is a really good thing - because the current series is kind of rocking my world..." hash="909923e96bda6f3e9939ce6104636a57" tag="westwing television" time="2005-03-17T03:21:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.posm.tv/" description="The Project for Open Source Media" extended="&quot;POSM (The Project for Open Source Media) is an independent research and development entity for the development and deployment of a standardized Open Media Platform.&quot;" hash="65de5aa8b8f7d4d9fcad019ac82274e2" tag="posm opensource r&amp;d television ondemand pvr" time="2005-03-17T03:17:02Z" />
  <post href="http://www.rubyonrael.com/" description="The future of web development is here" extended="Or is it just a passing fetish?" hash="b553d313972e8bdcb68c49cd8dc989a4" tag="humour funny" time="2005-03-16T18:30:44Z" />
  <post href="http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/bk/index.html" description="Yahoo! Tech Buzz game..." extended="&quot;The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends&quot; Like HSX for tech stuff... As announced at ETech 2005" hash="08b0e5ac8667798ee184997b253dde98" tag="etech gamingmarkets markets socialsoftware buzz zeitgeist" time="2005-03-15T19:26:21Z" />
  <post href="http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/flickr_postcard_browser/app/" description="Flickr Postcard Browser" extended="As demo'd by Stewart Butterfield at ETech 2005..." hash="b5fb93d67df54a260facb4efcdfa9360" tag="stewartbutterfield flickr api flash" time="2005-03-15T17:36:13Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lifelongfriendshipsociety.com/spots/html/futureheads.html" description="New bright, exciting and gloriously funky (but somehow less sexy) video for the Futureheads' Decent Days and Nights" extended="S'good and all, you know... Buy the album. S'bouncy." hash="5ab7171139c63134c43ec001c130f402" tag="futureheads video music pop rock indie design" time="2005-03-15T17:28:54Z" />
  <post href="http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html" description="A java-based visualisation of baby names over time" extended="As talked about by Tim and Rael at ETech 2005" hash="e1453d14ca16e3690ab274320610ddc2" tag="babynames etech java visualisation" time="2005-03-15T17:19:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/megnut/6600806/" description="Meg mocks me on Flickr" extended="Although it's true - I am pretty bloody dreamy..." hash="04274bd6829d0dc28d0ffd271f642610" tag="tomcoates" time="2005-03-15T17:15:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2005/03/arrivals_san_di.html" description="Dan Hill on arrivals, San Diego; and a departure, London..." extended="Aw... Old softie... Still you guys have to bloody come..." hash="483044ecfcc2218a335f92cded54133f" tag="danhill etech etcon mattwebb" time="2005-03-14T19:43:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/03_08_2005.html" description="Dooce receives an aggravating e-mail from someone from a large consultancy company" extended="That people still think there's a difference between online life and real life astounds me" hash="07a8d7c564068af42e378b66a9a67377" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-03-11T13:44:16Z" />
  <post href="http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Acquires_Groove_Networks/1110466891" description="Microsoft announced early Thursday that it will acquire Groove Networks and integrate Groove's Virtual Office collaboration software into the Office System lineup." extended="Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, will become chief technology officer of Microsoft and report directly to company chairman Bill Gates." hash="0e710aae1a5e95e51a785e97d09954ab" tag="microsoft socialsoftware collaboration rayozzie" time="2005-03-11T13:41:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.paulhammond.org/journal/" description="Paul Hammond has a new weblog, since the collapse of Paranoid Fish's servers" extended="If you can fight your way through the baroque, over-the-top, rich design excess it's worth reading! Arf!" hash="fa3c3d6ee7ac0d0863c874dd42aaa835" tag="paulhammond" time="2005-03-09T14:31:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bees/6101449/" description="Downtime on Flickr" extended="Cal walks us through a graph and exposition on recent Flickr downtime" hash="af8dee44193ac43fee56fbcb011734c7" tag="flickr graph statistics" time="2005-03-08T07:46:19Z" />
  <post href="http://monotype.co.uk/neosansAMT/" description="Monotype's Flash articulation of Neo Sans" extended="Looks like a really elegant and beautiful modern technologist's typeface" hash="f08109b377199c9f06f67d89f8818a40" tag="typography font design monotype" time="2005-03-07T10:07:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_march/march1/popup/kv_2_137_doc3.htm" description="The National Archives release a spy handbook given to Russians in the UK" hash="3eff01deea269e0880e9d38b867bfa33" tag="politics spies history" time="2005-03-07T02:02:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.fontsmith.com/news.php?id=386" description="Fontsmith on the bespoke typeface they created for the Channel 4 re-brand" extended="Very nice, very stylish. Disappointingly not available for the rest of us" hash="b43c6f5b01f9da87541a9ea8c4e10fac" tag="typography font design branding channel4" time="2005-03-07T01:49:38Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4308751.stm" description="Controversy over the Indonesian &quot;hobbit&quot;" extended="Some people are claiming that the evidence points to diseased humans" hash="77757525e97089ec63fd62df649b529a" tag="science evolution hobbit" time="2005-03-07T01:46:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.al3x.net/archives/2005/02/22/they-stopped-calling-it-rendezvous/" description="A boy and a girl flirt via the name of their iTunes shared libraries" extended="Of course we only have his word for this. She could have thought he was a maniac." hash="451269f42897ad66fc6e250ff90c8944" tag="itunes rendezvous apple powerbook" time="2005-03-07T01:43:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/dreamghost/273784" description="People make cartoons with strip creator and I'm in em..." extended="Funny world, isn't it. I'm not even going to SXSW. Although I wish I was..." hash="e5f64c6cc84ab258732afdf0c5673c25" tag="sxsw cartoon tomcoates comics" time="2005-03-06T19:47:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.secularism.org.uk/merchant.htm" description="Heroes of atheism merchandising from the Secular Society" extended="Not terribly well illustrated, but pretty sweet nonetheless" hash="1dee08b13afbd4281672cc5b974d5e67" tag="atheism god secularism merchandise" time="2005-03-06T16:53:56Z" />
  <post href="http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001060.html" description="Delicious Gatherers of the Month" extended="The people who have spotted new links first, in order of how many links they've spotted." hash="96b3f570f80dae50c3f1a4b5e8965ad4" tag="delicious" time="2005-03-06T01:33:26Z" />
  <post href="http://interconnected.org/home/2005/03/04/apples_powerbook" description="Mr Webb's tapping into Powerbook accelerometers" extended="And using the whole machine as an interface for controlling iTunes" hash="b2a64d4615aaccdd20affbf2057ee51f" tag="itunes haptic interface haptics physicalinterfaces" time="2005-03-05T23:42:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-1491935-523,00.html" description="Americans have insincere smiles" extended="British people are apparently just better or something..." hash="5fa0dcf480d0d1506d3dc7454f58f0e9" tag="smiling behaviour" time="2005-03-05T23:14:42Z" />
  <post href="http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2005/03/survival-of-certain.html" description="An interesting overview of some webloggers' responses to an article on the evolution of religious belief" extended="I'm quoted, although I'm not sure that it's the bit I'd have used to represent my position." hash="36842c3ce6ab51720503a1845559544c" tag="god weblogs" time="2005-03-05T23:12:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/mind_hacks_at_foyles.html" description="Mind Hacks live at Foyles - March 23rd 2005" extended="The cult starts here. Mind my words." hash="253f4b112a666b9953c0a32609f4f997" tag="mindhacks mattwebb foyles" time="2005-03-04T10:41:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.sony.co.uk/PageView.do?site=odw_en_GB&amp;page=MagazineWithArticleFirstSection&amp;articlesection=1&amp;article=1107738935823&amp;section=en_GB_Magazine_News&amp;campaignId=EMC-05EM08MYSONY" description="Interesting-looking DAB radio walkman from Sony" extended="I wonder how much it costs. It looks pretty sweet. I wonder if there will ever be radios in iPods..." hash="3d7b06b46500469449b39c2678cdf482" tag="ipod audio radio music dab sony" time="2005-03-03T16:05:15Z" />
  <post href="http://stunicholls.myby.co.uk/menu/email.html" description="Using CSS to make e-mail addresses harder to harvest" extended="Of course it wouldn't take an enormous effort for spammers to figure out what's going on here and rebuild their spiders to compensate - if enough people do it to be valuable" hash="45641c4bf50c71dac354ce6869466c13" tag="spam css email" time="2005-03-03T13:43:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,66757,00.html" description="seti@home style distributed software is being planned to look for extra-solar planets" extended="And if you're one of the people whose computer finds one, you get to name the little bugger. Sweet..." hash="8b640a50d04236bb580aa7da5e5ceac9" tag="seti planetarysystems astronomy exobiology planets software distributedcomputing" time="2005-03-03T13:41:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.headshift.com/archives/002390.cfm" description="An interesting job is going over at Headshift" extended="Social Software consultant, you say... Hmm.... Interesting..." hash="f2a3d4c7fe057c9785ef063e30616c4e" tag="socialsoftware headshift consultancy" time="2005-03-02T22:36:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000317030550/" description="Engadget review of the Siemens SK65" extended="I was interested in this phone because of the intriguing way they've integrated a QWERTY keyboard into it - but it sounds like the rest of the phone is a bit lacking" hash="d7e19fa0857478fd8e8bdfcca127f179" tag="mobilephones phones siemens design" time="2005-03-02T15:17:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/02/the_african_cli.html" description="Terrifying graphs of the decline in life expectancy in some major African countries" extended="The article puts this at the door of HIV/AIDS, although I haven't read the supporting material so couldn't state for certain that was the case" hash="78dc4b8d5251be73c943f55a2d0ffdef" tag="lifeexpectancy politics hiv" time="2005-03-01T20:33:32Z" />
  <post href="http://corporate.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000327033528/" description="Looking for a few good blog designers…" extended="I'm basically posting this because I'm vain and I like the way that they compliment me for my bastardised design sense" hash="2365ac1cecf440c031591f76cb4c7ec7" tag="weblogs design" time="2005-02-28T23:26:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Cgt/Courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm" description="The 48 Laws of Power" extended="Hideous, selfish, dishonourable and sickening approach to life that makes me feel nauseous and depressed" hash="bf26b00759de72e9779d7b59d2176ca3" tag="power philosophy" time="2005-02-28T23:13:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kottke.org/" description="Thoroughly very much enjoying Jason Kottke's design for a contributions bar" extended="It's shiny and elegant and 37signals-ish, and anyone who doesn't like it is a grumpy old sod" hash="7516dffd3a852b4568ba957278eed512" tag="jasonkottke weblogs" time="2005-02-28T22:35:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.opticalalchemy.com/products.html" description="Jewelcase visualisation for iTunes" extended="I would try this out for you guys except it's a .pkg and you have to do installing things and they make me nervous" hash="eb23c02e4ce1b8dc1cfc5e32804a97b3" tag="itunes jewelcase visualisation" time="2005-02-28T22:23:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/001074.php" description="An exercise in clarity: Define Podcasting in ten words or less" extended="I'm interested in this as a general approach to the articulation of new concepts" hash="f78ba5db67f59a4f9bc40d8486e0bb7c" tag="podcasting process" time="2005-02-28T22:09:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7748301&amp;type=entertainmentNews" description="Halle Berry shows up to collect &quot;Worst Actress&quot; award, recreating her Oscar speech in full" extended="She thanked everyone involved in &quot;Catwoman,&quot; a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom." hash="8952b8f0bc1853a06b9fc50f577cfc23" tag="halleberry awards oscars razzies catwoman actors" time="2005-02-28T16:14:14Z" />
  <post href="http://foe.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/autism_and_nega.html" description="Fiona Romeo on a possible link between autistic savants and synaesthesia" extended="&quot;When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer.&quot;" hash="cbc40647ca56ad9738a3e22480c666ea" tag="synaesthesia savants autism" time="2005-02-28T16:09:15Z" />
  <post href="http://del.icio.us/plasticbag?url=http%3A//www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/000742.html&amp;title=David%20Galbraith" description="&quot;If human population increases at the current rate - and we colonize other planets at light speed, humans will still all die this millennium.&quot;" extended="David Galbraith responds to a book on Xenobiology and the consequences of human overpopulation..." hash="451ad1cf5a21e85bbd426c60b6246144" tag="davidgalbraith overpopulation population exploration colonisation space" time="2005-02-28T16:05:52Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/global/whatisfz.html" description="The Observer's folksonomic zeitgeist tracks the tags that Observer blog authors are using to categorise their posts" extended="Designed to help people see what's currently causing a buzz in the Observer's offices. Interesting." hash="cd3e9a7ec8270533ba169240385f2444" tag="folksonomy visualisation zeitgeist observer guardian tags weblogs" time="2005-02-28T15:53:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/27/can_a_biologist_fix_a_radio.html" description="A highly entertaining summary of an article about biologists fixing radios?" extended="More of a treatise / satire on the biological method than anything else - although perhaps drawing analogies that do not hold..." hash="35bbc5b80342c9273116b51c3e46355d" tag="radio biology science scientific method humour funny" time="2005-02-28T14:57:14Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4302459.stm" description="Digital radio sales outstrip analogue" extended="&quot;Sales of digital radios have outstripped the demand for traditional sets for the first time, leading UK high street store Dixons has said&quot; - and highest sales of radios since 1985!" hash="ad963f2d5a2e68287792d67a3df3db34" tag="radio digitalradio audio bbc dab" time="2005-02-28T09:48:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/02/banksy-hits-brighton.html" description="Banksy, graffiti artist, comes to Brighton with this epic and beautiful image" extended="Passionate policement. Stunning." hash="74bd27ec695185d01aedd13156e8f687" tag="police gay homosexual art graffiti banksy brighton" time="2005-02-28T08:56:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.jurjans.lv/stuff/net/FreeNet.htm" description="Obsessively awesome network-based flash game" extended="Key lessons to learn - there are no dead ends that don't end with a circle or diamond, the centre block can rotate, but it's not necessarily easy to see..." hash="9c06ebd4ee3e67045870d99906d1ff7e" tag="game flash fun network networks" time="2005-02-27T21:10:42Z" />
  <post href="http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000597033445/" description="Interesting post on Google toolbar's zip code autolink feature" extended="&quot;What if my Yahoo page turned Google Adsense links to Overture ones? Would you be cool with that? Is it the users right to remove the ads on Google and replace them with ads they prefer?&quot; There's a whole new business model there for people selling browser" hash="68ae7b1ee2cfcbf776607d153df1dd82" tag="google toolbar googletoolbar advertising web" time="2005-02-27T10:45:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/index.php?target=561" description="Siobhan's Diary on Dancing Orange Pixies" extended="I'm somebody's blogdad. That's so cool." hash="18ecca39c508420100b49d3c06fbe2e4" tag="weblogs" time="2005-02-27T10:38:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.odeo.com/" description="Odeo: Listen, Sync, Create" extended="The Bruce Wayne of webloggia goes batshit on podcasting's ass. Awesome." hash="b54d580aa82ef7e2a42884887267290e" tag="evwilliams odeo podcasting" time="2005-02-26T22:17:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/2005/02/25/im_a_kottkeor" description="Anil Dash on Kottke going pro" extended="Loved this article. Loved it. If for no other reason than because it's about those of us who care about the web and what we can do for and with it. Brother in code, I salute thee!" hash="25b0ee466384da708ca6e5eb5e33cdb3" tag="anildash jasonkottke business web weblogs" time="2005-02-26T22:14:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.shuffle-art.com/" description="ShuffleArt - vinyl stickers to decorate your iPod Shuffle with" extended="Now if these are translucent, then they might really take off - the Apple white look should be great for non-permanent personalisation" hash="eb20975cf23eafdb635ef5ead51f8fee" tag="ipod apple design technology" time="2005-02-26T22:10:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.raelity.org/entertainment/radio/shufflecasting.html" description="Rael Dornfest coins new term: 'shufflecasting'" extended="Not sure this one's going to take off so well - but although it's kind of semi-joking, I think there's a lot of value in podcasters looking towards smaller componentised chunks rather than full shows" hash="b97160a0d59a88fb54f081e2cee3df8d" tag="podcasting raeldornfest shufflecasting ipod" time="2005-02-26T22:08:09Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/001787.php" description="Wil Wheaton finally gets a job playing a tramp on CSI and the web couldn't be happier for him" extended="I read his book you know. I went out and bought his book and read it and I really quite enjoyed it. Just so's you know..." hash="a39d25023b3eeb196374453aad8bc85e" tag="television" time="2005-02-26T12:19:15Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4288633.stm" description="Astronomers find star-less galaxy" extended="An entire galaxy apparently composed of dark matter - couldn't be more imaginatively evocative if it tried, even if reality will probably prove less interesting..." hash="d1d5a5629f5ab629348d959ea8f16884" tag="darkmatter astronomy space" time="2005-02-26T12:06:18Z" />
  <post href="http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1340354&amp;sdm=web&amp;qtw=480&amp;qth=300" description="Stunning trailer for a Richard Linklater kind of animated version of &quot;Through A Scanner Darkly&quot;" extended="Looks stunning - although it's extraordinarily weird to see animated versions of famous actors on screen..." hash="8168e5210e31b1ca99be2dde1c38e0ab" tag="richardlinklater film movie throughascannerdarkly trailer animation scifi" time="2005-02-26T12:05:16Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/index.html" description="Observer Blog launches with help from Mr Hammersley" extended="Much more attractively designed than the Guardian's current crop of weblogs - we'll have to wait and see if the content's interesting" hash="0cd978d1b86012a9afd2796196d16274" tag="observer guardian weblogs benhammersley publishing" time="2005-02-26T12:00:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/reviews?cid=b37a09cc5a40020c&amp;fq=movie:royal%20tenenbaums" description="Google Reviews: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)" extended="You can get a Google aggregation of all the reviews for any film by typing in movie: and then the name of the film. Likely to damage my all-time web fave site metacritic.com" hash="73db3d830e955a41ccaee9824d60a217" tag="google metacritic review reviews aggregators" time="2005-02-26T11:58:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.annenberg.edu/ssaw/" description="Social Software in the Academy Workshop" extended="&quot;The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working in a variety of academic disciplines to understand current and possible uses of social software in the academic context.&quot;" hash="a2112671668d385fa253b2ebf55f5926" tag="danahboyd socialsoftware academia losangeles" time="2005-02-26T11:55:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66679,00.html" description="Wired News on Kottke going pro has a particularly nice section explaining Jason's feelings about advertising" extended="&quot;But eschewing advertisers is more of a risk. Kottke is avoiding them because, as a one-man operation, there's no easy way to neatly separate editorial and advertising.&quot; Couldn't agree more..." hash="92ae6db91fac28800c3dfb6aa30d9753" tag="jasonkottke weblogs business donations" time="2005-02-25T23:20:14Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4294061.stm" description="R.I.P. Gold iPod Mini" extended="Extraordinary fluff piece from BBC News on the death of the Gold iPod mini further cements the iconic stature of the Apple MP3 players" hash="cb085776c456443d23b3f34517483e0a" tag="ipod bbc fluff" time="2005-02-24T13:19:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.coudal.com/abbavideo.php" description="A man listens to &quot;Dancing Queen&quot; around a hundred times on a five hour journey" extended="... and nothing much happens. Intriguing and irritating, but he doesn't snap and he doesn't kill anyone. Slightly disappointing..." hash="05a9dc6d4252556e43ecdded0179fa1b" tag="dancingqueen video humour funny music pop" time="2005-02-23T11:43:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/mapping.htm" description="The Mapping of a Cat's Brain" extended="Been everywhere meme that I liked despite myself..." hash="12bea4c4437c000fbb818faca4eef794" tag="humour cats funny" time="2005-02-23T11:41:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.springfieldisforgayloversofmarriage.com/" description="Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage" extended="The official website for the gay-friendly marriage policies of The Simpson's hometown. Awesome episode. Awesome..." hash="6acea08aa8d9240ab5dd55cfb6623daa" tag="springfield gay queer television funny" time="2005-02-21T20:09:29Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4282865.stm" description="Hunter S Thompson commits suicide" extended="&quot;Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado.&quot;" hash="f9b2272c66edef2e91b873b85ecefe97" tag="suicide huntersthompson author america death" time="2005-02-21T11:07:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/" description="Strindberg &amp; helium" extended="The agony is intolerable... This is what it's like to live inside my brain..." hash="9fed3552d06d98cbdd425c3ca94f89e4" tag="flash funny comedy auguststrindberg cartoon animation" time="2005-02-21T10:58:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mrtickle.org/alienbbc.html" description="AlienBBC: A BBC Radio Stream Plugin" extended="&quot;AlienBBC is a plugin for slimserver, the software platform used by the Slim Devices line of networked music players. It is designed to allow the user to listen to (mainly) BBC Radio streams.&quot;" hash="28f351880cbb7d5b29e918159cb394b1" tag="bbc streaming realaudio slimserver plugin" time="2005-02-20T20:34:45Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2005/02/20/contextual_signa.php" description="Contextual signage in the Barbican and on Channel 4" extended="Phil Gyford puts some perspective on the beautiful things in the world..." hash="1ab67b9ef36e45cb1902a71c4920b63e" tag="signage idents television channel4 branding" time="2005-02-20T20:31:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.theworld.ae/" description="300 islands in the shape of the world - a unique investment opportunity, and also the freakiest fucking thing I've ever heard of..." extended="Mark my words - the aspiration of humankind is to make the real world like Second Life" hash="529cc5d97fcbdfad69a6abb69e4e4937" tag="mmorpg theworld islands property leisure island investment freaky secondlife" time="2005-02-20T16:37:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1417989,00.html" description="Iain Duncan Smith on UK weblogging as the salvation of conservatism may unfortunately prove to be close to the mark" extended="Typical vile quote: &quot;All this should put the fear of God into the metropolitan elites. For years there have been widening gaps between the governing class and the governed and between the publicly funded broadcasters and the broadcasted to.&quot;" hash="5f786ef0b2d1df2a5bbbf030eb384f8e" tag="iainduncansmith conservative politics warblogs warblogging weblogs" time="2005-02-19T20:34:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.ironmanarmory.com/" description="The Iron Man Armory" extended="Enormous and detailed site about Iron Man - new patron saint of O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2005" hash="22dfdb8d25b38b19082b173aa8e1cde3" tag="ironman marvel comics superhero superheroes" time="2005-02-19T17:28:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/c42005.html" description="Beautiful new idents and branding for Channel 4" extended="Some stuff here that's so clearly been heavily influenced by Flash-based web design, and some other stuff that you couldn't do in any other medium. Stunning." hash="335a68fea782c7ea40c885084693d9d2" tag="channel4 design branding brand idents video logo" time="2005-02-19T17:26:57Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3588721.stm" description="'Fifty planets' could have life" extended="Half the planetary systems so far discovered could harbour life, and we might be able to see if they do within fifteen years..." hash="6b7ee0bfb24c6ce578ac0a2422595e7f" tag="seti planetarysystems astronomy exobiology planets" time="2005-02-19T17:12:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html" description="NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars" extended="It's all to do with methane emissions from subterranean caves. Very hopeful about this one. Life on another planet - however trivial and basic - would blow the world open..." hash="33e2a45594181b85376874a083e2386c" tag="nasa mars methane seti" time="2005-02-19T17:10:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.evological.com/evocam.html" description="EvoCam - finally some really good webcam software for OSX" extended="Not only webcam software, but also motion sensor, permanent archiving and a nice interface" hash="5762ec71aac4f1710debad30d45d2ff2" tag="webcam evocam software osx apple applications" time="2005-02-19T17:09:03Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kottke.org/cam/" description="Kottke's webcam is back..." extended="Which is a good thing, if only because it meant I could ask him what good webcam software there is for OSX..." hash="3033e09cfda936eccdcd39653c11604c" tag="jasonkottke webcam" time="2005-02-19T17:07:03Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276255.stm" description="UK users are responsible for 18% of all the peer-to-peer shared and BitTorrented TV show downloads" extended="Obviously they're doing it because of the sometimes enormous time-lag between a show being broadcast in the States and in the UK. There's one way to fix that straightaway..." hash="53bd3c37aeeb818f6a23ff004a7d5b13" tag="television downloads ondemand bittorrent downloading timeshifting p2p peertopeer" time="2005-02-19T17:04:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.podbrix.com/" description="PodBrix sells modified Lego minifigs that look like the people in iPod adverts" extended="Talk about having a niche audience..." hash="aba428a92f565d841ec1c7e97ce4bb63" tag="lego ipod apple design niche massamateurisation" time="2005-02-19T16:47:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/5607" description=" Stewart Butterfield interviewed by the O'Reilly network about Flickr, metadata, social software and tagging..." extended="&quot;When you're doing it for yourself, it's like a chore, its drudgery. When you're doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger.&quot;" hash="6c74671236dbccc394f510f3f7cb0f94" tag="stewartbutterfield flickr socialsoftware folktags folksonomy tags tag ethnoclassification" time="2005-02-19T16:15:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.readregular.com/english/intro.html" description="Read Regular - an asymmetrical sans serif font designed to make reading easier for dyslexic people" extended="I'm quite charmed by what I've seen of Read Regular - there's something about it which is slightly Comic Sans-y, but with much more restraint and class" hash="771ead84f1e38800c0985f79ceac3d63" tag="readregular font typography dyslexia" time="2005-02-19T16:13:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.panic.com/transmit/" description="A new version of FTP client Transmit has come out" extended="I've been getting cross with Fetch recently. I think maybe it's time to switch..." hash="26b9caa9c168c96339b143db10f86809" tag="transmit ftp osx apple panic applications" time="2005-02-19T15:03:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.colincunningham.com/" description="Colin Cunningham very occasionally plays a minor character in Stargate" extended="In the series, he seems kind of neat. On his acting site, he looks like a tit. Reality is such a disappointment..." hash="db1539680e26490f9cd2fc8a2099dd27" tag="stargatesg1 stargate entertainment actors" time="2005-02-16T20:42:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/218160" description="A flash movie that explores the complexities of life and death in the X-men universe" extended="I thought Hypertime was supposed to have sorted all this crap out... Oops, wrong company..." hash="8ac705c9840a47fa175b4406fd5514f7" tag="flash funny cartoon superheroes marvel comics" time="2005-02-13T19:35:36Z" />
  <post href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002421.shtml" description="Spotted: Christopher Lloyd playing Laurence Lessig on the West Wing" extended="Being possibly one of the strangest things I've seen on TV for a very very long time..." hash="c29eaaee311d80722e93cc3dabc0b614" tag="television laurencelessig westwing" time="2005-02-10T22:13:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog.php?article=604" description="Awesome Flash electoral map of the UK demonstrating the relative party strengths by shade" extended="Based upon the purple maps of the USA that followed the 2004 election. Very cool. Interestingly simply use of Flash too..." hash="e89427e9c235515d7e7ae66ce21b67e9" tag="flash map election electoralmap unitedkingdom england wales scotland visualisation" time="2005-02-07T20:33:26Z" />
  <post href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/notes020405.DTL" description="Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?" extended="&quot;It's a game of numbers, after all. Anti-Mac pundits always mutter the same thing as they install yet another PC bug fix: there just aren't enough Macs out there to warrant a hacker's attention. Which is, of course, mostly bull.&quot;" hash="0ecb80daa273eba343d31f385159be2f" tag="mac apple computer windows microsoft operatingsystems os viruses security" time="2005-02-07T08:37:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/" description="jbum's Flickr photostream is full of interesting Flickr visualisations and exciting meta-uses of Flickr-sourced imagery" extended="Fascinating and beautiful stuff found via the glorious Fiona Romeo's weblog" hash="b2c256f98c713e69d818755a084b097e" tag="visualisation visualisations flickr images imagery photography photo photos" time="2005-02-06T21:16:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/oceans12" description="I went to see Ocean's Twelve at the weekend (and this is Metacritic's page for it)" extended="Jesus that's a strange meta-film / celebrity circle-jerk. Can't figure out what I think about it. Lots of front, lots of charm, not terribly good..." hash="a8493e3f365650b9c31b0f63e5f51c71" tag="film movie review oceanstwelve bradpitt georgeclooney juliaroberts metacritic" time="2005-02-06T21:13:28Z" />
  <post href="http://www.glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=3771" description="Nominees for the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards" extended="&quot;The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives&quot;" hash="5a10d4ad1e5f06827a637d3a3c6edc7a" tag="media gay glaad awards homosexual queer representation identitypolitics" time="2005-02-06T20:50:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,46740,00.html" description="Push to Talk" extended="I watched a show about Push to Talk on the BBC the other day. I'd never heard of it before, but apparently it's huge in the states. Is this true?" hash="40129a7c70c874d9c53a9a1ec5801b8a" tag="pushtotalk mobilephones phone phones telephony mobile communications telephone nokia" time="2005-02-06T20:44:48Z" />
  <post href="http://digital-web.com/news/2005/01/top_10_web_companies_to_work_for/" description="Top 10 Web Companies to Work For" extended="It's a shame that the BBC isn't on that list, but I'm not sure it's an enormous surprise..." hash="55e741e01cc6286c79184956531f5911" tag="web industry technology career job jobs business work company companies" time="2005-02-06T20:40:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/29/etech_earlybird_reg_.html" description="Boing Boing talk up ETech, earlybird registration (I think this has passed) and set some pretty high expectations for our talk..." extended="And ha! Biddulph and Hammond don't get nicknames. Suck on that!" hash="f775e139dc6e500ea51d12c6655f7bdf" tag="etech etcon bbc paper conference" time="2005-02-06T20:38:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2112744&amp;" description="Are cut-scenes in video games trying to make them too much like movies?" extended="&quot; As I'm sitting there, waiting to start mashing buttons again, I can't help but think that this is kind of lazy design. Isn't there a better way to do this inside the game itself? Why ask the player to stop playing?&quot;" hash="d2c96c88747618f78ce32d5287650d98" tag="movies film cinema media interaction game games consoles cutscenes" time="2005-02-06T20:35:20Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.it/0100198/stories/2004/03/26/digitalLifestyleAggregation.html" description="Marc Canter's original post on Digital Lifestyle Aggregation" extended="I wonder if we could pursue a componentised vision by creating mediating interfaces that completely circumvent the individual weblog / flickr / whatever interfaces..." hash="f3720776cc10eadf730bc7a8d6c528c5" tag="weblogs future blog blogs components digitallifestyleaggregation socialsoftware" time="2005-02-06T20:32:58Z" />
  <post href="http://www.geeked.org/archives/thoughts-on-the-digital-lifestyle-aggregator/" description="Thoughts on the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator" extended="Lots of conversations around creating some kind of monolithic internal lifestyle admin interface, which I'm both interested and slightly horrified by..." hash="a42be0fedcf12b4f10849a4a2c776d67" tag="weblogs postweblog digitallifestyleaggregator blogs blog" time="2005-02-06T20:30:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.preoccupations.org/2005/02/from_blog_to_dl.html" description="Commentary links my recent rants on refactoring weblogs to Marc Canter's concept of a digital lifestyle aggregator" extended="Interesting piece - I'm trying to work out how much of what I do here is about me talking in public and how much of it is about me organising myself in public" hash="f32890204dd9afde164c900ef63687a1" tag="future blog blogs weblogs refactoring aggregators" time="2005-02-06T20:28:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.seldo.com/weblog/blogmonths/b200502.php#blog3152" description="People discuss my emotional state at dinner parties" extended="Which is a little strange. I wonder what conclusions they came to?" hash="2ead529bae9f5630325798ffa53c508e" tag="stalker scary humour tomcoates eep" time="2005-02-06T10:59:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1404021,00.html" description="Annoying article about Waterstones must be regretting firing that annoying weblog guy for calling them Bastardstone's etc..." extended="But he was an arse! He deserved to get fired! I can see how grey areas could emerge, but this doesn't appear to be one. I think this is making the webloggers look dumb, not Waterstones..." hash="819de75db4fdfbfdf14c707c23a66bad" tag="waterstones weblogs blog blogs employment" time="2005-02-04T20:11:25Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance" description="John Rawl's Veil of ignorance" extended="&quot;Imagine that societal roles were completely re-fashioned and redistributed, and that from behind your veil of ignorance you do not know what role you will be reassigned. Only then can you truly consider the morality of an issue.&quot;" hash="4c8d8cf8cf91040afa4a8b26d2bcf24f" tag="johnrawls philosophy socialcontract veilofignorance morality society politics" time="2005-02-04T10:17:46Z" />
  <post href="http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/9469.html" description="Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled. Ah well... Lost is better anyway..." extended="&quot;The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek...&quot;" hash="5c1c9ed8f162282ec2b6d517730e511e" tag="startrek television tv upn sciencefiction scifi fantasy entertainment" time="2005-02-03T10:47:31Z" />
  <post href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/microsoft/2005/01/think_of_a_name_for_eucrippled_windows.html" description="Microsoft plan to call EU version of Windows something like: Windows XP - dorky EU edition for losers and whiny people..." extended="I may have made that up a bit, but only a bit." hash="1c47715eb00681666d65ed4e33d621ca" tag="windows microsoft europe" time="2005-02-01T23:30:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.agwright.com/blog/archives/000945.html" description="Alex Wright on Sanford Berman, the 'original freetagger' - interesting because of the coinage of yet another folksonomy synonym?" extended="&quot;Back in the 1970s, Sanford (Sandy) Berman, the head cataloger at Hennepin County Library in Minnesota, did something librarians rarely do: He started making up his own subject headings.&quot;" hash="9a25b845fdcbd3087884a176e383e4e0" tag="freetags sanfordberman sandyberman catalogue library libraryscience taxonomy classification" time="2005-01-31T22:55:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000067.html" description="Mr Biddulph also has decided to graft together the Radio 3 site with del.icio.us" extended="Clearly we're not keeping him busy enough at work!" hash="75b55115a09993cf767906d37edac740" tag="radio3 bbc delicious" time="2005-01-31T22:50:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hackdiary.com/stemtags/?user=plasticbag" description="Mr Biddulph's del.icio.us tag stemmer reveals how redundant many of my tags are" extended="Which no doubt will give Mr Schachter even more ammunition for his occasional stern eyebrows in my direction" hash="5bce9245cd0f26d0065979c1b381bc71" tag="joshschachter delicious mattbiddulph tags folksonomy folksonomies tag folktags" time="2005-01-31T22:46:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26341921@N00/4000000/" description="Four million pictures have been uploaded to Flickr" extended="And this is the four millionth - it's a picture of cups!" hash="01b777f7fd7c7cef0f3d9da86907907d" tag="flickr statistics photo photographs" time="2005-01-31T22:32:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pharmacopoeia-art.net/" description="Pharmacopoeia's amazing &quot;Cradle to Grave&quot; art exhibity that I saw at the British Museum on Sunday" extended="A beautiful piece of cloth has thousands of pills sewn into it creating a biography in medication..." hash="8c62dde7f21ffb7b606cffd5d6b3d0a8" tag="pills art cloth pharmacopoeia britishmuseum drugs" time="2005-01-31T22:19:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.capvsbats.com/Parodies/IronMan02.htm" description="A parody of the latest issue of new ETech patron saint, Iron Man" extended="Warren Ellis is taking Iron Man in a fascinating direction, based around the contemporary tech community. But not everyone's as thrilled by that as me..." hash="fd2a7179a77e5f9bea77efa03363cca0" tag="comics parody humour" time="2005-01-31T22:10:08Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkmaster/1930350/?#comment889980" description="America hates spoilers!" extended="Kottke versus everything that's good in the world..." hash="4ee2ccc8dc8661f0b73fddc429429e0c" tag="jasonkottke america flickr flag antiamericanism spoilers CNN politics" time="2005-01-30T09:52:26Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4219501.stm" description="Former minister, Chris Smith, is HIV positive and has been for 17 years..." extended="I have tremendous respect for him for this whole thing - maintaining his life, and working at such a high level for such a long period of time. Hopefully it'll change how people think about people who are HIV positive..." hash="9917014ab2ccdf372a120e1000bd3f50" tag="hiv gay chrissmith politics" time="2005-01-29T23:21:26Z" />
  <post href="http://www.blogherald.com/2005/01/28/denton-scores-7-nominations-for-bloggies/" description="A strangely serious piece of coverage of the Bloggies" extended="&quot;A number of web pioneers have been overlooked again this year, notably Dave Winer, with Tom Coates from Plastic Bag and Derek Powazek lining up as favourites for the Lifetime Achievement Awards.&quot;" hash="7bc3fef4c3a04a11e42ed3e08bb4796c" tag="awards bloggies weblogs blog blogs" time="2005-01-28T15:19:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/index.php?p=419" description="Apple-like-styled sub-Sony Aibo 'iDog'" extended="Since music from a stock set of phrases, responds emotionally to touch and can be plugged into an iPod - at which point it will dance" hash="b2f5d0a4332d62d61d2f3df55ee36339" tag="technology sony apple design beautiful music audio mp3 ipod" time="2005-01-28T09:09:25Z" />
  <post href="http://genex.typepad.com/genex/2005/01/teen_bear_magaz.html" description="Teen Bear - Awesome idea for new American gay magazine" extended="Although I'm slightly horrified by the idea that someone with about six chest hairs might be considered wild and manly. Ho hum." hash="171777bc7d35207b4172ef3706de28ad" tag="gay teen magazine mockup photoshop humour bear" time="2005-01-27T11:55:48Z" />
  <post href="http://oscar.com/nominees/nominees.html" description="2005 Oscar nominees" extended="Lots of films I've not been able to see yet, and more nominations for the entertaining and engaging &quot;Aviator&quot; than for anything else..." hash="fe7b0ec21251679a1c4c2a5195ef9c1a" tag="movies films oscar oscars nominations nominees award awards" time="2005-01-26T11:08:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/" description="The new BBC RadioPlayer, now with many many more hours of broadcasting each week, has now launched..." extended="Interestingly integrated with audio/visual stuff provided by News, Weather and Sport" hash="fab812f5671a3051431ab7624d81e708" tag="bbc radioplayer radioandmusic r&amp;mi rnmi work radio audio streaming" time="2005-01-26T10:53:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov" description="An edited-down video of the Apple keynote when they introduced the Macintosh" extended="Wow. I was stunned by how emotionally affected I was by watching this. Please don't laugh at me. It's pretty moving..." hash="69017b5ba8e29991d845674edf3a26dd" tag="apple stevejobs history keynote computer technology macintosh" time="2005-01-25T09:02:24Z" />
  <post href="http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomy/" description="Anatomy for beginners" extended="Channel 4 TV series in which a human corpse is dissected in front of a camera. Gross more because of the way it is handled - bluntly, like a butcher - than because of the subject matter itself..." hash="d3afd047882540e17acb8813afadc734" tag="channel4 anatomy dissection corpse biology death ghoulish grotesque" time="2005-01-24T23:39:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~birds/birdw0rks/flickr.mp3" description="Awesomely terrible / awesomely brilliant Flickr song (mp3)" extended="&quot;I love my Flickr friends, I’m addicted to their images and photostreams, I love my Flickr friends, They’ve crawled under my skin and into my dreams&quot;" hash="7c69fc8af35f4b2e885ed2ef544ab298" tag="flickr humour funny song music mp3" time="2005-01-24T20:15:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=24639" description="Star Wars craft made out of Lego" extended="God I would have killed for that Millennium Falcon when I was a kid. I'd watch TV shows with cars and space-ships in them and immediately go home and make them in Lego" hash="67c843bcc0bbaf297b63e7c3f8895241" tag="starwars lego sciencefiction" time="2005-01-23T14:00:14Z" />
  <post href="http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2004/poymoments.html" description="10 Things We Learned About Blogs in 2004" extended="I wonder how long it will take people to stop thinking of weblogs as publishing, and start thinking about them being people interacting to diminish the role of publishing" hash="ad06964fed783a96a4a0a5f41b22f9ee" tag="weblogs blog blogs publishing massamateurisation bah" time="2005-01-23T13:53:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.atmedia2005.co.uk/" description="@media 2005 on Web Standards and Accessibility" extended="&quot;It's the web design event of the year. The @media 2005 conference brings together the biggest names from around the world to talk about the hottest topics in web design - web standards and accessibility.&quot;" hash="f59d224bab14c3442561a7ec423093e1" tag="webdesign webstandards accessibility web internet dougbowman jeffreyzeldman london conference" time="2005-01-23T13:40:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flashforwardconference.com/nomination.asp" description="Nominate your favourite Flash movies of the year to the Flash Film Festival" extended="I think this is probably a bit serious to give Magical Trevor the accolades it deserves, but it could be fun nonetheless..." hash="66401dca235489c6622faaff16a9914a" tag="flash film filmfestival" time="2005-01-23T13:28:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.partyben.com/downloads/" description="Party Ben's mash-ups download page contains some real musical gems" extended="I can particularly recommend Hot Hot Bowie's &quot;Let's Dance With Me&quot; and Beyoncaville's &quot;Crazy In Japan&quot;. The latter is rapidly rising through my iTunes 'most played' playlist" hash="ea27085226755286101fe3078f354b70" tag="mashup partyben davidbowie beyonce download audio music" time="2005-01-23T13:23:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html?ei=5090&amp;en=965388833bb8b956&amp;ex=1262408400&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;pagewanted=all" description="New York Times editorial on how cultures avoid collapse by managing environmental pressures" extended="I remember being stunned driving through America and seeing landscapes being ripped apart at an enomrous rate. The consensus at the time seemed to be just that there was &quot;plenty more where that came from&quot;..." hash="46dce3d673e5aefcf838e8d156f0fb1b" tag="environmentalism environment america society revolution future" time="2005-01-23T13:19:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.cachelogic.com/research/slide1.php" description="Andrew Parker's presentation on the true shape of P2P usage on the net" extended="Among other things, reflects the enormous explosion of people using BitTorrent and demonstrates that the vast amount of traffic on the net is P2P (and not web) related" hash="8994f8c203eb217b1d005d3afbf6cfb6" tag="p2p peertopeer bittorrent kazaa distribution postbroadcast music video film television programming programmes" time="2005-01-23T13:15:54Z" />
  <post href="http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2005/01/shirky_tufte_x_.html" description="Matt Jones proposes using Tufte-esque sparklines to expose editing histories on Wikipedia" extended="The assumption being that a clued-up individual would be able to make determinations about the data based upon how controversial or active its editing history appears to have been..." hash="c2b326bbef2bd50909a5721d1736e43d" tag="wikipedia sparklines edwardtufte tufte mattjones navigation tabs" time="2005-01-23T13:10:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.trektoday.com/news/180105_02.shtml" description="Paramount people deny that Enterprise is going to be cancelled before the end of Season Four" extended="&quot;As to whether or not we'll be back for Season 5,&quot; Coto continued, &quot;that's always been up in the air. We'll see what the future brings.&quot;" hash="4a0bb4bc20056994708ec959992e5146" tag="startrek startrekenterprise enterprise cancellation television tvshow programme paramount" time="2005-01-23T13:03:19Z" />
  <post href="http://jpgmag.com/" description="Heather Champ and Derek Powazek release the first issue of JPG magazine. Awesome." extended="&quot;JPG Magazine is for people who love imagemaking without attitude. It's about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It's for photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing their work...&quot;" hash="ad1c53c1072b9c570e4a6476cf32c144" tag="jpg photography magazine photograph origin web massamateurisation" time="2005-01-23T12:50:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4191581.stm" description="BBC news article on peer-to-peer networks and how they're being adopted as an effective distribution mechanism by mainstream media companies" extended="&quot;The BBC has already decided to embrace the technology. It aims to offer most of its own programmes for download this year and it will use P2P technology to distribute them.&quot;" hash="5ec70ef4d91f9c63951223a5aa427c1c" tag="bbc p2p peertopeer distribution technology software web internet postbroadcast broadcast television radio audio video" time="2005-01-23T12:47:58Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4174519.stm" description="US military pondered love not war - more on the US Government's attempts to find a compound to make enemy soldiers shag one another" extended="It occurs to me that the Ancient Greeks thought that almost romantic friendships made soldier more, not less, effective. Perhaps after the initial shock and traumatic discussions with parents, this might make an enemy army stronger!" hash="cd90aeb9952992a67e6fc7af383fc89e" tag="military researchanddevelopment rnd r&amp;d america science sexuality homosexuality chemicalwarfare" time="2005-01-23T12:45:46Z" />
  <post href="http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/005986.html" description="A discussion of the political effects of the Photoshopped &quot;Creative Commons&quot; responses to Bill Gates comparing Creative Commons to Communism..." extended="&quot;The bad guys’ basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change. When you, their opponents, allow yourself to be defined as the alien, you’re doing exactly what they want you to do, and" hash="48dda8a6afbf55a0acf094d6ce6f8024" tag="creativecommons communism billgates microsoft copyleft irony humour politics intellectualproperty" time="2005-01-23T12:43:42Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4171177.stm" description="Human Rights Watch takes US to task for damaging the worldwide fight for human rights" extended="&quot;Governments facing human rights pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables,&quot; said Mr Roth. &quot;Washington can't very well uphold principles that it violates itself.&quot;" hash="ee687db22d27ad19c0c92d3404ad5668" tag="humanrights politics america usa unitedstates government rights rightsabuse" time="2005-01-23T02:17:37Z" />
  <post href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/webcred/index.php?p=3" description="An event on journalism and weblogging that apparently had a bit about webloggers codes of ethics" extended="I talked to a few people about this stuff a year or so again. I might get around to doing something around it again. I hope they define something that applies to all webloggers though, not just the minority that aspire to journalistic practice..." hash="52c83d66e8244f999cfb57f54755db5d" tag="journalism ethics journalists weblogs blog blogs event conference" time="2005-01-23T01:03:05Z" />
  <post href="http://www.tadalist.com/" description="The terribly named, but incredibly elegant tadalist from 37 signals - &quot;Simple, sharable to-do lists. It's just what you need and nothing you don't...&quot;" extended="The thing about 37 signals is that they not only do good consulting, but they also make beautiful things for their own sake. That's a company ethos that I can understand..." hash="cb8ca2ff8a6f147d7e617a36b076f372" tag="37signals tadalist todolist todo list lists consultancy web dhtml usability" time="2005-01-23T00:50:18Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4193043.stm" description="A stunning and beautifully exotic story of an alien moon" extended="&quot;Liquid methane rain feeds river channels, lakes, streams, and springs on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, images from the Huygens probe show...&quot;" hash="7231c9a831b59cd700836b710d9302ea" tag="huygens saturn space methane titan moon moons environment" time="2005-01-22T22:28:40Z" />
  <post href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.html" description="Danah on academia and wikipedia" extended="&quot;Wikipedia is exceptionally valuable to read about multiple sides to a story, particularly in historical contexts, but i don't trust alternative histories any more than i trust privileged ones.&quot;" hash="1978236d6e64029b40ba7d6e68b0e2be" tag="academia wikipedia danahboyd authority research history" time="2005-01-22T22:26:11Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4192351.stm" description="Nokia brings 'Visual Radio' to mobile phones" extended="Weird one this. Visual supplements to radio are generally considered to be used for enhanced information provision. But often the rights owners don't want you broadcasting song information..." hash="6fc04a45af705db3e349c66962d567fa" tag="radio visualradio nokia virgin interactivity mobilephones mobile informationdesign supplementaryinformation" time="2005-01-22T17:58:31Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4195177.stm" description="Bill Gates plots a Windows future" extended="BBC News interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about home entertainment appliances and the digital hub" hash="faa6fd21c4c128d19164078352832349" tag="bbc interview billgates homentertainment mediahub appliance appliances homeentertainmentappliances digitalhub" time="2005-01-22T17:54:56Z" />
  <post href="http://waxy.org/projects/boingboingstats/?keyword=bbc&amp;submit=Go" description="Awesome graphing analysis of BoingBoing reveals a surprising obsession with the BBC..." extended="I love this little browsable app - it gives a real perspective on what the Boingers are interested in. Also it's more evidence that Cory either has too much energy or not enough to do..." hash="26da46491a783c831c8c1cb1ed5eb413" tag="corydoctorow visualisation graph graphs analysis weblogs blog blogs keyword applications" time="2005-01-21T19:40:49Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/21/five_years_worth_of_.html" description="BoingBoing releases five years of posts for people to download and muck around with, and cites me as an inspiration. Aw......" extended="&quot;To celebrate our first half-decade as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+ posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export format.&quot;" hash="32213492941b2e5efd31c93e4e113701" tag="boingboing corydoctorow creativecommons anniversary weblogs blog blogs data visualisations analysis" time="2005-01-21T19:38:20Z" />
  <post href="http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2005/01/21/wanted.html" description="Wanted - thirty Chinamen and a Zeppelin..." extended="And if you want to know why, you'll have to follow the link." hash="272804d929051542466f9528d9f1763a" tag="joke humour poortaste chinamen photograph photo" time="2005-01-21T09:18:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.spandexman.com/superherounitards.html" description="Spandexman.com - Super Hero Unitards" extended="Contains an intensely scary number of grown men wearing super-hero style lycra body suits - some of which come with zips from from crotch to butt" hash="e03818c0004297ec8e4e4d61fdaeb33e" tag="system:unfiled" time="2005-01-20T14:52:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.haddock.org/familytree/" description="The Haddock Family Tree" extended="Interesting life and development of a mailing list this one. You can see me spring parthenogenically into the mix in 2001..." hash="d73c0f3bcc737f21d9b86015d4216ac4" tag="familytree mailinglist" time="2005-01-20T14:41:16Z" />
  <post href="http://open-plan.org/" description="PLAN Pervasive and Locative Arts Network" extended="First Workshop of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network - looks interesting - I shall probably be there..." hash="532cd21d4695eefc572d29cc10c2c2db" tag="pervasive locative arts future" time="2005-01-19T22:51:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.metafilter.com/tags.mefi" description="Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable?" extended="The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion..." hash="5bd563adad29c3880b724ed5900b71f3" tag="tags fauxonomy folksonomy folksonomies tag folktags metafilter post posting blog ethnoclassification categorisation controlledvocabularies weblogs" time="2005-01-19T22:38:38Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1030320,00.html" description="An article I wrote for the Guardian a little over a year ago on the future of weblog culture and technologies..." extended="&quot;The real growth area in the next five years will be in these contextualising tools - the mechanisms that make weblog culture more accessible and accountable.&quot;" hash="e09d2a2f888b74931c62900922240921" tag="zeitgeist guardian technorati context contextualising blog weblogs blogs massamateurisation web aggregators" time="2005-01-18T11:27:57Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism" description="Wikipedia's description of Discordianism is fascinating both for its accuracy and for reading more like a Discordian text than a Wikipedia article. I wonder where the edges are?" extended="&quot;Discordianism has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion and a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. Some of its followers make the claim that it is &quot;a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion.&quot;" hash="2524daf9d7d7a8bd1c5ba7f948dae402" tag="discordianism eris erisian chaos chao discord kallisti wikipedia religion" time="2005-01-18T11:24:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1392607,00.html" description="&quot;A vampire is on the loose in Birmingham. And an inept one, if reports are to be believed. Which they aren't.&quot;" extended="Despite the complete lack of evidence, no rise in bite-related injuries and the like, there is apparently a vampire stalking the streets of Birmingham" hash="c3048c226d579badfbfc9420f478f641" tag="vampire urbanmyths birmingham bite blood death rumour fable psychology news mythology" time="2005-01-18T11:15:56Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie" description="Definition of Anomie from Wikipedia" extended="&quot;Anomie, in contemporary English means the absence of any kind of rule, law, principle or order.&quot;" hash="8cbbd6fea8be40ec13d46233b8498f28" tag="anomie definition dictionary wikipedia lawlessness nomos convention law" time="2005-01-18T11:13:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/01/review_in_the_guardi.html" description="Mind Hacks: Review in The Guardian" extended="Mr Webb's book gets a glowing review / regurgitation of the press release in Guardian Review. The book remains highly recommended!" hash="3bbaf87799f69b153eb7bccdf45dbc99" tag="mattwebb mindhacks guardian reviews review book neuroscience" time="2005-01-17T11:48:33Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1391951,00.html" description="Together in electric dreams: statistical analysis used to determine hit songs" extended="&quot;From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their competitors.&quot;" hash="505a5f1abdbb17ef50a282a611c34d86" tag="music audio pop song statisticalanalysis sony universal musicindustry" time="2005-01-17T11:23:21Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4174507.stm" description="All of the net, all of the time... Warning - I'm about to be really scathing about this..." extended="Could this article on wifi access in bars and cafes be the most tedious article ever written by a human being?" hash="f1537384807d90f3bd60759142b77ed6" tag="billthompson article wifi internetaccess tedious excruciating bbc" time="2005-01-16T18:55:44Z" />
  <post href="http://2lmc.org/spool/id/4650" description="Paul Mison on the iPod Shuffle's apparent disregard for podcasting" extended="Highly entertaining rant which I thoroughly agree with (except for the characterisation of amateur media as always shit)" hash="d868e5f6abc082824b07dad030637c88" tag="podcasting paulmison ipod ipodshuffle apple stevejobs docsearls postbroadcast massamateurisation" time="2005-01-15T12:23:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_1.html#subhead2" description="A coloured image of the surface of Titan" extended="I don't really understand this stuff - I don't really see why you couldn't take a colour photo. Surely people on earth want to see what it would be like to experience Titan directly?" hash="cfa83ecbc27f9b1381375ef4f8f80384" tag="colouredimage titan space saturn nasa esa photography photograph image moon" time="2005-01-15T12:16:45Z" />
  <post href="http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture3.jpg" description="Composite image of the surface of Titan from Huygens' descent to the moon" extended="At first glance it really does look like a coastline and some form of liquid sea. I love this stuff. I was gutted when the Beagle 2 failed. Totally gutted." hash="57e0bd0a3c6c16175903105ddfdf7f23" tag="titan huygens space moon saturn probe nasa esa picture image aweinspiring" time="2005-01-15T12:14:34Z" />
  <post href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=596574" description="The Independent pisses me off in two ways, first by writing something dumb about weblogs as online journals and secondly by suggesting I pay to read it..." extended="Twits. Anyway, I'll say this again - a weblog is not publishing. Or at least, publishing and journal writing may be loss-leader, but the end result is weblog as communicative medium in public space..." hash="62d1e392d01aa9a387a4e22a184a07a7" tag="massamateurisation weblogs micropayments publishing independent onlinejournals grrr makesmecross" time="2005-01-15T11:56:05Z" />
  <post href="http://overstated.net/05/01/14-media-lab-europe-to-close" description="Media Lab Europe to close" extended="&quot;I imagine it's similar to the atomosphere that the MIT Media Lab had at its inception: tons of space, enthusiastic students and an experimental attidude that assumes nothing is impossible.&quot;" hash="39ec0b22b07a1624ab4a01ecb205e21d" tag="medialabeurope researchanddevelopment r&amp;d technology future academia science productdesign" time="2005-01-15T11:46:31Z" />
  <post href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/004192.php" description="Body-drawing communicator for distant partners" extended="And my point is: if this is the kind of thing that Media Lab Europe spent all their time on, is it really any wonder that they've had to shut down..." hash="cf67ed22db26c783809ff249f7068530" tag="scathing communicator romantic writing ring ubicomp pervasivecomputing ubiquitouscomputing distance" time="2005-01-15T11:45:01Z" />
  <post href="http://www.technorati.com/tag" description="Big news of the day is Technorati's new implementation of tags and hooks into del.icio.us and Flickr" extended="Don't know what I think about this one yet - haven't quite digested it. I think its success basically depends on SixApart moving towards something like a default tagging rather than categories interface for MT..." hash="eb5ecfda92626b29defed01e21eaa8db" tag="tags folksonomy fauxonomy folksonomies fauxonomies folktags tag tagging ethnoclassification technorati flickr delicious interesting future metadata aggregators" time="2005-01-15T00:33:30Z" />
  <post href="http://www.createyourpodcast.com/" description="Creating and Marketing Your Own Podcast in 4 Hours..! What do Heineken and the BBC know that you might not?" extended="Really funny! Found via an Adword on Google. Now you too can set up your own podcast with help from our free video and opt-in newsletter! Or - I guess - you could read the page on Wikipedia instead..." hash="c41dc76894d690523c78a0db4c004f6f" tag="humour funny sad podcast podcasting advertising freevideo lame marketing cheesy" time="2005-01-15T00:30:01Z" />
  <post href="http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/01/10/tech-foot-based-mobile-interaction-with-games/" description="Foot-based mobile interaction with games" extended="Intriguing one this, and really up there in the embodied interaction stakes I guess. Putting bits of yourself into the game. Blurring digital and real. Intriguing." hash="508df086a5a7175306c10cd67fa812e4" tag="pervasivecomputing kick kicking football goal embodiedinteraction interactiondesign hapticinterfaces haptics haptic game feet foot mobile" time="2005-01-15T00:27:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/" description="Pitchfork's had an interesting redesign that pushes it widescreen and almost unbrands itself - pushing enormous amounts of content onto the homepage" extended="As ever with these things, you wonder if the obscurantism is partly intentional to make the brand zinelike or hipster. Quite beautiful, but maybe more suitable for a weblog layout?" hash="f42048266a9656045bb3effa085ef1f8" tag="design elegance elegant pitchfork music weblogs columns" time="2005-01-15T00:25:50Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nixlog.com/apple/" description="Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses" extended="&quot;The Sweet Spot. Until January 2005, Apple had no iPod or PC products that served the mass market. With the launch of iPod Shuffle and Mac mini they have finally converged two product paths with the mass market in mind. This will not only drive more iPod" hash="4dc32b6a1645ba4a2c67d8dc8dae1a21" tag="apple product productdesign marketing market business sweetspot infographics design elegant technology computers computer desktop small macmini" time="2005-01-14T16:54:11Z" />
  <post href="http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000917027372/" description="Clearing up confusion about the Mac mini..." extended="&quot;Yes, it will boot headless, meaning with no display or video device connected, enabling you to have what I like  to call an iServe.&quot;" hash="ca5afe8e91c91caee4f7c80496340147" tag="mac apple macmini design computer computing server desktop commercial business technology" time="2005-01-14T16:51:32Z" />
  <post href="http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/01/something_to_ch.html" description="Alice reposts some intriguing stats about users of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games" extended="Basically everyone gives up telly and hangs around online with their mates (quite right)..." hash="6a44d0e3e36a06e385a5e9f1892a413c" tag="mmorpg rpg game gaming television mediaconsumption consumption tv xbox pcgaming pc" time="2005-01-13T17:19:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gizmodo.com/images/bizzaro_ipod.mov" description="Awesome piece of iPod-related black surrealist British comedy by Arnando Ianucci" extended="Excepting the new series of Monkey Dust which sucks a bit, British comedy seems to have recently taken a real turn for the better. If by better you mean awesomely weird..." hash="710ff32cf4fb16b6a46ba767d2f8ffbe" tag="comedy bbc bbcthree arnandoianucci ianucci television video ipod ipods surreal beautiful weird" time="2005-01-13T16:02:55Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4170083.stm" description="Harry says sorry for Nazi costume" extended="Oh Jesus Christ... As if people weren't nervous enough about ultra-rich establishment types being a bit on the right-wing side..." hash="487048bd0d0d5491874cbaa148c48967" tag="nazi princeharry royalty costume news stupid dumbfucker" time="2005-01-13T01:09:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bewitched.com/m/" description="Awesome bizarre beautiful Java animation that you need to watch immediately (thanks Mr Webb)" extended="The rules are simple, each time a ball reaches a branching point it divides. When the paths converge and two balls hit, they cancel each other out..." hash="29b30e1bbf759d218622950f5073d42f" tag="java imagery beautiful animation balls hypnotising ball circle hypnosis elegant" time="2005-01-13T00:42:00Z" />
  <post href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1388466,00.html" description="Blogger sacked for sounding off" extended="For God's sake of course you get fired if you publically refer to your employer as &quot;Bastardstones&quot; and write rude things about your boss all the bloody time... You have to learn to sublimate your rage! Duh!" hash="629c6ed6bc5fa051d27ffa1642909321" tag="blogger employment rude tribunal fired weblogs blogs waterstones books guardian twat idiot arsehole" time="2005-01-12T17:19:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.queerday.com/queeries.html" description="Vote for me as Best British Poof in the whole fucking world" extended="Because I am, you know. I'm a god. I'm a golden god." hash="c55f609b4d33c9db19d0d014ec0a37c1" tag="gay homosexual award poof poofs awards british queeries" time="2005-01-12T16:48:50Z" />
  <post href="http://neopod.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/image/MMPSU.jpg" description="So yeah the Mac Mini is nice and all, but have you seen the size of the power supply!?" extended="I want a Mac Mini. It would make emigrating much much easier in the future..." hash="b4c67910fbdb5cc01cdbcc152f19d941" tag="mac apple humour macmini funny mockup" time="2005-01-12T14:32:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.isan.org/portal/page?_pageid=33,1&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL" description="ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number)" extended="&quot;The ISAN identifies works, not publications or broadcasts. The ISAN remains the same for an audiovisual work regardless of the various formats in which the work is distributed (e.g. DVD, video recording) or the uses to which it is put.&quot;" hash="dba6981738d7f0aa4358f9d40a44ddb5" tag="uniqueidentifier identifier isan pips programmeinformationpages internationalstandard video audio programmes tv radio crid tvanytime" time="2005-01-11T15:52:00Z" />
  <post href="http://ganns.com/Humor/ILookLikeMyDog/" description="Winners of the &quot;I Look Like My Dog&quot; Contest" extended="There's not an awful lot more you can say about this. They do indeed look like their dogs. In turn I think I'm started to look more like my Powerbook." hash="c2f8e5137b4665867ec1e97ef7603444" tag="dog humour cesar funny advertising" time="2005-01-11T13:17:54Z" />
  <post href="http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.classics/browse_thread/thread/795bbaa89159aaa0/093d2507337e03f8?q=author:Tom%20author:Coates&amp;_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dauthor:Tom%20author:Coates%26start%3D880%26scoring%3Dd%26num%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26as_drrb%3Dq%26as_qdr%3D%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D11%26as_maxm%3D1%26as_maxy%3D1981%26safe%3Doff%26&amp;_doneTitle=Back%20to%20Search&amp;&amp;d#093d2507337e03f8" description="My first ever post to Usenet, back in June 1995" extended="This is back when I was trying to plough my way through a doctorate in Classics, before I threw it all away and ran off to the big city to make beautiful web things" hash="4d235b468aec2c0f32541c3c91883226" tag="tomcoates history usenet" time="2005-01-11T13:01:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4157121.stm" description="North Korea's equivalent of Big Brother is entitled &quot;Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle&quot;" extended="The BBC doesn't really have that many equivalents any more, but the rest of the UK media really does - How Clean is Your House? Too Posh to Wash?" hash="721f26ff5b126babae75305b6a40066d" tag="bbc television northkorea socialism haircuts shorthair howcleanisyourhouse realitytelevision" time="2005-01-11T13:00:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/airclick/index.php" description="Airclick remote control for your stereo-connected iPod, via Mr Webb" extended="&quot;AirClick USB is a remote for Mac and PC computers. The receiver module attaches to any available USB port (including hubs) and receives signal from up to 60 feet away.&quot;" hash="7fe094c95cb613d986fddc182fdc078e" tag="apple mediahub griffin ihome ipod remotecontrol homeentertainment homeentertainmentappliances ubicomp homenetwork network usb router basestation hubs" time="2005-01-11T12:42:23Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/3065428/" description="Belle de Jour Spotted in Waterstones!" extended="Or at least her book. Nice cover! Very stylish indeed..." hash="8478bb143c9b83fbb8974a4afb5c9ba8" tag="cover design belledejour book prostitution prostitute sexindustry callgirl memoirs" time="2005-01-10T21:01:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.petracolor.de/mouse/mouse.html" description="The mouseradio is a fully functioning radio without buttons. The idea was to use the mouse navigation and to implement it in a radio." extended="&quot;Moving the radio vertically changes the volume, moving the radio on the horizontal axis changes the frequency. The radio is on, when the black speaker points up in the air.&quot;" hash="375e95602a97c768d98c1af7cd8eb769" tag="radio design mouse physicalinteraction interactiondesign embodiedinteraction audio music sound appliance device homeentertainment" time="2005-01-10T20:49:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2838.html" description="RFC 2838 (rfc2838) - Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts" extended="I should be gripped by this, but it's so banally broadcast-oriented that it's stunning to think that internet people even wrote it. Doesn't even have identifiers for episodes or shows..." hash="cfe294467e1bc20802376116e9b7abbf" tag="pips bbc broadcast identifiers identifier programmeinformationpages television tv uri url uniformresourceidentifiers rfc rfc2838" time="2005-01-10T20:43:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.threadless.com/" description="Threadless redesigns" extended="Beautiful, elegant, intelligent site that sells beautiful, elegant and intelligent T-shirts to a small coterie of beautiful, elegant... you get the picture..." hash="8dc58e99cf144602537ba33e3b251e16" tag="tshirt t-shirts tshirts clothes ecommerce site design participation participatory socialsoftware rating voting flash html" time="2005-01-10T20:24:55Z" />
  <post href="http://www.simpleform.com/TKPal/" description="Torrez rocks - DIY micropayments with Paypal and Typekey" extended="I've already paid my $1 to read the article in question, and interested in whether or not people will actually start doing this stuff. Big names first, clearly..." hash="9b6fd3122b650efa1bccdc473cdd059e" tag="micropayments typekey paypal diy torrez awesome neat content publishing business money weblogs" time="2005-01-10T20:15:25Z" />
  <post href="http://www.orbdesign.net/bt/" description="Some kind of meta-BitTorrent Tracker Tracker..." extended="Keeps looking at BitTorrent sites to see if they're still there, closed down or consumed by enormous bandwidth costs..." hash="da7fee04c35fd21dadf951992d13beaa" tag="bittorrent bittorrenttrackers download downloads tv television" time="2005-01-10T20:04:17Z" />
  <post href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1355844,00.html" description="Old Observer article about Ikea and their satirisation of designers that I think misses the point..." extended="The article seems to suggest that it's anti-designer, but I don't think it is. I think it's anti pompous designer, it's anti-artifice and I think it demonstrates enormous respect for the craft of design and the creation of simple, beautiful things..." hash="2ac5f8ba408cfc240ef982aa8f5d5757" tag="ikea observer satire elitedesigners pomposity designaesthetic article newspaper design" time="2005-01-10T20:00:10Z" />
  <post href="http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/ISBN.html" description="ISBNs go 13 digit. After the PIPs project at work I have a bit of a thing about identifiers like ISBNs... Seems really badly designed to me, but hey..." extended="&quot;The new 13-digit ISBN has been approved and plans are underway to transition to the new number industry-wide, world-wide by January 1, 2007. Find out how the expansion of the ISBN from 10-digits to 13-digits will impact your business and operations.&quot;" hash="1cc0ebdfbaecfea6d18360ac4fcf5c4f" tag="isbn identifier identifiers books book bookshop uniqueidentifier" time="2005-01-10T19:53:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macitynet.it/english/aA20182/index.shtml" description="On the iPod micro?" extended="Apparently, &quot;Life is Random&quot;. The iPod in question can apparently take around 240 songs (1 Gb), has no screen and can only be played on random..." hash="6c761901a89ecfe547ddfb416aea4ec9" tag="ipod apple rumours rumors rumor rumour cupertino mac ipodmicro ipodmini speculation photographs" time="2005-01-10T17:11:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/pimp_my_ride/series.jhtml?_requestid=467048" description="Pimp My Ride" extended="So one of the best things about going home for Christmas was introducing my mother - queen of makeover shows - to Pimp my Ride. I don't know if she'll watch it after I've gone, but she certainly seemed to enjoy it while I was there..." hash="e16bec3a74c4c8ed4349c2a486ed70ea" tag="mtv pimpmyride car makeover television tv tvshow show programme america usa" time="2005-01-10T15:51:43Z" />
  <post href="http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100197.htm" description="A Brief History of Writing Instuments - Ink and Letters" extended="&quot;From cave paintings to the quill pen -- how ink, paper and pens were all were invented&quot;" hash="cac8db9b1f20376dc2ec2b86113a26af" tag="ink writing pencil pen history cave alphabet words language prehistory quill paper cavepaintings painting" time="2005-01-10T14:58:37Z" />
  <post href="http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/phidgets/gallery/buddybugs.html" description="Buddy Bugs" extended="Buddy Bugs is an ambient peripheral physical interface that represents Windows® Instant Messenger contact list, where people are represented by glass bugs on a leaf." hash="70373214f47003cd495d157b1b72d5d0" tag="im instantmessaging msn msnmessenger windows physicalinterface ambientdevices userinterface ui ambient bugs buddybugs leaf art design" time="2005-01-10T14:46:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P237" description="The Bastardization of Beta" extended="&quot;It seems that every new web application now sports a ‘beta’ tagline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an indeterminable amount of time&quot;" hash="464ca88bd8cc3430b10775b11254137c" tag="beta flickr labelling vocabulary drift concept googlenews google productdevelopment" time="2005-01-10T14:44:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp" description="Insane Christian comic book that's designed to demonstrate why Evolution is bunk" extended="I can't even begin to put into words how terrifying I find this." hash="ab6a351696257b436133b1bc3534d940" tag="evolution religion propaganda christianity bunk creationism intelligentdesign parody caricature" time="2005-01-09T23:38:19Z" />
  <post href="http://www.unix-girl.com/blog/archives/001673.html" description="Spam breeds more spam" extended="Weblogs where comment spam is left untended appears to attract even more comment spam. Which would suggest that it should be quite easy for Google or whoever to start redressing the page rank (if they're not doing it already)..." hash="3f44bd2b17f8052f3ebc23906b957727" tag="google pagerank commentspam movabletype weblogs blog blogs comments spammers scum searchengines scripts automation" time="2005-01-09T22:49:41Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thegayvote.co.uk/weblog/archives/2004/12/08/lgbt_history_month_start_preparing.html" description="February will be Gay History Month" extended="I feel like I should do something to celebrate it, or educate. I wish I could do something with work. I'll have to think more about this..." hash="d551f5ebc5010a5ad0a710a77aff9241" tag="gay history gayhistory gayhistorymonth lesbian transgender politics campaign campaigning education" time="2005-01-09T22:44:29Z" />
  <post href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041106-4376.html" description="US Postal Service reached an accomodation with the band The Postal Service" extended="&quot;Each side stood to gain from the strengths of the other. One thing is for sure, Tamborello and Gibbard wouldn't have received the same cooperation if they chose the name 'Outlook Express.'&quot;" hash="3592610a4e28c1ae7e942e0c5baa1ab2" tag="postalservice mail post uspostalservice band music litigation law conflict trademark copyright name" time="2005-01-09T22:39:50Z" />
  <post href="http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/12/14/homer-simpson-uses-tabbed-browsing/" description="Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing" extended="Dumb old link. I shouldn't have posted it, but I did because tabbed browsing is awesome and non-tabbed browsing sucks..." hash="2e048f2da876c52ec8218c2a345f5397" tag="humour homersimpson browsers tab tabbedbrowsing tabs userinterface funny cartoon tv television" time="2005-01-09T20:37:37Z" />
  <post href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=926&amp;e=8&amp;u=/usnews/waystofixyourlifequityourjob" description="Ways to fix your life: Quit your job" extended="And I quote: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. &quot;If you've been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud,&quot; says Barbara Sher..." hash="f9f691d296fde0f058b0d2fe457315ac" tag="job employment career careerprospects promotion dedication reward work workplace workpractices workingprocess business life" time="2005-01-09T20:32:32Z" />
  <post href="http://www.videora.com/en-us/" description="Videora combines RSS with BitTorrent to create a download-based PVR equivalent" extended="Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus..." hash="5e1b1d9d7712c1399fbd81aa1f228738" tag="rss bittorrent downloads tv television ondemand pvr download windows azureus feed feeds programmes" time="2005-01-09T20:30:43Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thegayvote.co.uk/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/spray_your_enemies_gay_said_us_air_force.html" description="US Army was interested in emerging technologies that might allow you to make straight men beg for sex with other men..." extended="&quot;One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.&quot; The US Army are - bluntly - sick fucking fuck fucks..." hash="fc962490b291adf9fdf184af4cba692b" tag="freaky funny homophobic vile gay homosexuality chemicalweapons morale army usarmy usa america" time="2005-01-09T20:09:49Z" />
  <post href="http://danielheaf.typepad.com/great_expectations/2004/12/wireless_music.html" description="Dan Heaf and partner declare Airport Express war upon each other..." extended="Bloc Party vs. George Michael... The dynamics of a thousand upcoming familial battles..." hash="e114dbdb896b4ec4c6eaa149b202d9ee" tag="music audio technology apple osx itunes ipod radio wifi" time="2005-01-09T20:04:28Z" />
  <post href="http://circadiana.blogspot.com/2005/01/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html" description="Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)" extended="&quot;What are you doing up so late, staring at the computer screen reading this? For that matter, what am I doing up late writing this at 11pm? Are we all nuts?&quot;" hash="b2a75016cc24f12c26fae04af78fce00" tag="sleep science circadianrhythms hormones biology work" time="2005-01-09T19:45:18Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dexterity.com/articles/overcoming-procrastination.htm" description="An article on overcoming procrastination..." extended="(1) I've not read it, but it's sat in my to read pile forever so I'm giving up and sticking it in delicious for later. (2) I'm only ploughing through that pile because I'm trying to avoid doing the Apple piece... No joke. I'm a disaster..." hash="62a4b10605915c94dee6d190434b2b4b" tag="procrastination work depressing" time="2005-01-09T19:29:04Z" />
  <post href="http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/index.html" description="G-Cans photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood and water systems" extended="I was sure I'd posted this before, but I can't find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn't. Stunning pictures - like something from Quake..." hash="c73d6ec9668f6d0900b6600350c0a37b" tag="gcans g-cans tokyo japan architecture flood water underground systems structure moody atmospheric photographs photos pictures photography beautiful disturbing quake halflife game design" time="2005-01-09T19:24:10Z" />
  <post href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1384778,00.html" description="Guardian Review of &quot;The Subterranean Railway&quot; by Christian Wolmar" extended="Thanks to the 2lmc-ers for mentioning this. Key quote: &quot;This new book is an entry-level history of the Underground, and it becomes clear from reading it that the faults of the system were built into it from the moment the first sod was turned.&quot;" hash="e9689a7e3d47069595a104e296478d54" tag="architecture books london history design" time="2005-01-09T19:18:37Z" />
  <post href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/01/the_rumor_game" description="Daring Fireball on the rumours surrounding upcoming Apple Products" extended="&quot;It’s not hard to imagine that first-day reaction to the Mini would have been better had rumors not set the false expectation that they were going to sell for $100-150...&quot;" hash="333d5c31d59c00948ee8c3368037d008" tag="apple expo rumour software hardware imac osx ipod ipodmini rumor thinksecret daringfireball lawsuit" time="2005-01-09T19:15:11Z" />
  <post href="http://www.kottke.org/04/10/design-for-web-20" description="Kottke's questions for &quot;Design for Web 2.0&quot;" extended="This is an old one but really interesting. Lots of questions here that are worth asking" hash="bdff8d7a3feb329b45be32c1243006a9" tag="design future discussion debate usability innovation groups socialsoftware brochureware ux userexperience userresearch ethnography designprocess process web2.0" time="2005-01-09T19:04:12Z" />
  <post href="http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/000696.html" description="David Galbraith's predictions for 2005" extended="Most interesting one: &quot;Googlets - People cash out and leave Google, creating a startup frenzy in SF&quot;" hash="6b404820ca3a2f210aefffd5747344a1" tag="google prediction davidgalbraith future expectations business technology microsoft" time="2005-01-09T18:59:50Z" />
  <post href="http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/" description="Clearly faked 'iHome' purports to be the new Apple product (but Media Centre - rather than Center? I think not...)" extended="I've already linked to it in the main weblog, but I want to keep it for later, cos it's a neat fake..." hash="026350015de6bc03de9ce5d4e959be82" tag="apple rumours expo ihome mediacentre mediacenter cupertino photographs fake" time="2005-01-09T18:57:15Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dairyreporter.com/" description="New favourite &quot;Have I Got New For You&quot;-style guest publication of the week - this week it's The Dairy Reporter!" extended="Includes stories like, &quot;A Tetra Pak subsidiary has found a dipping and coating solution for novelty ice creams, which it hopes will eliminate sub-standard ice cream coatings – welcome news for ice cream manufacturers...&quot;" hash="1383beeb9c2581ffa92233b7afeb6d6c" tag="dairyreporter guestpublication icecream diary cheese milk weird news industry" time="2005-01-09T18:52:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.hiptobeasquare.com/blogs/index.php?p=29#comments" description="Check out the comments after this blog post" extended="How depressing. Comment spammers are - I think - even more reprehensibly bottom-feeding than the human charity spam on the streets that harrass you on the way to work..." hash="cc2ff194bda26c09837f87940321c1ab" tag="commentspam weblogs blog blogs comments spam spammers gamingsystem arseholes bottomfeeders vile" time="2005-01-09T18:45:12Z" />
  <post href="http://danhon.com/ec/mtarchives/2005/01/09/jerry_springer_the_controversy/index.shtml" description="Dan Hon on the whole Jerry Springer 'controversy'" extended="&quot;I can feel the moral fibre within me shrivelling as I type. In fact, I am sure now, more than ever before, that Jesus is a nappy-wearing gay baby. I had my suspicions before...&quot;" hash="38c3f15644ace63ca924dfe113884f8a" tag="jerryspringer bbc censorship christianity christian god jerryspringertheopera controversy religion blasphemy depressing" time="2005-01-09T15:33:54Z" />
  <post href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=333419&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;in_a_source=&amp;ct=5" description="The controller of BBC2 is in hiding - according to the Daily Mail at least..." extended="&quot;BBC2 controller Roly Keating, his wife and their three young children were driven out of their £1million house after a Christian group posted his private address and telephone number on its website.&quot;" hash="fe4199ffbcf05c1cef12dfaeff779c83" tag="bbc censorship christianity christian jerryspringer jerryspringertheopera controversy religion blasphemy god depressing governance" time="2005-01-09T14:00:50Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4157771.stm" description="Kevin Spacey 'to play Lex Luthor'" extended="&quot;Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, 45, has been signed up to play Lex Luthor in the Superman sequel, due out in 2006&quot;" hash="989cc0abfb453fdf503ee4d31099de62" tag="film kevinspacey briansinger superman superheroes cinema movies comics" time="2005-01-09T11:54:34Z" />
  <post href="http://sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2005/01/fandom_in_a_vac.html" description="What happens to the water-cooler moment when TV is consumed on-demand?" extended="Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact..." hash="8b53f161b206b34a4895acf710c49a6d" tag="michaelsippey postbroadcast television tv tvseries broadcast pvr dvd alias media mediaconsumption grouplistening" time="2005-01-09T00:36:44Z" />
  <post href="http://www.43folders.com/2005/01/organizing_your.html" description="My dumb fontified handwriting keeps turning up in the strangest places" extended="I did it in an early version of fontifier before you could do punctuation marks. And now I'm loath to try and add those characters cos they'll look weird, and don't want to do it again in case it's not as good..." hash="2b894f46502b7397819027c1a4071576" tag="font typography fontifier handwriting type letterforms letterform" time="2005-01-08T23:50:56Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4149647.stm" description="File-swappers ready new network" extended="&quot;Legal attacks on websites that help people swap pirated films have forced the development of a system that could be harder to shut down.&quot;" hash="110429d777dd3346e3fe139140070d1a" tag="filetrading bittorrent p2p peertopeer software suprnova" time="2005-01-08T23:46:41Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4154071.stm" description="BBC braced for Springer criticism" extended="They're broadcasting Jerry Springer - The Opera tonight on BBC2 and this will - apparently - cause civilisation to collapse" hash="c5c2ede89e5caa3b2e69066ae42d9f95" tag="christianity christians religion blasphemy bbc jerryspringer jerryspringertheopera stage governance depressing" time="2005-01-08T20:30:59Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4156907.stm" description="Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announce split" extended="I don't know why this is interesting, to be honest, but somehow it is..." hash="1f2fec3aaab394aafa5ed419e35122f8" tag="bradpitt jenniferaniston marriage divorce entertainment gossip slightlyashamedofpostingthisone" time="2005-01-08T20:27:02Z" />
  <post href="http://chrishch.freeshell.org/misc/alias-opening-1280.jpg" description="The various costumes shown in the credits for the new series of Alias" extended="The new series of Alias started a few days ago in the States and once again they decide to change the premise and do a bit of a reboot... This time, however, I'm not quite as impressed as previously..." hash="42dada8ebc18e16d0d6bea96824965c8" tag="alias tvshow jennifergarner tv television media spy drama entertainment fiction" time="2005-01-08T16:58:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/05/bill_gates_free_cult.html" description="Bill Gates on Creative Commies" extended="&quot;There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.&quot;" hash="c3733f2543342a59032c28ef98c74d39" tag="billgates microsoft patent patents copyright copyleft creativecommons communism" time="2005-01-08T10:07:17Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_rand" description="Who was Ayn Rand anyway: 'Her novels were based upon the archetype of the &quot;Randian hero,&quot; a man whose genius leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values...'" extended="Given that description and my own incipient genius, it's a wonder that I find so many of Rand's followers to be self-involved right-wing psycho nut-bags... Maybe they're not Randian enough... Prole-scum..." hash="c4c229f9f1b1b9904344bfa663053869" tag="aynrand objectivism wikipedia philosophy codphilosophy thefountainhead books philosopher rightwing isolationist novelist" time="2005-01-06T21:29:39Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/2977898/" description="The shape of my brain as of January 2005" extended="Make sure to check out the shape of other people's brains by visiting the group (bottom right of page)" hash="7259d0cc46ed60b550f9745090f88fa8" tag="visualisation delicious flickr map mindmap brain stuff erm tags folksonomy fauxonomy folksonomies tag" time="2005-01-05T15:02:22Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22/pip/%22%20inurl:%22www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/%22&amp;num=30&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;c2coff=1&amp;safe=off&amp;filter=0" description="Every programme page on Radio 3 created by the system I worked on..." extended="So basically this is me playing with the 'inurl:' string that I noticed on the webcam URL. Not noticed it before, and lets us do all kinds of neat stuff..." hash="9b30374254d56c8cbfc69b60b5580572" tag="url google pips programmeinformationpages bbc radio3 spidering" time="2005-01-05T11:25:52Z" />
  <post href="http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22&amp;num=30&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;c2coff=1&amp;safe=off&amp;start=0&amp;sa=N" description="Around 2,000 controllable webcams from around the world, discoverable by Google" extended="Click on an image of somewhere interesting, and you can move the camera, change resolutions - all kinds of neat stuff. Except you probably shouldn't, because it's bad..." hash="697aed6121b98606fab806ad60bf5d46" tag="google search webcam cam cameras securitycameras security exposed clumsy interesting cool" time="2005-01-05T11:10:27Z" />
  <post href="http://gigaom.com/2005/01/04/six-apart-to-buy-live-journal/" description="The Rumour Mill says that Six Apart is going to buy Live Journal" extended="&quot;I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash...&quot;" hash="2f2414ebbd40ee66ac68540c4bfe3d16" tag="livejournal sixapart blogger blogs weblogs blog rumour textpad movabletype" time="2005-01-05T10:51:52Z" />
  <post href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/04/commentary.alias/index.html" description="CNN commentary on the new series of 'Alias'" extended="Alias never did terribly well in the UK - they're now showing series three on 'five' around 1am in the mornings on Monday or Tuesday nights. Which is a shame cos it rocks..." hash="f5076567137ad130019e3c9f13f344a3" tag="tv television alias sidneybristow spy spies drama jennifergarner" time="2005-01-05T01:58:29Z" />
  <post href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10115" description="Playing with iChat Status in more depth, I notice that it can do a whole variety of things other than just display what you're listening to" extended="I'm currently playing with it displaying my current application, because I was kind of freaked by it telling everyone that I had 22003 unread e-mails" hash="b741ddd9a379950aae7b559879f8b45f" tag="osx presence ichat preferencepane plugin applications" time="2005-01-04T17:38:28Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Calendar" description="A previous attempt to rationalise the calendar meant my birthday was on the 1st of Thermidor" extended="&quot;The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793. It was abolished by Napoléon partly to appease the Catholic Church&quot;" hash="13a5bd0dc72e41de89cd3bb896e786c2" tag="calendar time timekeeping france frenchrevolution frenchrevolutionarycalendar thermidor year month" time="2005-01-04T16:27:34Z" />
  <post href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6835" description="Novel calendar system creates regular dates" extended="&quot;A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year.&quot;" hash="45ad509a4346d098d4e59db93525bfd8" tag="calendar time timekeeping usa year month" time="2005-01-04T16:25:05Z" />
  <post href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/beta.php" description="There's a new beta of NetNewsWire 2 out" extended="Which includes a more polished interface which feels more responsive and support for podcasting and the like" hash="8f26381ddb1b7b872c2cad403449a70a" tag="netnewswire rss rssenclosures enclosures podcast podcasting ranchero osx mac applications" time="2005-01-04T13:54:47Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bungie.net/News/Story.aspx?link=FCBF44D9-7861-4A7B-8E2E-11D53B4B0D98" description="Halo 2 rankings reset over the New Year" extended="The rumour was that this was because of people using cheats involving ADSL modems or routers, but it looks like mit was just a bug..." hash="a0fe2910b39c2544a36b76a1718e6ab9" tag="halo2 game halo consoles xbox bungie multiplayer onlinegaming" time="2005-01-04T13:53:01Z" />
  <post href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_plan" description="Wikipedia on the Marshall Plan" extended="&quot; It is acknowledged that the United States was acting in its own self-interest by aiding western Europe, but most believe the plan had an immensely beneficial effect on both Western Europe and the United States.&quot;" hash="2da01862698811b40f355b9439fa567e" tag="america worldwar2 europe" time="2005-01-04T11:43:53Z" />
  <post href="http://preshrunk.info/" description="Preshrunk weblog about cool t-shirts" extended="Neat, niche and dripping in goodness, the Preshrunk weblog reveals the best in T-shirt design. I wonder if Cal's seen this yet. He has like 500 t-shirts..." hash="5a87e9c82c42f2d1ac115edf928c5740" tag="tshirt tshirts design blog weblogs blogs imagery e-commerce" time="2005-01-04T11:33:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=10688&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1021" description="Another block of separatist right-wing inhuman libertarian bullshit from The Ayn Rand Institute: U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims" extended="Which - as usual - misses the fact that in the long run, we all benefit from living in a stable and humane world in which people help each other out in times of trouble..." hash="4ddcfe1842e54ef0ce861e44da4cdd4b" tag="assholism arsehole aynrand tsunami bullshit libertarian america usa" time="2005-01-03T15:20:27Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/tenhour/jan05/backstage/15.shtml#photo" description="Mr Biddulph doing his stuff at the latest Radio 1 &quot;Ten Hour Takeover&quot;" extended="Bow down and worship, World. Mr Biddulph - champion of geekdom - is busy changing broadcast radio forever!" hash="ae50c372196ce968cc50330731c834a2" tag="bbc mattbiddulph awesome radio1 tenhourtakeover sms textmessages textmessage" time="2005-01-03T15:09:51Z" />
  <post href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=7240" description="Gotta Get My Stuff Done" extended="Awesome animation about procrastination that pretty much sums up what I've been doing since Wednesday when I got back from my parent's place in Norfolk" hash="b2a7949cc6ee5a425104fbdcf8ff010b" tag="procrastination video quicktime animation fun humour entertaining" time="2005-01-03T14:29:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.gameshout.com/news/122004/article197.htm" description="Halo 2 for the next generation Xbox" extended="&quot;The Voodoo Extreme site is reporting that the Bungie team may work on a project to port Halo 2 to the next generation Xbox, adding in additional content and improving overall gameplay and picture quality.&quot;" hash="e5423310b4866ffd72388552da9c2ebc" tag="xbox hdtv bungie halo2 halo gaming consoles resolution microsoft" time="2005-01-02T13:09:17Z" />
  <post href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0412expo3.html" description="Expo rumours continue - competition for Office? Garageband 2? Screenless super-cheap iMacs?" extended="&quot;Apple will launch its new iWork '05 productivity suite at Macworld Expo, Think Secret has learned. The software, code-named Sugar (as alluded to in our previous Expo report), will include Keynote 2 as well as a new application, Pages.&quot;" hash="2b6e838fb7aec4cf0267df9479a250f9" tag="apple expo software rumours rumor rumour keynote pages thinksecret garageband iwork osx applications" time="2005-01-01T18:59:14Z" />
  <post href="http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/rm/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/futureheads/decentdaysandnights_r_hi.ram" description="Video for Futureheads &quot;Decent Days and Nights&quot; - WARNING! RAM FILE!" extended="The Futureheads are currently occupying a lot of my attention because they sing good British-sounding smart sharp bouncy guitar songs and the lead singer is hot." hash="46e3b34e69ff7f6f8a4f46116d8354ab" tag="audio bouncy british fit futureheads good hot lush men music rock sexy" time="2004-12-31T00:02:11Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4092611.stm" description="Medium-bunkish article about the role of weblogs in 2004 that compounds the old myth that blogs are more about publishing and punditry than they are about representing the voices of individuals online" extended="&quot;But it was in 2004 that debate about the role of the political blog and its impact on society really got under way.&quot;" hash="8da474f52bf8410c85442db6d61e2b40" tag="blog blogs journalism massamateurisation politics publishing punditry webloggia weblogs" time="2004-12-30T22:49:07Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4134671.stm" description="WI forces cuts to Little Britain" extended="&quot;Complaints by the Women's Institute have prompted the BBC to make changes to hit comedy show Little Britain.&quot;" hash="03f0b571aa17383c86babf04d0d18780" tag="censorship comedy feminism politics television" time="2004-12-30T22:45:57Z" />
  <post href="http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20041226GoogleBuyingFlickr.html" description="Are Google Buying Flickr?" extended="I'm not terribly interested in the rumour mill surrounding this one, except to say that if Google were going to try and buy Flickr then I would consider it evidence of their intelligence and good sense..." hash="10600a0ea675ba6f5587f327194c422d" tag="business flickr google" time="2004-12-30T12:02:07Z" />
  <post href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meg/sets/67000/" description="Meg Pickard's Twelve Days of Christmas" extended="Some illustrations that Meg did to Celebrate Christmas in 2003, reborn via Flickr..." hash="3b52dc298890fc14518441f9a2d5f362" tag="christmas illustrations megpickard photos pictures" time="2004-12-30T11:57:37Z" />
  <post href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/" description="Just a reminder - the awesome Radio 3 site in all its glory" extended="Ok, basically there was this tiny layout thing that annoyed me about our work on Radio 3 and it's now been fixed, so I'm just going to tell you all to go enjoy it again..." hash="ea78d68b4e913cea309665da20c0d246" tag="architecture bbc design network pips radio radio3 web website" time="2004-12-23T12:55:35Z" />
  <post href="http://www.stonewall.org.uk/stonewall/support_us/stonewall_appeal.html" description="Help Stonewall fight homophobic bullying in schools" extended="This is a bit of a cause for me, I'm afraid. Anti-gay bullying, rhetoric and language in schools causes incredible harm to young gay people and now we're free of Section 28 it's time to start putting it right." hash="e8d848c304959f00c5797a647bf7014b" tag="gay charity" time="2004-12-23T12:51:54Z" />
  <post href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2002/harry_potter/default.stm" description="BBC News' in-depth pages on &quot;The Harry Potter Phenomenon&quot;" extended="The whole thing is so weird. The book's not out for six months and is already at #1 (and #2) at Amazon.co.uk - probably to stay there until July..." hash="0ad08744069204a380dadae37844f73e" tag="books publishing fiction fantasy" time="2004-12-23T11:30:48Z" />
  <post href="http://www.nametheatsign.com/" description="Name the @ sign"
