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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.&quo