Blogs
Monday 8 February 2010
- Beautiful Star Wars travel posters
- I'm a sucker for vintage style travel posters in the first place, and these are just drop dead gorgeous. They seem to be art from JustinVG's flickrstream; whether he's the creator or not I don't know. I would buy these... Wonderland
- My how they've grown
- Front page of the Guardian right now. Bioshock 2 up there with the usual News. A year ago this would have been doubly amazing, and only a few years ago probably unthinkable. Pretty sure the Grauniad was the first to... Wonderland
- Week 347
- Weeknotes always seem to be written by people who are extremely busy and/or enthusiastic. Let’s look back at last week (346) and momentarily buck that trend. Read more... Phil Gyford
- Kiwi: The best Mac Twitter client yet
- As you’ll know if you follow me or this blog on Twitter, I’me a voracious Twitterer. I also can’t stand Adobe Air applications, which means that my options for Twitter applications are somewhat limited. There’s a few around [...] Technovia
- Sync your Mac with an LG phone with FoneSync
- Shocking as this might sound, not everyone wants an iPhone. And if you have a phone from LG, you might want to check out FoneSync, a new application from Novamedia which lets you sync contacts and calendar information from your Mac to a variety of [...] Technovia
- HTC Bravo head-to-head with Google Nexus One?
- When I predicted that Google wouldn’t launch its own phone, one of the reasons I believed it was unlikely was that everything pointed to it being a rebadged HTC Bravo (otherwise known as the HTC Passion). While I was wrong about Google [...] Technovia
Sunday 7 February 2010
- Week 243
- kaffe, originally uploaded by moleitau. It’s very quiet here. I can’t remember being more tired, or more pleased with why. Week 243 Magical Nihilism
- Tempting treks and trainhotel tribulations....
- H and I went to the Destinations travel show yesterday, and had a chat with the Mountain Kingdoms team about what trek to do next, given we enjoyed their Annapurna Circuit trip so much. I'm tempted by Everest, not Base... Sparkly Trainers
Saturday 6 February 2010
- sounds: Is Music Killing Home Taping? (Detail), 2008
- Is Music Killing Home Taping? (Detail), 2008 92.0mb – mp3 This is a recording of a segment from an installation piece I created for [...] Dorian Moore
- The Useful Arts Organisation: public works
- I'm pleased to have just launched a new website for public works, a group I've been working with for over 3 years. Indeed this website was actually completed about 18 months [...] Dorian Moore
Friday 5 February 2010
- Broadstairs Visitor Information Centre Cut
- THANET council is to axe the staffed visitor information centre (VIC) in Broadstairs, replacing it with a telephone. The decision to axe the VIC member of staff from the desk at Dickens House is part of £75,000 in cutbacks [...] Margate Architecture
- Press: ‘Turner effect’ has got the Old Town buzzing
- Margate’s cultural quarter is already feeling the so-called ‘Turner effect’, according to some traders in the Old Town.Many are feeling more upbeat as the gallery takes shape, and new shops are opening each month as the arts scene begins to [...] Margate Architecture
- Press: Trust boss vows Turner centre in Margate is value
- THE Turner Contemporary will receive at least £1 million in public money a year once it opens. A trust is due to take over the running of the gallery from Kent County Council (KCC) on April 1, but it will receive a grant of more than £1 [...] Margate Architecture
- Press: Inspector backs fewer bedsits plan for Cliftonville
- Unfortunately, Margate Central has similar, if not in part worse stats than Cliftonville West. Yet bedsites and HMOs are not halted in planning yet.Inspector backs fewer bedsits plan for Cliftonville [...] Margate Architecture
- Codename Ada
- Beatnik Games have posted one little screenshot of their work in progress on a game we commissioned at C4. Provisionally titled Ada, it's set in a post-event, climate-changed, scavenger future where humans are trying to figure things out all over... Wonderland
- no map for this territory
- I’vebeen playing with Mapumental a bit, as it’s a front end to an awful lot of data, particularly public transport. I’ve been creating maps of how far you can travel in an hour for a few places: 1 hour from EC2: 1 hour from [...] Anti-Mega
- Hello Kitty chainsaw
- My life is now complete. Wonderland
- Original scout notes from I Love Bees
- I Love Bees, probably the world's most famous ARG: Jane McGonigal's given Cory Doctorow some of her original scouting notes to use as paper ephemera for his new self-publishing project With A Little Help. She also sent some Lost Ring... Wonderland
Thursday 4 February 2010
- I should probably apply for this, you know.
- I got forwarded a job advert earlier on today, that I had to read twice to understand. I thought I'd rewrite it, for fun. Really, I should just stick my CV on the end of this, and hit reply, but frankly life is to short.If it sounds like your cup [...] Mildly Diverting
- XBL Indie Games channel: the figs
- Indie Games channel. Used to be called the Community Games channel, which is to say, it's the bit of XBL that isn't Arcade and is way more wild west. So, if anyone can upload there, do they make any money?... Wonderland
- Dante's Inferno: the Superbowl trailer
- Do Superbowl slots still go for $2.6m for 30s? ("Images not representative of actual gameplay", hum!) EA's really pushing this one, hard. As it's a God of War clone (sorry team, but at least superficially it really does have so... Wonderland
- Replace comments with letters pages
- I like this, a CSS file that hides comments on many popular websites. It feels a bit like we’re very slowly turning a corner when it comes to how we think of commenting (unless it’s merely my wishful thinking). Read more... Phil Gyford
- Quick life update
- James is beginning to read small words (when he wants to). This is particularly because of a C-Beebies thing he looks at on the website, Alphablocks. They're utterly fabulous, and well worth passing on. The bike is currently screwed. Sob.... Moolies
- Worst iPad reporting ever
- This article by Jonathan Zittrain is why it’s wise not to let law professors write about technology: If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the door of only one office in Cupertino, [...] Technovia
Tuesday 2 February 2010
- News week, day 2
- Today started a little better than yesterday on the news project. With two days’ worth of news I was already starting to see themes that would extend across the week, stories that would be worth condensing and summarising in a weekly round-up [...] Phil Gyford
- Long Finance
- YesterdayI attended the Long Finance conference, taking some of the principles of the Long Now foundation and trying to apply it to capitalism and market economics. There were two panels, the first on the Long Now & long-term thinking with [...] Anti-Mega
- truth is stranger than fiction
- Asylum,my Lyddle End 2050 building: OMA’s interlace residential complex: Tbilisi Roads Ministry Building: (via Owen Hatherley) Anti-Mega
- Spacemakers & RIBA London run workshops exploring "forgotten spaces"
- More from Space Makers in London who are working on empty property initiatives.Space Makers has joined forces with RIBA London to run two workshops this month exploring "forgotten spaces". Come and join us in Brixton this Thursday afternoon for the [...] Margate Architecture
- Van calamity
- Last Sunday, we attempted to go to Cheltenham in the van, as Sarah had a WoPoWriMo launch meetup to attend. We're used to having to deal with ice on the hills leading out of our valley, as water from the farm fields tends to run off into the road [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- For or against, it matters not
- So, here’s a thing. I’m fighting in a boxing match at the end of the month. On the 27th, at the Judgement Day 3 event, at the T47 club by London Bridge. I need to sell some tickets, and I could do with some shouty support. It should be [...] Ben Hammersley
- Many Pockets
- As I have mentioned before, I have many pockets. A few people have asked about this now, so here's a run-down on what's in them. So, here's the coat of many pockets. It's quite lightly loaded, so I wear it all the time, pretty much. The [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- PS3 Home: your virtual London Pub
- I just bumped into Caspar, who pointed me at his new venture VeeMee: top of their product list is a virtual London Pub for purchase for PS3 Home users. 4.99 euro gets you a virtual version of something quite rare... Wonderland
- EVOKE: Jane McGonigal's latest game
- Jane's new game is designed to help kids in Africa: Our goal: to empower young people all over the world, and especially in Africa, to start tackling the world’s toughest problems: poverty, hunger, sustainable energy, water security, conflict, [...] Wonderland
Monday 1 February 2010
- Press Release - TDC's press after the Coastal Regeneration Handbook Launch
- After last week's Coastal Community Conference, TDC released a press release. It does seem to play down TDC's role in putting forward some of the conference content. The Thanet Success Story at least was surely put together by Thanet [...] Margate Architecture
- Margate in the Press: The Arts Council 'Making over Margate'
- "Making Over MargateDate: 21 December 2009Region: South East It's hard to miss Margate in the news these days, whether it's [...] Margate Architecture
- News week, day 1
- I was anticipating a period in this news project when I would feel lost and like nothing was working. Most projects have them. I just didn’t expect the feeling to start before I’d begun: last night was full of dreams in which I was [...] Phil Gyford
- Haikus in git
- I decided I'd write a haiku a day through February, for WoPoWriMo. But I had to make it interesting, so I'm doing then in git, and letting GitHub publish them for me at http://alaricsp.github.com/wopowrimo/ using their pages system. git is a [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric
- Perler bead QR codes
- QR codes. A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded... Wonderland
- CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug
- Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs. Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well, Apple has also cornered the market in touchscreens. A few [...] Technovia
- Guardian CEO says charging for specialist content an option
- The Guardian may still be considering a paywall, at least for specialist content: [Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group Carolyn] McCall added that the Guardian, like the New York Times, had looked at six different pay models including a complete [...] Technovia
- Nokia app store passes one million downloads a day mark
- Brand Republic: Nokia’s Ovi application store is now attracting one million downloads a day around the world, the company has claimed.The store was launched in May last year, allowing the handset manufacturer to join the progress in apps [...] Technovia
Links
Monday 8 February 2010
- Hacker and Troller as Trickster
- "The trickster does exist across America, across Europe, really across the world and it is not in myth but in embodied in group and living practice: in that of the prankster, hacker, the phreaker, the troller" Lee
- martin postler’s papercraft weapons
- PAPERCRAFT UZIS!!1! Alice
- The “Geocentric” Timepiece Is Almost Like Having Your Own Personal Solar System On Your Wrist
- It's a watch. A nice watch. Alice
- Data URIs for CSS Images: More Tests, More Questions - ravelrumba
- Quite the most useful and interesting set of comments of any page on teh interwebs, as far as I can tell. Fascinating. Dotcode
- What's Microsoft doing for Indie Games? Boing Boing
- Alice
- Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker has two films in the festival
- There is an AWESOME game in here: "..." while Muniz was initially more resistant "because he knew more about the scary aspects of the situation than I did. Brazilian gangs control many of the dumps and use them to run drugs and [...] Alice
- The Omni Mouth » iPad or Bust!
- We want to bring all five of our productivity apps to iPad: OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher. This is a big undertaking, and we can’t do it all at once. We started working on iPad adaptations of OmniGraffle [...] Matt Jones
- Online Education
- Similar to onlineschools: infographics collections. Alice
- Online Schools
- "A SERIES OF CURATED SCHOOLS BY PRODUCING, COLLECTING AND CATALOGING THE VAST ARRAY OF VISUALLY STUNNING ACADEMIC CONTENT CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE INTERNET" Alice
- Matt Brown
- another Matt Brown Chris Heathcote
- FOA's New Street Station scheme gets green light | News | Architects Journal
- bad screens and mirrors Chris Heathcote
- The Venetian islands locals want to keep to themselves | Travel | The Observer
- Chris Heathcote
Sunday 7 February 2010
- Wes Anderson's Spider-Man
- "Did you kill my uncle?" "Yes... I'm sorry." Lee
- Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired
- TEDMED: Web-based statistical tools for medication. Lee
Saturday 6 February 2010
- It Sucks Being Sue Storm!
- Man, Reed Richards is a jerk! Lee
- Opposition to digital economy bill grows | Technology | guardian.co.uk
- It's so dead. Quite right too, what a mess it is. Alice
Friday 5 February 2010
- Photos of my models
- Amazing photos... of *models*... keep watching until you see the little models to scale. (via The Online Photographer) Phil Gyford
- PersonalNews
- Kind of odd "individual newspaper" that combines your choice of pages from some newspapers. Phil Gyford
- The Online Photographer: Old TIME, New TIME
- A nice comparison of two copies of Time magazine, from 1968 and today. Phil Gyford
- YouTube - Avatar Review (Part 1 of 2)
- From the guy who did that long Star Wars review. This is also wonderful. Intelligent, funny, silly. "I haven't rolled my eyes that much since that demonic possession." Phil Gyford
- DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP Exchange Gateway
- "Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or [...] Dotcode
- The train at St Pancras will be departing for... Germany
- Possibilty of a direct London/Cologne train - within the next 3 years. Lee
- Lisa Evans - Illustration
- My new favourite illustrator. Alice
- Before the Minister sits down, I...: 3 Feb 2010: House of Lords debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
- Aw. Alice
Thursday 4 February 2010
- Platform Opening - Symbian Developer Community
- Symbian (the OS on Nokia phones) goes open source. Lee
- LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts (on @)
- This is why it might not be insane to give some credence to the suggestion made in passing by Alexander Humez and Nicholas Humez in On the Dot: The Speck that Changed the World (Oxford, £13.99), an excellent history of another underexamined [...] Genmon
- (mini) action figure - Jawa (with shining eyes and Laser Gun) - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections
- Chris Heathcote
- Melody: Community Powered Publishing
- An in-development open source CMS designed to be compatible with Movable Type. Not sure why, but maybe it's interesting...? Phil Gyford
- Byrnereese's mt-plugin-profiler at master - GitHub
- Hopefully useful Movable Type plugin for working out which bits of your templates are taking ages to rebuild. Phil Gyford
- LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts
- An article from May 2009 about the @ sign, followed by some fascinating letters about what it's called in other countries. Phil Gyford
- When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books
- I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today. Phil Gyford
- Cardnetics - Cardapult
- Business card that functions as a catapult. Dotcode
- Babygadget: Muji and Lego - a great combination
- VERY cool. Alice
- JSUR | Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results
- An open-access forum for researchers seeking to further scientific discovery by sharing surprising or unexpected results. Meg Pickard
- Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus
- "Allows you to upload files using HTML5, Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads." (via dion almaer) Yoz
Wednesday 3 February 2010
- What's hot? Introducing Zeitgeist | Help | guardian.co.uk
- Meg Pickard
- the hose drawer
- "The pattern we see here is to keep crises small and frequent, as Ed Catmull of Pixar says in an excellent recent talk. When describing the difficulty Pixar's artists had with reviews ("it's not ready for you to look at"), [...] Matt Jones
- Pollution in 1/8
- Developers wrongly assuming 1/8 would never get allocated (!) have resulted in parts of 1/8 being unusable due to network pollution. Smooth move. Lee
- Big Brothers
- Nice graphic of satellites in orbit Zoonie
- From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
- The start of a series explaining maths to adults. Sounds good. There's a link to Steven Strogatz's own RSS feed at the bottom of the right column. (via Kottke) Phil Gyford
- Dial 01 for London
- Lovely. Isn't the internet fun sometimes. (via Crackunit) Phil Gyford
- LRB · Anne Enright · Diary
- I want a current affairs-only newspaper by the LRB full of articles written like this. Phil Gyford
Tuesday 2 February 2010
- Pure CSS3 AT-AT Walker by: Anthony Calzadilla
- What it says on the tin: an animated AT-AT constructed using nothing but CSS3 Dotcode
- OMA: the interlace residential complex, singapore
- looking like my lyddle end 2050 building Chris Heathcote
- De-Anonymizing Social Network Users
- Ooh. Your patterns give you away, not your traditional identifiers... Alice
- Sketchblog: On Papermint
- Papermint wrongly accused by the shrieking Murdoch-owned Sun paper as being a sex haven for children. A rebuttal. Alice
Monday 1 February 2010
- Martinis - it's all about technique
- pretty definitive on Martinis Chris Heathcote
- What Are the Must-Eats in Your City? | Serious Eats : New York
- the best in other cities Chris Heathcote
- Last reel for Miramax as Disney closes studio
- Insane move. Alice
- [shop] | Zombie Cow Studios
- zombie-cow flavoured goodies. Alice
- Felix Crux - PDFMunge -- Improve PDFs on eBook Readers
- Chris Heathcote
- Polywell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The polywell is a plasma confinement concept that combines elements of inertial electrostatic confinement and magnetic confinement fusion, intended ultimately to produce fusion power. The name polywell is a portmanteau of "polyhedron" and [...] Matt Jones
- AFP: UN chief calls for treaty to prevent cyber war
- " 'We need a kind of World Health Organisation for the Internet,' [Microsoft's Craig Mundie] said. [...] He also called for a 'driver's license' for internet users." Lee
- Tucson, Arizona: seduced by saguaros and a searing desert sun - Telegraph
- Chris Heathcote