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Thursday 17 May 2012

Bookmarks for May 16th from 12:20 to 22:48
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 16th from 12:20 to 22:48: Letters of Note: Love, Dad – Beautiful. DAE notice that &# [...] Extenuating Circumstances

Wednesday 16 May 2012

This is an interesting move from Barclaycard, leave your wallet...
This is an interesting move from Barclaycard, leave your wallet at home and just use this payband, when at events. Initially to be at the wireless festival in london, where all vendors will accept it. It’s a fun, interesting use of NFC. They are [...] Mostly This
More nike loveliness. This time it’s the quirky...
More nike loveliness. This time it’s the quirky ‘etsy-esque’ nikecraft limited edition shoes, jackets and bags - a collaboration with NYC sculpture Tom Sachs. http://www.1948london.com/2012/05/tom-sachs-nikecraft/ All are distintive and about as [...] Mostly This
I *LOVE* this japanese advert for ultrabooks from intel,...
I *LOVE* this japanese advert for ultrabooks from intel, essentailly intel don’t actually make any ultrabooks, just the components in them, so theres no one product to champion.  Also ultrabooks are all pretty much clones of MacBook Air’s The [...] Mostly This
Levis have brought out a range of hipster commuter jeans / tops...
Levis have brought out a range of hipster commuter jeans / tops for the fixie touting commuter - other cyclists can join in too. some neat features like fold out reflective flaps, lock holding loops and reflective strips on the inside when you turn [...] Mostly This
What happens at 10:08?  https://www.facebook.com/HTC HTC’s...
What happens at 10:08?  https://www.facebook.com/HTC HTC’s facebook page posted this teaser last night around 8:30pm - The phones all have 10:08am on them, but each has a different date - feb/march dates. So will we find out today -there over 1500 [...] Mostly This
FuelBand for alpha waves
I was waiting for a bus the other day, and had a pretty good time stand there, wool gathering, contemplating the world, thinking about the various things I needed to do, etc. And on the bus after I thought: I don't give myself enough time to stop [...] Interconnected

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Bookmarks for May 14th through May 15th
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 14th from 12:07 to 14:54: The Future of OAuth: Your Health Insurance and Where You … [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Bookmarks for May 14th through May 15th
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 14th from 12:07 to 14:54: The Future of OAuth: Your Health Insurance and Where You … [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Short creativity and clay-imagination
Gamecamp 5 was last weekend (May 12th) and went about as smoothly as one of these events can. The schedule was filled with great sessions from clever people, and once the day was begun there was a lack of logistical … Continue reading&# [...] COPE
Being part the second of the full account of the injuries of Ms C Hurley
Slightly long interruption there. Where were we... I'm going to cover the bits that aren't my lower left leg, given that... well, it's the big finale but apart from that, if I talk about the 'blue' bits, it will help... Moolies

Monday 14 May 2012

Bookmarks for May 13th through May 14th
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 13th from 15:04 to 09:59: Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – &# [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Bookmarks for May 13th through May 14th
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 13th from 15:04 to 09:59: Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – &# [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Dream about art / MMXVI in MMXII
I had a dream the other night that I was visiting my old art school in Coventry. Artists were putting on a show in the painting studios on one of the top floors of the art block. They looked engaged... Rodcorp
Science questions
SCIENCE QUESTIONS Is it true the human ear never stops growing? If the universe is infinite then why is so much of the night sky black? How come the biggest corn flakes are on the top of the pack and don't sink? Why do people imitate birds by [...] Interconnected

Sunday 13 May 2012

Five things I’ve been thinking about
Five things I’ve been thinking about recently. The influence of popular video game culture on film and vice-versa: see – Battle: Los Angeles and its close tracking to a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game (SPOILERS: Character backstory, [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Five things I’ve been thinking about
Five things I’ve been thinking about recently. The influence of popular video game culture on film and vice-versa: see – Battle: Los Angeles and its close tracking to a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game (SPOILERS: Character backstory, [...] Extenuating Circumstances

Thursday 10 May 2012

Bookmarks for May 10th from 01:33 to 13:51
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 10th from 01:33 to 13:51: Instagram – @hondanhon: RIP Maurice Sendak @ Wieden + Kennedy http://t.co/VYqvyT54 Twitter / john v willshire: I lost count of [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Bookmarks for May 10th from 01:33 to 13:51
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 10th from 01:33 to 13:51: Instagram – @hondanhon: RIP Maurice Sendak @ Wieden + Kennedy http://t.co/VYqvyT54 Twitter / john v willshire: I lost count of [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Bookmarks for May 9th from 00:53 to 17:37
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 9th from 00:53 to 17:37: Space Quest Sequel Finally Gets A Kickstarter | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – This isn't really a bookmark about the Space [...] Extenuating Circumstances
Bookmarks for May 9th from 00:53 to 17:37
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 9th from 00:53 to 17:37: Space Quest Sequel Finally Gets A Kickstarter | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – This isn't really a bookmark about the Space [...] Extenuating Circumstances

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Wednesday 16 May 2012

Transparent Multi-hop SSH
Neat little guide for setting up transparent multihop SSH Dotcode
Roll Call. Say hello! (Pepys' Diary)
This is the why. Well, one of the whys. Phil Gyford
Law banning insulting language 'is strangling free speech' - Telegraph
"a student was held for telling a police officer his horse was 'gay'" Lee
OakLeaf Systems: Twitter Sentiment Analysis: A Brief Bibliography
Kim
Twitter And Our Feelings: Real-Time Sentiment Analysis - Forbes
Twitter And Our Feelings: Real-Time Sentiment Analysis Kim
Twitter sentiment analysis using Python and NLTK | Laurent Luce's Blog
This post describes the implementation of sentiment analysis of tweets using Python and the natural language toolkit NLTK. The post also describes the internals of NLTK related to this implementation. Background The purpose of the implementation [...] Kim
FuelBand for alpha waves (16 May., 2012, at Interconnected)
Oh Matt Webb I do love you so. Kim

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Essex Fingerposts - a set on Flickr
Lovely set of familiar signposts. (via Paul Mison) Phil Gyford
Embedly | Embed any URL through one powerful API
The Next Generation Social CDN Embedly provides a powerful API to convert standard URLs into embedded videos, images, and rich article previews from 234 leading providers. Kim
google-map-marker-with-shadow.js — Gist
"Here's how to add a coloured marker to a Google Map with a shadow in the right place." The marker's dynamically generated using the Google Charts API. Phil Gyford
The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
Some good (but, as she says, far from exhaustive) and interesting tips on how to blog anonymously, by Brooke Magnanti / Belle du Jour. (via @tomcoates) Phil Gyford
Gamasutra - News - Unmanned, The End lead Games for Change 2012 nominations
Yay, The End! Alice

Monday 14 May 2012

Converting from Hexadecimal to RGB in Excel 2007
Kim
Damian McBride, A Trip to the Vets
"She then went on to probably the worst 5 minutes of my life: this kindly spinster aunt – exactly as billed – listing every sexual practice you can think of and asking if I’d ever engaged in them. I won’t list her questions – this is a family blog [...] Lee
Calm Sounds | Free Sound Effects | Calm Sound Clips | Sound Bites
Kim
Adium - Xtras - View Xtra: SimpleGray
Status Icons. Kim
Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard? at Scott Porad
"In the history of the world, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex?" Phil Gyford

Sunday 13 May 2012

Scatterbrains: git as biographer
Kim
Scatterbrains: git as biographer - Brett Terpstra
starred items / Scatterbrains: git as biographer / from Brett Terpstra http://brettterpstra.com Via Brett Kim
BBC News - In praise of bokeh: the dilemmas of TV filming
On SLRs and picture quality in news footage Kim
Retirement Researcher Blog: The Shocking International Experience of the 4% Rule
Historical number-crunching, looking at one of the universal rules-of-thumb of financial blogs. (via Monevator) Phil Gyford
Popular Typography Art Prints | Society6
The problem with many Typographic posters is that they are designed by 23 year old illustration graduates, and thus contain the kind of statements that 23 year old illustration graduates would think profound. (this shit is going to look so dated.) Kim
Isometrics
These are so lovely - deliberately low res. Wonder what they're done in? Kim
IBenji - Boneless(Free) Download link added by IBenji on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
Loved track: IBenji - Boneless(Free) Download link added by IBenji Kim

Saturday 12 May 2012

GTDclouds_1920_wide.jpg 1,920×1,080 pixels
GTD Workflow image. Kim

Friday 11 May 2012

LV feat Okmalumkoolkat - Boomslang (Hyperdub 2010) - YouTube
LV feat Okmalumkoolkat - Boomslang (Hyperdub 2010) hyperdubrecords Kim
Facebook tests 'pay to promote post' tool
"By paying a small fee users can ensure that information they post on the social network is more visible to friends, family and colleagues." Lee
TMA-1 - AIAIAI
Nice looking closed-back headphones. Because you've never bought your final pair of headphones. Phil Gyford
Secret Underground
"Smart ways around the tube system." I'll never remember these, but interesting and handy nonetheless. (via @antimega) Phil Gyford
SHIRI - YouTube
SHIRI novriki Kim

Thursday 10 May 2012

User Guide: Getting the most out of the Olympus E-M5: Digital Photography Review
For future reference. (One can dream.) But also, blimey, are cameras the most complicated and complexly configurable items of consumer electronics available today? With the most clumsy interfaces? Phil Gyford
LUV & HAT: Love and hate and hilarious disagreements • PINTEREST
Pinterest? "...it’s just Tumblr. It’s just Tumblr in a grid. And Tumblr is already woeful enough. Look, there are already enough Instagrammed pictures of sad girls holding balloons on the internet." (via @benhammersley) Phil Gyford
South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago | Techdirt
"At the end of the 1990s, Korea developed its own encryption technology, SEED, with the aim of securing e-commerce. Users must supply a digital certificate, protected by a personal password, for any online transaction in order to prove their [...] Dotcode
The woman who lives in a shed: how London landlords are cashing in | Society | The Guardian
Sometimes I fear we're going backwards. Phil Gyford

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