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Thursday 11 March 2010

SXSW & NY
Just a quick one as in a few minutes I’m off on the Heathrow Express of the slow now (the Piccadilly Line) and then on to SXSW. I’ll then be in New York from 17th to 21st. Do come and say hi or something if we should/could talk. I’ [...] Phil Gyford

Wednesday 10 March 2010

April Fools' screening of film awards 2 Days Laughter
Those nice folks at Margate's own Beeping Bush are once again about to hit the red carpet with the 2010 edition of their film awards screening night at The Theatre Royal Margate on Saturday the 27th of March. The team behind the incredibly [...] Margate Architecture
alligator fuckhouse
i was supposed to get tattooed today, but luckily nicole from blink has pushed back the appointment as my immune system seems to be wiped again  -  all my nipple and girlie piercings are really sore and crusty so probably best not to [...] Dreadbettie
The Long City / The Dark Now / Peak Matter
future-o-matic theory maker, originally uploaded by russelldavies. Magical Nihilism
Announcing the Data Visualisation Weekend Manchester
Data.gov.uk, BBC Backstage and Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) will be running an ‘unconference’ focussing on data visualisations. The unconference will team up 100 developers and 100 designers to create diverse and [...] Thayer Driver

Tuesday 9 March 2010

<6ft
, originally uploaded by mattward. Thanks to http://twitter.com/thestouche via Jimmy Loizeau for the personal informatics in badge form… Magical Nihilism
Things are happening at Cliff Terrace
Since we reported of the sorry state of the two year renovation at Cliff Terrace a s few weeks ago, things have started moving again. There were utilities vans with the road dug up in front and now a huge vinyl banner has been unfurled advertising [...] Margate Architecture
Spa London
Looking at another area which has historically had problems with deprivation, the opening of The Spa at the turkish baths in Bethnal green is really interesting. It's a collaboration between the council and a none for profit company GLL. Their [...] Margate Architecture
Blog all kindle-clipped locations: Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Really, really enjoyed this. First of KSR’s books I’ve read – arrived on my radar as I was finishing my talk on Time, and it’s a lovely meditation on time, science and humanity. Recommended. Galileo’s Dream (Kim [...] Magical Nihilism
Triforce rug
There's a NES rug, a handmade NES rug at that, and at a tiny $59 (have you seen how expensive rugs are usually? Real rugs that is, not ones made abroad by tiny child hands). But there was a Triforce... Wonderland
Ribbon Hero: levelling up in Microsoft Office proficiency
And so the floodgates open, if you ask me. Ribbon Hero is an addon for Microsoft Office, a game addon, that teaches you how to use Office. Says Danc of Lost Garden, the designer: Ribbon Hero, in part, was born... Wonderland

Monday 8 March 2010

Carry on Camping
Two years ago the Guardian hosted a most unusual one-day conference, Gamecamp, in east London. It was an exceptional day—I wrote about it here—with a lot of brilliant and fascinating people bringing together some very different experiences and [...] COPE
the art of loitering
Ishould save this for another project, but I love it too much to wait. I came upon a curious little book called In Your Stride by A.B. Austin (1931, Country Life), not so much a walking guide, as a guide to a walking life, with hints about where [...] Anti-Mega
That all important question of knife sharpening
A funny wee piece in the excellent "Copenhagenise" biking blog showed not so much the interesting photo of two old chaps with adapted bikes doing the roads as bike sharpeners, but also a street based guy in Nairobi who has... Moolies

Sunday 7 March 2010

It’s Academic
It’s a few hours to the Oscars and here’s what seems obvious to me: The Academy is dominated by actors. It’s largely an actors’ club. And what Avatar says in flashing blue letters a mile high is “All you guys can be [...] COPE

Saturday 6 March 2010

Week 350
A busy week. I was due to continue working on the project I previously code-named Project Humphrey but that was delayed by a couple of days. So the start of the week I continued at BERG on their El Morro project, bringing a technical specification [...] Phil Gyford

Links

Friday 12 March 2010

Raph’s Website » GDC10: Justin Hall, Fate of a Social Games Company
"we spent $2m to make an open source way to make web mmo’s" Alice
James Murdoch: illegal downloading no different from stealing a handbag | Media | guardian.co.uk
ROFLMAO. What a greedy, evil bastard he is. Alice
Doctor Who Wii game IS real | Games Industry | MCV
Along with the million+ quid downloadable game being produced by Sumo Digital, and presumably more to come. Alice
L I M B O
Look at this beautiful indie game. So gorgeous. Alice
CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
Lovely simple demonstration of some soon to be abused CSS3 properties. Dotcode
RDF in HTML: Approaches
"Since there is no one standardized approach for associating RDF compatible metadata with HTML, and since this is one of the most frequently asked questions on the RDF mailing lists, this document is provided as an outline of some RDF-in-HTML [...] Dotcode
Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board
Neat status board - looks *beautiful*. WANT. Dotcode
To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Warren Buffett's weeknotes are the best, even though he does them only one a year (slacker). What crisp clarity! What tone and equanimity! Love it Genmon
Orange Cone: "Smart Things" references
The following is not a list of the best, most influential, or all the work in the field of ubicomp UX. It's just the works that I reference in my book, which I chose because of a combination of historical importance, the ideas, the [...] Matt Jones

Thursday 11 March 2010

MySpace For Outlook
Imagine the Venn-diagram: Outlook Users; Myspace Users Lee
Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula
Alice
Lookspring » Independence Night
Margaret on GDC, killscreen & Indie devs Alice
CleverHive | A Place For Clever Girls
Odd? Alice
Hi5 Launches Game Developer Program, Offers Special Access to Users and Monetization
Pushing strongly for some of that Facebook attention. Alice
Strangeharvest :: Architecture / Design / Culture
The most fascinating show about design in London this year (and we've had a lot of design shows) is not a design show. Michael Rakowitz's 'The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own' at the Tate (on [...] Matt Jones
Soulver | Acqualia
Matt Jones
BACKCHATTER: How to Play
Event-centric Twitter game. Alice
GamesMaster back on TV this autumn?
Heh. Dear me. Alice
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity | Magazine
"Maybe we should be designing tools that reward obscurity — that encourage us to remain in the shadows. Or what if they warned us when our social circles became unsustainably large? Sure, we’d be connected with fewer people, but we’d be [...] Meg Pickard
Joho the Blog » [2b2k] Authority as having the first word
in the old days, we took expertise and authority as the last word about a topic. Increasingly, the value of expertise and authority is as the first word — the word that frames and initiates the discussion. Matt Jones
Navigation paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Navigation paradox is that increased navigational precision may result in increased collision risk. In the case of ships and aircraft, the advent of Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation has enabled craft to follow navigational paths with [...] Matt Jones
DOS HERMANOS: GO EVERYWHERE, EAT EVERYTHING: PORKCAMP: FROM PIG, TO PORK, TO PLATE
pork camp... soon pork camp uk Chris Heathcote
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy: The Almost-Skyscrapers of Britain, 1829-1944
Chris Heathcote

Wednesday 10 March 2010

You Are Not a Curator | newcurator
Curator != selector Meg Pickard
Army ‘Mad Scientists’ Study Swarming Mines, Facebook Attacks | Danger Room | Wired.com
Matt Jones
Alexander Chizhevsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An expert in heliophysics, biophysics, space biology, space medicine, cosmic sociology, aerobiology, cosmobiology, geobiology, biometerology and cosmogony, through study of the impact of cosmic physical factors on processes in living nature, [...] Matt Jones
Russian cosmism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matt Jones
patient_bear-3.jpg (640×512)
Chris Heathcote
Open the Future: Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point
"The melting of methane ice (aka "methane hydrates" and "methane clathrates") is probably the most significant global warming tipping point event out there. If we see runaway methane from underneath the Siberian permafrost [...] Matt Jones
ResourceCacheImpl (Apache Velocity 1.6 API)
Has a resource.remove() method, which might be a way to selectively flush macros from the cache without a server restart Dotcode
New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously - NYTimes.com
Chris Heathcote

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Three Rings CEO: Whirled An "Abject Failure"
Aw, Whirled. I loved that idea. Alice
Mochi Media Announces $10 Million Fund
for Flash & Social games. Alice
Plants vs Zombies grosses $1m in nine days on iPhone
Alice
'Android isn't monetising well' claims Glu
But it will one day. Alice
Bigpoint reveals Battlestar Galactica title
SyFy and BigPoint make BSG. I'd play that. Alice
Doodle Jump tops 3m iPhone downloads
It was 2m a month ago. Alice
Ubisoft’s New DRM Cracked in Under 24-Hours
Tum te tum. Alice
Xbox Live Now Allows Race/Sexuality Expression
Finally. Good move. Alice
Ubisoft’s DRM Servers Broken All Day
Why do they bother with it, you have to ask? Alice
Home
using light sensors and time zones to work out where it is. ingenious. accuracy +/-150km Chris Heathcote
You Are Not a Curator | newcurator
love it. so terrible. Chris Heathcote
Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web
Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Dotcode
The Old Brewery - restaurant, cafe, bar and brewery at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London
opens on the 23rd March Chris Heathcote
Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board
Chris Heathcote
5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
Alice
Behavioral Game Design
Alice
5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
Skinner, by the way, was a very scary person. Alice
You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website » malcolm coles
The Royal Mail *is* Pretend Office. Phil Gyford
studiVZ | Bist Du schon drin?
german facebook/myspace SNS Chris Heathcote

Monday 8 March 2010

Why Modern Video Game Armies Lack Female Troops
Shit excuse. Plenty of games manage to model females in. Dear me. Alice
Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs
Energizer puts a backdoor on PCs. Remember, corporate reputation implies nothing. Where's the class-action suit? Lee
ISPs 'could make up to £200m from legal downloads'
FINALLY they see SENSE. Gads how long did that take? Five years? Alice
SparkFun Electronics - Cellular Shield for SM5100B
mmmm gsm shield for arduino... things that can sms! Chris Heathcote
BBCW wins US celebrity ice dancing order
Oh the highs, the highs. Alice
Tomorrow Corporation
Oh yes, I think *so* Alice
God of War III Review - Page 3 | PS3 | Eurogamer
Incredibly detailed GOWIII review. In sum: it's great, 9/10, buy it you'll like it. Okay then! Alice
Moth » London Thames Chalk
Matt Jones
notes.husk.org. Licence Fees Across Europe.
for UK licence fee complainers Chris Heathcote
walking papers plug (tecznotes)
single-serve web servers Chris Heathcote
max richter - Sets - SoundCloud
Max Richter on soundcloud Chris Heathcote
The battle of Britain's libraries | Books | The Guardian
Chris Heathcote

Sunday 7 March 2010

Supersize Me: Whale Meat Resurfaces on Iceland Menus - WSJ.com
Chris Heathcote
Gesturecons - Multi-Touch Icons
Chris Heathcote
Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine
"they can run a call-out test, where people from the right demographic are cold-called and interrogated about 30 seven-second clips played down the phone." also more on my theory that you get the music your technology/software makes easy Chris Heathcote
A Pint With: Vinnie Cilurzo, Brewer and Owner of Russian River Brewing Company | Serious Eats
"There's a new upstart brewery called Brewery De La Senne building a new brewery in Brussels right now." Chris Heathcote
captain beefheart documentary - Google Videos
Matt Jones
The big gender gap on the small screen: men outnumber women on TV two-to-one | Media | The Observer
Can you believe it's the 21stC? We still have SO FAR to go: "In the field of serious broadcasting, the research shows that women make up only one-third of participants in factual programming and even less in news, with only a 31% share of [...] Alice
(fab) - a pure javascript DSL for building async web apps
Beautifully simple microframework for building node.js apps. Yoz
They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To
Scans of the silliest bits of the Franklin Ace manuals from the early 80s, with lots of extra employee reminiscence in the comments. As one comment says, "It’s always nice to know of companies who never forgot they were composed of people." Yoz
They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To
Scans of the silliest bits of the Franklin Ace manuals from the early 80s, with lots of extra employee reminiscence in the comments. As one comment says, "It’s always nice to know of companies who never forgot they were composed of people." Yoz

Saturday 6 March 2010

CPI | Antony Rowe | uk.cpibooks.com
printer used for POD Faber Finds books Chris Heathcote
City of London Police - Stop & Search
you have a 1 in 200 chance of being asked by the Police to Stop & Account in the city of London (1 in 126 if black, 1 in 273 if white) Chris Heathcote
City of London Police - ASBOs
online City of London rogue's gallery Chris Heathcote
As It Is To-Day.
my newspaper - collating and collecting printed ephemera from the last 250 years. please buy a copy! Chris Heathcote
Jumblr - Unjumble your life.
Nice map-based Freecycle-alike. Fun to browse. (via Crackunit) Phil Gyford
SitBy.Us
Simple tool that I think lets you see what your Twitter friends are going to at SXSW. There is way too much to go and see. Phil Gyford
Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca
Handy and nicely-done tool for checking the contrast of colour combinations when designing websites. Phil Gyford

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