Blogs
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