Veer: Ideas: Etched In Stone
The unstoppable rise of Trajan.
Link archive: July, 2005
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
"Tell The FCC To Stick It" by Cruisebox
Podcasting has an anthem.
Monday, July 25th, 2005
Tim's WSG Ajax Presentation
Download the PDF of the slides and play around with the demo from Tim Lucas' recent presentation.
In the Manner of Cindy Sherman - a photoset on Flickr
A nice homage to Cindy Sherman.
Simon Bisson: Old dog learns new tricks
Ajax in The Guardian.
BBC interview with Gary McKinnon
The BBC talk to the hacker/conspiracy theorist awaiting extradition to the US. He's a bit of a loony but he's harmless.
Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Virtual Street Reality
If Holbein had been a street artist, the results might have looked something like this.
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
Suck it up, ya fixed width losers: your favourite escape clause has just been deflated. "Twenty college-age students read news articles displayed in 35, 55, 75, or 95 characters per line (cpl) from a computer monitor. Results showed that passages formatte
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
SOUTH
Own a mile of Ben Saunders' trip to the South Pole.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes
Mike has a really nice stopgap technique for improving your site on mobile devices.
Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites
A wonderful commemeration of the first Apollo landing, courtesy of Google. Be sure to zoom all the way in.
Progetto NINFEA
Here's a really nice implementation of my JavaScript slideshow script.
Wedding Crashers: Andy Budd and Jeremy Keith
Viral marketing gone so, so wrong. Thanks Cindy.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
two point three
This is a beautiful blog.
EBA: Web ComboBox V3 - AJAX - Fuzzy Search Autocompletion - LiveSearch
Yet another Ajax implementation, but this one is making some bold claims regarding accesibility. I must investigate further.
Sunday, July 17th, 2005
How to style a restaurant menu with CSS
A nice use of CSS.
40 Things That Only Happen In Movies
"On a police stake-out, the action will only ever take place when food is being consumed and scalding hot coffees are perched precariously on the dashboard..."
Fun with Google Maps 2
You'd think someone in the architect's office would have spotted this.
Fun with Google Maps 1
Why look to Mars for anthropomorphised geographical features when we've got them right here on Earth?
Saturday, July 16th, 2005
A hello-and-goodbye kind of post
So long and thanks for all the puppies.
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
NASA's biometric robot head
This is deep, deep, deep within the uncanny valley. *shudder*
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting
A nice introduction the XMLHttpRequest object by Cameron Adams.
HYDESim: High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator
This is cool and frightening in equal measures. Eric uses the Google API to demonstrate the effect of nuclear detonations on American cities.
Monday, July 11th, 2005
The Law West of Ealing Broadway
The fascinating anonymous blog of an English magistrate (Justice of the Peace).
SVG in WebCore
Weep not, Ethan! SVG lives... possibly in Safari and Dashboard.
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29 - Napoleon Dynamite, production
This is for real. The text of a bill being proposed in Idaho to commend Napoleon Dynamite "for showcasing the positive aspects of Idaho's youth, rural culture, education system, athletics, economic prosperity and diversity."
Apple - Support - GarageBand - Recording Your Podcast
Scroll down to the end - Apple are offering a command line tool for adding chapters to podcasts. You can also add images which will show up in the artwork window of iTunes.
Smithsonian Global Sound
A fantastic online music store from the Smithsonian. You can download MP3s and liner notes.
Thursday, July 7th, 2005
BBC NEWS | In Depth | london explosions
BBC coverage of the bomb blasts in London
Flickr: The London Bomb Blasts Pool
A photo pool of pictures relating to the bomb blasts in London today.
Bomb blasts plunge London into chaos from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
The Guardian blog is keeping a running update on events in London.
7 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Wikipedia entry on today's bombings is proving to be a valuable resource.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
An excellent alternative to the inline cruft so common in most Ajax applications.
Monday, July 4th, 2005
No more beating about the Bush from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
Amazing news! George Bush says, "Let's get rid of all subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our subsidies together."
kickAAS
Kick All Agricultural Subsidies. Here's a blog I can really get behind.
Friday, July 1st, 2005
Google Maps API Documentation
Documentation for the new Google Maps API. Unlike most web services, this one is run entirely over JavaScript.
Mark Boulton | Information design | Journal | Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Preface
Mark is beginning a new five part series similar to his one on typography. If you haven't done so yet, subscribe to his RSS feed.
: : Speak Up > Design Clichés : :
It's funny because it's true.
Archbishop hits out at web-based media 'nonsense' - Times Online
He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was “close to that of unpoliced conversation.” Um... I have to admit that I've never had a policed conversation, online or off.