Twitter Blocks
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
Link archive: August, 2007
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Propeller falling from the sky and nearly killing/severely hurting somebody - a photoset on Flickr
A paraglider loses a propellor over Brighton Marina. Citizen journalism ensues.
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
peterme.com :: Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual
Peter Merholz takes a trip down memory lane with pictures from the first Mac user manual.
Coudal Partners
Jim premiered this film at An Event Apart in Chicago. The whole room was in stitches.
The Amateur Gourmet - Cooking My Trip Part Two: Rigatoni with Cherry Tomato Sauce
I keep coming back to this recipe. Simple and delicious.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Open Social Graph @ Plaxo
Try Plaxo's identity consolidator for yourself. Give it a URL that includes rel="me".
Plaxo to ship online identity aggregator based on microformats | ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers
The guys at Plaxo have not only implemented social network portability, they're sharing the code.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
rock-on.gif
This is quite clearly the greatest animated .gif in the history of animated .gifs. Nice one, Paul.
Amazon.com: Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book: Books: Aye Jay,Andrew W. K.
Somebody needs to buy this book for Eric Meyer.
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
The London Evening Standard Headline Generator
Using photographs of actual headlines from the Evening Standard.
I CAN HAZ dot COM
Following on from a drunken evening in Brighton, there is now a LOLcat alternative to tinyurl.
Friday, August 24th, 2007
iPhone sim free
Looks like the iPhone has been unlocked. Jesus phones want to be free.
MapMSG.com - Statetris
Very very cool and addictive cross between Tetris and geography knowledge. It took me 19:45 to get all of Europe on a medium setting. That's pathetic.
The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration - The Serif
"£5000 in £10 and £20 notes were individually dropped around the streets of London with a removable sticker." Clever.
25 Worlds Weirdest Animals
Sad, sad blobfish. Freaky, freaky aye-aye.
UT| Event delegation without a JavaScript library
A nice succinct explanation of how to roll your own JavaScript event delegation from Andy Hume.
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
GOOD 006 - Transparency - Weights and Measures
A really nice visual representation of just how isolated the Imperial system is.
i love typography
A new blog dedicated to, yup... typography. Looks like a keeper.
MoanMyIP.com - Sexy Girls Moaning Your IP Address!
This is waaaaaay better than whatismyip.com.
Packing Sucks on Vimeo
In preparation for their move to Brighton, Simon and Nat have recorded a time-lapse video of their packing stuff.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Arsebook | Welcome to Arsebook!
Arsebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Portable social networking // James Aylett's diary
James has some quick'n'dirty Python code for extracting relationship data from social networking sites.
QuirksBlog: Getting rid of the semi-professionals
A thoughtful post from PPK on the quality (or lack of it) in discourse around Web standards.
Om Nom Nom Nom
Silly.
I've switched
A micro campaign to get people using switched extension blocks, you know four ways, multi plug sockets, this kind of thing, with switches
The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration - The Serif
An interview with type designer, Eric Olson.
CrunchNotes » What A Comment Stream Would Look Like In A Meeting
Following on from my thoughts about comments on blogs, this video resonates.
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
cbs5.com - 'Faceball' Craze Hitting Cubicles Around The Globe
Dunstan's on the telly.
Social Network Portability | Google Groups
A mailing list to discuss portable social networks.
CSS Training Courses with edgeofmyseat.com
Want to learn CSS kung-fu? Get thee to Maidenhead on October 29th and you can learn from the best: Rachel Andrew and Drew McLellan.
frameboX - Salad
Giger's alien made of vegetables, Arcimboldo style.
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
Another take on social network portability.
LOL'Vogue': Scarves, Silverware & Scooters - Jezebel
Seeing locats everywhere.
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Brighton geek venues
Natalie put together this handy map of geeky hangouts in Brighton.
Cleverest crows opt for two tools
Crows is smart. And yes, I am using the "Bookmark this..." link at the end of the article.
BBC NEWS | Help | Social bookmarking links
Et tu, BBC?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : What crisis?
I was feeling very browbeaten after Molly's tirade but count on Jeffrey to put things in perspective.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Pull down the walled gardens
The need for portable social networks hits the mainstream press: Professor Michael Geist writes an article for the BBC website.
The Eachday Blog — Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.
“Attention all startups, it’s a bad idea to hang your ID hat on a speech bubble. Just don’t.”
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
How To Mix Fonts: Typeface Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for combining typefaces. No hard and fast rules but a handy guide to print out and use.
adaptive path » blog » Charmr Project
Charmr is a design concept for diabetes management devices proposed by Adaptive Path following a process of research and iteration.
Unstoppable Robot Ninja
Sidesh0w is dead! Long live the new Ethan! I for one welcome our unstoppable robot ninja overlords.
Anguish Languish
Tired of using "lorem ipsum dolor..." for placeholder copy? Use real English words that, while apparently non-sensical, transform into stories when spoken aloud.
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Apple - Pro - Profiles - Joshua Davis
A profile on Apple.com of Flash designer par excellénce, Josh Davis.
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
The Man in Blue > Experiments > Left Right
Contribute to Cameron's experiment. Just choose: left or right?
Last Exit to Nowhere
Great collection of fictional locations—Summerisle, Overlook Hotel—and companies—Wayland Yutani, Tyrell Corporation, Hudsucker Industries...
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Friday, August 10th, 2007
BBC NEWS | UK | Designs for taking on criminals
Making the link between good product design and discouraging crime.
design|snips
A collection of websites incorporating noteworthy visual design elements.
Oxford Geek Night 3 | 25th July 2007
Videos ands slides from the recent Oxford Geek Night.
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
"In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital."
How Not To Get Noticed » SlideShare
Slides based on a usability analysis of Wordpress by some of the Happy Coggers.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
UK Smoking Ban Leads to Rise in Texting
"The sharp increase has been attributed to smokers keeping themselves occupied as they're forced outdoors and away from their mates. Many are also turning to their phones as a distraction and a way to avoid temptation."
The Snowclones Database
A blog dedicated to cataloguing snowclones. Brilliant!
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
What Is Your Provenance?
If you missed it at XTech in Paris, here's a chance to see Gavin Bell's excellent musings on identity and consolidation from a talk he gave at Google.
lowercase L
A blog devoted entirely to instances of all-caps writing that uses lowercase letter Ls.
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Hail to the King... so says Business Week.
Digital Web Magazine - Hacking on Open APIs
The second part of Gareth's series for Digital Web on APIs. This time he's got some PHP code samples for parsing XML and JSON.
The National Day of Awesomeness! March 10, 2008
Because everyone needs a chance to be awesome. Add this date to your diary.
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com
Here's a handy little bookmarklet that overlays a grid on a web page—very handy for tweaking vertical rhythm and aligning to a baseline.
Amazon.com: Amazon FPS, Amazon Flexible Payment Service: Amazon Web Services
PayPal has a new competitor. Amazon is now offering a payment services to developers.
» Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007 | George Ou | ZDNet.com
Pwn3d! "Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony."
Blueprint: A CSS Framework
Pulling together a bunch of CSS tricks from a range of sources: reseting, baseline typography and grids (fixed width, unfortunately).
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
International Chindogu Society
In the same way that moving a mouse on a desk corresponds to moving a cursor on a screen, you can now, using a simple grid, easily direct people to the area of the back you want scratched.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
I love this article by Amber Simmons. The truth shines through.
Web Rankings Shakeup: It's About Time
I suspect David Sleight was hovering over Catherine Holahan's shoulder while she wrote this.
Mingle2 - The Blogger Spelling Test
Take the blogger spelling test and hang your head in shame if you score anything less than 90%.
Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
Find out whether you really need a car in your neighbourhood. My place got a score of 75 which is pretty darn good.