Collection of unfortunately placed ads | Ads of the World
Context is everything, as this collection of unfortunate juxtapositions shows.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Dudeism.com - The Church of the Latter-Day Dude
Come join the slowest-growing religion in the world.
No random play for you, old man! « Beth Granter
Facebook is ageist. Which sucks. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, you're only as old as the [woman/man] you are interested in [random play/networking/whatever you can get] with.
Tracking the quake on Twitter | mad dog in the fog
There was a quake in San Francisco last night. The correct response to this situation is to Twitter it.
hyperpeople » Blog Archive » Mob Rules (The Law of Fives)
The text of Mark Pesce's excellent presentation at Web Directions South.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Dear Santa Claus, I have been a relatively good boy this year. Please may I have a t-shirt that actually detects and displays WiFi signal strength? No, I'm not kidding. Give my love to the elves, Jeremy.
Make My Logo Bigger Cream
Just rub it on and watch it grow. Gauranteed to satisfy your client.
3spots: del.icio.us as color tool
Did you know that you could use del.icio.us to bookmark colour palettes? Neither did I.
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » CSS Transforms
WebKit continues to steam ahead. Now with CSS transforms; you can scale and rotate your elements.
"Terrorist Buster" Logo — Central Intelligence Agency
No, this is not a joke. This really is the DCI Counterterrorist Center "Terrorist Buster" logo. Un. Be. Lievable.
John Logie Baird: the home of the inventor of the medium has been reduced to rubble - Independent Online Edition > Media
With a disgusting disregard for history, the Bexhill home of John Logie Baird has been demolished. Here's a potted biography of the proto-geek who steampunked his way into our living rooms.
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
YTMND - Madonna I feel like I just got pwned
See, I'm not the only one who thinks that this is what she's singing.
cumul.us
Best. Domain name and associated tagline. Ever.
Friday, October 26th, 2007
CollyLogic: They found my lack of faith disturbing…
Colly is being transfered from prisoner cell-block 1138.
Scientists want to get into your pants, museum unable to locate crab louse for collection (Shake Well Before Use)
Every time you wax, God kills a crab.
Twitter / cookbook
Recipes in 140 characters or less.
My Christmas card image.
Actually, maybe this is the best picture on the internet. Take this picture brother, may it serve you well.
Unicorn. Dolphin.
Perhaps the best picture on the internet.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
QuirksBlog: VTM slides
Here are the slides from PPK's talk this morning at the Voices That Matter conference. It's all good JavaScript advice.
Main Page - AskWiki
A natural language interface onto Wikipedia. More of this kind of thing, please.
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage
I just learned from Kelly that Webkit is supporting local storage and database queries, as proposed in HTML5. Kinda like Google Gears. Potentially excited for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Home « Widgety Goodness
A conference all about, well, widgety goodness. In Brighton of course—home to all the best conferency goodness.
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Web2Summit: Opening Up the Social Graph
David Recordon announces a new developer tool for tracking status changes on social networking sites.
Friday, October 19th, 2007
The Marble of Doom
Contribute to the pool of data by inputting how much time you've wasted watching the spinning beachball of death.
Assorted
Looking for an ironic t-shirt?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Cadbury Dairy Milk - Glass and a Half Full Productions Video transcript
Remember the video of that Cadbury's ad I linked to a while back? It turns out that there's a transcript of the video on the website.
Trendwhore » Win & Regine Join Springsteen on Stage [VIDEO]
Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen together at last.
Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog
This is good news. You can expect Gravatar service to get faster and better.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
MOO.com | Postcards
New from Moo—postcards. Yay!
Brighton to London, leaving at 14:00 - Accessible UK Train Timetables
A new feature on Matthew Somerville's brilliant train timetable site. Just put /fares at the end of any URL to get the cheapest available fare.
Cruciforum: crucially simple
A super simple lightweight piece of forum software from Stuart in just one PHP file. Drop it in a directory and you're done.
NCSE Resource
To counter the creationists' lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" here's a list of scientists named Steve who support Darwin's theory. (via Steven Pinker's Q&A after a lecture last week)
Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference
Compare and contrast Last.fm's chart with the "official" UK chart. It's as if Radiohead doesn't even exist in meatspace.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Validator S.A.C. - Stand-Alone W3C HTML Validator Application for Mac OS X
For those times when you need to validate your markup but you don't have a 'net connection.
Welcome to Bleep Labs!
I want a thingamagoop.
What would happen if Google tried to apply SEO techniques to itself?
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Humanized Messages for jQuery at Binary Bonsai
A nice little extension to jQuery from Michael Heilemann for displaying unobtrusive feedback messages.
Sussex Police Uncovered - H900 - The Eye In The Sky
Click on the "What's the helicopter doing over my house?" link to get the latest eye-in-the-sky reports. The latest is: "Person trampled by cows" on the South Downs.
Microformats Bookmarklet › Left Logic
Have I told you lately how much I love this microformats bookmarklet? Yes? Well, I'm telling you again.
AssistiveWare - Videos on computer accessibility
It's easy for us to take technology for granted. This video shows how transformative technology can be. I am humbled.
Preoccupations: Life, the web all a tangle
David Smith has written a brilliant overview of how the perception of the Web is converging towards Tim Berners-Lee original vision of a read/write environment.
'Lobbyconners' crash tech conferences to schmooze, cut deals
Lobbycon: The practice of schmoozing in lobbies at expensive technology conferences, often without paying. The term is inspired by the lingo of conference names, the titles of which sometimes end with "con."
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Words to the Wise: Language and the Journal Sentinel
A language blog from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Huckleberry
A clever little periscope-like device that allows you to use your Macbook's iSight facing outwards.
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Is it Christmas?
The definitive response to continuous partial Christmas.
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
A handy tool for grabbing the geocoordinates for a location.
Apple - Web apps
Looks like Apple are trying to redefine the term "web app" to mean sites created for the iPhone. The revisionism is completely barefaced.
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Right Brain v Left Brain | Herald Sun
I can only see the dancer going clockwise. Jessica saw anti-clockwise at first but was then able to change direction. I can't do that.
Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online
A series of infographics comparing Chinese and German culture. Amusing and astute.
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Yes, you have to be a bit of a database geek to find this funny but if you are, this is very funny indeed.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Entoptic Phenomena - a photoset on Flickr
Put a sheet over someone and then photograph them jumping into the air. The result is startling.
YouTube - Microformats in Google Maps + Operator
Ian Lloyd gets search results for curry houses in Swindon from Google Maps to his phone in less than 60 seconds. All thanks to hCard.
Monday, October 8th, 2007
GrammarBlog: My biggest "US English" peeve.
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. I'm glad it's not just me.
Bad Science » Madeleine McCann, the Observer, and their special magic quantum DNA box (with secret energy source)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Bad Science blog deserves a medal.
BarCamp wiki / BarCampLondon3
It's baaa-ack!
TG Video: X-Wing rocket interview and in-flight disintegration
Even though it breaks up after just two seconds in the air, the moment of take-off is pretty awesome.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
RSS Reader for Mac - NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire now supports microformats.
CSS Eleven | Malarkey Rides Again
Here's the in-depth lowdown on the CSS Eleven supergroup announced by Andy at Web Directions South last week.
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Download : Happy Webbies
I'm a cartoon, which feels kinda weird. Brits... collect 'em all: Budd, Hicks, Malarkey and me.
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Faces in Places
Your brain is hardwired to respond to the shape of a face.
The Bygone Bureau » "Rainbows" Reveals a Brighter Tomorrow
Radiohead are distributing their next album themselves. You'll be able to download it for the princely sum of... whatever you feel like paying.
Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web
An excellent overarching article looking at the current state of microformats adoption.
Snipplr - Code 2.0
One of many code-snippet sharing sites out there but this one has some nice features like tagging and popularity. The interface is yuck though. dpaste,com is nicer but more ephemeral.
Design View / Andy Rutledge - quiet structure
A nice overview of avoiding clutter in web design. It's not just about whitespace; the number of edges and gradients can also add up to an undifferentiated design.