wagamama | positive eating + positive living
An utterly addictive old-school platform game in Flash to get you in the mood for Christmas.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The Rissington Podcast | Like Gardeners Question Time, but for geeks
Check out the redesigned site for the podcast from Jon and John. Acknowledge the divinity in its gloriously liquid splendour. Smashing work, chaps!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Google Maps
The new "you are here" feature on the mobile version of Google Maps looks, as Matt Jones said, "indistinguishable from magic." But it doesn't work on my phone. Grrr...
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Wire & Twine : Subtraction's Fear of a Cooper Black Planet
I need this t-shirt... I need it bad.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
W3C DOM Compatibility - HTML
PPK has once again been doing sterling work. He's updated the DOM compatibility chart and things are actually looking pretty good.
Markup Map for hCard Microformat : Christopher Schmitt
A handy diagram showing the nesting of class names in an hCard. Useful for styling.
Desert Bus for Hope
Playing the world's most boring real-time video game for a good cause. It's strangely compelling to watch the "game" in progress.
Fray: The Quarterly of True Stories
The site that sparked my love affair with the web returns as a quarterly book.
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
In a bold move of reverse vandalism, a group of French cultural guerrillas secretly repaired the broken clock in the Pantheon.
FOOZINI™
A gallery of food collected from the web.
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Melting
Beautiful, disturbing and funny. The many ways that a chocolate bunny can meet its end.
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Safari CSS Reference
A comprehensive list of all the CSS properties supported in Safari including "a number of properties that are not supported for developer use."
MATT STUART | PHOTOGRAPHER | EXPOSES EVERYTHING
Wonderful and funny photographs of people in serendipitous situations.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
danwebb.net - @media Ajax
The slides from Dan's excellent presentation on metaprogramming JavaScript.
Extortr: online blackmail for the masses
What a great antisocial network: blackmail people with rich media. Upload photos or videos; demand a price from the victim; if they don't pay, the whole world sees the evidence.
Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).
The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » HMRC fiasco: Government “not interested” in expert warnings
The ORG turn a Newsnight interview into hypertext, thereby strengthening the message exponentially.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
QuirksBlog: @media Ajax
PPK delivers his report on the excellent @media Ajax conference.
Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Getting Overheated
A wonderful piece of writing by Stephen Fry that frames the problems communication in cross-cultural settings and then works through said problems.
Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You [Content]
Brian's article on portable social networks is a clear and concise introduction to the subject with explanations of the technologies involved.
The Plumen Project
A new twist on the lightbulb.
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
A superb skewering of Kindle and just about any other attempt to make book distribution digital that involves ludicrously restrictive terms of service (or worse, DRM).
Safari Microformats plugin
Oh yes! A plugin for Safari that will detect, display and export hCard and hCalendar data. Caveat: it only works on Leopard so, because I haven't upgraded yet, I haven't had a chance to testdrive this yet myself.
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!
Flickr Places. This is what George announced at dConstruct. It's enthralling: interestingness mashed up with geotagging.
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
ribot - Mobile application design & rapid prototyping
Local siblings Ribot Maximus and Ribot Minimus have launched their smart-looking site. All mobile, all the time.
Friday, November 16th, 2007
LOLinator: http://adactio.com/journal
oh hai. i maded you a website.
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
favikon
A great little tool for creating favicons.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
@media 2008 | The Best Practice Web Design Conference
It's back... the conference spanning conference from HTML Dog will be returning in Summer 2008.
Wonderland: A strange thing in the post..
Alice got something strange in the post. So did I. Looks like an ARG.
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
A new site to track the building blocks of portable social networks: OpenID, OAuth, hCard, XFN and more.
FUCK this website
I don't think the end of Catcher In The Rye will have quite the same impact after browsing through the signs on display here. This is big and it is clever.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
iPhone/iTouch Backgrounds, Set 1 · Journal · AntonPeck.com
Awesome iPhone wallpaper images from the awesome Anton.
Bent Objects
Cute pictures of everyday objects anthropomorphised into having an adventurous life.
Vespertilium clothes-peg
Best. Clothes pegs. Ever.
Upcoming's Founder on Going From Giants to Startups (and Back Again) | Epicenter from Wired.com
Andy is leaving Upcoming to concentrate on Waxy.org so expect lots of linky goodness there. Wired News reports with a photo by yours truly. (via... Andy!)
'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News
A seasonal twist on the lottery card is withdrawn because people don't understand how negative numbers work. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I'm not having it."
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Sleevage » Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design.
I could spend ages browsing through the archives of this site dedicated to analysing album sleeve artwork. In fact, I just did.
MD005 - Spotlight on Dopplr
Brilliant infomercial for everyone's favourite social serendipitous coincidental networking site.
Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork
Pacman as adventure game. Brilliant.
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Brand Autopsy: Buckley’s: The Good Taste of Bad Taste
Here's one for Matt and Cindy: Buckley's truth in advertising.
Spam One-liners - a photoset on Flickr
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you spam, make pretty pictures.
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 April: Vlogging lesson 1 - from Canon SD400 AVI to vlogpost
I keep meaning to post more videos to my blog and seeing as Tantek has the camera as I do, I'm making a note of what he does.
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Why a Tittle?
A blog dedicated entirely to documenting inappropriate dotting of "I"s in otherwise capitalised words.
Foamee
Here's Dan's latest project (and of course it looks gorgeous). I've been testing it for a while before the official launch and it's really sweet. Best of all, there is no sign up. All the interaction happens through Twitter. Clever.
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Boxing clever in Germany
I wonder if I can find a game of Chess Boxing before I leave Berlin.
Running from Camera
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can." The cumulative effect is mesmerising.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Coverflow for People | FactoryCity
Chris mocks up an interface idea for Apple.
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Eye-Fi Wireless Camera SD Memory at The Photojojo Store
At lunch the other day, Josh was telling me about this magic new WiFi-enabled SD memory card that allows you to upload pictures to Flickr straight from your camera.
The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times
An article about Twitter focusing on one threatened suicide and one averted break-up. Leisa and her excellent phrase "ambient intimacy" are quoted.
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Episode 21 - .net magazine
I had a chat with Paul Boag this morning and now the podcast episode is online. Me, Paul Hammond, Drew McLellan and Christian Heilmann discuss APIs.
Third time’s a charm « Davidville
Tumblr has just added a shedload of new features.
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Sign up, get your free BragBucks and start betting in less than a minute on bragster.com
Another sign up form that features hCard input (like Satisfaction). Choose a service (e.g. Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter) or enter your own URL.
ATypI Brighton 2007
Audio and video from the typography conference held in Brighton earlier this year, including Joe's presentation about the signage in the Toronto subway. Download the files or subscribe to the podcasts.