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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
You've got too much e-mail - Los Angeles Times
Tantek is quoted ("EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL") in this LA Times article on the tyranny of email.
Recipes, Food Photos & Discussion at Open Source Food
A seriously nice recipe sharing site. Everything is creative commons licensed and everything looks delicious.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley | News
The Evening Standard picks up the story of Silicon Roundabout: Last.fm, Dopplr, Schulze and Webb, Moo...
P8TCH | Commando Nerd Patches for iPhone Scanning
Nice QR code patches (I don't mean something that patches code, I mean a patch that you sew).
Linux.com :: OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON
A good overview of the OpenID panel at OSCON: "Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled "A Critical View of OpenID" started off …
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Fun (and Fraud Detection) with Benford’s Law | Data and the Web
Benford's law blows my mind. Be sure to watch the video. This is all related to network theory and power law distributions ...I'm just not sure how.
Friday, July 25th, 2008
IBM Slides
Scenes from an IBM slide presentation.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Super Sushi - a set on Flickr
Lego. Sushi. The awesomeness of each is not doubled; it is multiplied.
ZombieHarmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
...because the apocalypse doesn't have to be lonely.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Shackleton Centenary Expedition
Another beautiful frosty design from the Erskine chaps.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
disambiguity - » The general public myth (or, the whole world is not your user)
So, so true ...if you design for everyone, you design for no-one.
Eventbrite - A provocative evening of science, technology and design
There's a new London geek event going on. The inaugural evening next week features a nice selection of speakers. And it's free!
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer
A crazy way of viewing news stories courtesy of Brendan Dawes.
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Avant Game: Memories of a Dead Seer: Werewolf at Foocamp08!
This is required reading for anyone planning to join in the Werewolf games at the next BarCamp.
Friday, July 18th, 2008
'Watchmen' Trailer to Comic Comparison | Features | RopeofSilicon.com Entertainment News
Side by side comparison of stills from the Watchmen trailer and the graphic novel.
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
SpaceCollective
I'm not entirely clear what this is all about but I don't care. There's some imaginative stuff in here.
Dr. Horrible
The first part of Joss Whedon's new web-based musical superhero comedy sing-along blog is up now. The other two episodes will be released over the next few days. Then they will all disappear.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
MobileMe: 30-day Extension Eligibility and Details
Apple admit that they totally screwed up the roll-out of MobileMe and offer a 30 day extension for free. Now if only it were as easy to make up for the craptastic markup underlying the web-based MobileMe apps.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Home – Last.fm
The Last.fm beta redesign is now available for the great unwashed masses to test.
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Nihilogic : WolfenFlickr 3D - Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup
This mashup serves no purpose other than to make me cackle with glee. Navigate Flickr pics on the walls of Castle Wolfenstein.
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code
The new Radiohead video isn't really a video at all. It's data visualisation. Here you can interact with the data points while the song is playing. I love this.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Last.fm – the Blog · Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch
If, like me, you were going cold turkey on Mobile Scrobbler after updating your jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch, you can stop sweating now. The official Last.fm app is really, really nice ...and it's free.
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
“Gorilla” Usability Testing | GarrettDimon.com
Garrett's in-depth look at Silverback, the Mac app that we've been cooking up at Clearleft.
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Google Code Blog: QR Codes now available on the Google Chart API
The Google Chart API can produce QR codes. Neato!
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Handwritten Typographers
Cameron asked some type creators for samples of their handwriting. They obliged. Compare the handwriting to the fonts.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain movie locations - a set on Flickr
In the spirit of my Matrix recreations from Sydney, here's a photo set recreating shots from Amélie.
New Statesman - Obscenity trial?
In the course of defending a porn site owner, a defense attorney has come up with an interesting way of trying to define "community standards" ...using Google search stats.
Star Over London - HOME
A zeppelin over London. No, this isn't some steampunk flight of fancy; it's for real.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Spacius! A Space Adventure
Get nostalgic with this old-school shoot 'em up. Oh, and it's written in JavaScript.
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Opera have unveiled the Web Standards Curriculum. It's released under a CC attribution non-commercial share-alike license and it looks like a very valuable resource.
Grid Calculator
A handy tool for calculating grid and gutter widths although you'll still have to some calculating to get the figures to work in percentages (assuming you're designing for the Web).
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Salon.com News | Apocalypse now
Mike Davis makes some conservative predictions about the near future.
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Remove .SVN directories : Red91.com
Note to self: this is how to recursively remove .svn files from a directory (y'know, just in case your host screws up your svn repository).
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
XFN Activity - David Singleton
This is seriously brilliant. Starting from a single URL (adactio.com), a lifestream is creating based on XFN rel="me" links. David Singleton wins the internet.
Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Ben has written a superb article outlining the hows and whys of distributed social networks with hCard and XFN, finishing with an inspiring call to arms.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » ORG verdict on London Elections: “Insufficient evidence� to declare confidence in results
The ORG have released their report into the London mayoral elections. “there is insufficient evidence available to allow independent observers to state reliably whether the results declared in the May 2008 elections for the Mayor of London and the…
Show Us a Better Way
Tell the UK government what you'd build with public information and they could help fund your idea. Time to put your hacking hat on.