- An awesome OSX widget feeds you new links (with screenshots) posted to Magnolia I spent a fair amount of time on Magnolia, and my conclusion was that it wasn’t enormosuly interesting – but this widget is glorious and fascinating…
- Busted Tees – a shop for t-shirts covered in funny jokes Well, some of them are funny. I sort of want a ‘Tom is not my friend’ t-shirt. Although t-shirts never really fit me and I look like a bit of an idiot in them…
- Plotting the regional differences in descriptions of carbonated drinks in the US – the Pop vs. Soda Page My grandmother in Norwich always used to try and get me to stop, “drinking all that old pop”. But then she also used to declare me a “sluss pot” for drinking so many liquids. No idea if that’s a real expression or not…
- Howto watch ABC TV Streams outside the USA It’s hacks like this that will mean that gradually the gap between shows being broadcast in the US and the rest of the world will diminish rapidly – and also why media distrubution will go global…
- The Web 2.0 Startup Business Model It’s a piss-take obviously, although I’ve no doubt there’s a certain amount of truth to the whole thing. You have to be hovering over the sections to see the neat stuff…
- The full transcript of the Stephen Colbert talk It remains awesome. Not a lot more to say about it other than it remains awesome and if you didn’t watch the video you should definitely read the transcript.
- Swamp Thing – dodgy looking heap of weeds from the DC Comics universe – has a weblog He’s currently dealing with all the stuff that’s been going on around Infinite Crisis. Poor old chap. Stressful times to be an earth elemental…
- Matt Webb’s done a pretty brain-melting presentation at Goldsmiths on fictional futures, design and sci-fi Wait until you get to the illustrations of super powers he’d like to have (which would be better phrased as way-out body mods). The third is extraordinary…
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