- Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief
A stunning BBC documentary tracing the history and key figures of atheism – and one I doubt you’ll find accessible with BitTorrent - Stunning pictures of ‘the Gherkin’ skyscraper in London
- The Donut Hole
“It’s the Quality!” - International Standard Recording Code is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings
Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments. - Wikipedia’s entry on Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
When Springfield became over-patriotic and took the name “Liberty-Ville”, Apu quickly caught on. He renamed his kids Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman. - New Future Needed: Apply Within
If you ask me, we didn’t look past 2000 as it approached and now it looks like it’s going to be ten or fifteen years until we’ve regained enough perspective to provide interesting views of the future - Fiona Romeo talks about the upcoming web creative generation
Another piece that gestures towards the upcoming mass amateurisation of nearly everything - Usability thoughts on a sitemap on every page
This work was behind some of the thinking on the new Flickr bottom bar and I think probably influenced some of the design work on iCan and other Matt Jones projects - The original PoorButHappy Columbia site demonstrating the large but apparently useful bottom navigational sitemap
This link courtesy of the Wayback machine, since the original page is now offline - Colloquy IRC 2.0 beta is available to play with
I can very much recommend Colloquy for the Mac – it’s for the most part a really nicely polished and elegant to use little application
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