Links for 2005-02-20

I’ve been getting cross with Fetch recently. I think maybe it’s time to switch…

I’m quite charmed by what I’ve seen of Read Regular – there’s something about it which is slightly Comic Sans-y, but with much more restraint and class

“When you’re doing it for yourself, it’s like a chore, its drudgery. When you’re doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger.”

Talk about having a niche audience…

Obviously they’re doing it because of the sometimes enormous time-lag between a show being broadcast in the States and in the UK. There’s one way to fix that straightaway…

Which is a good thing, if only because it meant I could ask him what good webcam software there is for OSX…

Not only webcam software, but also motion sensor, permanent archiving and a nice interface

It’s all to do with methane emissions from subterranean caves. Very hopeful about this one. Life on another planet – however trivial and basic – would blow the world open…

Half the planetary systems so far discovered could harbour life, and we might be able to see if they do within fifteen years…

Some stuff here that’s so clearly been heavily influenced by Flash-based web design, and some other stuff that you couldn’t do in any other medium. Stunning.

Enormous and detailed site about Iron Man – new patron saint of O’Reilly Emerging Tech 2005

Typical vile quote: “All this should put the fear of God into the metropolitan elites. For years there have been widening gaps between the governing class and the governed and between the publicly funded broadcasters and the broadcasted to.”