- Worth1000.com – Current Products in a Vintage Light… Make new things look old again. Some are awesome. Some are clumsy as all hell…
- Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction – on how Tiger Widgets could represent a security hole Kind of expected this, and completely agree about the lunacy of there not being any (external) interface for managing the removal of widgets – that’s just insane…
- Paul Morley on Oasis in The Independent, as found by Matt Jones I think “Really, they were just a warm mug of artificially flavoured milky memories, passing quaint old-fashioned music through a post-punk, post-rave, post-Thatcher filter.”
- We’ve Got Time to Kill (So Let’s Smash the Clock) – Lance Arthur ruminates on goals and age and unhappiness The bit that stuck in my head was about not giving your job too much importance – I kind of don’t agree – people get this wrong. Work isn’t something you do to get paid, everything you do in your life that has a purpose should be considered work.
- FlickIt Dashboard Widget handles sending photos to a weblog or via e-mail and IM to a friend It looks pretty polished, I guess. Probably would be better as a little dedicated application, but widgets are easier to write I guess…
- Bad Wolf Hunting – Scott Matthewman on the recurrent references to “Bad Wolf” in the latest series of Doctor Who Apparently it’s appeared in almost every episode of the new series so far, leading people to wonder what it’s all building towards… Could it be The Master?
- “Am I a Freak?” Flash cartoons for teenage boys going through puberty Some of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life…
- Ask Me How I Became A Pirate, by Tom Brazelton Awesome looking t-shirt that I fear just wouldn’t suit me. Yellow is such an unforgiving colour…
- Powerpoint presentation that articulates some of the key differences and divides the UK electorate It’s a really interesting way to articulate some of the major distinctions that people understand and to see overlaps between the parties
- An interesting excursion on the typographic concept of leading / line-height… “By definition, it is the vertical distance between two corresponding positions in two adjacent lines of text…”
- Judging a Book by Its Contents – exposing statistics to users to convey meaning and colour In Amazon’s case using Statistically Improbably Phrases to sell more books. It’s all about rapidly contextualising what you’re look at and in a world of rapidly exploding choice, is probably more important than it looks…
- TED Global in Oxford God I’d love to have gone to TED in Oxford in July, but it looks like they’re all sold out. Which sucks…
- The Great Flickr Tools Collection If this doesn’t act as a good illustration of why people need to open up access to their content, nothing will…
Categories