- LukeW on AJAX Interface Design A couple of weeks old this one – but some useful tips for designers thinking of exploring AJAX
- Rands in Repose on the ‘Holy Shit’ moments that have defined his experience of computers and computing His list: Macintosh, Windows 95, Telnet, Mosaic, Napster, Ebay, Doom. Good list.
- Kevin Marks is hosting a video of the Steve Jobs WWDC keynote. The podcast section is particularly interesting. Two reasons: Firstly because the BBC’s In Our Time is beautifully promoted at the top in the middle, and because Steve calls podcasting the hottest thing in radio…
- Robert Cringely thinks the Apple switch to Intel processors is about Apple+Intel vs. Microsoft I have no idea what to make of this article. It looks – frankly – like total balls to me, but….
- I’m spending much of my time watching the Flickr photostream of Reboot with barely-controlled jealous rage When are Flickr going to do some kind of interactive TV client. I’d love to be able to watch these as they came in like a rolling webcam…
- Brian Walden talks about “the West” as a term that emerged in response to Communism, and suggests that without that spectre the term will soon become meaningless Nice link found via Mr Webb which articulates nicely the emerging differences and conflicts between the major nations of the Western World
- On Bees, six-dimensional manifolds and a peculiar sensitivity to Quarks Another one found via Mr Webb of interconnected.org – this time on the waggle dance that bees do to communicate
- Happy Slapping Webloggers – it’s the new craze that’s spreading across webloggia Yeah thanks so much Meg Pickard. Be warned – soon the craze will spread to your area…
- Five Years Later – British webloggers get together for the fifth anniversary of the first UK blogmeet God it was weird. Everyone’s exactly the same only a bit fatter and a little more tired. Except Jen and Katy and Mo who remain slim..
- To cut a long story short – a Guardian feature about the cynicism of trailers and how comfortable they are lying about the films they represent Not sure I agree with all of it – a trailer that effectively sells a film but portrays it incorrectly, can bring the wrong audiences or spoil the film for the right audiencs. This affects word-of-mouth. Film flops.
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