- BBC News presents a multiple choice maths quiz so you can see if you’ve got any brains left Turns out there are some things I don’t remember from school maths, but not that much…
- Insight into the Google master-plan (sort of) My suspicion… No master plan. That’s all I’m saying. Lots of people doing stuff instead. Probably not a bad thing.
- Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain “An enormous pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years.”
- A nice entertaining little story about how the iPod Mini looks a bit like old transistor radios Quite how these things make BBC News I don’t know, but the pictures are nice, I work with John Ousby and it mentions Flickr which is good
- Ethical Search Engine Optimization – not bad little article this, chiming nicely with my own views about SEO (mostly bunk, build better sites) “The time, effort, and money spent on search engine optimization (particularly of the exaggerating or deceptive kind) can often be put to better use by working on improving the quality, content, and structure of the website itself.”
- Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen Beautiful piece of work that allows to compare and explore fonts for screen use and then even get the CSS so you can use them on the web
- Liquid Sculpture – High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes Stunning. Beautiful. Really worth exploring in substantial detail. And if you work in ceramics or glass or plastics, there are some forms here you should be exploring. Awesome.
- Apple may build video cams into future Macs “A recently published Apple patent application reveals that the company last year toyed with the idea of integrating a tiny video camera into the latch of a future laptop design, presumably with intentions of leveraging its iChat audio-video conferencing
- Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) A stunning video for a Grandaddy song that uses an Apple II to create ‘expressive’ typography. Wonderful.
- Hm. Bit of a clumsy set of comments about user-generated content from my colleagues, there… Still, never mind… ‘”User-edited” versions of the talkboards will be created, said Mr Mermelstein, because he said many of the messages posted were “crap”, repetitive or boring.’
- TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows Lots of discussion about this one. Basically it’s a PVR with rights controls imposed from the studios and broadcasters – designed for pay-per-view stuff…
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