- “British blogs have recently found themselves getting comments from a fictional character who promotes a household cleaner. Weblog Watch looks at a new, personalised form of advertising…” Interesting BBC News story that references the Cillit Bang fiasco from around these parts…
- An insanely thorough list of OSX keyboard shortcuts – very nice stuff… Lots of great stuff here – from collapsing and expanding folders, logging out, emptying the trash and the like…
- NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps is absolutely fascinating and well-assembled… I wonder if anyone’s got the strength of character and will to try and do an equivalent for the London Underground
- ‘ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript “compression” system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.’ I don’t write a lot of JavaScript to be honest, but a lot of people I know do, and hopefully they’ll get some value from this service…
- iWood nano – a beautiful slim natural wood case with a monogram on it that I want more than anything in the world… I wonder what wood I’d get… I’d have some form of pipe, and a wallet of the finest leather and I might have a monocle as well. For effect…
- I know it’s fashionable to make Americans look stupid, so I’m going to preface this by saying that I fear you could make a video like this on the streets of most Western nations… Still, it’s kind of terrifying. I notice suddenly that this is not the most useful or descriptive of comments about the content of the page… Sorry…
- Google Personalised Search adds tagging… “Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you‚Äôve visited.”
- “Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers.” Remember – what starts in San Francisco ends up around the rest of the world pretty quickly. This is the future of your kids, and from where I’m standing it’s pretty cool…
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This is totally unrelated, but anyway… is it just me, or has BP ripped off your site design with their latest advertising campaign?
$50 – $60 a month on ringtones! That is *not* cool. 🙂
The iWood Nano looks positively orgasmic. I want to get an iPod Nano now just so I can get the case! I’m beginning to realise my purchase of a 4th Generation 40GB iPod (black and white screen) at Christmas was very much mistimed.
Have a look, it may make you richer
Speaking of blogs and the BBC, any thoughts on the Radio 4 drama that’s been playing this week (after Front Row) about an elderly blogger? I thought you’d be on that like a… a… well, a person who works at the BBC and has a high-profile blog.
Hey Tom – did you notice you’ve made it into wikipedia’s entry for Cillit Bang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillit_Bang)? That’ll learn them!