- It came up through the seat, into the ass of Timo If this doesn’t undermine my professional image, I don’t know what will. Hehehehe.
- Most fun ever: audio clips of the London Underground that you can play together to create your underground experience This is such fun. Play a few together on a big stereo to create the truly claustrophobic and brain-rattling sensations that previously only the Underground has been able to produce…
- webkuehn.de contains a CSV with the long-lat coordinates for 55,000 Wikipedia articles (along with information about the categories they belong to) Where to start!? The value of this lot is absolutely extraordinary. You can cut the data by any of the categories allowing you to easily plot the locations of all of Wikipedia’s geocoded impact craters or intercontinental ballistic missile sites…
Category: Links
- Jon Ronson goes behind the scenes of the UK’s Deal Or No Deal Now that’s one hell of an article, revealing some of the sad desperate lunacy of both Noel Edmonds and the people who hope and pray that they’ll be able to appear on the show, only for their dreams of riches to be completely dashed…
- The Guardian reports on Tioti Bit of a specious article. Tioti’s quite interesting though.
- The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science I will contributing money to this and I recommend any and all of you to do the same. Richard Dawkins has a style that not everyone gets along with, but that doesn’t stop him being clearly and self-evidently right.
- Jeff Bezos talks about Amazon web services to Technology Review This territorylarge corporations turning the massive services that they’ve had to develop as core competancies into commoditised servicesseems to me to be one of the major tenets of the web to come. Watch this stuff.
- Michael J. Fox campaigns on behalf of stem cell research in the US It’s fascinating how much interest this appears to have caused. Personally, given the heat around the debate in the US at the moment, I’m sort of impressed by his courage.
- Rufus Cubed Productions This is the professional Machinima outfit responsible for many short films as well as much of the WOW-work in the recent South Park episode we all loved so much…
- IDEA 2006 Peter Merholz is involved in organising this fascinating looking conference happening right now in Seattle. This is one that I really wish I’d been able to go to.
- David Cameron’s approval ratings are apparently starting to falter Specifically as a result of some of the apparently policy-lite soft-left stuff that he’s been pumping around recently. I can’t see my traditionally right-wing family taking to him particularly. They’re definitely hoping there’s some steel under all the touchy-feely stuff…
- Lost is moving to Sky One That’s pretty much going to completely irritate a couple of million people. Television is so bloody confusing and irritatingly designed.
- British and American engineers have created a cloak that bends microwave radiation around an object… Evidently it makes the object ‘invisible’ in the microwave part of the spectrum. The principles could be used to make something invisible at the visible level too, but the technology to implement such a thing is years away…
- Make fridge magnets out of MOO cards! Close personal friend of mine, Meg of Meish, demonstrates her extraordinary creativity and use of MOO-related paraphenalia to decorate her fridge with astonishing classiness and a copy of John Peel’s autobiography…
- Vimeo – the YouTube for arty types and design nerds It’s really lovely. I know it’s been around for a while, but I’ve never really played with it. I’m sort of vibing off its aesthetic more than anything else..
- Bid for the exclusive Colbert Report painting over on ebay He talked to Richard Dawkins last night and made lots of jokes about religion without being actually offensive to religious people. Artful. And one year old yesterday!
- Wired’s Monkeybites weblog has all their coverage of the Yahoo! Hack Day in one place I only really mention it because it’s got a picture of me in it and I’m that vain. Although having said that, the picture does rather make it look like I have a substantial cleavage, so I don’t know that I should be thrilled…
- Keith Olbermann on Habeas Corpus, GW Bush and the war on terror The bit that should hit home and hit home hard is the bit about the next President of the United States, who could be the most unscrupulous man who has ever lived and now has more power to abuse American citizens than any terrorist could ever hope for…
- Tangerine is a small OSX application that automatically works out the BPM of songs in your iTunes library I’m running it now, and it’s running through all my tracks at astonishing speed. It’s got a wonderfully classy interface and a beautiful icon too, if that counts for anything. God knows if it’s any good though…
- dead.licious 1.0 Another app with a good logo, although this time it’s more funny than useful. Scans sites in your del.icio.us account to see if they’re still there. If they’re not it removes them from del.icio.us on your behalf.
- The t-shirt every self-respecting nerd should be wearing this autumn And if you’re not obsessed with Battlestar Galactica then you’re barely worth talking to.
- Phil gets his MOO cards and describes the whole experience of opening them and getting all excited by them I know I’m friends with a bunch of the MOO people, but the attention to detail that’s got people going all gooey over them is really quite sensational. You can feel the thrills this guy has as he opens the box…
- Mike Schinkel writes passionately about well-designed URLs and beauty… I agree with everything he says, and will try my hardest not to ask about the URLs on his own site which are … less than beautiful. I know it’s cheap to bring it up, and I apologise in advance. But…
- Alice links to some Michael Jackson / WOW Machinima There’s been some hard work gone into editing this one, and the result is extremely classy and cool and of significantly higher quality than much of the recent South Park episode…
- The Open Rights Group is looking for a full-time Executive Director “ORG now needs a full time Executive Director (ED) to build our supporter numbers and expand our activities. The ED reports to the ORG Board, and has the support of an Advisory Council of digital rights experts.”
- What’s Maria Wearing? A sporadically updated weblog that bitches about what Maria’s wearing on Yahoo’s The 9. I wish I had as many types of top as she does!
- Seven Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup I’m interested that the rules they cite are broken by pretty much every single start-up that they mention.
- The people who benefit most from talks and lectures are the people who give them I completely believe this. It totally meshes with my experience. The whole process of preparing, practicing and dellivering talks pushes me to clarify my ideas and then keeps them in a nice memorable structure that I find really easy to retain.
- Mark Thomas organises twenty-one demonstrations for the same day to meta-protest the limits on protests in Central London My favourite protest was outside Westminster Abbey and read, “God is Dead, Shut the Abbey”. It’s difficult to feel unhindered love for Mark Thomashe’s a bit of a smug bastardbut at the same time, the man’s got some style…
- Channel ‘five’ in the UK is doing downloads of some of its core TV shows You get to keep them and watch them for fourteen days after broadcast and you have to pay for them, and you have to use IE6 on a PC. But other than that, it’s pretty impressive. I’ll give it a few months until iTunes starts selling TV in the UK…
- Carson Systems are doing another Future of Web Apps conference in the UK – and this time it’s a two day event like in San Francisco I have to say that while I love talking at Carson events, I very much do not like the fear that I get for weeks beforehand. They’re huge events and they fill me with ridiculous levels of fear.
- Stephen Colbert’s awesome Cooking with Feminists Featuring Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. I don’t know if my mother’s reading this, but I think you’d find this funny. I’m not sure, but I think you would. I hope you would. I think it’s funny. Um.
- There’s a story doing the rounds of del.icio.us popular at the moment: “Lost city ‘could rewrite history'” It’s about a city that was purported to have been discovered in the Gulf of Cambay in 2001/2002 that could predate other ancient archaeological sites by thousands of years. Unfortunately, it could very well be bunk, according to other articles I’ve found.
- Wikipedia’s article on the supposed ruins in the Gulf of Cambay This page and the discussion page have the most references that are sceptical of the Gulf of Cambay city, although the article contains enough weasel words to be only semi-convincing.
- Bloody Dove ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ had to go and produce this quite good video just to make me all conflicted This whole Dove campaign seems so fake and it’s really profoundly aggravating, but this video is pretty clever and pretty smart – although I’m having trouble knowing whether I buy it. Seems to me most people compare themselves with hot friends and the young people rather than to billboards and adverts.