Category: Links

I was talking to someone a while back who said that they’d talked to Urban Mapping and didn’t see what their future was. Madness! It’s bloody hard to come by data that is profoundly useful! Data is the important bit, fools!

I love this site so much. I don’t get to play in it every day, but I pretty much love the times when I do. They last ages. I can spend a couple of hours in Ffffound easily!

Fascinating for making me uncomfortable about the people who made my last suit, making me despair of IBM and raising an eyebrow at the Aryan origins of the company that bought BBC Technology a few years back…

I’m really looking forward to getting a new flat and it being a nicer canvas upon which I can elaborate. I haven’t really spent any time on a home in years. This will be a nice change, hopefully.

Hard to disagree with the sentiment here. Stunning and extraordinary buildings doing amazing things, revealing again humanities fascination for large structures with some aspect of replication or organic form. Yum.

The end result will be… I don’t know how to describe it. I think I’d have to see it to get a sense of whether it’s a gigantic folly or something organic and beautiful.

Fascinating little design experiment that asks illustrators how they’d respond to such a question, and then collates and publishes their illustrations in a serial publication. I’ve bought a couple of their prints recently.

For a start they’re all gorgeous, but more importantly they’re pushing all my maps and geo buttons right now, what with Fire Eagle and everything.

I wonder what kinds of books they sell. I wonder what kind of use these buildings will be put to next when the book shifts technologically in whichever way that change will manifest.

Very exciting – and quite an interesting photo. Don’t look at it unless you’re up for some potential spoilers though!

You should watch this video. I managed to just get Cal to actually squeeee when watching it. Still, the car’s all wrong. Good voice though!

I’ve been interested in this subject for a long time. We used single transferable voting at University for some stuff, but I really like the ‘approval’ system described here. Here are ten candidates I’d be okay with. Nice.

Really enjoyable. Definitely worth exploring in more detail.

Weird when this happens to people you’ve met. If you’re not familiar with the name, Bram created BitTorrent.

Cal and I spent quite a lot of the break over Christmas and New Year obsessively playing Rock Band and World of Warcraft and ordering in the odd pizza. I actually think they sound quite good. Full marks for trying guys!

Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean ‘movie’ then why confuse them?

Both good for its mockery of Apple for being fashionistas and PCs for… well, not being fashionistas. Equal mockery for all.

It’s the middle of the night and I can’t sleep as is so frequently the case at the moment. Panda Bear is there to calm me and bliss me out. Thank you Panda Bear…

Aaron Straup Cope showed em to me. They look sacrilicious.

It is not, however, better than her amazing recipe for Gammon. I bought a large ham the other day and cooked it on Christmas Eve for the Hammonds and Cal and it was great. Better cold. Lasts forever!

I can recommend this wholeheartedly. After your meal you’re left with something that tastes and keeps enormously better than the packets of ham you buy in supermarkets to be used in sandwiches, pies etc.

And a really interesting tone of voice and more investigative stance for the piece as well than we normally see on the BBC’s website. Really good. Classy. Worth supporting.

I’ve obviously played with Bravo and I think Arrington is missing something here. The service is, above all, characterful and fun. It’s still developing but if it keeps that character as it goes I think it could easily find an audience.

Entertaining, insightful and gripping article on the ‘success’ of Mao’s regime and how it correlates to large company management practice. Doesn’t maybe sound sexy, but I really enjoyed it.

“There Will Be Blood is, in fact, not a historical saga; rather, it’s an absurdist, blackly comic horror film with a very idiosyncratic satanic figure at its core.” Sounds awesome!

Fascinated by how he could describe the following of a logical argument and a willingness to be proven incorrect a form of ‘fundamentalism’. I suspect he’s chosen his examples pretty carefully to illustrate a point too.

Pretty fascinating stuff. This is a man who had his authoritarian streak, clearly – and evidently believed in a faith I find near absurd. Also a man who protected a woman’s right to choose and made gay people more equal than ever…