Category: Random

Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It’s not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies are a bit forced and hurt their own message. Still, enjoyable.

Surprisingly fun making disk images and putting in background images and aliases and stuff. You can see our finished work for Leopard users if you’re a Fire Eagle user when you download the widgets.

This one could just grow and grow – particularly given all the geocoded information in Wikipedia.

Those of you who have Fire Eagle invitations will – with any luck – have already noticed that we’ve started adding some select apps into the gallery. More to come. It’s actually quite overwhelming.

Constructed by Steve Marshall.

At some point when the current lunacy is over and my teeth are fixed, I have an apartment, Fire Eagle is completely launched, my taxes are done and Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 are over I shall redesign too.

The next lot are a little less depressing: awesome, eagle, evening, fucking, new, think, totally, want. Top people mentioned: Biddulph, Brother, Cal, God, Jones, Paul, Simon.

Also demonstrates some of the value and fun you can have with accelerometers.

Very happy about it. Spent quite a lot of yesterday early evening knocking up a quick scale drawing in OmniGraffle 5. I’ll plug in the numbers today when I go around this afternoon.

It’s hard to know how to respond to that, except to say that honestly, how many things last exactly forty-five minutes. I suppose you could time the TV shows you’re watching.

You require willpower to develop willpower. Nasty. To be honest, this connects well with my experience. I’ve managed to make myself more focused, and my flat’s normally a tip.

I love the way your brain attempts to rationalise this documentary-style footage of what’s going on with the fantastic, allegorical and occasionally just insane stories from the Bible.

I can’t help but wonder how easy it is to walk down without killing yourself though.

And then you can go straight over to Amazon MP3 to buy it. If you’re in the US that is.

Particularly horrified by the picture, which captures my exhaustion and desire to get into trouble only partly as well as it gets my double chin and my ‘raises handbags’ gesture.

Awesome! Everyone likes pubs!

He probably hates it. I don’t mind! I still think he’s neat.

I’m not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time.

Occasional errors will be introduced through replication. For error correction 3d printers will connect to each other and blend their schematics. It’s not quite what I expected as our future but it makes sense.

I don’t need an apartment. I’ve never needed to play table football as much as I do right now. I wonder if it’s okay to lick it.

With any luck the same effect will take Clay’s book higher up the Amazon rankings.

I’m sure Cal was scratching on the front door of the Steam offices (or whatever they use instead – orbital organitropolis probably) for one of these a while back.

Very exciting – impressed by both sets of people there. Remarkable good taste, by all accounts.

It looks great, but unfortunately I’ve not had much of a chance to play with it yet as I don’t have an invitation. Sad Tom.

Design patterns are now established. Probably people need to redesign less. So is it a bold new step, or is it a distraction from where the changes actually should be happening?

I mean, otherwise, there’s a precedent for surveillance where we just sort of have to take Phorm’s word for the idea that they’re not tracking personal or private stuff. It seems particularly sinister to me.

Well unfortunately it’s not that awesome, as it only seems to actually broadcast your location when you press a button, presumably as a consequence of being kidnapped or something. Fun though.

“But wait, you say that my iPod isn’t wrapped up in a pretty little white case? Oh, I guess you haven’t heard of a pretty little white case I like to call my skull.”

Difficult to really get too worked up about stuff like this, to be honest.

God, the five dollar bill is a monstrous horror of crap masquerading as a bank note. I don’t know what they think they’re doing. Having said all that, my current favourite is New Zealand’s currency. Gorgeous.

It looks gorgeous. Here’s an admission for you. The visual style of a fair few of my presentations are based around colour combinations that I’ve lifted from their type sample pages.

Still, this way I won’t lose it if I need it in a hurry to freak out a n00b.

Disappointed by the fact that over-half of them are from DC Comics 31st Century super-teams, particularly The Legion of Substitute Heroes, who are intentionally lame. I know too much about this stuff.

It’s from Milton R Cudney’s “Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors” (apparently published in Michigan in 1975 by Life Giving Enterprises). This sense of what is natural and ordered basically fucks us all.

Absolutely fascinating book of what appear to be map-like visualisations of literary themes, books, sentence lengths and the like. I’m trying desperately to find out where to get my hands on it. Any ideas?

The last one on the page I think is absolutely beautiful. I wonder if there are any sites where you can find really amazing designs that you can take into a laser engraver to have put on your machine…

It’s a decent piece that I in most part agree with. I’m a little disappointed (as ever I suppose) by the need to package up complex issues in a couple of minutes. My position is … simplified … let’s say.

Had a play with one for the first time the other day down the pub and it was undeniable fun. Looking forward to getting my pink one on Tuesday.

I do get into some trouble for not having much of a sense of humour about gay jokes. This is why.

When a unique person visits it, a new person joins the community. It’s a lovely association to make. In the end, it’s a game about traffic, only it’s assembled in such an elegant form…

Really interesting set of things going on here – stores your auth information in a cookie, which is quite classy. No need to register at all. Shows you your five nearest geotagged places in Wikipedia.

Seems like a lovely piece of work there and in record time. The amount of creative engineering I’m seeing around the place is really cool.

I watched this on stage at SXSW and was totally thrilled about it. Some of the partners we’ve been talking to have been really cool, and Outside.in are definitely among them.

The idea here is that when you return to your desk at home or work, your location will be updated. Lovely little app.