- Geek in the Park is a day-long picnic cum happening cum informal conference for nerds in Leamington Spa at the end of August I was going to come along but unfortunately I’m off in the US at the time doing conferency things. It looks really good though.
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- Mint Digital has published a post detailing some of the things that happened at UGTV ’06 The whole ‘making a show of a website’ idea has been around for a while though – b3ta being the best example of this in the UK. Sadly unrecognised for most of its innovations as ever.
- Wikia is tracking the furore over the censoring of major weblog sites across India This whole thing happened while I was on holiday, so I’ve missed a lot, but apparently geocities, typepad and Blogspot were affected by the ban…
- An interesting vague poll on the meaning of ‘several’ plus a million comments about it Personal conclusions – ‘couple’ means two, ‘few’ means three and maybe four, several is in excess of four but under ten, averaging out to mean a median of something like seven things…
- The BBC has this weird article on hot weather risks But screw that, the fun bit is the Flash widget thing with the slider that allows you to expose a poor fake cut-through man to increasing amounts of heat until he looks like he’s going to blow up. Nice!
- VH1’s Best Week Ever presents an alternative take on the Mac ads… Never let it be said that obsessive fanatical ridiculous Apple obsessives can’t laugh at themselves. Ironic t-shirts. Ha.
- Penny Arcade takes on Loco Roco, my new absolute favourite super awesome PSP game I bought myself a PSP for my birthday after Andy from Flock persuaded me that Loco Roco which I’d never seen was so awesome I had to have it, and now I do and it is and I’m so happy I could die…
- Awesome trailer (in Japanese) for Loco Roco that might explain why I love it so That music is played all the way through the game, sometimes with just one voice, other times with many voices in harmony. It’s hard to explain why it’s so good.
- Which five things would you print off the internet before the apocalypse came and left us without technology or something? Matt Jones asks the question that I’m too afraid to answer but has been occupying my soul for the last four days…
- “Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited” (2005) A wonderful fifteen minute bit of video splicing together Back to the Future and Back to the Future II’s bits in parallel. Also manages to get much of the great bits of the films in, so well worth a watch…
- Pictures of a huge open pit mine near Mirny, Russia, East Siberia God knows why I’m linking to this, except that the hole looks really really big and big things are sort of impressive.
- Bend it like Gardner Someone from the CBC has responded to my post the other day about the BBC, indicating some of the stuff that happened on their side of the pond.
- Is the new Superman meant to be Jesus? This must be one of the weirdest articles I’ve read in a while – on Superman Returns, Jesus, Christian parallels, Nazis, Jewish comic book creators and crystal from Krypton as metaphors for sin…
- Find Detail in Your Photos That You Thought Was Lost using Photoshop’s levels tools A good basic introduction to some of the tricks in correcting bad exposures using Photoshop, selections and levels. The trick to using Photoshop successfully is that it’s all about selections, hence useful article…
- Atomiq talks about a nomic Digg – basically a version where you could change the ruleset I love that this idea keeps being independently rediscovered and pushed – online communities with self-reflexive rulesets is something I’ve been harping on about for years. But they never get built. Really wish I had the flexibility to explore this stuff
- My piece on “Self-reflexive rulesets in online communities…” Based on work on Barbelith and being an area that I’d bloody love to work on with people around the edges of work, but probably won’t have time to do so.
- Ian Betteridge discusses Ben Metcalfe’s recent moves I don’t have much to add about this one, to be honest.
- It seems only fair to point to Ben Metcalfe’s response to my post about Ashley Highfield even if he sort of misrepresents it Weirdly though he rather seems to confirm my case – he declares backstage underfunded, consisting mostly of RSS feeds, not impacting on the way the organisation builds its applications and hamstrung by organisational bureaucracy…
- Thingtagging: Pictures of objects A project that Mr Biddulph’s been working on for fun built off the back of Thinglink.org. I did some of the colouring-in work for him in return for his immortal soul. It’s pretty cool.
- OmniPlan is a new project management tool coming soon from the OmniGroup Any new OmniGroup project is interesting, but this one could be especially so.
- A quick Daily Show flashback to the beginning of the year Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart talk about a story that somehow completely passed me by. I was probably busy or something.
- I think Dan Hill has written the world’s longest weblog post ever… “The Shock of the New World, with respect to the flora and fauna of Australia” should win awards at next year’s Bloggies. The Ulysses of the short-form…
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Plans for this evening…
If anyone’s interested, then we will indeed be going to the Tonga Room this evening from around eight along with a bunch of nice and interesting nerds from all around the valley. If anyone’s interested in joining us, then you should feel free – and spread the word, of course, should you wish to.
- According to Mr Hammersley, the Florence police are now running around on Segways Awesome picture. I love Segways. I know it’s not cool to love them, but they’re just totally completely awesome. This one is particularly awesome.