- OS-tan manga visualisations of what prominent Operating Systems would look like if they were cute girls There’s something glorious about this stuff. I kind of wish someone would take this as a theme and actually turn it into open source branding material – honest representations of the characters repurposed to help articulate the products to people.
- Bring on the tables – a guide to the proper use of HTML mark-up when presenting tabular data “For a table to be accessible to people using a screen reader or some other non-visual user agent, it needs to tell the user agent how the information it contains is related.”
- 1001: a desktop Flickr client “1001 allows you to step into the stream of photos passing through Flickr and to quickly see what’s new at the moment. Just run the app in the background and if triggered, 1001 pops up a small unobtrusive window to notify you of new photos.”
- A Time Lapse Lunar Eclipse A stunning visualisation of the moon as it passes through the shadow of the earth. Terribly cool. Terribly beautiful.
- Two sets of maps compare American states that were pro slavery with states that now vote Bush Obviously this is highly tendentious and aggressive and no one is suggesting that the red states are racist – but it is interesting that the two maps demonstrate a country divided against itself and that the fault-lines are pretty much identical.
- “The scramble is under way for a slice of Peel” The Independent newspaper talks about the scramble to benefit from the life and death of BBC DJ and widely-loved grump John Peel
- My attempt to capture Guy Fawkes night at Vertigo42 in London My camera wasn’t up to the job, and my narrative skills have been blunted by excessive technical project documentation, but hopefully I’ve captured something of the architecture and atmosphere of this part of London
- Buzz Anderson writes a measured response to some of the recent hysteria over Apple’s use of DRM I find many people’s positions around this stuff incomprehensibly absolutist. There are too many different perspectives to expect any eventual position to be completely free of compromise, accomodation or cost for someone involved.
- Best wishes go out to Mena who has popped out her knee. You have all my sympathies… And yet – dear God, lovely lady – that’s the most amusing way I’ve ever heard anyone injure themselves. Ever. In the world. Snigger. Snort. Chortle. Laugh. Cough. No no… Not funny. Oh no.
- For everyone who doesn’t live in the UK – here’s a brief explanation of Guy Fawkes night “Bonfire night is now just as celebrated within Britain’s Catholic communities. The once common practice of burning effigies of the Pope is now largely discontinued…”
- The Flower of Presence “This MediaLab Europe Project uses everyday natural objects to communicate a loved one’s sense of presence. Shown here is a wireless, IM-enabled flower that opesn when your friend or lover is online, and closes when she’s offline.” Bit tacky though…
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