July 2010
2 posts
Icediving an underwater forest in Kazakhstan →
Incredible images - via Metafilter.
June 2010
6 posts
“Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type....”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. A piece of absolute genius.
Today's Guardian (Phil Gyford’s website) →
Really nice implementation of a ‘low-friction’ reading interface for the Guardian’s online version. There’s some great thinking here. Whack an Instapaper button on each article and make it scale to fit small screens like iPhones and you could have a real winner for reading articles on the web.
Edinburgh voted best place to live in the UK -... →
Sweet! Guess where I moved to in March :-)
May 2010
6 posts
I've voted.
I hope you have too.
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
6 posts
In Transition
So in the whirl of getting ready for our big move to Scotland and the excitement of finding a new flat (omg, it’s huge), we somehow didn’t notice until the other day that we really only have one weekend left in London. Nearly six years for me and three for Valerie will be over pretty soon. All of a sudden things we’ve been meaning to do for years have become things we’ll...
“Tomorrow, it’s Prague - and if it’s possible to have too much pork or too much...”
– Anthony Bourdain
Arguments of Technical People Against the iPad, No...
“I am a coder, and I learned my chops on systems of type X, ergo any new coders and tinkerers of the futures can and should discover their passion for code the same way. Change is bad because I can’t contemplate the possibility that anything but the systems and standards I grew up with will produce coders. And therefore everything must remain the same and all devices and systems must...
John Scalzi on the latest AmazonFail →
A very succint and useful analysis of the spat between MacMillan and Amazon over the weekend. I’ve bought books and countless other products from Amazon for years - indeed, they were my first and only online shopping experience for most of last decade.
Now, however, I’ll be getting my games, music and DVDs from Play.Com and my books from Waterstone’s, when I don’t just...
January 2010
5 posts
Glorious Spirit →
Xkcd today is wonderful, but heartbreaking.
stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about... →
Fantasic and very perceptive post about what the iPad represents. Worth reading for the pleasant mélange of analogies alone.
(via Instapaper)
Sleep Talkin' Man →
Quite simply the best blog. Ever.
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
10 posts
In Defense of Pax Americana - David Brin →
Via the ever-excellent Futurismic.
The Guardian explores the Darknet →
Fascinating and long investigatory article by the Guardian about the ‘deep web’, unindexed repositories of knowledge and unsearchable, invisible private networks. I love the Guardian’s tech coverage for its relative lack of hysteria and assumption of intelligence on the part of the reader. Great stuff.
WatchWhat would it look like if the Earth had a ring system like Saturn? Incredible and beautiful video, although it does kind of skip over the ramifications of having several trillion tons of rock and dust in close orbit, not least the high probability of regular impacts.
WatchVisualizing empires decline on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Super Techie Tip Of The Day
If you download video podcasts or TV shows for your iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll be familiar with the annoying limitation that you can’t listen to a video with the screen locked, as locking the screen stops the video. If you’re hopping off a train or just want to hear the audio from a TED talk, this can be really irritating.
Until now. It’s really simple to get a video...
WatchMission: Endure Tedious Small Talk
“Man, cellphone service here sucks.”
“Yep.”
“He’s been dead for over a decade, and I just found out.
And that’s why I love...”
– An Entirely Other Day
October 2009
25 posts
Should Modern Warfare 2 allow us to play at... →
The Guardian hits one out of the park with this considered analysis of the leaked Modern Warfare 2 ‘airport massacre’ footage. From what I’ve been reading, the entire scene can be played without ever taking part in the atrocity being unleashed, meaning the moral decision whether to pull the trigger is down to the player.f
As much as we talk about ‘decisions with...
WatchMy first Instructable! I’ve written up the spooky LED ‘watching eyes’ I came up with for the Halloween party we’re having in my building. They’re surprisingly easy to make once you’ve figured out the basic circuit. You can pick up the pieces to make a half dozen of these for about £15, with the batteries by far being the most expensive part.
How Many People Are In Space Right Now? →
Good to know.
Every year on my birthday, a barrage of automated good wishes from forum software reminds me how varied my interests have been over the years.
The Ultimate Big Daddy Costume →
The sheer amount of work put into this costume is gobsmacking. The drill works for goodness sakes! Top stuff.
WatchDesigner Stefan Sagmeister explaining why and how he shuts down his design studio once every seven years for a full year, and takes a “creative sabbatical”. Fascinating stuff.