links for 2005-04-03

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Links for 2005-06-18

Links for 2005-06-18 06/22/2005 02:25 AM

• Flickr Album - an elegant bit of Flash using their API You have to grab the corner with your mouse and literally turn the page over for it to work. Nice implementation though.

links for 2005-04-07

links for 2005-04-07 04/06/2005 11:46 PM

• Amaztype - awesomely beautiful book search engine using the Amazon API
  It creates the search terms out of the books it brings back. You can click on the books too. Sweet.
  (tags: flash api amazon search)
• A picture of the Odeo recording studio from Ev's presentation at ETech
  How do you get people to take up a new media delivery system? Help them create content for said delivery system. Very smart.
  (tags: odeo flash music audio radio)
• BBC News' Party policies at a glance
  A breakdown of where each UK political party stands on key issues
  (tags: election uk politics labour conservative liberaldemocrats )
• The wiki page for the 'Blogs in Action' mini conference I spoke at a while back
  I think it generally went pretty well - I'll post the notes sometime soon...
  (tags: weblog blog conference speaking sixapart weblogs)
• The '50 people see' set on Flickr
  Inspired by Jason Salavon's work - merges together images with a similar tag to create ghostly beautiful composites
  (tags: flickr art salavon imagery pictures photos digitalmanipu lation)
• This year's BBC Reith Lectures are on technology and will be distributed as MP3s and podcasts
  "This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers who is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee."
  (tags: bbc reithlectures podcasting mp3 downloads lordbroers technology audio radio)
• Ivan Pope has rebranded Social Software as 'sMedia'
  This is possibly the most ridiculously stupid thing I've ever read in my life. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Mike!
  (tags: socialsoftware idiotic)
• Nico Macdonald's lovely title slide for his talk on what happens after Human-Centred Design...
  It's called Beyond Human-Centred Design. I want to design for Beyond Humans. That would rock.
  (tags: design slide typography nicomacdonald)< /div>
• And here is the Beyonder - one of the few people that we should now aspire to be designing for...
  "Indeed, now that the Beyonder realized that he himself was not all that existed, he saw himself as incomplete and felt desire."
  (tags: funny comics marvel superheroes)
• Mr Webb is using his new iSight to watch TV in bed
  Glad you like the toy, old chap. Missing you already.
  (tags: isight television apple mattwebb)
• Is Batman Nuts?
  "Lots of fans and even some pros characterize Batman as being crazy. However, the rationale given for this judgment has often had little to do with the realities of mental illness."
  (tags: humour comics comicbooks mentalillness superheroes)
• Microsoft's new fonts designed for screen and print use
  The article seems to imply that these should be used for web use - hopefully designers won't be stupid enough to go along with that...
  (tags: microsoft font typography)
• Bits on Wheels - the first fully OSX native BitTorrent client
  And it has a really dumb little visualisation of the people you're getting your bits from...
  (tags: osx application bittorrent)
• World's Top Tennis Stars Practice at World's Highest Tennis Court
  Constructed on a helipad at the top of a skyscraping hotel. Astonishing. Extraordinary. Also a little bit freaky and dangerous looking...
  (tags: tennis sport architecture skyscraper views sky)
• The most compulsively addictive game of all time: 1D Tetris!
  Mm. Classy. Shiny. And most importantly - really really easy!
  (tags: tetris game flash pointless funny)
• A post on Peer Pressure about social television that comments on my Social Software for Set-Top Boxes idea
  Really interesting piece that references some of the work that other people are doing in the area...
  (tags: socialtelevision television tv socialsoftware )
• Science becomes art in 'Weird Fields'
  John Belcher and colleagues ... developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said.
  (tags: science visualisation beautiful art)
• Reader, I shagged him - on the mischaracterisation of Charlotte Bronte
  "Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her."
  (tags: charlottebronte literature biography)

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links for 2005-04-06

links for 2005-04-06 04/06/2005 05:26 AM

• Google Maps - Gerlach,NV 89412
  whoa, burning man camp setup on google satellite maps
  (tags: google mapping maps satellite)
• rc3.org | Making Firefox scream
  this sped my firefox (on a fast cable modem) up noticeably
  (tags: firefox utilities networking)
• Google Maps - honolulu,hi
  Diamond Head, from above
  (tags: google mapping maps satellite)

links for 2005-04-05

links for 2005-04-05 04/05/2005 02:15 AM

• Conservative MPs last in gay rights survey
  "The gay and lesbian pressure group is currently trying to pull together a pledge from five major parties at Westminster to conduct non-homophobic campaigns..."
  (tags: gay politics)
• TimeTrax - Timeshifting Software for XM Satellite Radio
  Apparently records individual songs as played on the radio as well. Interesting little thing. Love to know how well it works...
  (tags: radio music timeshift media)
• Replay Music records music off the radio and automatically tags it
  Uses audio fingerprinting to figure out the beginning or end of the songs as well
  (tags: radio music audiofingerpr inting media distribution)

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links for 2005-04-04

links for 2005-04-04 04/04/2005 03:58 AM

• privacy violations for infants (debris.com - online journal of matthew mcglynn)
  d'oh, I'll watch for this garbage
  (tags: baby privacy)
• Photoshop CS 2 preview
  wow, tons of digital darkroom tools were added
  (tags: photoshop beta preview)
• MSNBC - Leaders of the Pack
  Mena sporting her prom dress in Newsweek
  (tags: mena thetrott blogs)

links for 2005-02-05

links for 2005-02-05 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

• Heat sensing baby food spoon
  Nice little clever hack for baby safety
  (categories: clever design baby)
• Shure Earphones > E Series > E3c
  Someday, if I can get over the jammed-in-your-ears thing
  (categories: wishlist audio headphones)
• Ian's Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods
  There are 22 ways to lace your shoes - I had no idea. I've always done criss-cross but will try straight fashion lacing out
  (categories: shoes homeeconmics)
• INdTV Home
  Citizen Journalism is coming to TV. Can't wait to watch this project grow.
  (categories: tv journalism video citizenmedia)

links for 2005-02-03

links for 2005-02-03 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

• Google Search: BlogDateHeaderDate
  found while searching for custom tag settings -- this is 100 people that published their unparsed template accidentally.
  (categories: Blogger Google blogs)

links for 2005-02-02

links for 2005-02-02 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

• Skaters for Public Skateparks - Home
  Awesome new site for organizing skaters to build parks in their towns
  (categories: skateboarding grassroots)
• COUNT ME BLUE
  this whole ribbon/bracelet/symbol crap is getting out of hand on all sides
  (categories: bluestates symbolsfo rthesymbolminded memes)
• PanicGoods - Nice T-Shirts For The Panic Family.
  Panic t-shirts, finally! My spinner shirt is always a crowd favorite.
  (categories: panic tshirts wishlist)
• Google profit jumps with Adsense
  I've talked to two dozen reporters about Google ads, this is one of them.
  (categories: google adsense me)
• ModSecurity - Web Intrusion Detection And Prevention / mod_security
  Apache security module - GPL'd too
  (categories: apache websecurity IT)
• overstated: Google's AdSense spam
  That's odd, Cameron got a spammy looking email for adsense today from Google
  (categories: google adsense me spam)
• Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing (O'Reilly book cover)
  I can safely say this is by far my favorite O'Reilly cover art to date. Amusing and accurate, if you've ever been on a mailing list dicussing such topics
  (categories: comedy oreilly geekhumor licensing opensource)
• Texas Teens Increased Sex After Abstinence Program
  bwahhahahahahahahahahahaha, even Captain Undeniable of the S.S. Obvious could have told you that.
  (categories: sexed texans education teens)

links for 2005-02-04

links for 2005-02-04 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

• St ar Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled. Ah well... Lost is better anyway...
  "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek..."
  (categories: startrek television tv upn sciencefiction scifi fantasy entertainment)< /div>

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links for 2005-02-07

links for 2005-02-07 02/07/2005 02:03 AM

• Peo ple discuss my emotional state at dinner parties
  Which is a little strange. I wonder what conclusions they came to?
  (categories: stalker scary humour alarm tomcoates eep)
• Comm entary links my recent rants on refactoring weblogs to Marc Canter's concept of a digital lifestyle aggregator
  Interesting piece - I'm trying to work out how much of what I do here is about me talking in public and how much of it is about me organising myself in public
  (categories: weblog future blog blogs weblogs aggregator refactoring)
• Thoughts on the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator
  Lots of conversations around creating some kind of monolithic internal lifestyle admin interface, which I'm both interested and slightly horrified by...
  (categories: weblogs postweblog digita llifestyleaggregator weblog blogs blog)
• Marc Canter's original post on Digital Lifestyle Aggregation
  I wonder if we could pursue a componentised vision by creating mediating interfaces that completely circumvent the individual weblog / flickr / whatever interfaces...
  (categories: afterweblogs weblog weblogs future blog blogs components digit allifestyleaggregation)
• Are cut-scenes in video games trying to make them too much like movies?
  " As I'm sitting there, waiting to start mashing buttons again, I can't help but think that this is kind of lazy design. Isn't there a better way to do this inside the game itself? Why ask the player to stop playing?"
  (categories: movies film cinema media interaction game games consolegames consoles cutscenes)
• Boing Boing talk up ETech, earlybird registration (I think this has passed) and set some pretty high expectations for our talk...
  And ha! Biddulph and Hammond don't get nicknames. Suck on that!
  (categories: etech etcon bbc paper conference)
• Top 10 Web Companies to Work For
  It's a shame that the BBC isn't on that list, but I'm not sure it's an enormous surprise...
  (categories: web industry technology career job jobs business work company companies)
• Push to Talk
  I watched a show about Push to Talk on the BBC the other day. I'd never heard of it before, but apparently it's huge in the states. Is this true?
  (categories: pushtotalk mobilephones phone phones telephony mobile communications telephone nokia)
• Nominees for the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
  "The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives"
  (categories: media gay glaad awards homosexual queer representation identitypolitics )
• I went to see Ocean's Twelve at the weekend (and this is Metacritic's page for it)
  Jesus that's a strange meta-film / celebrity circle-jerk. Can't figure out what I think about it. Lots of front, lots of charm, not terribly good...
  (categories: film movie review oceanstwelve bradpitt georgeclooney juliaroberts metacritic)
• jbum's Flickr photostream is full of interesting Flickr visualisations and exciting meta-uses of Flickr-sourced imagery
  Fascinating and beautiful stuff found via the glorious Fiona Romeo's weblog
  (categories: visualisation visualisations flickr images imagery photography photo photos)

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links for 2005-04-02

links for 2005-04-02 04/02/2005 04:57 AM

• Skype Journal: Call Recording - Windows
  how to record your skype calls. nice.
  (tags: skype podcasting audio)
• MoCo Loco: Flatpak House
  I'm falling for the flatpak, even though the final building looks like a 1970s SoCal elementary school
  (tags: architecture modernhomes prefab)
• Ten mistakes Apple has made since the return of Steve Jobs
  Good wrapup, agree with all.
  (tags: apple stevejobs mistakes)
• placesandspaces
  play battleship on napkins the next time you're bored at a party/picnic
  (tags: clever design kitchen)
• EFF: EFFector Vol. 18, No. 11a, April 1, 2005
  "not for profit" is latin for "not very good at comedy"
  (tags: eff aprilfools)
• metafilter
  (tags: color mefi)
• APOD: 2005 April 1 - Water on Mars
  This is why jocks beat up nerds, and rightfully so.
  (tags: aprilfools unfunny nerds)

links for 2005-06-20

links for 2005-06-20 06/22/2005 01:46 AM

• PRISM
  converts the IR port to a R/C servo, perfect for kite photography
  (tags: kitecameras makemagazine hacks)

links for 2005-06-21

links for 2005-06-21 06/22/2005 01:45 AM

• Hot Points – A blog by Go Daddy founder and president Bob Parsons
  The guy that runs Godaddy domains is a freak. Time to take my business elsewhere.
  (tags: wtf 911 tortureisamerican )
• MIT Weblog Survey : Information
  Cool, live blog survey results
  (tags: MIT surveys blogs research)

links for 2005-01-20

links for 2005-01-20 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

• Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable?
  The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion...
  (categories: tags fauxonomy folksonomy folksonomies tag folktags metafilter post posting weblog blog ethnoclassifi cation categorisation controlled vocabularies wildvocabularies )
• PLAN Pervasive and Locative Arts Network
  First Workshop of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network - looks interesting - I shall probably be there...
  (categories: pervasive locative arts future)

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links for 2005-01-21

links for 2005-01-21 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

• The Haddock Family Tree
  Interesting life and development of a mailing list this one. You can see me spring parthenogenically into the mix in 2001...
  (categories: familytree mailinglist)
• Spandexman.com - Super Hero Unitards
  Contains an intensely scary number of grown men wearing super-hero style lycra body suits - some of which come with zips from from crotch to butt
  (categories: alarming)

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Links for 2005-06-22

Links for 2005-06-22 06/22/2005 02:24 AM

• Technorati relaunch with a shiny new front-end And very nice it is too. Suddenly appeared on my radar about ten minutes ago...
• The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister This Flash video about the National Identity card is possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen ever in my life ever.
• Pranksters Undo Ten Years Of Cruise Auditing "By lunchtime on the West Coast, it's unlikely that there will be a single human being who hasn't seen the video of Tom Cruise getting blasted in the face with water from a prankster's microphone"
• A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their patent documents... "Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at..."
• The Pan & Scan "Giant-Ass Image Viewer" Once they get this working on IE effectively, then this is going to be a really nice and elegant way of displaying larger images and maps across the internet. And all inspired by work by Google...
• Skyscraper News, the place on the internet where you will find everything you wanted to know about the brightest rising star in international architecture Despite being a World City, London has suffered years of neglect in the high-rise stakes as the conservatism of heritage bodies and the worries of planning bodies have scuppered any attempts at a skyline...
• Dirac Video Codec The BBC R&D produced free video codec is available on Sourceforge (just in case you missed it a while back)

links for 2005-01-30

links for 2005-01-30 02/01/2005 08:44 PM

• The New York Times: Mommy (and Me)
  The Dooce in the NYT and get this -- it's not about being fired for a blog
  (categories: nyt dooce baby)

links for 2005-01-29

links for 2005-01-29 02/01/2005 08:44 PM

• United Church of Christ News Release: SpongeBob welcomed by UCC
  Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we (even spongebob).
  (categories: spongebob religion TheGay(TM))
• Democracy For America
  Dean for Chair of the DNC -- we need a shakeup after two loser outings and a general decline for decades
  (categories: politics democrats dean)

links for 2005-01-28

links for 2005-01-28 02/01/2005 08:45 PM

• Leaders Gather to Mark Liberation of Auschwitz
  60 years. It's my eternal hope is that we never see anything like it ever again.
  (categories: wwII)
• Flic kr: Photos tagged with a9local
  Alan, formerly of Amazon, is posting the best a9 photos he can find. And here I thought he went to NYC on vacation.
  (categories: a9 photos flickr amazon)
• Health plans with high patient-paid deductibles, embraced by many Republicans as a market-based solution to quell soaring medical-care costs, lead to poorer quality care and increasing patient debt
  color me unsurprised
  (categories: privitization healthcare insurance)
• Flickr: Photos tagged with bugoftheday
  One to watch
  (categories: photos flickr bugs)

links for 2005-01-27

links for 2005-01-27 02/01/2005 08:45 PM

• notesti ps.com :: Photoshop CS .PSD Thumbnails in Windows Explorer
  I was just wondering about this the other day when I noticed PSD files no longer showed thumbnails. Now they can.
  (categories: windows photoshop adobe)
• Ribbit - The Big Question
  Brad from LiveJournal is getting married...along with everyone else they know
  (categories: marriage lj sixapart)
• Decisive Moments: A reason to ride
  My reasons for not riding since Fall: none
  (categories: cycling mr.seeman blizzard)
• Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism || kuro5hin.org
  A cofounder of wikipedia on what needs to change for wikipedia to survive long term
  (categories: wikipedia wiki k5)
• John Battelle's Searchblog: News: A9 Debuts "Yellow Pages" - Now *That's* Local
  The new A9 yellow pages are very cool. They even let you collaboratively add images of the store fronts to the database. Truly social software.
  (categories: socialsoftware mapping yellowpages)

links for 2005-06-19

links for 2005-06-19 06/22/2005 01:46 AM

• mc.clintock.com
  now THAT'S a home page
  (tags: design interesting home)
• Extre me Dodgeball : GSN - The Network For Games
  a joke movie sport becomes a show
  (tags: sports comedy tv)

links for 2005-01-26

links for 2005-01-26 02/01/2005 08:45 PM

• The Australian: Reflections of a straight shooter [January 20, 2005]
  "The biggest regret is that we didn't stop 9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead of redoubling what is our traditional export of hope and optimism we exported our fear and our anger. And presented a very intense and angry face to the world. I regret
  (categories: colinpowell politics 9/11)
• Spo rtsShooter.com - Beheading the Messenger...
  "I'm getting kicked out of the SFSU freshmen dorms for documenting underage alcohol abuse and criminal activities that have taken place over the past semester." - student photojournalist at SFSU (I looked and looked, but can't find the offending images th
  (categories: photography photojournalism ethics college)
• Message Forum Spam | Metafilter
  AshleyTurfing
  (categories: corporatemusic ashleysimpson spam)
• Flickr Photo Download: miracleboy
  the littlest snowdeal in the newspaper
  (categories: baby hospital miracle snowdeal)
• OpenStreetMap
  cc-licensed maps of the world (in alpha)
  (categories: mapping gis creativecommons )
• PostSecret
  like grouphug.us, but only done via the mail, and scanned in afterwards
  (categories: confessions collaborative)
• .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. News
  pb and ORblogs in the paper!
  (categories: fatheroftheper malink blogs pb)

links for 2005-01-25

links for 2005-01-25 02/01/2005 08:45 PM

• Dwell Baby
  Nice baby sheets
  (categories: wishlist baby moderndesign)
• Gabriel Jeffrey plugging grouphug.us on TV
  Silly news show meets grouphug. The host says "wow" way too much.
  (categories: tv grouphug.us)
• Hurricane Electric FAQ - BitTorrent
  Whoa, everyone hosting their site at HE.net can make torrents out of files automatically and serve them up. Awesome.
  (categories: bittorrent webhosting)
• ANT Beta is here! | ANT
  whoa, like video podcasting.
  (categories: video rss clientapps)
• As Sites Add Tags Tagtextual Advertising Will Follow
  Leave to marketers to see something useful like bottom-up organization and think "Wow, people like some useful new thing? We better stuff advertising in that!"
  (categories: marketinghell folksonomies tags)
• PayLoadz - Sell Digital Goods with PayPal
  lets you upload files to sell via paypal
  (categories: paypal ecommerce ebooks)
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Today, Some Lists.
  THINGS I'D PROBABLY SAY IF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WERE JUST A WEEKLY TV SHOW AND I WERE A REGULAR VIEWER
  (categories: politics bush comedy)

links for 2005-04-09

links for 2005-04-09 04/08/2005 10:37 PM

• Mark Millar on voting for Labour but campaigning against Blair
  Apparently there's the father of an Iraq war vet campaigning against Blair in his constituency. Millar's idea - re-elect the Labour party, but make sure Blair can't lead it. Strange / intriguing.
  (tags: politics uk tonyblair markmillar)
• Not Apathetic - not voting in the 2005 general election?
  "NotApathetic was built so that people who are planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May 5th can tell the world why." I don't really approve of this, to be honest...
  (tags: election politics uk voting)

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Links for 2005-01-24

Links for 2005-01-24 02/01/2005 09:34 PM

• The terribly named, but incredibly elegant tadalist from 37 signals - "Simple, sharable to-do lists. It's just what you need and nothing you don't..."
  The thing about 37 signals is that they not only do good consulting, but they also make beautiful things for their own sake. That's a company ethos that I can understand...
  (categories: 37signals tadalist todolist todo list lists consultancy web dhtml usability)
• An event on journalism and weblogging that apparently had a bit about webloggers codes of ethics
  I talked to a few people about this stuff a year or so again. I might get around to doing something around it again. I hope they define something that applies to all webloggers though, not just the minority that aspire to journalistic practice...
  (categories: journalism ethics journalists weblogs weblog blog blogs event conference)
• Human Rights Watch takes US to task for damaging the worldwide fight for human rights
  "Governments facing human rights pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables," said Mr Roth. "Washington can't very well uphold principles that it violates itself."
  (categories: humanrights politics america usa unitedstates government rights rightsabuse)
• A discussion of the political effects of the Photoshopped "Creative Commons" responses to Bill Gates comparing Creative Commons to Communism...
  "The bad guys' basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change. When you, their opponents, allow yourself to be defined as the alien, you’re doing exactly what they want you to do, and
  (categories: creativecommons communism billgates microsoft copyleft irony humour politics intellectual property)
• US military pondered love not war - more on the US Government's attempts to find a compound to make enemy soldiers shag one another
  It occurs to me that the Ancient Greeks thought that almost romantic friendships made soldier more, not less, effective. Perhaps after the initial shock and traumatic discussions with parents, this might make an enemy army stronger!
  (categories: military researchan ddevelopment rnd r&d america science sexuality homosexuality chemicalwarfare)
• BBC news article on peer-to-peer networks and how they're being adopted as an effective distribution mechanism by mainstream media companies
  "The BBC has already decided to embrace the technology. It aims to offer most of its own programmes for download this year and it will use P2P technology to distribute them."
  (categories: bbc p2p peertopeer distribution technology software web internet postbroadcast broadcast television radio audio video)
• Heather Champ and Derek Powazek release the first issue of JPG magazine. Awesome.
  "JPG Magazine is for people who love imagemaking without attitude. It's about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It's for photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing their work..."
  (categories: jpg photography magazine photograph origin web massamateurisa tion amateurisation )
• Paramount people deny that Enterprise is going to be cancelled before the end of Season Four
  "As to whether or not we'll be back for Season 5," Coto continued, "that's always been up in the air. We'll see what the future brings."
  (categories: mannycoto startrek startrekenterp rise enterprise cancellation television tvshow programme paramount)
• Matt Jones proposes using Tufte-esque sparklines to expose editing histories on Wikipedia
  The assumption being that a clued-up individual would be able to make determinations about the data based upon how controversial or active its editing history appears to have been...
  (categories: wikipedia sparklines edwardtufte tufte mattjones navigation tabs)
• Andrew Parker's presentation on the true shape of P2P usage on the net
  Among other things, reflects the enormous explosion of people using BitTorrent and demonstrates that the vast amount of traffic on the net is P2P (and not web) related
  (categories: p2p peertopeer bittorrent kazaa distribution postbroadcast music video film television programming programmes andrewparker)
• New York Times editorial on how cultures avoid collapse by managing environmental pressures
  I remember being stunned driving through America and seeing landscapes being ripped apart at an enomrous rate. The consensus at the time seemed to be just that there was "plenty more where that came from"...
  (categories: environmentalism environment america society revolution future)
• Party Ben's mash-ups download page contains some real musical gems
  I can particularly recommend Hot Hot Bowie's "Let's Dance With Me" and Beyoncaville's "Crazy In Japan". The latter is rapidly rising through my iTunes 'most played' playlist
  (categories: mashup partyben davidbowie beyonce download audio music)
• Nominate your favourite Flash movies of the year to the Flash Film Festival
  I think this is probably a bit serious to give Magical Trevor the accolades it deserves, but it could be fun nonetheless...
  (categories: flash film filmfestival)
• @media 2005 on Web Standards and Accessibility to be held in London in June
  "It's the web design event of the year. The @media 2005 conference brings together the biggest names from around the world to talk about the hottest topics in web design - web standards and accessibility."
  (categories: @media webdesign webstandards accessibility web internet dougbowman jeffreyzeldman london conference)
• 1 0 Things We Learned About Blogs in 2004
  I wonder how long it will take people to stop thinking of weblogs as publishing, and start thinking about them being people interacting to diminish the role of publishing
  (categories: weblog weblogs blog blogs publishing massamateurisa tion bah)
• Star Wars craft made out of Lego
  God I would have killed for that Millennium Falcon when I was a kid. I'd watch TV shows with cars and space-ships in them and immediately go home and make them in Lego
  (categories: starwars lego sciencefiction )

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Links for 2005-01-23

Links for 2005-01-23 02/01/2005 09:34 PM

• Bill Gates plots a Windows future
  BBC News interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about home entertainment appliances and the digital hub
  (categories: bbc bbcnews interview billgates homentertainment mediahub appliance appliances homee ntertainmentappliances digitalhub)
• Nokia brings 'Visual Radio' to mobile phones
  Weird one this. Visual supplements to radio are generally considered to be used for enhanced information provision. But often the rights owners don't want you broadcasting song information...
  (categories: radio visualradio nokia virgin interactivity mobilephones mobile informationdesi gn suppleme ntaryinformation)
• Danah on academia and wikipedia
  "Wikipedia is exceptionally valuable to read about multiple sides to a story, particularly in historical contexts, but i don't trust alternative histories any more than i trust privileged ones."
  (categories: academia wikipedia danahboyd authority research history)
• A stunning and beautifully exotic story of an alien moon
  "Liquid methane rain feeds river channels, lakes, streams, and springs on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, images from the Huygens probe show..."
  (categories: huygens saturn space methane titan moon moons environment)

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Links for 2005-01-22

Links for 2005-01-22 02/01/2005 09:34 PM

• Want ed - thirty Chinamen and a Zeppelin...
  And if you want to know why, you'll have to follow the link.
  (categories: joke humour poortaste zeppelin chinamen photograph photo)
• BoingBoing releases five years of posts for people to download and muck around with, and cites me as an inspiration. Aw......
  "To celebrate our first half-decade as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+ posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export format."
  (categories: boingboing corydoctorow creativecommons anniversary weblog weblogs blog blogs data visualisations analysis)
• Awesome graphing analysis of BoingBoing reveals a surprising obsession with the BBC...
  I love this little browsable app - it gives a real perspective on what the Boingers are interested in. Also it's more evidence that Cory either has too much energy or not enough to do...
  (categories: corydoctorow visualisation graph graphs analysis weblog weblogs blog blogs application keyword)

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links for 2005-04-08

links for 2005-04-08 04/08/2005 03:51 AM

• NPR : The Acerbic Wit of Lewis Black
  Lewis Black on Fresh Air, good stuff.
  (tags: dailyshow comedy freshair)
• Google Maps - 1313 south harbor blvd.,anaheim ca
  Disneyland: the matterhorn doesn't look as big as I thought it would
  (tags: via:boogah googlemaps disney)
• mezz oblue: Google Maps and Accountability
  British Columbia's thriving forestry industry (read: clearcuts) as seen at Google Maps
  (tags: googlemaps environment forestry citizensurveill ance)
• NPR : Kool Herc: A Founding Father of Hip Hop
  There is nothing better than hearing Terry Gross try and understand the history of hip-hop
  (tags: freshair hiphop therapmusic musichistory)
• Ask Flickr: how do I change this light bulb?
  I'm testing the waters with another unintended use of Flickr: can we get help from random strangers?
  (tags: askflickr flickr howmanyinternetnerdsdoesittaketochangealightbulb)
• HydroGrill Home - Healthy Barbecue Food - Outdoor Grilling
  Water cooled BBQ for better fish and veggies. Wonder if it really works.
  (tags: food cooking bbq)

links for 2005-04-01

links for 2005-04-01 04/01/2005 04:21 AM

• Abstra ct Appeal -- by Matt Conigliaro
  This is the best all-around wrapup of Schiavo case info online, from an independent florida lawyer.
  (tags: schiavo law livingwills)
• Never Nude :: Psychiatrist / Actor / Father Dr. Tobias Funke :: Arrested Development
  God bless those cut-offs
  (tags: nevernude arresteddevelop ment phobias)
• Dim Sum Dynasty / Yank Sing's Chan family has spent generations honing the recipe for success
  my favorite dim sum in SF is good old Yank Sing
  (tags: dimsum food SF)
• Index of gopher://george.hotelling.net/
  ROCK!!! The great part about gopher is that the UI lives on in WAP phones, TVs, and stereo menus.
  (tags: aprilfools gopher)

links for 2005-03-11

links for 2005-03-11 03/14/2005 05:37 PM

• cheesedip.com: everybody just say the word, oh!
  ODB covered Sussudio. Amazing
  (categories: music mp3 covers)
• Flickr Photo Download: ANILOMIC
  Superman's Dad Anil
  (categories: blogs flickr comedy comics)
• Is your iPod spying on you?
  The USA Today wrote a terrible misleading column, which Pete dismantles here.
  (categories: engadget usatoday ipod mp3 fud)
• LiveModern - Catch the Breezehouse at Sunset
  This looks even better than the Glidehouse. Can't wait to see images of the real thing.
  (categories: architecture modernhomes prefab)
• Flickr Selects EZ Prints to Provide Fulfillment of Photo Printing
  Flickr will finally have a "order prints" button! Yay!
  (categories: flickr photos prints)

links for 2005-03-13

links for 2005-03-13 03/14/2005 05:36 PM

• Forward Ever: Boycott "White" Runner's World Magazine
  I have to agree, this doesn't make much sense considering the dominence of Africans at marathon events
  (categories: running magazines boycotts)

links for 2005-03-30

links for 2005-03-30 03/30/2005 04:32 AM

• posterwire.com the movie poster weblog
  Man, there's a blog for everything now
  (tags: blogs movies posters)
• Wir ed News
  Hey, it's my old pal Kragen on the steps of the supreme court!
  (tags: iplaw wirednews photos)
• [delicious-discuss] big news
  The belle of the ball just got a boyfriend
  (tags: delicious joshua funding startups)

links for 2005-03-17

links for 2005-03-17 03/17/2005 03:28 AM

• The future of web development is here
  Or is it just a passing fetish?
  (categories: humour funny)

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links for 2005-03-16

links for 2005-03-16 03/17/2005 03:28 AM

• Meg mocks me on Flickr
  Although it's true - I am pretty bloody dreamy...
  (categories: tomcoates)
• A java-based visualisation of baby names over time
  As talked about by Tim and Rael at ETech 2005
  (categories: babynames names etech java visualisation)< /div>
• New bright, exciting and gloriously funky (but somehow less sexy) video for the Futureheads' Decent Days and Nights
  S'good and all, you know... Buy the album. S'bouncy.
  (categories: futureheads video music pop rock indie design)
• Flickr Postcard Browser
  As demo'd by Stewart Butterfield at ETech 2005...
  (categories: stewartbutterf ield flickr api flash)
• Yahoo! Tech Buzz game...
  "The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends" Like HSX for tech stuff... As announced at ETech 2005
  (categories: etech gamingmarkets markets socialsoftware buzz zeitgeist)

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links for 2005-03-15

links for 2005-03-15 03/17/2005 03:29 AM

• Da n Hill on arrivals, San Diego; and a departure, London...
  Aw... Old softie... Still you guys have to bloody come...
  (categories: danhill etech etcon mattwebb)

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links for 2005-03-18

links for 2005-03-18 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

• The Project for Open Source Media
  "POSM (The Project for Open Source Media) is an independent research and development entity for the development and deployment of a standardized Open Media Platform."
  (categories: posm opensource r&d television ondemand pvr)
• It looks like The West Wing is coming back for another season
  Which is a really good thing - because the current series is kind of rocking my world...
  (categories: westwing television)

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links for 2005-03-22

links for 2005-03-22 03/22/2005 04:38 PM

• Whaleflip is a happy Greenpeace game of whales saving submarines
  The blue whales extrude bubbles, the pink ones pulse elevating noises. It's easier than it sounds...
  (categories: denisewilton)

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links for 2005-03-20

links for 2005-03-20 03/22/2005 04:39 PM

• It's not funny because it's rude, it's funny cos...
  Well because it looks like it's funny because it's rude...
  (categories: etech game toy mattwebb)
• Lions in coffee cream
  Beautiful, elegant and I hope it was intentional
  (categories: photography)
• Mediocre reviews for Daft Punk's new album: Human After All
  I'll buy it anyway, of course, and pray that everyone else is just wrong...
  (categories: daftpunk music reviews)
• Rogue Amoeba is "Airfoil" allows you to pump any audio from your computer through AirTunes
  We tried it with some television last night and it was a full two-seconds behind. Someone has to fix this. It's too important...
  (categories: homeentertainme nt television airfoil rogueamoeba airportexpress )
• Many-to-Many: Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases
  Amazon pulling out improbable phrases from books - could they be used for fauxonomic tagging?
  (categories: fauxonomy amazon tags)
• An other year another "Is ETech discriminatory" thread
  I wish I could say I agreed and saw a cause here worth fighting for, but the argument is starting to sound a bit shrill to me now...
  (categories: etech)
• Matt Jones on the new Doctor Who
  Interesting thoughts on the publically-leaked series from the BBC
  (categories: doctorwho)
• Anot her attempt to formalise and structure fauxonomic tagging which I fear is doomed to fail
  But it triggered some interesting ideas for me around how a site that aggregated tags should operate...
  (categories: fauxonomy folksonomy tagging folktags tags)
• If you hug a needie the other two bitch about the third one behind his back...
  Wonderful implementation of pervasively networked toys from Tom Igoe's talk at ETech 2005
  (categories: pervasivecompu ting ubicomp networkenab ledobjects)
• Junki e's Little Helper - as mentioned by Tom Igoe at ETech 2005
  Tracks your drug use and keeps all your friends informed about how high you are in a chatroom
  (categories: drugs networkenab ledobjects pervasivecompu ting ubicomp)
• Cat fungus rots your brain, and makes you slutty or mean...
  I'm suspicious of the science, but I love the story. Thanks to Dan Pike for pointing me in this direction...
  (categories: behaviour parasite fungus cats)

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links for 2005-03-19

links for 2005-03-19 03/22/2005 04:39 PM

• A really nice and positive response to our ETech paper on Programme Information Pages
  Yeah, I got quite over-excited by the end of the paper and couldn't stop droning on about it...
  (categories: program meinformationpages pips etech metadata identifiers)
• Robert Kaye on the "Reinventing Radio" talk we did at ETech 2005
  "I can only hope that some folks from US radio companies are paying attention to the BBC. If you aren't you'll be out of a job soon!"
  (categories: etech radio paper robertkaye)
• David Weinberger summarises the "Reinventing Radio" paper
  "They end by asking what the social implications of networked TiVo would be."
  (categories: davidweinberger paper weblog summary)
• David Weinberger summarises the "Programme Information Pages" paper
  A couple of the quotes could be misinterpreted, but otherwise not a bad nutshelling...
  (categories: davidweinberger paper weblog summary pips)
• I keep coming back to typographica's top fonts of 2004...
  ...so I guess I should actually bookmark the damn thing. Currently loving the look of Neo Sans and Neo Tech...
  (categories: font typography)
• The route of the trainline that we took down the West Coast of America
  Did you know there are no clear train routes between LA and San Francisco? Bizarre!
  (categories: train california america)
• Chive restaurant in San Diego
  Pros: Food good. Cons: No obvious ones. Possible correlates: Felt a bit kak all evening.
  (categories: chive restaurant sandiego food)

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