July 2008
48 posts
Giles Coren's letter to Times sub-editors →
Giles Coren gets all Anglo-Saxon at the Times editors who removed ‘a’ from the last paragraph of one of his reviews. Funny, angry, bitter and gloriously public-school.
[re]Drive | SimpleTech :: by Fabrik →
Eco-friendly external hard drive. Bamboo and recycled aluminium.
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MOO.com | Ready Made VCwear NoteCards →
WatchSpace Shuttle Launch As Seen From Air Canada Flight
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit →
Gary Hustwit, director of the outstanding documentary Helvetica, has unveiled his follow-up: Objectified, a film about industrial design. The cast of interviewed designers includes Jonathan Ive…
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender →
Firefox says I’m 74%, but in Safari I’m 69% male. Does that mean I naturally visit more female-skewed sites in Apple’s browser? Maybe macs are, indeed, for girls…
Apple Joins 21st Century, Starts Blogging it out,... →
Apple’s first attempt at corporate blogging dissected. What’s good, what’s missing, why this would have been better if it’d started a few weeks ago.
Wikipedia meets pompous academics meets xkcd
xkcd: "If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstruction." [http://xkcd.com/451/]
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Deconstruction
wikipedian 1: "Pages referenced by xkcd in the past have often been locked or protected. I noticed this one still is not. While the comic seems to call for improving the page I am worried weather all of the reader base will see it that way"
wikipedian 2: "The comic doesn't call for improving the page. The comic points at deconstructionists and laughs."
wikipedian 3: "It seems to me that the added publicity won't hurt this article -- in fact, nearly any edit to it will have no choice but to improve it. For example, the entire "Logocentrism" section could be replaced by "PENIS PENIS PENIS LOL" and it would greatly improve the overall clarity."
'Ten Commandments' of race and genetics issued -... →
Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore →
Bookstore with a Google maps-style interface. Intriguing, but I’m not sure how useful it actually is.
"I Was A Mad Man" - Design Observer →
The story of an old-school advertising man’s journey through the late 20th century.
Phantom Fish - Byline - Google Reader on the go. →
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code →
Yeah I need to get out more too →
Shortwave ~ an extensible quick-search and... →
Money shot →
This is the best one I’ve seen for a while.
[via MonsterMunch via Ffffound]
The rise of 'lagom' →
The London Review of Breakfasts →
Deliciously preposterous.
Will social media kill the internal communicator?
“We will no longer be writing communications for other people – that won’t wash any more. People will have to write their own communications in the future – authenticity will be key.
- Ross Chestney, head of communication services at BT
[Communicators in Business]
This is exactly what I’ve been preaching within my company. PR spin and polish is offputting: transparency and...
Make your own book with Blurb →
Avatars a go-go →
Shared by Ade
Looks like the future’s here, again.
Do you ever feel like there is something you are missing out on? You know you have those little pangs of anxiety that make you feel like you are…
Lively →
Google’s new virtual community. XP only? Oh dear.
The Lego Secret Vault: Lego Secret Vault Contains... →
Seeing the box of the Lego Space Galaxy Explorer for the first time in about 27 years made me go a bit funny.
Futerra gives the finger →
As Georgina mentioned in the post below we had Casper in for lunch last week, fresh ‘n’ frosty from the Arctic. He was charming, witty and informative with a great blend of urgency and…
Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free... →
A Hierarchy of Blogging →
As I mentioned the other day I’ve been a little slack in my blogging recently.
I started having a bit of a think about my blogging behaviour to see if I could make sense of this most recent lull….
Exposure →
Explore and upload to flickr from a native iPhone app
The Secrets Are Out Thanks To BlackTree →
(Let me preface this post with a warning that tweaking unpublished settings can break your system and applications.)
While I am a fan of the Terminal, sometimes remembering (or Googling for)…
Programmer Competency Matrix →
Programmer Competency Matrix: This page presents a matrix of programmer skills and what it requires to be at different levels, 1-4, from novice to master. For instance, for “data structures,”…