August 2008
47 posts
Dana centre →
“The dana centre is a stylish, purpose-built venue in London. It is a place for adults to take part in exciting, informative and innovative debates about contemporary science, technology and…
Giant panda cub is born →
Altogether now: “Awwwwwwwwww”
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I’m on a bit of a space geek-out at the moment. I’ve just finished reading Moondust by Andrew Smith. It’s a set of interviews with the nine remaining men who walked on the moon intertwined with the author’s experiences as a kid during the Apollo programme: part biography, part travelogue.
For the full effect, I watched In the Shadow of the Moon around the same time....
YouTube Comment Snob Plugin →
A Firefox plugin to hide all those illiterate comments in YouTube. Lovely.
“1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used...”
– Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Penguin dating →
For booklovers to become lovers, not for weirdos to meet up with flightless, aquatic birds.
Viral advertising done brilliantly
Lots of people harp on about ‘making a viral video’. Other than Will it blend, they invariably fail. EA got it spot on by listening to the conversation, having a sense of humour, then joining in (oh, and having an A-list celeb willing to join in)
Original clip:
EA’s response:
(admittedly, a year later, but still…)
[via freshen me up]
Doh →
[Via Ffffound]
Make your 404 pages more useful →
Your visitors may stumble into a 404 “Not found” page on your website for a variety of reasons: A mistyped URL, or a copy-and-paste mistake
Broken or truncated links on web pages or in an…
Revealed: the massive scale of UK's water... →
"Awesomepersand" →
Use the Best Available Ampersand - A list of the best default ampersands available for use online.
Shell reprimanded by ASA for 'misleading' advert -... →
Filed under ‘schadenfreude’
“We think space and time are important because that’s the kind of monkeys we are.”
– Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer
Gearheads don't get it →
Years ago I read a book about guitar effects pedals. Something the author wrote in the intro stuck with me: “Tone is in your fingers.” He went on to explain: You can buy the same guitar, effects…
Blip.fm | Blips by iaintait →
Making A YouTube Band →
If you play solo clips from YouTube on the same page at the same time it sounds oddly like a band (kinda). I’ve got a project on the go to try and make an interesting random YouTube band…
The Ten Commandments of Twitter →
Rock in a Hard Place →
Testing the limits of household object cinema, this film tells the tale of three mortal enemies and a perfect plan that goes horribly wrong.
Cast: Matthew Monson
We're nuts about ginger →
“We cheer for any ginger sportsman, openly admire redheads in the street, our favourite colour is orange. We even have a ginger dog.”
‘Why on earth would I want to put a cycle helmet over my hair? I would look ridiculous.” Well, not ridiculous, I counter, but you would certainly look less chic and enviably coiffed than currently. The 39-year-old is angry enough that from the autumn, Parisian cyclists will be required to wear fluorescent jackets. “They only cost a couple of euros but they make anyone who dresses...
10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding →
Examples of ten fonts free to embed, demonstrated using quotes from the design world about how font-face could change things…
The End of Consumerism? →
Really, how rich ARE you?? →
Love the global rich list. It categorizes just how rich you really are. I put in my decent, but certainly not amazing, salary into this, and discovered that I’m amongst the top 1% of…
Survival tips for the Middle Ages →
If you were dropped into the middle ages with just the clothes on your back, what would you do to survive? How many of your skills transfer? Would get burned at the stake for heresy?…
Web Host Industry News | WWF Touts Green Hosting... →
Baseless criticism of the WWF/Carrenza announcement, ignoring the fact that virtualisation was only one factor in Carrenza’s green story. Worth noting the journalist didn’t attempt to contact WWF-UK…
“…It’s all too easy to get it wrong. You’ve been there,...”
– The Guardian on platonic kissing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/05/humanbehaviour.familyandrelationships
Large Hadron Collider in Google Earth →
“Capitalization is the difference between ‘I helped my Uncle Jack off a...”
– I wish it had been me, but it wasn’t.
WWF to overhaul UK website - NMA →
About the WWF Web08 project with Reading Room. Horrible misquotes from me! Still, it’s to be expected.
Charles Arthur: The internet cannot be... →
Charles Arthur: The internet doesn’t do top-down edicts on safety. It can’t be centralised, patronised and controlled
Wake n Bacon →
A bacon-based alarm clock. What’s not to love?
Gordon Brown recently announced he backed a green revolution for energy - but the UK Government is also considering building eight new coal-fired power station, starting with a new plant at Kingsnorth in Kent. Join leaders of the Stop Climate Chaos and thousands of individuals, calling on the Prime Minister to show true leadership and stop plans to lock the UK into a high-carbon future. Please...
Sunday Times subeditors reply to Giles Coren →
Smackdown!