May 29, 2003
I was going to link to Baghdad: The true picture, by Robert Fisk, but due to The Independent's ludicrous decision to charge for content, you'll only be able to read the first paragraph. Shame, it's a good piece.
May 28, 2003
iTunes 4.0.1 includes the ability to share music streams among Macs on a local network for personal use
May 27, 2003
Fischli and Weiss to sue Honda
May 26, 2003
Berlin considers resurrecting Vladimir Ilyich UlyanovIsrael recognises Palestinian right to statehood
Testing rebuilding individual archives when pinged
The wondrous PhotoPal is now known as PhotoStack, and has a site of its own
Smarter, Simpler Social: An introduction to online social software methodology
Fluid - a seriously stunning screensaver for OS X
May 25, 2003
Fotowiki - group annotation of photographs, and, more interestingly, annotation of areas of those photographs
May 24, 2003
Daikon Odori, a Japanese radish festival, explained at Antipixel
May 23, 2003
For the young baghead in your life: Talk To Frank. Top marks for lines like Heroin's the cherry liqueur of the drug world. It's a bad mixer. and Once stoned, users can find hidden depths in daytime television
Cent mille milliards de poèmes - Queneau's Oulipo mega-multi-poem thingy online in three languages
From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the Twentieth Century
Submit Response, as seen through The Eater of Meaning [via Zeldman]
May 22, 2003
Memigo - an intelligent news agent that learns what you like as you browse, and relates your preferences to other users' for better filtering. Interesting.
Either I'm hallucinating, or Rachel of the Telstar Ponies is on You and Yours, interviewing a man about his automated dog-washing device.
Six Apart post Typepad FAQ and screenshots
What's a German Carp Catcher? Mangled versions of our posts show up there...
May 21, 2003
WeblogSearch - seems to be down at the moment
Guardian claims right to free speech by seeking to overturn The Treason Felony Act of 1848, which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print
May 20, 2003
RIAA Radar - a bookmarklet 'that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America'
'I was wrong. Free market trade policies hurt the poor.' - Stephen Byers. Like, duh.
Non-ASCII characters to HTML entities bookmarklet [via Antipixel]
The blog clog myth - Neil McIntosh revels in Andrew Orlowski's cluelessnes. And has anyone noticed that, ignoring it's context in The Reg., Orlowski's column is a blog?
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, now with added Amazon
May 19, 2003
1957 atomic revolution comic book [via MeFi]
Duncan Smith: We'll be the party for the poor - say what?
Steven Johnson on blog space: We've lived so long under the notion of the web as a space of connected documents, it seems almost unthinkable that it could be organized any other way. But it could just as easily be assembled around a different axis: not pages but minds.
May 18, 2003
Why you should switch to Mozilla Firebird, according to... Mozilla Firebird. It's no Mozilla, but still sluggish.
May 17, 2003
May 16, 2003
One Hundred Lives - The Guardian's memorial to victims of the invasion of Iraq
May 15, 2003
May 14, 2003
Share iTunes - add yourself to the directory. Sadly only college rock fans in attendance thus far!
iLeech - another app to enable downloading as well as sharing via iTunes
May 13, 2003
Apple looks to iTunes Europe. How long before Apple go the whole hog and become a record label?
Cyberspace as Place, and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons [via Boing Boing]
May 12, 2003
The French New Wave and the Face [via Francis]
Clare Short quits post over Iraq. Accuses Blair of breaching assurances that kept her in government before the invasion.
Blair gives religious employers the right to sack gay workers, enshrining homophobia in law - Clause 28 Mk II?
May 09, 2003
Amusing man leaves comments on Ebay
May 08, 2003
ItunesMusicStoreToRss - I'd much prefer RSS feeds from Playlists, to keep up with new songs added by users I'm Sharing with.
May 07, 2003
Salam Pax returns, reckons 'War sucks big time'
Download instead of stream in iTunes 4 - I suspect that the publicity might well close this DRM hole, so do please ignore this link
May 06, 2003
US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction', Everyone else: 'No shit'
Political Compass - I'm down low, hard left (Economic Left/Right: -8.88, Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.28)
May 05, 2003
1 million tunes sold in the first week of the iTunes Music Store
Wirral Groan - We Put the Penis In Peninsula. Not nearly as funny as it could be, unfortunately.
May 04, 2003
Googlifications - a NetNewsWire-like application for tracking Google queries
Three blogs worth a look: British Politics, Harry's Place and Timesnewroman. It's been a while since I've looked at that many Blog*spot sites in a single day...
May 03, 2003
Dave Dudley's Dialectical Diary - from the bloke behind the wonderful Sectarian Worker
New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World by Kevin Yank - I knew there had to be a way!
May 02, 2003
Dublin cinema banned from blocking mobile signals. They should have been given the freedom of the city.