October 31, 2003
Press support for the campaign against the Tramway closure is gathering steam.
No Georgia/Verdana without IE on the Mac?
October 27, 2003
October 26, 2003
Mark Lombardi's work took conspiracy theories and reworked them as art. Imagine Jeremy Deller's skewed interconnected diagrams concerning house music reworked to document sinister political networks that surround our everyday activities, drawn beautifully and meticulously. Examples of his work here and here; there's an essay on him here. Via MeFi.
October 21, 2003
podLob - lots of cool Flash and Javascript/DHTML widgets [via 0xDECAFBAD]
iRiver's iPod killer? - ugly as sin, but has some features I wish the iPod had. Namely voice recording and analogue and digital optical in/outputs. 'Limited Mac compatability' (and $400 price tag) make it useless for me, but if I were a PC user, I'd be tempted.
Sony Ericsson launch the T630 - looks pretty nifty.
October 20, 2003
Diana Letter Sensation: 'They Will Try To Kill Me' - but why would 'they' bother?
eXchanges - The University of Iowa Journal of Literary Translation has a new issue out, on the theme of City & Country. Nicky Agate, part of the Submit Response extended family, is studying French translation at Iowa - thanks for the link 'Gate.
R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues" Trading Cards [via LinkMachineGo]
October 18, 2003
The Photographs section just got quite an update.
More Internet Preference Pane uses Internet Config to allow you to choose which applications are set as helpers for internet protocols - wildly useful. As is Delocalizer, which (obviously) removes localisation resources (i.e. all the stuff built in for people who speak foreign). It got rid of 728MB of the stuff on my iBook. [both links swiped from Grant's list of handy OS X utiilities]
October 17, 2003
A picture of a house made out of CSS. No images. Like, for real.
iPod - Cool Accessories - fairly cool, anyway. The Media Reader could come in handy, I suppose. And the Voice Recorder pretty much makes me want to buy a new iPod. I wonder how long it will be before we get a line-in.
October 15, 2003
We're getting a whole shitload of referrals from the Order Of Preachers. Huh?
October 14, 2003
Prince goes doorstepping for the Jehova's Witnesses. Larry Graham should stick to playing the bass guitar. Or is Manuella to blame? Either way, let's hope he gets back to his unique brand of shagging-based Christianity soon. In other news, 17th October is Prince Day on BBC Radio 1Xtra, as part of Black History Month. Not entirely sure what that will entail.
Don't Hang Up, wherein Alan Dein calls random phone boxes to chat to people. Today he's chanced upon an eloquent lady from Somalia, who is filling us in on her flight from the civil war in her country, joking that she is getting free therapy, stopping to help someone use the tumble dryer. Superb radio, even if Dein is a little chummy.
Sharp Intros Laptop With 3D Display. Shamefully, my first thought was "Pr0n!" (although I don't spell it that way in my head).
Mr. Hitherto of 2lmc muses on the lyrical blandness of some current pop hits. Personally, I've been ignoring the lyrics of the Rachel Stevens song so as to labour under the happy misapprehension that it is a lullaby to an airport. Probably best. Can't knock that schaffel-glam production, though.
Dear English children, please persuade your parents that you don't want to go to France this half-term. Your stupid holiday is making my important trip extremely expensive. Ever yours, Jack.
Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri! Absolutely the funniest translation of anything ever. [via Boing Boing]
October 13, 2003
Rooney wins Comme Ca Art Prize - I really like Paul Rooney's work, especially the music. On Fading Out is a fucking amazing album.
Desert Island iPod - Nick Hornby's choice of luxury did seem rather unsporting. Also notable recently was Nigella Lawson, who made a request for a suicide kit. I think her choice of music was specially designed to put her in the suicidal frame of mind within a few hours of washing up on the beach.
October 10, 2003
Mac OS X as a subscription service - good points, although it's worth pointing out that it's fast becoming a two-tier subscription service, thanks to .Mac - if you don't pay for that too, you don't have access to services like iDisk and Backup, which in Panther are tied in to the OS like never before. I resent paying for both, to be honest. Perhaps .Mac account holders should get a discount on Panther. [via 2lmc spool]
Russia to price oil in euros in snub to US - that's one big snub. And if a couple of Middle Eastern oil-producers follow suit (as they have been threatening to for a while) the US economy is, to use a technical term, fucked.
October 09, 2003
October 08, 2003
Arnie wins California election. Funny. Unless you're a Californian.
Have you seen the LazyWeb lately? It's chock full of spam test nonsense trackbacks and utter cunts attempting to drive traffic to their weblogs. Shame.
October 07, 2003
BBC NEWS: Comic Izzard tipped as new Dr Who - Hmmn. That could go either way.
TypePad has launched. I had a crack at it during beta testing, and thought seriously about switching to it from Movable Type. It's that good.
Russian roulette stunt was a sham - weirdly, the piece makes much of the fact that Brown used a blank. Despite the fact that he kept telling us exactly that during the programme. I couldn't care less, to be honest - I like Derren Brown's schtick, and was absolutely shitting myself while he was playing Russian Roulette. It matters not if it now turns out to have been fake.
After The News - satirical imagery. Think b3ta, only well done and consistently funny.
GeorgeWBush.com - Official Blog. It's Movable Type powered. I feel soiled.
Prince is still playing, even if there are fewer subjects listening
October 06, 2003
Thinkbot - Ridiculously Easy Thought Sharing - interesting Jabber-based, erm, thought-sharing bot thingy. It's based on HeadCloud - a Napster-style service, where people connect to a central hub, send a list of the thoughts they want to share, and search the database of other people's thoughts to see who they want to connect to. [via Many To Many
Cigarette giant to deny cancer link. Huh? I'm not a doctor, but am pretty sure there's a link there. You know, what with smokers dying of cancer all the time.
BBC: English face Scots 'antagonism' - I haven't faced more than a few jibes in the last 8 years, but then I don't tend to notice whether folk are Scots or English.
Bill Bailey has a weblog. Leon tells an amusing anecdote involving Bill Bailey, an insult inadvertantly directed at Bailey's wife, and a caged parrot. I forget the details...
Using the upcoming.com RSS feeds in MT
October 04, 2003
You'd think that after the last cock up with 10.2.8 Apple would've made damn sure that everything was hunky-dory with the revised update. And yet 10.2.8 fails to recognise the existance of my USB audio input thingy, and my old, slightly broken USB audio input doodah too. Arse. (I'll save the rant on the rationale behind not providing a built-in audio-in on my iBook for another day)
October 02, 2003
Is Art Brut dead? Not according to Association ABCD (Art Brut Connaissance et Diffusion) [via Rhizome]
Top 100 RIAA-free albums sold at Amazon {via Oblinks}
Tchai Ovna - best tea shop ever, with the worst website ever
Aura: Web Page Exoskin - a Creative Commons licensed, free, standards compliant XHTML/CSS templating system for quickly building websites [via Webgraphics]
Great Lomo photos, taken in Bolivia, Chile and Peru by Matt Ruby
October 01, 2003
Something you don't want to hear from a radiologist, many months after you last saw her: 'Hello Jack! You again! You won't have to take off your chain for this one!' Fiver says I can't have children.
Girl, 2, copes at home alone for three weeks. I'm 26 and wouldn't fancy my chances, so more power to her.