February 29, 2004
Mogi - Players move outside, pick up virtual items through their mobile phone interface then trade with other players to complete collections. The goal is to get the maximum points completing collections, and a player says: Over the past month, I bumped into a player who turned out to be the creator of the game, I had to race to pick up a flag that had been put on the map at equal distance between me and another player to encourage us to meet. Wow.
February 27, 2004
Tranmere Rovers Viking Page - For Scandinavians choosing an English football team to follow: Tranmere Rovers should be your team. The township of Tranmere was founded sometime around 902AD when the Vikings landed and settled in Wirral. The name Tranmere comes from the Old Norse Trani-melr meaning “cranebird sandbank.”
Steven lets loose his love for stationery - "Hey," my brain says, "there should be a blog about this -- like Gizmodo, but for office supplies!" I quickly cast the idea aside as too silly. - no it's not. Everyone I know would read such a site, and avidly.
February 26, 2004
Prince Gets Friendly With Major Labels - in a typically Princey way: I'm going to ask all [the major labels] to release [my album] at once. That might seem a little bit crazy, but I'm going to ask them.
February 25, 2004
BNP member sues over being called racist
Black Cinema - a good essay at Green Cine. Ethnocinemtophiles should keep an eye out for H. McGill's feature on Iranian cinema in the next ish of Sight & Sound, too.
February 24, 2004
Annotation - Annotations are ubiquitous in everyday life. This website is an attempt to make sense of the different forms and uses of annotations, from literary text notes to jotted measurements on a board to flags denoting an irrigation system.
Brian Wilson to release lost Beach Boys lost classic, Smile - Oh Christ, I wonder what we'll be reading about every fucking day for the next six months. Yawn. (Have you heard the boots? Exactly.)
Textpattern Public Gamma 1.11 - Dean Allen's CMS hits the streets.
Thinking outside the [beige] box - Charlie Stross on post-boxy computing, prompted by this slightly silly prototype.
February 23, 2004
Animals on the Underground - what is it with London Underground sites these days? This one has the advantages of being silly and sweet.
Beyond Belief, BBC Radio 4's series on ethics and religion, is always worth a listen. Today's episode, Religion Without God?, is particularly good. Listen Again, if you aren't at the moment.
Dead Magic: Glasgow's Enchanted Landscapes - This paper surveys some of the city's enchanted landscapes, focusing particularly on two neighbouring planned spaces: the Glasgow Zen Garden and the Glasgow Necropolis, and applies the concepts of cultural landscapes and psychogeography to explore any similarities there might be between these two spaces.
The Use of Maps in Contemporary Art - great dissertation.
Purse Lip Square Jaw point to The Drift Table Weblog. Ta for that. (And at least this time I'm stealing a link from Ms. Galloway to something I made myself!)
February 22, 2004
A guide to toilet training your cat, by Charles Mingus. Yep, that Charles Mingus. [via Helium3]
Towards The Forgetting Machine - I just love Purse Lip Square Jaw. Put simply, every post makes you think about interesting things.
eBay item 2989131792 - Attention Americans! Learn how to make a nice cup of tea. (Reasonable terms apply.)
Matthew Thomas » My first 48 hours enduring Mac OS X - and I thought I was picky.
Pedestrianistic round trip - Pedestrian motor functions thus create one of those true systems whose existence actually makes the city, but which have no physical receivability - a great clump of links to matters pedestrian.
Rockism - tracking the buzzword in some depth. (No permalinks at RockCritics Daily just now, so scroll down a bit)
White Stripes / Tesco / Mingella - a photostory scan from the (excellent) relaunch issue of Sleaze.
February 20, 2004
New York Times Link Generator - generates a link that wont rot or require registration.
max-width in Internet Explorer - if you're feeling lazy, skip to the bottom for the quick pixel-based version.
Tea Shops, Blogs and the World Disclosed
February 19, 2004
Grey Tuesday - Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.
Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0 - a neat web service for converting feeds.
document.getElementsByWhatever - This method will return a collection of objects who's tag name, attribute names, attribute values or (optionally) text nodes match the "whatever" argument. Handy.
Medical evidence does not support suicide by Kelly - a letter to the Guardian from a group of doctors, casting serious doubt on the suicide verdict.
February 18, 2004
The Goodiebag/Demonbag series of 7"s compiled by Goodiepal.
macosxhints - Use iTunes4 to convert AIFF files without adding to library - I wish I'd Googled for this before converting a hundred-odd AIFF files in iTunes, only to remove them when done.
February 17, 2004
Issue two of eXchanges, journal of literary translation, is online now (co-edited by the Submit Response Iowa connection, Nicky Agate). I especially liked AnneMarie Taravella's rather slick French translation of Ferlinghetti's At The Bodega.
Weblogorrhea - if it's posted to a weblog at Submit Response, it'll show up here. RSS and Atom feeds of cross-weblog content follow shortly. Also representing a tentative move toward a redesign (ie it probably won't look right unless you're using a Webkit-based browser on Panther)
Insanely great, or just good enough? - an awfully late link, I know, but I only just got around to reading Dan Hill's essay on adaptive design and Apple. It was certainly worth the wait - interesting ideas to think on, and links to follow.
Server Side CSS Sniffing with PHP - nice and simple, could be less hassle than using hacks.
February 16, 2004
Tranmere face Milwall in the FA Cup quarter finals - easy!
Edwin Morgan appointed The Scots Makar (or National Poet). Nice one.
Three Prince shows being seeded just now on Bittorrent: First Avenue, Minneapolis, 1984, The Ritz, New York, 1981, Live, 30/11/82. All but the last one are crawling along just now, but assuming I grab them all, I'll keep seeding for a week or so.
Office politics - Bob Kerr, a member of the Edinburgh Linux Users Group, has convinced more than 80% of Scotland's public libraries to stock OpenOffice - the free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office... borrowers can take it home, copy it and use the programs free.
February 15, 2004
For those that require such a thing: Submit Response Atom feed. And here's one for this weblog too.
February 14, 2004
Listen to Dave 'Detroit' Mottram on Subcity Radio tonight, from midnight. Or tune in to 105.6FM if you live in Glasgow.
Atom vs. RSS: Who Cares?! - [A]ll we have at the end of the day is a bunch of guys running around with wet pants
February 13, 2004
Space and Culture on Glancing - good stuff, and I second their closing plea: And so when can I try out Glancing on my computer?
Ranchero Software: NetNewsWire Atom Beta - phew, I've been getting antsy about missing posts by the (tiny number of) people who have gone Atom-only.
February 12, 2004
Illegal Art have Danger Mouse's already infamous Grey Album for download.
An exhaustive review of Grime in 2003 [via Woebot]
Removing Smiley Icons from iChat
Anne Galloway says: Networks aren't necessarily communities - ...really my point is very simple: just because a site can connect you to a lot of people doesn't mean that there is any value in those connections.
Filed under: Irony - Dunstan's paean to the British railways was misinterpreted, it seems.
February 11, 2004
Rattlesnakes' rich social lives
Revenge of the User - Danah Boyd's talk at Etech
VisitScotland gets a roasting in the Scottish Parliament for not providing access to AOL users.
SSP in bid for council tax rebellion. (They favour an income-based Scottish Service Tax)
February 10, 2004
Blentwell - an ongoing document of the evolution of blended music
Tight is a rough 80 minutes of dancehall, with more sound effects than are strictly necessary. Still, well worth the 94MB wait, as are most of the selections at Mix of the Week
From KFOG to iPod - two days after a live radio appearance, the Thrills release a five song EP on the iTMS. For $4.95. For fans of the band, that is seriously good value - buying albums and singles in MP3 form has no appeal for me whatsoever, but near-immediate distribution of one-off content like this is an exciting prospect. Imagine going to a gig, then downloading songs from it the next morning using a code that came with your ticket.
George Best's diseased ex-liver for sale on eBay. Not, I assume, really.
February 09, 2004
Mr. Tony considers blogging the next election
Fabulous new Michel Gondry video with woolly animation, knitted into existence. Shame it's to promote such a shitty song.
February 08, 2004
The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra - the first vienna vegetable orchestra plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments. Really.
1985: The Worst Year For Music Ever
February 07, 2004
BBCi Connector - By using web pages as meeting points, Connector allows you to find and talk to people who have similar interests to you! - brilliant, only every time I try to use it, it says, 'Sorry, we don't know which page you originally came from - the chat popup couldn't be launched.' Wonder what it actually does. [via Dan Hon]
Old Skoolish - another slightly crazed track-by-track illustrated essay from the Woebot, this one comparing Old School Hip Hop with the rise of the Grime.
Jobs Created by US Presidents - a rather telling graph. [via Abstract Dynamics]
CSS Debugger - stunningly useful bookmarklet. Really, stunning. [via thee spool]
February 06, 2004
With (or without) delay, Grammys are ready to roll - Prince to duet with Beyonce and an 11-minute funk medley featuring George Clinton, Earth, Wind & Fire and Outkast! Wow! Do they show this on British telly?
NKzone - NKzone is a "blog-zone" on North Korea: an experiment in interactive, participatory journalism - an interesting project, for sure, although one wonders why they opted for a 'blog-zone' rather than, say, a Wiki.
Read John Gruber's review of OmniWeb 5 Public Beta. He's spot on, its new features are fabulous, Workspaces especially. OS X users - download it now.
Somniscope - We explore our enviroments through the means of psychogeography, vibrant colours, natural and unnatural movements, soft focus, white noise and bleeps [via Glowlab]
RMT Vote Ends Historic Link With Labour. No Clause Four? No Unions? The Labour Party is dead.
February 04, 2004
Scottish Punk - an overview at Punk77
February 03, 2004
Exiting Deanspace - lengthy dissection of Howard Dean's campaign at Many To Many.
Pure Shiteband - Optical fibre company Fibrelink (Scotland) is trialing a broadband initiative that, if successful, could bring high-speed broadband connections to the UK through the sewer system.
Christian has plans for his Radio Free Blogistan site, with a shift to Scoop or Drupal as the CMS to turn it into a community weblog about weblogs. (A sort of easier to participate in version of Blogroots by the sound of it.) We don't post about weblogs at Submit Response much any more, but I'm still interested in the way they work - this could be just the thing for me to write on the subject without puzzling and annoying the distinctly un-bloggy SR regulars.
Moleskinerie - to be honest, I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to set up a Moleskine notebooks fan-weblog. (They inspire Mac levels of devotion, and are similarly overpriced/much better than the competition. I use large lined ones at home, small lined ones outdoors and slimline ones for my back pocket. Like a wanker.)
February 02, 2004
The Terminator does some terminating - Arnie gets to kill someone for real. Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that a country that positions itself as a beacon of all that is just and good puts people to death. Especially the black, mentally ill or juvenile ones.
An overview of del.icio.us in the Guardian - Delicious is much more than an online storage space for bookmarks. The front page aggregates new postings from all users, so it becomes a fabulously rich source of the up-to-date, the fascinating and the bizarre
Space & Culture has pointers to books on 'Herzian' space - Mobile phones are not only communication tools, but also sensors of the invisible electromagnetic environment that surrounds us.
Diego Rivera at the DIA - In 1932 Diego Rivera painted 27 fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry on the walls of a large garden court inside the Detroit Institute of Arts. These photographs show Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in the DIA as well as views taken at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant which served as a model for many aspects of the frescos. [via Dublog]
Beyond The Beat Generation - We broadcast 24 hours non-stop through the Internet the music formerly known as: Hippie music, Underground, 60's punk, Flower Power, Mod, Free-Form-Freak-out, Garage music, Psychedelia or Teen Beat, the weirdest, , the worst, the most powerful and nastiest ever recorded.
Somniphobia - an interesting blending together of weblogging, forums and RSS aggregation.
Apple G5 converted into a PC - oh, the humanity.
February 01, 2004
A long, good review of Ableton Live
PCs killed the mix-tape star vs. Praise Be To The CD Burner - I tend to side with the former view. I still trade cassette mixes with a few friends, and it beast a CD hastily burnt from an iTunes playlist hands down.