May 31, 2004
May 30, 2004
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - a page a day for the next four years.
May 28, 2004
My friend Hannah made her radio drama debut this week as part of Woman's Hour's Fifteen Minutes To Go season. Click here to stream her play, Viper In The Nest
May 27, 2004
BitTorrent To Release Michael Moore's New Film Free of Charge
A member of the production team has popped up to thank folk for their comments on the I Am Not An Animal thread at Submit Response.
May 26, 2004
New Copen York Hagen - two of my favourite cities united in some sort of psychogeographic map-melding experiment.
May 25, 2004
Towel Day is today - carry a towel in tribute to the late Douglas Adams.
May 24, 2004
WordPress 1.2 - seems to have been given a pretty major overhaul. The interface is much improved, new anti-comment spam measures look good (worthwile without being Draconian), new Plugins (Textile, Markdown, search highlighting), sub-categories, friendly URLs without needing to fiddle with .htaccess. When I get the chance, Submit Response will move to Wordpress from Movable Type.
May 21, 2004
Andy Kaufman Returns - or, rather, he din't, but someone made this rubbish weblog.
Server Logistics Software - packages to install MySQL and PHP on OS X. Both installed on my old iBook in half an hour. Brill. I wish I'd known about them when struggling with the command line to get the same thing done on my new computer.
May 18, 2004
I've been thinking of getting a Brompton folding bike for a while now, and I think I've just found the place to buy: Kinetics. They're in Bearsden, which means I could ride home! Or fold up the bike and ring a taxi! (I think it's the folding more than the biking that appeals, to be perfectly honest.)
SubEthaEdit 2.0 - regex search and replace of various kinds, autocompletion and read-only access to shared documents being the new features I'll have a use for.
The Cartographer's Dilemma - cracking Lewis Carrol quote over at Angermann2
I just downloaded WordPress installed it, and imported the whole of Submit Response without a hitch. From clicking the download link to looking at the site with default templates took around ten minutes. Just sayin'. (Hmmn, spoke too soon. A few glitches importing, but otherwise it was shockingly easy to get running.)
Freedom 0 - Mark Pilgrim jumps ship to Wordpress, or rather jumps ship to software released under the GPL.
May 17, 2004
Life As A Badger - another of my real-life pals has a weblog. Oh, the humanity. It's the talented Genna 'Badgergirl' McWhinnie this time. Lets hope she posts some of her 'Cunt Art' - painting and collage that at first appear abstract, but on closer inspection look like, well, cunts.
Submit Response: Weblogorrhea - I'd don't remember making this page, which summarises all posts to the various corners of Submit Response, but a glance at my logs tells me it's comparatively popular. How odd.
May 16, 2004
Talking about MetaFilter is like dancing to architecture. Or something. You homo.
May 15, 2004
dodgeball.com - slightly terrifying mix of SMS and social networking, appropriately named after the slightly terrifying playground game. It texts your friends (or FOAFs) to tell them where you are. Yikes.
Your man at Woebot is flogging a DVD of copyright-infringing goodies because he's against filesharing. I'm sure it's worth the $15 - and I might well buy one - but I really don't get the difference between non-profit (I assume) postal file sharing on DVD and, say, whacking up a Bittorrent. And, upon posting this, I find that Trackback autodiscovery has you ping... Creative Commons, which makes me think it's all a joke too subtle for my feeble brains.
This is the most webloggy post you will ever see on this site, and I feel slightly soiled for making it: Jason Kottke, quoting Dave Winer, has a good take on the new Movable Type pricing structure. Update: it gets worse. The only funny response I've seen is from Matt Haughey.
May 14, 2004
Google Groups 2 Beta - and now they're in the mailing lists game too. Slick, but there are a few teething troubles. Beats Yahoo! anyway, which is presumably the point. Handy that you can log in with your Gmail account, too.
Aljazeera.net on doubts surrounding the Nick Berg excecution video - some valid questions, and interestingly the discussion is presented as a survey of webloggers' opinions on the footage. Is this reporting of weblog content, or a bid to appeal to webloggers? [via American Dynamics]
Gucci iPod Case - is it wrong of me to actually, like, really want one of these? (Prompted by talk of the beautiful new Fendi Jukebox - designed by noted iPod freak Lagerfeld, it's a carry case for a dozen iPods!)
Test Drive a Macintosh running System 7.0. It's cute.
Blair: 'I will remain shoulder to shoulder with George Bush' - stupid, short-sighted twat.
An open letter to Jimmy Saville - My problem is this: you scare the living crap out of me. [via LinkMachineGo]
May 13, 2004
The Mod-Pop-Punk Archives: MP3s - wowsers, there's some good stuff in here. Try Edith Nylon or Dolly Mixtures for starters.
Opera 7.50 - micro review: very fast, better rendering; ugly as sin, horribly cluttered UI.
Glasgow blast toll reaches eight - one person is believed to be alive and trapped, and only 50% of the site has been searched. The news seems to be getting worse and worse. See also: Factory cleared after HSE inquiry, Rescuers refuse to give up hope at site of factory blast.
May 11, 2004
Dozens Feared Trapped after Factory Blast - an explosion in a plastics factory on the Maryhill Road in Glasgow; two people stretchered out, at least fourteen others remain trapped in the building. I thought it was a thunderclap until the sirens started going. (More news on this as I hear it)
Boriswatch - tracking everyone's favourite faux-bumbling Tory classicist, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
Scavenger Hunt - The best Prince songs you haven't heard. - not the obscurities you might expect. Instead it's all those Prince albums from recent years that you bought and get gently mocked by friends for quite liking, actually. Strange. See also: VH1's Paisley Picks. [Both via Anil Dash]
Illuminating blacked-out words - European researchers at a security conference in Switzerland last week demonstrated computer-based techniques that can identify blacked-out words and phrases in confidential documents.
Google Blog - Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.
May 10, 2004
Blogger Relaunch - as you've no doubt heard, Blogger has relaunched. I've not had a chance to tinker with the new-look app yet, but it looks to have lots of new features, including comments (but no Trackback) and default templates by web standards, ahem, celebrities.
May 09, 2004
Cracking MeFi thread on communism - the post was troll-ish reds under the bed stuff, but the ensuing tangential discussions, especially on propaganda art, was good.
Rape Rooms: A Chronology - What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded.
The Covers of Private Eye - a great archive of 1,106 Private Eye covers. [via LinkMachineGo
May 08, 2004
EvilURL is a handy URL-shortening service that employs Tourettic levels of profanity. For your convenience, Submit Response can now be reached via http://evilurl.com/FACIALPISSTIT.
Apple QuickTake 100 - my God! I want one of these. [via helium-3]
May 07, 2004
Spy Blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in... surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems.
Xenophobia: 89 Prince tracks to download. Yes, 89.
May 06, 2004
Sources hint at forthcoming Mac OS X technologies - major Safari revisions, 'metadata enabled filesystem.'
Mellon: New deal appears unlikely
The Mashin' of the Christ - Negativland's mash up of Gibson's S&M epic with 24 other screen portrayals of the Lord. Allegedly stolen by a hacker, the 'land helpfully supply a torrent. [via MeFi]
SpamPoison - add their link to trap spam bots. How do I know this? Referral spam from SpamPoison!
Prince interview clips - decent snippets from a couple of radio spots, including a story about holding hands with Stevie Wonder!
May 05, 2004
YAGMS (Yet Another Gawker Media Site). As thoroughly yawnsome as the others, with the same 'sassy' style. Eugh.
The Small Paybacks by Robert Christgau - cracking piece on Musicology, and Prince's post-Warners career.
Sygyt - get your Tuvan throat singing on.
Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger" - it'll have to be shit hot to make me upgrade. I'm sick of paying $100 a year for features I don't use. (I mean, really, does anyone use Expose much?)
May 04, 2004
Live bootleg of a recent show by The Pixies [via Plasticbag]
May 03, 2004
May 01, 2004
Generalape - another person I know in real life has a weblog! That's two of Submit Response's regular commenters gone bloggy. Who's next?!
The first alpha of Blosxom 3.0 is out - I use it locally for taking notes and automagically blogging links posted to del.icio.us/jack/. Thank goodness for WiFi - I can download and install it on the computer in the wardrobe while sunbathing in the garden!
Prince CD Sparks Debate - he's giving away copies of Musicology to everyone who attends a show on the tour, and these are being counted as sales by the US chart compilers Nielsen SoundScan. Of the 191, 000 sold, 6% were actually concert giveaways. Sneaky, or legit?
Moonbeamlevels.com - cracking Prince fansite/resource. The only downside is that it's named after one of the handful of Prince songs I don't own.
Burningbird: Making the Move from Movable Type to Wordpress - something I've been considering, since, going by the beta, MT 3 isn't the major upgrade I'd been expecting, and the PHP-ness of Wordpress looks like fun.
Album gets ringtone only release - God help us. [via 2lmc Spool