June 30, 2004
Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog' - 'nuff said.
"Dave Winer: A Diagnosis" - the diagnosis being that he's a sociopath.
Safari RSS in action - looks good, but I suspect I'll be sticking with NetNewsWire.
Talking Panda - audio phrasebooks for the iPod. Neatly done, as you can see in this Flash demo, and at $10 a pop, not bad value.
Amplify - interesting online commonplace book type thing, for assembling and republishing web snippets. Community aspect too, with user voting on 'Amps' (hosted scrapbooks, basically) and it's RSSed up the wazoo.
June 29, 2004
First impressions of Tiger at Plasticbag, commentary from Jeff Croft, a 'Whoa' at Interconnected. Everything, bar the naff rip-off Dashboard, looks just spiffy. For another Ł100, no doubt.
June 28, 2004
Vaporum RSS Search - RSS feeds generated from searches of BBC sites. Amazingly useful.
(27 June 2004, Interconnected) -to attempt a precis would be doing this post a disservice, just click the link and enjoy!
Eye TV 400 - effectively a TiVo and Freeview tuner combo that plugs into your Mac. As I watch more and more telly via my computer (thank you Bittorrent!) and my existing telly is kaput, this looks like much better value than a new set.
Turning the Pages - British Library digitized manuscripts with a nice tactile page-turning interface. (I was just using it to look at a diagram on page 26 of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, since the illustrations are missing from Matt Webb's otherwise excellent daily RSS feed)
Le Corbusier's The City of Tomorrow and its Planning - I read Ebenezer Howard's treatise on Garden Cities a while back, and going by this post at Tesugen I'll have to dive into Le Corbusier pronto. (Note to self: post something about weblogs as reading lists.)
June 26, 2004
Heat Vision and Jack - download the cracking 1999 pilot episode for a show starring Jack Black as the smartest man in the universe (on the run from NASA after a solar accident gave him his powers) and Owen Wilson as his talking motorcycle. No, really.
June 23, 2004
Bad Comma - fantastic, savage review of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Consultationprocess - absolutely brilliant rendering of the Government consultation paper for ID cards in Movable Type, which means you can comment on or Trackback to specific points. A great idea - would be great to see it applied to more consultation papers.
June 20, 2004
I love the way that the holding page for Google Print reads This space intentionally left blank.
Culture LazyWeb - the Lazyweb for matters cultural, just launched. Should make for interesting eavesdropping on the culture-hunting of others, as well as finding things. (Although the standard LazyWeb never seems to too fruitful nowadays).
Fold yourself a CD case out of A4 paper - I just tried it, and it works a treat. With thick paper and a bit of scoring, you could make rather beautiful sleeves for compilation CDs. [via MeFi]
The George W. Bush Public Domain Audio Archive - all Bush's speeches available as MP3 files.
iMixes as 'political' statements
June 18, 2004
June 16, 2004
Pitchformula.com: music criticism as a creative tool - after statistical word analysis of Pitchfork reviews, this fellow set out to write the perfect Pictchfork song. I don't think I want to hear what a man's idea of a computer's idea of the perfect song according to Pitchfork, to be honest.
June 12, 2004
Wikipedia: Random Page - keep on clicking that link, it's dangerously addictive and you, like, learn stuff. [via Helium-3]
Calvino's Invisible Cities MP3s - I've had the book for a year now without ever getting around to reading it (possibly because I keep reading about it all over the place). Perhaps these will prompt me to get stuck in. The linked weblog is worth a good look around, too. (via Glowlab)
June 11, 2004
iTrip Mini - want one.
June 10, 2004
Lazy Guide to Net Culture: NSFW - I think the 'lazy' in the title refers to the correspondent, not the intended audience. This week, you're better off reading the Wikipedia entry on shock sites, which Stewart Kirkpatrick obviously didn't bother to do before dashing off his column. I really wonder whether he spends any time on the web at all.
June 09, 2004
We've gots em, the shiny, the precious - pledge to do good, get Gmail invites in return! A lovely idea that looks to be raising decent money for charitable purposes - I think I'll add my two spare invites to the pot.
Naming no names, some people I know are going to be getting this link in emails, a lot: Fucking Google It!
Good Booking - Christ alive. This appears to be an attempt by Penguin to sell books to men, on the basis that, um, women like to fuck blokes who can read. [via PLSJ]
June 07, 2004
AirPort Express. Wow.
June 06, 2004
Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies - boo hoo. Here's hoping Thatcher's next.
June 05, 2004
June 04, 2004
Tabbed Finder Window - imaginary, but hopefully Apple will take note. Tabbed windows in the Finder would just plain rule.
I wish I'd been in London today for NOTCON - looks like fun. Especially the demonstration of 'Telling the time (not very accurately) using a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich and a BBC Micro'
June 02, 2004
Night of the Blogging Dead - totally rubbish Scotsman piece claiming weblogs have jumped the shark. I've no problem with the premise, but the argument that follows, er, fails to make any sense whatsoever. I think we have a new Andrew Orlowski in the author, Stewart Kirkpatrick - he's certainly down with the old 'take a faintly controversial point, back it up with ill-informed, barely relevant nonsense' paradigm.
The Psychogeography of George Street - A friend of a friend who links to my friends (and me) and who I am now linking to, friendly like. Some good stuff, especially if you like Smallville, and who doesn't?
June 01, 2004
Really Simple Syndication - Dave Winer's new site to cover RSS for users, not developers. I wonder how long he'll go without inciting some almighty flamewar?