July 27, 2004
The Apple Product Cycle - horrifyingly accurate summary.
July 24, 2004
What Submit Response will look like soon - feel free to watch me make a mess of the site redesign. (Probably not worth the bother if you're on a PC, or using any version of IE.) Why I have to slowly tinker a site into being, rather than making decisions and sticking to them, I don't know.
July 23, 2004
Notes on Joycean Hypertext, by Louis Armand[via Rodcorp]
Major Indie Music Labels Join Apple's iTunes Music Store in Europe - Beggars, Sanctuary and V2 sign up.
July 22, 2004
Francis McKee - just a reminder to myself to check Francis' site more often. Killer linkage, but no RSS or Atom feed. And who can remember to actually visit websites nowadays?
Stet - where tuareg clapping can sit next to reggae Toasters, whore-house, Brazilian psych and schaffel-glam dives. - from the description, I can only assume it's the best night in Edinburgh. Anything named after a proof-reading term can't be bad, eh? (Disclaimer: I internet-know the folk involved, and am currently begging them to let me play a wee set there.)
The London News Review :: MP3 Blogs: show respect and keep them free! - hear, hear! I'm only using the (admittedly amazingly handy) wget technique on weblogs after asking the author's permission, and only on weblogs I read every day via RSS.
Rob Annable has taken to weblogging on used Coffee Republic bags - an intriguing new format! Six Apart, Blogger 'very worried' said a close friend, yesterday. (Do take a stroll around Rob's site - it's my new fave rave.)
Woebotnik - Woebot, the most pompous music blogger (speaking as a pompous weblogger myself, of course), which doesn't stop him being one of the most readable, is now logging his thoughts in retro .txt style. No idea why he's chosen to abandon the standard blog, but it's a great format!
[!] htAccess Generater Demo - insanely useful.
Somniphobia - some sort of blogging platform/web-based RSS aggregator. (Spotted because a Somniphobia user is syndicating this site, leading to a much prettier version of it!)
U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers - a valuable look, in English, at the controversy surrounding Six Apart and their purchase of/partnership with U-Blog, which is not dissimilar to the furore they faced during the botched licensing fiasco. Is it just me, or are Six Apart generating so much bad feeling as they expand comercially that the future of their business is in danger? (This site is migrating to another platform as soon as I have the time - under the current licensing terms, it would cost me nigh on £100 to keep using Movable Type.)
July 21, 2004
Michael Jackson To Be Father Of Quadruplets - which makes seven 'progeny,' I think. Is he breeding himself a kiddie-harem, or what?!
Steve Bell is a total fucking genius.
July 20, 2004
Naenara-DPRK - okay, so everything about the DPRK is pretty fascinating, but this website, where the propaganda extends even to the password reminder questions ('How would Korea change after reunification?') and almost all content concerns the Leaders gives a tiny hint toward understanding what it must be like living in a place where information is more tightly controlled than anywhere on Earth. [via WMMNA]
Democracy in action: Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor [Via MeFi
Download a people like us track - hunners of PLU tracks, all under a CC license. (Grab them with Jeffrey Veen's handy wget thingy.)
July 19, 2004
Martha Stewart compares herself to Nelson Mandela. And there was me thinking there was a difference between a political prisoner and a lying cheat.
Engadget report that BT charges same rate for Voice over IP calls as it does for landline calls. Duh. I know I would've signed up in a jiffy, even if they'd only been slightly cheaper than calls on a standard land line, and if international calls were the same price as national (which they should be, surely?).
July 18, 2004
mediatrips.com - a site devoted to, er, cultural remixing has a monthly competition, this time seeking mash-ups on the subject of/drawn from the work of Stephen King.
July 14, 2004
Fahrenheit 911 Facts - extensive notes on the film by Moore (or his factchecker).
"Grain, Sequence, System": Three Levels of Reception in the Performance of Laptop Music - interesting essay by Kim Cascone.
Since I last installed it, it looks like Fink got a lot easier to use - there's an installer package and a GUI called Fink Commander to make using it a cinch. Great for folk like me who get the fear on the command line.
July 13, 2004
Interim - Lucy Gibson's weblog covering her visual art, writing and curatorial activities. She does good stuff, so this should be one worth watching.
This Land! - cracking animation featuring Kerry and Bush fighting to the Woody Guthrie tune. 'You got that Botox!' - 'But I still won three Purple Hearts!'
July 12, 2004
Bush was asked question about Enron. His response? To walk away. Unbelievable.
Gay Toilets In Advertising - I crossposted this here by mistake, this link is just a placeholder to save an orphaned TrackBack. Yep, I'm that sad.
Tritium Flatenna - a cheap way to extend the range of your WiFi network. Even cheaper if you just look at the photos and make your own out of cardboard and tinfoil.
Terrorist is a Plonker - Brighton Council have an innovative method for detering graffiti artists.
July 11, 2004
Bush engages protesters in digital debate.
FlickrBlog - the easiest way to set up a moblog?
July 10, 2004
Mozilla Feeds on Rival's Woes - jolly good, let's hope that trend continues.
July 08, 2004
Extisp.icio.us - charting the tags of del.icio.us users - fabulous visualisations of del.icio.us users' tags according to total links per tag. Mine shows that I'm using del.icio.us mainly for keeping track of geeky matters, which I wasn't really aware of.
July 06, 2004
Mike's Blog - Michael Moore has a weblog. [via helium-3]
July 05, 2004
MacTheRipper - free DVD ripper, removes CSS and sets region code to 0. Not checked it out yet, but looks to be one of the better options out there.
July 03, 2004
tiger.dmg(1).torrent - for evaluation purposes only, of course.
Tour de France 2004 - great coverage of the tour, which starts today.
ChatBarrier X3 10.3 - real time encryption of iChat converstions.
XHTML Validator to RSS - Ben Hammersley has cooked up a thunderingly useful little gadget here, especially for weblog-type sites, where it's always minor things that creep in over time - like the odd overlooked unencoded ampersand or bad HTML in comments - that screw up validation.
Kosten Koper Illegal Art MP3 compilation
July 02, 2004
Tiger Gadgets/Widgets - because they're basically little web pages, the Dashboard widgets can be viewed, fully functioning, in Safari. (And, looking at the source code, hacking versions that don't look like ultra-cheesy Konfabulator crap should be easy-peasy)
July 01, 2004
Cloudo: Episode 6 - "A didny buy a Glasgow Smiles Better Tshirt caus thur heavy gay, but a bet youd pay 50 bucks fur wan out a Urban Outfitters ya clown."