Black Ink

This one's done the rounds a lot, but I'm going to want to look it up ater, I know I am, so here's yet another lnk to it. Colour video footage of London from 1927.

MPAA shitweasels decide that they're jsutified in fucking over an entire town's municipal internet facilities in revenge for a single download. This should not be legal. This is what the RIAA, the BPI and any other organisation that is still fighting for the now-outmoded implementation of copyright that we currently have wants the ability to do with three strikes laws, and DCMA notices and all the other apparatus of enforcement that they are accreting to themselves by lobbying – to place the risk to their profits over the common good.

Some absolutely beutiful stuff here – visualisations of the books, and the paths through them, and a on-line playable book. I am simultaneously regressing to childhood, and getting my adult design/informatics brain stimulated. Brilliant.

Oooh. Proper, attractive fonts for your website. OK, it'll set you back 25-50 dollars a year, and I bet most people will still set their font sizes far too small, but at least I can use it to make prettier things now.

Wikipedia in your pocket for cheap, not reliant on network access. Seriously tempting.

You've seen this by now, I just want a reference so I can come back and find the print-ready files at some point.

Andrew's really been on top form lately. One might almost think he really cares about all this gay rights business.

(via Del) I had never heard more of these before. They are basically awesome, and you should go and listen.

If you haven't been paying attention to what happened in Maine last week, I strongly urge you to start here.

Yet another example of the Home Office's new rules on artists visas hammering at the creative industry in the UK.

Seriously: if you do not think it is important, or that it does not affect you, please, take a look at what your internet connection bill might look like in a few years, if net neutrality is not maintained.