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Bookmarks for June 11, 2009

The New Negroponte Switch « Magical Nihilism
I had the same text as part of my course back in 1995 (I think everyone did), and am quite taken with some Matt's ideas here, in particular, the term "Thingfrastructure".

Tags: design, technology, service
Welcome to Poken
I'm not sold on the cutsey look, or the metaphors they've chosen, but still: this is the future of business cards right here. I look forward to being able to get a grown-up variant on this.

Tags: identity, socialnetworking, rfid
Infovore » Dangerous Mistakes In The Company Of Friends
This is the best insight into the nature of gaming I have seen in ages. Whether you're a PC gamer, tabletop gamer or LARPer, I cannot recommend reading this highly enough. If you run RPGs, and are not devoting a significant chunk of your time to ensuring that a variation on this is the experience your players get, then you are doing it wrong.

Tags: games

No Need To Thank Me

And many more works of the Special Unicorn Tattoo Magic (including an old favourite) available here.

Bookmarks for June 2, 2009

Kamikaze Cookery – How to watch and participate tonight – KKC Live
Hugh and Alex are up to the brand of idiocy that makes me proud to call them my friends: they're cooking not one, but two recipes from three-Michelin-star chefs with a fondness for extremely complicated cooking procedures, and they're going it live on the internet tonight. I strongly suggest you watch. And heckle them on twitter.

Tags: cooking, friends

Bookmarks for June 1, 2009

Barbican – Helvetica + Objectified (12A*)
June 28th, Double feature of Helvetica and Objectified at the Barbican. I've seen Helvetica, and could happily watch it again, but not Objectified. Anyone fancy a double bill of design documentaries?

Tags: design, film
Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
Has anyone used this operation? Or anything similar? While I've got time machine, I have no offsite backups, which bugs me slightly. Particularly curious about the system performance impact of their background process, and also what kind of bandwidth useage spikes I could expect to see.

Tags: internet, backup, useful
Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories
A summary of the conference I spent a chunk of Friday watching over the web. Sounds like the presentation they killed the video on was completely fascinating. I'm still processing of of the ideas I came away with, and doing my best to make sure they don't leak into anything else.

Tags: design, future, architecture, thinking
Sleevelessness: Video Mixing With Microsoft Surface
This is some seriously impressive shit.

Tags: technology, video, video%2C
Siggis ZX81 web server main page
Someone has managed to get a ZX-81 on the internet as a webserver. Awesome.

Tags: technology, retro

Another shot from my Circa Burlesque set – I have such a backlog of photos at the moment, it’s not funny – I never did finish sorting out the Toronto pics, and I’ve can another few hundred from Last Days of Decadence on Friday to sort out, and I’m off to Amsterdam at the weekend, and basically, it’s all gotten a bit photo-tastic round here of late, which is no bad thing…

Bookmarks for May 30, 2009

Daring Fireball: Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer
I'm sure 90% of you have no interest in the ongoing ludicrousness of Apple's iTunes App Store approvals process. But the three of you that have been paying attention to it will probably find this as funny as I did.

Tags: apple, humor, iphone

Circa Burlesque 8

Another set of White Mischief pics uploaded – this time, of Circa Burlesque. Some of these pics may not be safe for work, depending on how conservative your workplace is.

Links For Friday 29th May 2009

Paradise Gardens Festival – Victoria Park E3

Anyone fancy going to this in a few weeks time? White Mischief are doing a night there that should be well worth attending…

(tags: music)
YouTube – The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations

I would not wish to suggest that any of our clients has ever said anything like this, or that I laughed in hollow recognition of behaviours I have encountered time and time again. Absolutely not.

(tags: humour video)
15 Sexist Vintage Ads – Oddee.com

There is a part of my brain insisting that some of these had to have been jokes, even for the time. m Sadly, I suspect they weren't. Still, they're kind of funny *now*.

(tags: advertising history)

The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing

Rather than wait weeks while I go through and process all of the hundreds of photos I took at White Mischief the other week, I thought I’d upload them in batches. So here’s the first batch, a set of shots of the rather splendid steampunk duo The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing.

Bookmarks for May 27, 2009

Slavic mythology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know only a little about Slavic myth, chiefly just the bits where it brushes up against other mythologies I know better, or what I've got from various bits of fiction, and I think it may be useful to rectify that.

Tags: research, mythology
BLDGBLOG: Thrilling Wonder Stories
Were I not required to be in the office on Friday, I would be here. If you are in London, and do no have anything pressing to do between 11am and 5pm on Friday, I strongly suggest you go. And take notes. Lots of notes. And then give them to me.

Tags: design, future, architecture

Author: Alasdair