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Well, I'm installing this, and I strongly encourage anyone else with a wordpress blog to do the same.
Author: Alasdair
Links For Friday 10th April 2009
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I have no personal use at the moment for a 3d printer, but I'm sure the day will come when I will, and I'd really rather not have to pay through the nose for raw materials.
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Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absolutely beautiful stuff.
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Jon Gruber has implemented an anti-DiggBar tool for his pages. I will probably do the same for mine. Read about why and how he's done it, because while this may sound a bit like a crank thing to do, rejecting potential traffic from a popular source like Digg, the important principle here is that what Digg is doing is subverting on of the basic premises of how the web works, and it should be discouraged.
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Truly, the confectionery of gods and titans.
Links For Thursday 9th April 2009
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I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time – an actual accessible book on the maths of energy consumption vs. possible energy production, as opposed the usual waffle.
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A short retrospective of the first Matrix film, as it turns 10. a) it is horrifying to me that that movie is ten, because it means I am very old, and b) I particularly love the title of this article. It occurs to me that I have never satisfyingly run a game with all three of those elements, and I really must get around to having a go at that.
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I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all copyright enforcers are held to the same standard: three wrong accusations, and they're out, too. Want to bet me that they'd all be gone before the rest of us would?
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Must remember this on in future – the basis by which two parties that are unable to communicate will still be able to select the same focal point in a game/challenge.
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A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the origins of elites, and the social effects of these technologies, and some opinions on where these phenomena are likely to lead to.
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Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though everyone feels like they're finding more niche stuff.
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I have significantly less than fuck all architectural training, but it hasn't escaped my notice over the last few years that many of the most interesting creative types I know do have some history with the discipline, and I've increasingly found my own interests tending that way – not literally in the designing buildings sense, but in the sense of being aware of people's relationship with the space around them, and how to optimise that space to get the best out of life.
Postopolis therefore sounds like it would have been a fascinating event to be at, even if 90% would have gone sailing over my head. Any chance of holding the next one in London? It's at least as interesting as LA…
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Dan Hill was at Postopolis and has written an excellent series of posts on it, and on LA in general. Thoroughly recommended reading.
A Recommendation:
I am posting just to say: if you are not watching riotclitshave then you fucking well should be. It is the best round-up of weird, wonderful, absurd, and occasionally horrible, images that I know. Every time I finish looking at a particular set of pictures, I am comforted that the world is a better, stranger and more interesting place than I thought it was.
Here, for example, is one of today’s images.
Someone out there in the world genuinely has that inked on them. Either the world is a marvellous, entertaining, fucked up place, or we urgently need a nuclear armageddon to scourge the face of the earth with white hot fire. I’m good with either.
Vesper
Links For Wednesday 8th April 2009
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Here's an interesting read: the currency of Iceland is basically worthless. The artificial currency of a computer game created in Iceland, however, still has value. In fact, it has more value then the "real" currency.
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I propose holding anyone that describes themselves as an "e-marketer" (or anything remotely similar) down and beating them with sticks until they agree to tell all future prospective clients this simple truth from th above article: "instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products"
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You! Yes, you! Visit this link, and buy a copy of Matt Jones' "Get Excited And Make Things" poster. Then hang it some place where you will see it often. It will be morally uplifting for you, and the proceeds from the sale will benefit Creative Commons, which is a tremendously excellent thing to do.
Links For Monday 6th April 2009
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I've been saying that using URL shorteners is a bad idea for for a while, so I thought I'd link to Joshua Schachter's more cogent and better put together argument that details a more specific list of the reasons why.
Links For Saturday 4th April 2009
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British art stalwart D'Israeli take a look at the architectual and design history of one of the greatest of all the future cities: Mega City One.
Between Art and Architecture
I finally achieved a personal ambition – a shot St Paul’s across the Millennium Bridge without people in it. The composition is a long way from perfect, and I really wish that sodding seagul hadn’t been there, but I had about five seconds to snap this, as there was a bloke coming up behind me. but still, I got the damn thing. One of London’s best views, unspoiled by humans. I’ll try again at some point in the summer, I think.
You wait for ages…
This is not intended to badger people, and I apologise for spaming the friends pages of uninterested parties, but I’m aware that the poll I posted yesterday was posted late at night, and may have gotten lost/buried down people’s friends pages today.
It’s a poll about who might be interested in coming to my place in Tooting to get your picture taken in an unusual outfit that you might happen to own. So obviously, if that’s not you, then you can skip this, but it’s just that when I mooted the project a while back I got a reasonably enthusiastic response from a decent number of people, but when it comes to actually to arrange something to happen, the response has dropped off markedly.
So: if you in the course of your life, dress up in funny outfits, for goth/fetish/steampunk/LARP/furry/steampunk/other reasons, and want a pair of photos of you taken, please, pop back and fill the poll in…