A Snowball In Hell
Bit of a longshot: I have misplaced my copy of Brookmyre’s book of this title. Did I lend it to anyone reading this?
Author: Alasdair
Some Required Assembly
I’m doing a meme on one of my blogs. People ask for pcitures of some part of my daily life, I take the pictures and I post ’em. My friend Ara asked for “Some part of the cooking process”. So here is the first part of what eventually became the sauce I put on my past this evening. Mushrooms, onions, garlic and some sweet peppers sweating a bit before I added chicken, chorizo, and a red pepper sauce to them. Tasty!
Bookmarks for January 30, 2009
- Alan Moore Essay
"The roots of Art and all abstraction are in Magic, firelight, and the hidden world." – a short essay by Alan Moore about art and magic that I hadn't run across before.
- Anti-drugs ad
I may not neccessarily agree with them, but that doesn't mean this add isn't a very clever bit of design.
- SASLIK
I must eat here. It is very important.
- Prayers and Promises for Supernatural Childbirth: Amazon.co.uk
I saw someone reading this on the bus this morning. I mostly share this because I like to spread the incandescent rage around. What the fuck are these people doing on my planet, who is allowing them to breed, and why am I not yet allowed to simply kill them for being a complete waste of resources and hand their spawn off to people who will raise them to think for themselves?
Bookmarks for January 29, 2009
- Stephen Fry – Don't Mind Your Language
I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
- WebHome < Main < Reprap
I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
- London from above, at night – The Big Picture
Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
- More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture
More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.
Cocoa: First Impressions
Sod me, this is a bit easy. Which is not to appear smug, or anything, but I’ve just knocked a really basic web browser together in about ten minutes. OK, that’s not much more than the OS X equivalent version of your usual “Hello World” beastie, but on the other hand, I’ve never build a “Hello World” app I could post to my blog from before.
Right, back to work. Now for the tricky stuff.
Bookmarks for January 28, 2009
- Immortal jellyfish swarming across the world
"Stars nearly aligned" says Professor Angell. On the other hand, maybe this will finally give us a leg up all becoming young and thin and energetic again. Or turn us into a race of degenerate fish-men, I guess. Either's good by me. Ia! Etc…
- Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG
Ding! Correct! This, right here, is why I have never played an ARG. And why I would love to get paid to write one.
- alexyoung's ico
Former colleague's JS graph library. Looks handy.
- Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries :: Hackdiary
About to start an Objective C/Cocoa spare time project. Don't know if I'll need any of these tools, but it can't hurt to have a reference to find them.
Bookmarks for January 27, 2009
- Black Triangles
90% of my job is like this. The *other* 90% is making the black triangle look like something pretty.
Bridge of Sighs
Hardly a work of great genius, but I like this one – a quick snap taken during a very thick fog one morning the other week. There’s something pleasingly Stygian about it.
Golgonooza
I love getting shots of London like this one – limited colour palette, heavy shadow/silhouette and so on. Shots that make the place look just a little unreal, a little magical. Because that’s exact what it feels like to wander about London – pure bloody magic.
Bookmarks for January 23, 2009
- heyblog: LazyWeb URL Print Spooler Automator workflow and app (via Matt Jones)
I shall pick this thing apart at some point over the weekend, see if there's anything I can splice into/shortcut as part of my own efforts.
- The Inauguration of President Barack Obama – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Yes, I know everyone and their badger has been linking to this. Tough. These are just superb. I think #44, the picture of all the cellphones and cameras is particular telling.
- Rules of Database App Aging – Push cx
This will be incomprehensible to non developers in the audience, but oh god, this is so painfully, painfully true.
- Pulse Laser: My printer, my social letterbox
This idea set off fireworks in my head, and I think I've got a spare-time tech project for the foreseeable (I got a proof of concept lashed together in about an hour, but it needs a *lot* more work before it's useable.) I love the idea of being able to get up in the morning and have the overnight reading ready for me to hop on the bus with. Hell, even if I don't ever make the mailbox public, all I have to do is lash it to some RSS-to-email functionality, and presto – a custom POD newspaper every morning.