Bookmarks for February 21, 2013
- Scarfolk Council
This is just an unbelievably brilliant bit of, funny, creepy, beautifully realised work, that's drawing on a lot of big influences for me.
Author: Alasdair
Bookmarks for January 7, 2013
- The King William's College quiz 2012 | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Every year King William's College on the Isle of Man sets its students a quiz, which they sit twice – once, sight unseen, before the Christmas break, and then again *after* the holidays (they are permitted to take the paper home and look up the answers). It has 180 questions. If you can answer more than about 2 or 3 of them without looking the answers up, you are doing well. If you can answer more that 10 without looking the answers up, you're doing *brilliantly*. This is this year's quiz – the answers should be published later this month.
Bookmarks for December 19, 2012
- noro shop
These are lovely bits of glassware. I would love the decanter…
Bookmarks for December 14, 2012
- Spaceteam: Cooperative iPhone and iPad Party Game
I think I must get this. And then find a group of friends to get this. It looks awesome
Valentin and the Widow Episode 2
The second episode of Andrew’s podcast/audiobook is up. And it’s now available for free on iTunes as well. If you didn’t listen to the bumper-size first instalment last week (for some reason – temporary deafness, a sudden transient attack of bad taste, or I dunno, some kind of technical difficulty), then the first episode is still available for you to go back and start.
Valentin and The Widow
I’m not burying this in a linkpost. It’s too good for that.
A few years ago, for NaNoWriMo, my friend Andrew Wheeler began a pulp serial called Valentin and the Widow. I recall reading the opening chapters of it with great fondness, and I have been waiting with some eagerness ever since for him finish polishing it to the standard he wanted before he let it out into the world.
Well, he’s done it now. The first instalment of his podcast is live now – seventy minutes of pulp fun that will appear to anyone who likes a good story. I’ll shut up now, and let Andrew describe it to you.
It’s a globe-trotting 1920s adventure about plucky English aristocrat Eleanora Rosewood, brawny Russian sailor Sacha Valentin, and their fight against a secret organisation that seeks to oppress the weak and destroy the different.
Courageous women!
Sexy men!
Wicked villains!
Exotic locations!
Diabolical schemes!
Cups of tea!
And great big fights!
I cannot recommend this to you highly enough. Click the picture below to find out more, and about how to listen to it.
Bookmarks for November 12, 2012
- 150 great things about the Underground
This looks like a brilliant blog. I look forward to having the time to read it in full.
Bookmarks for November 8, 2012
- Ratchet
Nice HTML/CSS/JS framework for prototyping iphone apps.
Bookmarks for October 31, 2012
- Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet.
An automated sonnet-generator, scanning twitter for iambic pentameter tweets, and combining them, complete with rhyme.
- Migrating from Kindle to iBooks – zacwe.st
This is definitely esier now that it was the last time I looked at it. Must do this.
Bookmarks for October 22, 2012
- Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
This story, if true, is just mind-blowing. Amazon have contacted a women to tell her that her account has been closed, because it has been linked with another account that has be closed "for abuse". The woman protests that she has no idea what they're talking about – she has only ever had one amazon account. Amazon refuse to tell her any more, tell her it's against their policies to divulge any further information, and inform her that if she opens any future accounts, they will be closed at all. In closing her account, they have deleted everything from her kindle, with nothing she can do about it, because they will not enter into any dialogue at all about it.