- Apple Exiles A Security Researcher From Its Developer Program For Proof-of-Concept Exploit App – Forbes
This is, frankly, idiotic. Yes, he violated Apple's TOS, but there is no evidence that he did it with malicious intent, beyond proving that it's possible to get a dangerous app onto the App Store. I expect the security flaw he's exposed to be patched relatively swiftly, but the deeper issue of shooting the messenger is what really needs addressing here.
Author: Alasdair
Bookmarks for November 4, 2011
- Video: London From A Bus Window | Londonist
This is a very pretty video, and worth 5 minutes of your time.
Bookmarks for November 3, 2011
- Up by Jawbone | Band + App Inspires Healthy Living
Reasonably unobtrusive activity/sleep monitor for use with iPhone. May have to get one in the new year.
Bookmarks for October 28, 2011
- ASHES: A graphic novel by Alex de Campi & Jimmy Broxton
Been meaning to link to this all week. Old chum Alex de Campi, who you may recall did the rather excellent comic SMOKE some years back, is looking for backing to produce a sequel, with art by the superb Jimmy Broxton. I can confidently predict that this will be absolutely brilliant, and you should fork over your cash at once. (I would have already done so, but Kickstarter hates me, and will not let me pledge. So I encourage you all to do so instead, because I really want to read this.)
Bookmarks for October 27, 2011
- Robot Barf
This is exactly my problem with QR codes – they're by robots for robots. They have next to no utility for humans.
Bookmarks for October 24, 2011
- Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
This opens up all sorts of possibilities for page design…
Bookmarks for October 20, 2011
- Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fascinating and stomach-turningly sinister.
- Whisky Marketplace
Somebody has finally made a whisky shopping site that I can get excited about – it'll let me filter by age, price, and other characteristics so I can actually explore looking for something interesting, new and in-budget, rather than having to know what I'm looking for. Nice.
Bookmarks for October 12, 2011
- notes.variogr.am – Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
A bit techy, but a good read, and an insight into the problems that Spotify and last.fm have to work hard to solve. I'm not posting this because it's hard on Facebook – they've stepped into a difficult arena, and have some catching up to do, but that's not a crime – but because it's an insight in how complex technical problems have very simple, very direct real-world impacts.
Bookmarks for October 7, 2011
- cityofsound: Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why it's easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system)
If you want to understand how the cities you are going to living in in ten years time are being built, this is a good place to start.
On Folksonomies
These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopaedia entitled ‘Celestial Empire of benevolent Knowledge’. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies. — Jorge Luis Borges, The Analytical Language Of John Wilkins
(via Pasta & Vinegar)
How do you categorise things?