- Vizualize.Me – Visualize your resume in one click
Really quite want to play with this. If three of you feel likewise, click the link and sign up, I'll get in the beta that much faster, so if there are any other inforgraphics nerds out there, I'd appreciate the help. Ta!
Author: Alasdair
Links for Wednesday June 22nd 2011 through Monday June 27th 2011
- Hoban Cards – Letterpress Printed Calling Cards
Oooh, tempting! Very lovely letterpress business cards. - Contact Us – Conversion University Help
I need to understand google analytics much better. Please kill me. - F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline – NYTimes.com
Seriously, at some point, someone needs to start running training seminars for law enforcement agencies, explain what technology actually *is*. I have no doubt that they employ many people who know, but it's be useful if the people doing the physical work weren't half bright morons hopped on fake authority. Because while knocking a few sites off the intertubes isn't the end of the world, it still is neither right nor fair that innocent third parties like pinboard.in, or Instapaper should be knocked off the internet, and their paying customers deprived of their service (and therefore their money) by government incompetence just because they happen to be in the same room as a computer someone might have used once to do something wrong. This sort of thing makes me disproportionately angry, not for what it is, but for the principle it represents: that the government can screw people for no reason, any time it likes, and receive no comebacks, not even be required to make an apology. Power and stupidity and no accountability. How do we stop this, exactly? - Adramelech Books
Here is where you can order C.J. Lines new short short collection, Cold Mirrors. You should do this, pretty much right now. I routinely describe his previous novel as one of the most gleefully horrible things I've ever read, and if you like horror, and haven't read it, you've missed a treat. This short story collection promises to be superb, so seriously, make with the clicky and the shopping. - WordPress › Passwords Reset
The WordPress main repository got hack the other day, and several popular plugins were modified to carry malicious code. Long strong short: if you are running a WordPress blog, and have updated your plugins in the last few days, then you should probably check to see if there are new updates available. Most plugins are unaffected, but a few of those that are are very common. The new updates will fix the problem.
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
In case anyone’s wondering where the link posts have gone, you can blame the FBI. No, seriously. During a raid on a data centre, some incompetent took a server they had no legal right to take (an action for which they will obviously bear no public scrutiny, because that wouldn’t be fair), and the knock-on effect is that it’s killed my link posting until one of the services that runs it if firing on all cylinders again.
I have been trying to formulate a response to this that isn’t just spitting with inarticulate rage at anyone who lives in the US, and is therefore complicit in the criminal activities of their law enforcement agencies, but of course, that’s the anger of powerlessness talking.
My next step is obviously some kind of terrorist action.
Links for Tuesday June 21st 2011
- Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain
When if is available for humans, sign me up! At least, I think someone should. I'll probably forget…
Links for Thursday June 16th 2011
- Construction Equipment Playground Opens In Las Vegas – PSFK
What's that you say? An opportunity to play with heavy machinery in a giant sandbox? Why yes, I would like a go on that. Another thing added to the list of reasons to visit Vegas.
Links for Monday June 13th 2011
- Infovore » Where’s @towerbridge?
The lovely bot that tweeted the activity of Tower Bridge has been killed, and with it, the very, very pleasing history of its activity over the last few years. Come on twitter, you can do better than this.
Links for Friday June 10th 2011
- Apple’s iTunes in iCloud ‘won’t launch in the UK this year’ – Telegraph
I am spittingly furious about this. Fucking PRS shitehawks, screwing the consumer once again. I have bought and paid for my music. There is absolutely no reasonable argument that says I should not have access to it wherever I damn well please, because shockingly, it is *mine*. I have already paid their members what they are entitled to when I bought the fucking stuff, and I find it infuriating that they somehow believe that they have the right to get in the way of my use of their product past that. (Why yes, I do really, really want iCloud.) It's not as if it's remotely meaningful – I *can* (and do) already do everything iCloud will let me do, just less conveniently. Yet PRS want someone else to give them money in exchange for making my life more convenient a third party making my life. They very embodiment of the standard music industry practise of getting between artist and consumer and making things worse for both while skimming the money off the top. How is that related to what their artists do? PRS are playing territory marking office-politics type games on matters that are unrelated to the actual rights in the music, and everything to do with ownership of products. What's next, are they going to GPS tag all my CDs, to make sure I don't carry them outside my house?
Links for Tuesday May 31st 2011
- UK Mobile Internet Usage Statistics February 2011 | Tecmark
Need these for work. They're not very interesting unless you're writing about mobile internet strategy, and if you are, you have my sympathies. - Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Good article about well, what it says on the tin.
Links for Friday May 20th 2011
- Amazon.com now selling more ebooks than print books
In the UK, they're only selling more ebooks than hardbacks, but in the US, it's only taken 4 years for ebooks to pass print, so I imagine it'll be even quicker here. Still: if your business depends on dead trees, it's time to start thinking about switching. And when I say "time to start thinking about", I mean "if you don't have a plan in place already, you're probably fucked".
Links for Thursday May 19th 2011
- The People vs. Goldman Sachs | Rolling Stone Politics
If you haven't already read this, do so now. And then join me in praying for some criminal prosecutions. - Namib-Naukluft Park Picture – Travel Wallpaper – National Geographic Photo of the Day
I got this one from kottke.org, and I'm just going to quote what Jason said about it: "The caption says that this is a photo. My brain is having a difficult time agreeing." Go look. - On TermKit | Steven Wittens – Acko.net
This looks interesting. He's right – while I need the power of Terminal a lot of the time, there is absolutely no reason why it has to look and behave like it did 20 years and more ago.