- Why #StartUpBritain is nothing more than a government backed link farm
I have some interesting in start-ups – I've worked at a couple, and I hope to work at more later in my career. I am dismayed to see that this government, with claims to value entrepreneurship so highly, is essentially devaluing the hard work and enterprise that goes into them by offering a package of "help" that amounts to nothing more that a series of money-off vouchers roughly akin to the usual supermarket "£5 off when you spend £20", and links to sites that frankly, encourage deeply unethical business practices. - Rogue on the Sofa
One that'll appeal to the old school computer gaming nerds. And probably provide you with a few new games to play.
Author: Alasdair
Links for Thursday March 31st 2011
- Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
Absolutely superb analysis of all the little details that have gone into the hit game. Lessons to be learned for anyone designing any kind of interaction.
Links for Wednesday March 30th 2011
- 3eanuts
Peanuts was a 4 panel strip. The gag was in the fourth panel. (I know you know this.) 3eanuts reveals the bleak despair of it all, by removing the 4the panel. - Thorn Dice Set with Decader
Very tempted by a set of D10s in this style. Same chap makes a number of styles of dice, all lovely and interesting in different ways.
The Fate of Woodstock
The source blog will get auto-linkposted later today, but for now, I just had to share this little bit of comic genius.
Links for Tuesday March 29th 2011
- Data Science Toolkit
Get your own virtual server with tools for a variety of common data extraction tasks. Very, very neat.
Links for Sunday March 27th 2011
- danah boyd | apophenia » The Politics of Queering Anything
Interesting thought on the merits and flaws of having expressly LGBTQI identified panels at conferences, versus just making sure that identity politics and queer theory have a role to play in the discourse of every panel.
Links for Tuesday March 15th 2011
- Gadget Daily News – Home – Apple Creating a Magazine Publishing Tool for Developers?
I am very, very interested in this. As, I imagine, a number of folks of my acquaintance will be. - Inventables: Find new materials
I have no immediate use for most of the things this site sells, and yet, I want them all. Masses of fascinating stuff that the future will be made out of.
Links for Sunday March 13th 2011
- Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps
I would almost certainly not be using twitter today were it not for Twitterific. Regardless of the commerical thinking behind it, even if it turns out to be good for users in the long run, right now, this feels like a dick move, to use the vernacular. Will be interested to see the fall out from this.
Links for Friday March 11th 2011
- Behold: The Nicolas Cage Matrix
A guide to Nicolas Cage movies. Really must get round to watching Bad Lieutenant. - insane asylum plans
This is what is says on the tin. Kind of fascinating.
Links for Thursday March 10th 2011
- The Back Story | Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
The reason I am a web developer now is that in 1995, I was able to use Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet, and then run Mosaic to browse the then-very-nascent web. I have therefore donated a couple of quid to this campaign. If you used it like I did, then I strongly suggest you kick in a couple of quid, too. - BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
So there's going to be a new law about what websites need to do around setting cookies, and getting the user's permission to do so, that will probably change how a low of UK and European websites have to work. But at the time the law comes into force, the government will not have spelled out what websites need to do to comply with that law. Someone phone Terry Gilliam and tell him that he's won? - HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
How to make an web app look and feel like an iphone native app. This could be very useful at work.