Please Stop Asking Me To Fix Your Computer
So painfully true. Please stop asking me to fix your computer.
Author: Alasdair
Decadent Light
What’s that you say? Blue light and mirrors? I’m sure I don’t know why you think that might be the sort of thing I’d be taking pictures of.
Bookmarks for August 19, 2009
- Ariana Osborne » Happy Birthday To Me.
Internet friend Ariana Osborne on the magic of the present. If you're annoyed with your lack of jetpack, I suggest this as a dose of perspective.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2009
- David Foster Wallace on Life and Work – WSJ.com
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the 'rat race' — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."
Bookmarks for August 17, 2009
- Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule (via Nick…
"The morning question, what good shall I do today?" "Evening question, What good have I done today?"
Bookmarks for August 13, 2009
- YouTube – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
This is where you live. Go and look.
- The Trouble with the Segway
Interesting piece on the design of objects, and the effect it can have on perceptions of their use.
- New consumers and new business opportunities
My brain is a bit fried right now, and even though I'm mainlining coffee, I'm not in a state to really retain serious information. So I'm marking this as one to come back to, as it looks interesting.
- Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
I cut my teeth building systems for a local newspaper company – one, in fact, that I had delivered as a teenager, for pocket money. It's very easy to dismiss local papers as lacking in real news content, and full instead of trivial local rubbish, but the reality is that they provide local-community level news that really is important to the daily lives of many people. There is a very real need to find alternative infrastructure to distribute this information, ideally in a non-digital form.
- Introduction To LED Lighting | DIYPhotography.net
I think I could have fun with some of this shit. Need to go LED shopping soon.
Bookmarks for August 12, 2009
- Steampunk gas mask in black leather by TomBanwell on Etsy
The rest of this guy's work is good, too, but this is just fucking gorgeous.
Bookmarks for August 10, 2009
- Stross-Krugman 2009-08-06-24.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Charles Stross in conversation with Paul Krugman. Well worth a listen. Particularly the bit about what ladies who lunch will be eating in fifteen-twenty years time, which made me laugh like a drain.
Bookmarks for August 7, 2009
- The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull – The Morning News
A day in the overheard life of London.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2009
- 1938_Phantom_Corsair.jpg (JPEG Image, 801×481 pixels)
Why do I not own one of these? Someone see to it at once!
- Sator Square – Wikipedia
I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it in a stuffy classroom.
- LOVE ME (work in progress) | Maisie Crow Photojournalist
Go. Look at this. Stunning, bleak, depressing photojournalism on poverty in America.