Unreliable information since 1972
An excellent blog on different ways to visualise information.
PHP library for generating sparkline graphs quickly and easily.
Another one for the remix culture file, with the added bonus of being a surprisingly cool piece of orchestral swing…
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
The American Society of Magazine Editors list of well, the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years.
Something that makes the top 40 covers thing a lot more interesting – excellent critique and context for it…
This is nice – last.fm have added a function that pulls up the cover art for the albums that a user listens to most, sort of like an online equivalent of browsing someone’s music shelves when left alone in their room…
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
MySQL finally catches up with some of the other database engines out there, with the new stored procedure/view stuff, as well as finally doing basic stuff like subqueries. Maybe I can finally go back to using it as my database-of-choice…
Interesting bit of think that might be useful to freelancers/people starting their own (solo) business.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Handy reference for all those times I need to provide a better HTML editor than just a textarea in a form.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Can I please have a job at the Beeb? They’re forever doing reasonably switched on media stuff like this, and I want to do it to. That Coates fella is leaving, I could try and do his job…
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
It’s a bit of a mission, getting there and back. Forty minutes by train from Paddington, then queuing for fifteen minutes to get a five minute taxi ride, then doing the reverse at the end of the meal, to get back into London and then spend an hour and half on night busses to get home. For those keeping score, that’s about three hours forty minutes of travelling, total.
That’s OK. It took us a bit over five hours to eat the meal (which is, in many respects, the best way to think about the prices, but more about that later), and there were no pauses of longer than a couple of minutes between courses.
But, having told you that it took five hours to eat, you should be duly warned that this is going to be a very, very long entry. Strap in. And no slacking. There will be questions at the end.
A very, very good day.
Many thanks to anw, cairmen, fire_sermon, lilitufire and mindwanders, without whom it would only have been quite nice.
The rest of you: you do not win at food, and the way I know this is because we did.
More when I’ve had some sleep.
A how-to guide by the person that took down MySpace the other day. Bookmarked so I’ve got a point of reference for a variety of exploits, so’s I can avoid leaving the holes myself.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
It’s a very interesting piece by Matt Webb on Attenuation, the process by which we filter and connect information to what it useful and relevant to us. I’m flagging it specifically because it’s such a big and important topic, and one I think any communications professional should give a lot of thought to.
And also, a reminder to myself to read Mr Webb’s blog more often, because it’s extremely sharp.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Home alone. Bored. I really should do some bloody work, but I don’t want to. Someone do something amusing, please.