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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog) Probably only of interest to the webdev monkeys in the audience, this is the story of how the demise of del.icio.us completely spiked pinboard.in (the service I am now using for bookmarks, and that powers these link posts) and how pinboard.in coped. I should say that I was one of the people switching during the period he described, and I've got to say that it I was impressed with the way the service coped.