This looks really good. I suspect I shall want this, possibly along with a second twitter account to subscribe to news-based twitters.

I'd always thought Gen X stopped in about 1975, but apparently I'm a gen Xer. But this survey isn't about me, so much as it's about a lot of the people I know. It's, er, interesting. I'd like to see similar stats for the UK….

Well, here's an interesting test case for out new government, and for caring sharing Dave and his compassionate conservatism. But more importantly, do like the article says, and start writing, if you'd prefer that Britain not deport people who will be tortured or killing for the crime of being a lesbian.

I'm not sure I've got all this locked down, even on my ultra-locked-down work-only account. And I am by any reasonable lights, an expert web user. How is the casual user supposed to get it right?

This, by the way, it why I get so het up over privacy. This page contains a link to some talk about how facebook until the other day, made it possible to trace your location. I didn't blog the link, because Facebook fixed the hole before I could, but the fact it existed at all relates to a wider point about their privacy culture – they either do not think, or do not care, about how it will affect vulnerable people for whom privacy is a very important concern. And it's all very well for them to say "if you don't want it public, don't put it on facebook", but why should the vulnerable, for whom it might make the most difference, have less rights to share with their friends? Why should excluding the vulnerable from Facebook be acceptable?

I shall be shopping here later.

I know I keep on this hobby-horse. But this article is an excellent summary of why I remain on it, of all the things you now simply cannot do privately on Facebook. It doesn't even get into the information that leaks out about you just because your friends do things on the internet. I simply do not understand how it can be considered acceptable for a company to do this and remain in business they appear to have total and utter contempt for the people who use their system…

You never know when one of these will come in handy.

Some of the most interesting bits of clothing design I've seen in ages. Absolutely brilliant costume inspiration. (I'd like to link the the label's own website, but it's the most user-unfriendly bit of flash crap I've seen in ages, so look at this article instead.)

I want to come back to this one, because it's germane to something I've been thinking a lot about recently.

Mostly just bookmarking this as one to watch at some point this week, but I imagine there are a few other people reading this who might enjoy it.

Might be a useful reference to point a client at if they ask about online payment processing.

I should have written this, yesterday, rather than rambling on with a narrative that no-one read, but I didn't, and Andrew did, so go read his piece: "The Tories don’t like you. They don’t care about you. They will try to ruin your life. They will shut down women’s shelters and homeless shelters and youth clubs. They will hinder minority rights and keep brilliant foreigners out of the country because they talk funny. They will take a hacksaw to the NHS, and they will turn the BBC into a pirate radio station. They will remove safeguards on everything from banks to trains just to turn an extra buck. They will guarantee that struggling families have to struggle more, and that people on the fringes of society are pushed further to the fringe, because they are only interested in the preservation of wealth among the wealthy and the conservation of stifling and fantastical Victorian values. They are monstrously awful."

I invariably wind up doing something convoluted with needless scripts when I am trying to do some of the things find allows. I am bookmarking this to remind myself that find exists, and I should use it.

The original Usenet server is shutting down. I can't imagine anyone will notice – anyone still using Usenet probably has a very specific form of brain-damage, and in any case, this isn't killing Usenet, just a bit of it's history – but still, it's an event worth marking, in the same way that Tim Berners-Lee's first web server is now a museum piece.

This is a brilliant map of London, that I would like on my wall. Failing that, I shall just content myself with spending hours zooming in on different bits of it…

Abridged: "Will you stop fucking whining? If your product was useful to us, we'd support it. It's not, so we don't. That's business for you. Go develop something useful, and we'll talk."

Why did I not think of this?

This is what I have been missing from Mac OS. I am so ludicrously happy to see it, it's untrue. It's just a little thing, but it's going to make such a difference to my working life…

Nice JS framework that makes some more interesting web layouts possible.

Adam Greenfield has some notes on the future integration of technology and the city – city as development platform.

A timewarp all the way back to 1997. It's the spot on music that really sells this one, I think.

Well, I've never fallen in the HDR hole – I think it's a cheap effect, a way to get around weaknesses in technique, or a substitute for an actual idea – but on the other hand, I've taken so few photos I like in the last year, it's ridiculous. But that is less about my ability, and more about the fact that I haven't been carrying a camera enough, or taking enough pics. Time to do something about that.