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.

I know there are a couple of DJ types reading this. And a few people who would *like* to be DJ types, but are having cost issues with some of the kit required. Check this out.

LJ are doing the link re-writing thing again. As this post makes clear, the reason it is bad (even if you don't care about money, like I don't) is essentially because a third party company will get info about what links to external websites you are clicking, if you are clicking on them when they've been posted by people who haven't opted out of this scheme. I have, and absent LJ being total arseholes about it and ingnoring the opt-out (at which point, I will be shutting up shop on LJ) links clicked from my journal should always be safe. Do me a favour, and leave a comment if you've similarly opted out, so I can try and track whose links I am happy to click?

A daft little video that tickled my funnybone in a disproportionate manner.

"Whoops" say Apple. "We've accidentally generated a load of hype for the product we were pretty much ready to announce in a matter of a couple of months. Oh dear."

I skate in just ahead of the group that Penny Red is talking about here – a decade older, with fractionally more financial security, I can afford to rent a place on my own, although not do anything as extravagant as *buy* somewhere, but the sense of political disenfranchisement she's talking about is bitterly familiar.