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HTML 5 forms. Oh, this is going to make interface design much nicer. In about four of five years, anyway.
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Thought it was worth pointing this one out, as there's bound to be another round of copyright extension lobbying fairly soon – when isn't there? Here's a list of what could have been public domain today, were it not for the 1976 extension. Can you find an argument for any of these works not being in the public domain now?
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For all I make jokes about being a "good protestant boy", in the years since the Good Friday Agreement, I had more or less come to believe that a united Ireland was a good and desirable thing – the British have unquestionably fucked the place for centuries, and eventually the majority opinion in the North is going to be in favour of a united Ireland. That was until today, when I discovered that Ireland have enacted a law forbidding blasphemy. That's so fucking retrograde it's unreal, and genuinely makes me concerned about a united Ireland again. And if you need a demonstration of why it's stupid, well, take a look here.
Category: Digitalia
Links For Wednesday 30th December 2009
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Tomorrow, I delete my facebook account. Their privacy settings are too fucking awful for me – I siply don't trust them, and on that basis, it's time to go. I've already deleted all the data that they hold, bar the notes (and those only remain because there isn't a bulk delete option), but tomorrow, I kick off the death of my facebook account. It actually feels kinda weird to completely deactivate something like that, but there we go.
Links For Wednesday 23rd December 2009
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This will be irrelevant to everyone reading this, but I will probably need to refer to this at some point in the future. Sorry to have wasted everyone else's time.
Links For Friday 18th December 2009
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Just a thing worth noting, should I ever be required to set up a service that needs payment processing with Paypal. Shitty behaviour.
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Weird, and sick. I cannot fathom a motive to do this that doesn't leave me faintly nauseous.
Mag+
Links For Tuesday 15th December 2009
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This is unreal. I know that beat officers are getting more and more direction from above that harrassing photographers and videographers is not a crime, but seriously, I think there perhaps needs to be a bit more that that. Perhaps a total relaxation of the powers relating to photography, because that this can happen in London is just nauseating.
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I have a soft spot for really, really tacky christmas ligt displays. I'm glad they're not as common here as they are in the US, but oen now and again is fun. This one, however, is *really* impressive.
Links For Monday 14th December 2009
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A blog of songs about London. Excellent.
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Might wind up getting a few of these.
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Might wind up forking out for a few of these.
Links For Friday 11th December 2009
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Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a potential problem with bluetooth related battery drain on the iphone here, but if they've somehow cracked that, then this could be very interesting/useful – not so much for the security tools, but more for the fact that I could them script for proximity, and use that to log my location through the day.
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About time. UK based locational services are about to get better. Or at least cheaper.
Links For Thursday 10th December 2009
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This guys work has been doing the blog rounds today. That's because it's ace. When his store re-stocks, I will buy a thing from him.
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SLight annoying french spelling aside – if their iphone app is half as nice as their web app, and if they expose an api at some point soon, then I think Things may have been supplanted as my favourite to-do list manager. This is bloody lovely.
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Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data about *you* that they have access to. Facebook have completely fucked your privacy in the bin. I will be deleting my account at the end of the month, if they don't change it. (The only reason I'm not deleting it *today* is that I don't want to fuck people's social planning in the bin.) For refernce, after a bit of digging about in the privacy settings, despite the fact that I have my privacy locked down, under the new settings, here's what my friends were authorised to share about me, regardless of my profile settings: Personal info (activities, interests, etc.), Status udates,Online presence,Website,Family and relationship,Education and work,My videos,My links,My Notes,My photos,Photos and videos of me,About me,My birthday,My hometown. These setting were buried, and required extra password validaton to alter – they had gone out their way to make it hard. I'm done with them.
Links For Tuesday 8th December 2009
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A clutter free text editor that blocks out other distractions and saves as plain text by default. I like and use Scrivener, but honestly, it's got more power then I need for something simply like, say, writing a blog post. So I'll give this a go, and see how we get on.