I think I'm going to need a HTML->PDF converter for a project in the next month or two, and I won't be able to use my usual one. So I'll probably wind up using this.

I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster standard ranting here.

Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit by their work.

API for a telephony service that can be used with any one of a variety of the usual web languages. Might be handy if I need to start building telephony functionality into web apps.

This is the problem with my auto-linkblogging. I should have blogged this one first, so that you would have gotten to it second. Damn. OK, go look at the link below. Then come back and look at this one, because bands below really should have gotten in touch with this guy instead.

These are just stunning. As in I'm stunned that anyone thought "yes, that's what I want the logo for my band to be".

I think I may need to buy this, and the matching bat mat.

Obviously, I think it should have won, but still, the S&L site that we built last year got picked out of thousands of sites as an honouree in the Restaurant category in this year's Webbys. Nice to know that I worked on a nearly-award-winning website. Or something.

An interview with a man who reckons that he's designed logos for 90% of the fried chicken restaurants in London. The thought occurs that I don't ever note the names of these places. I refer to them all by one catch-all term that I stole from a friend "the local branch of Rank Chicken". I don't know if that's an endorsement of his work of a condemnation of it.

Really handly little tool to swiftly knock together basic page layouts. Given that I basically build everying off a grid these days, having a grid layout generator is no bad thing.

Well, I'm installing this, and I strongly encourage anyone else with a wordpress blog to do the same.

I have no personal use at the moment for a 3d printer, but I'm sure the day will come when I will, and I'd really rather not have to pay through the nose for raw materials.

Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absolutely beautiful stuff.

Jon Gruber has implemented an anti-DiggBar tool for his pages. I will probably do the same for mine. Read about why and how he's done it, because while this may sound a bit like a crank thing to do, rejecting potential traffic from a popular source like Digg, the important principle here is that what Digg is doing is subverting on of the basic premises of how the web works, and it should be discouraged.

Truly, the confectionery of gods and titans.

I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time – an actual accessible book on the maths of energy consumption vs. possible energy production, as opposed the usual waffle.

A short retrospective of the first Matrix film, as it turns 10. a) it is horrifying to me that that movie is ten, because it means I am very old, and b) I particularly love the title of this article. It occurs to me that I have never satisfyingly run a game with all three of those elements, and I really must get around to having a go at that.

I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all copyright enforcers are held to the same standard: three wrong accusations, and they're out, too. Want to bet me that they'd all be gone before the rest of us would?

Must remember this on in future – the basis by which two parties that are unable to communicate will still be able to select the same focal point in a game/challenge.

A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the origins of elites, and the social effects of these technologies, and some opinions on where these phenomena are likely to lead to.

Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though everyone feels like they're finding more niche stuff.

I have significantly less than fuck all architectural training, but it hasn't escaped my notice over the last few years that many of the most interesting creative types I know do have some history with the discipline, and I've increasingly found my own interests tending that way – not literally in the designing buildings sense, but in the sense of being aware of people's relationship with the space around them, and how to optimise that space to get the best out of life.

Postopolis therefore sounds like it would have been a fascinating event to be at, even if 90% would have gone sailing over my head. Any chance of holding the next one in London? It's at least as interesting as LA…

Dan Hill was at Postopolis and has written an excellent series of posts on it, and on LA in general. Thoroughly recommended reading.

Here's an interesting read: the currency of Iceland is basically worthless. The artificial currency of a computer game created in Iceland, however, still has value. In fact, it has more value then the "real" currency.

I propose holding anyone that describes themselves as an "e-marketer" (or anything remotely similar) down and beating them with sticks until they agree to tell all future prospective clients this simple truth from th above article: "instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products"

You! Yes, you! Visit this link, and buy a copy of Matt Jones' "Get Excited And Make Things" poster. Then hang it some place where you will see it often. It will be morally uplifting for you, and the proceeds from the sale will benefit Creative Commons, which is a tremendously excellent thing to do.

I've been saying that using URL shorteners is a bad idea for for a while, so I thought I'd link to Joshua Schachter's more cogent and better put together argument that details a more specific list of the reasons why.