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Also known as the Stoke Newington Eight. Middle-class anarchist terrorists on the early 70s, who are (reportedly) now a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. Making a note of it, because it's a superb name, and I want to remember they existed, because it's bound to be useful one day.
Category: Digitalia
Links For Thursday 15th January 2009
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Linking to this rather than the portrait, because I'm nerdy enough to be amused/interested in the EXIF data that tells us about the tools and settings used to take the photo.
Links For Wednesday 14th January 2009
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Me personally, I don't really like most kittens, and a lot of the cooking here is beyond my capabilities. But I can cheerfully fillet and skin kittens for other people, thanks to my old part-time job.
Links For Friday 9th January 2009
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A fucking huge, and fucking lovely, photo of well, exactly what it says. No particular reason to link to it, it's just pretty, that's all.
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My friend Stu is a bit handy with words, and a lot more aware of the word around him than I am, and he occasionally writes up the interesting people he encounters as he commutes or otherwise goes about his business in London. These are a beautifully rendered, and very real, slice of what life is like in the greatest city on earth. Go and read them.
Links For Thursday 8th January 2009
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I am so tempted to skip out on family Christmas next year, and produce a set something like this. OK, there's not a chance I would, but still, the set pretty damn impressive anyway.
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Like everyone else, I'd never heard of these before. And like all right-thinking people, I do think the entire notion is fascinating. Mouldering hulks of poisonous stone that no longer light up the night. Perfect fodder for a maritime ghost story.
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Good round up of various cleaning options to remove sensor dust. My old D70s body is a martyr to it, and the D80 is bound to pick up some at some point.
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Some interesting old terms in here I hadn;'t run across before that might be useful in the future.
Links For Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Not really much to say about this, other than that there are some very nice typefaces in here.
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Ostensibly for Rails, but most of these apply to anyone using an MVC framework, and are worth a look.
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This is a pet peeve of mine: people who use tinyUrl type services completely needlessly in blog posts and the like. I understand why, say, twitter does it, because of character limits, but it's still shit practice. URLs should clearly indicate the content they are the URL for. So I'll be plugging this in to my browser.
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This is an interesting idea – a more environmentally sound font, but will it have any actual impact on ink use at small sizes? I couldn't find any actual maths on the site. Also, I am a slave to Helvetica, and particularly Helvetica Neue, so until someone produces an ecofont variant on them, I don't see myself picking this up.
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Can we all please just move on from this now there's some accurate reportage about it?
Links For Tuesday 6th January 2009
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Quick and dirty tool to grab an LJ archive on any system that has python available, which includes OS X.
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SUP have knocked the american tech staff on the head. I don't believe they're going to fuck off tomorrow, or anything, but any way you slice it, this is bad news, and I'm going to have to find a good LJ archiving tool for OS X just so I do have a decent archive somewhere that isn't on LJ, but I should have done that anyway. Still, most of the public content over the least few years is already in databases on my own servers, anyway, but I'd like to get the private/friends locked stuff saved, too. I may also flip back to blogging on my own domain, and just mirroring the content into LJ, just in case.
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I may want to take this apart and rebuild it for other services since my tumblr account is used for my not-a-photoblog-honest. Or since the blog is called Dead Air, I might just pipe it in regardless, as it does kind of fit with the theme.
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I blog this mostly because I want to use the phrase "spime child", which is agreeably SF sounding. And because, well, it's an interesting application of the technology.
links for 2008-12-18
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Anyone who has seen my desktop will know it tends to er, fill up a bit. So let's see if this makes it easier for me to manage my home work flow. (I know it won't work in the office, because of the sheer amount of random crap I need to get swift access to in any given week…)
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I finally got around to watching Helevtica (the film about the font) while I was away at the weekend, and it was really very good. I look forward to seeing this.
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On the difference between Oliver Postgate's heyday and now: "There are no children, there are no adults, there is no wonder: only adolescents in waiting, being spoken to by screamingly selfconscious adolescents in their twenties and thirties."
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What it says on the tin. I'd need to play with it a bit to get it to work for me, but I do like the basic structure.
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Yes, I shall be wanting some of these for my phone, for those times when I get bored of my own photos.
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May of these are superb, and I would be delighted to own them. Just, y'know, saying.
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Digg/Reddit type site for design/branding/media stuff.
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I am torn between awe at these pictures, and horror at the events they depict. Even if you don't normally look at the photography links I post, you can't afford to miss this one.
Scrub Up
Spruced up the look of http://ala.sda.ir last night. Will probably leave http://www.alasdair.biz as-is for the next year – I haven’t found any clean and professional looking designs that I like as much as the one it’s currently using, and it is on my CV, so probably shouldn’t be anything too odd.
That just leaves me wondering what to do with site number three, the old and faded http://www.black-ink.org, which is traditionally where I put pieces of original writing, and is equally traditionally something that I only update in the first third of every year, after which point I become distracted by some other shiny thing.
Anyone got any fun suggestions for what I should do with it in the first part of next year?
Links For Wednesday 17th December 2008
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This was pitched to me as "the sound of a mall dying". I would call it the death knell of the holiday season. It is a massive dose of festive bitterness, as some genius has basically mashed up every festive song ever, and produced well, just give it a listen.