I think I want one of these, provided I can hack it not to transmit to a third party for it's scripted rubbish, because I can do without my private life being profiled…

I suspect I might need this in the next few days.

A norwegian photographer. Really very lovely stuff, has given me a few ideas.

I have a well documented hatred of portraiture, and family gatherings are always a bit of a photographic trial for me – I feel obliged to attempt a bit of photography, but I'm never happy with the results. I might see if I can get anything out of some of these ideas…

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Choose between this, and the next link.

I pretty much do have everything I want aside from more and more camera lenses, but I have a number of possessions I want to upgrade over the next year or so, particularly in a homewares kind of line. This might be a handy reference.

It's about the time of year I start putting a little brain space into the revamp of my website(s). I'll probably go with yet another off-the-shelf template in the end, but some of these icon sets are just fucking beautiful, and crying out to be used in some way if I do finally do another roll-my-own.

An on-line friend passes this one on, saying "new favourite wikipedia page". I think it may be mine, too.

This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.

Than fuck. I hate not having a proper path in my finder windows.

It occurs to me that I own a Wiimote, but no Wii. Using it to turn my Mac screen into a multitouch surface might be fun. As long as, y'know, I use a pen and not my fingers. I'm not a client, after all. I don't need to do fingers-on-the-screen rubbish.

Ding! I have an OpenID (in fact, I have several, thanks to having accounts at a number of different sites that provide it, and keep meaning to set my own up so I've got control of my own ID) but I never use it, because it's as much faff as creating a username and password. If there was simply a button on my browser that I could click to say "identify me to this website", I'd use it a lot more.

Jason Kottke wonder if poor site appearance and lack of care in administration and moderation is a factor in the behaviour of its users. I have no way ofr proving this, but it feels true. Anyone know if there have been any proper studies in this area?

I'm sure everyone's seen this by now, but there are some things in these documents that I think out to made mandatory reading for anyone that works in SF, and it's a fascinating insight into the origins of one of the longest-lived SF franchises out there.

A lot of it is generic stuff that you might say to anyone starting out in a creative discipline – "have something to say, find your own voice, be yourself, keep at it" etc. But there are a few gems in here.

Fascinating post about the emerging way wifi is coming to affect people's use of public spaces.