• Not My Gorilla
  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.
  (tags: web browsers)

• Terminal Tips: Enable "path view" in Finder – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Than fuck. I hate not having a proper path in my finder windows.
  (tags: osx terminal mac tips)
• Johnny Chung Lee – Projects – Wii
  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.
  (tags: interface howto wiimote whiteboard)

• Getting OpenID Into the Browser – O'Reilly Radar
  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.
  (tags: identity openid internet)

• Does the broken windows theory hold online?
  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?
  (tags: internet design community)

• BBC – Archive Project – The Genesis of Doctor Who
  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.
  (tags: bbc history doctorwho)

• Magnum Blog : Wear Good Shoes – Advice to young photographers
  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.
  (tags: photography magnum advice)

• cityofsound: Wi-fi structures and people shapes
  Fascinating post about the emerging way wifi is coming to affect people's use of public spaces.
  (tags: wifi architecture design)

• Camerabag
  I've been wondering if/when anyone would get around to this – some basic in-camera fitlers that I can apply to photos on the iphone to replicate the effect of various old-style cameras. Well, yes, someone has come with an app to do it, and it does it bloody well. This is going to make my phhone cam much more useful.
  (tags: iphone photography software)

• Amazon.co.uk: Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture by Raven Digitalis
  Seriously, look at this rubbish. And what kind of a name is "Raven Digitalis"? I bet that's not the fucking name on her birth certificate. I'm all for letting people reinvent themselves, and an individuals right to self expressing, and to be called what they want, but there's people who spoil it for the rest of us, you know?

  (And yet, there is a small, horrible part of me that want to read this book.)

  (tags: just_bloody_stupid)
• The Lesser Key of Solomon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Yes. Today is esoteric claptrap day. Which reminds me, I saw a completely horrifying book at the weekend, that I nearly bought for its sheer awfulness.
  (tags: reference occult)

Not that most of you are going to care terribly much, but the project that has been eating my life for the last few months went live today, in a more-or-less pain free manner. There’s been a few minor tweaks, but nothing has fallen over, nothing has broken, and no-one is running around like a headless chicken.

The new Slug and Lettuce pub chain website is now live. And while it looks quite simple, it has a completely state of the art on-line booking system (and it is my business to know what state of the art in this field is – it really is better than anyone else’s, I promise you). I could bore you all rigid with waffle about the clever features, the ultra sexy (and user-friendly) admin system, and so on and forth, but the acid test is simpler than that: since going live a couple of hours ago, they have already had a reasonable number of enquiries via this system. Client confidentially prevents me from giving away precise numbers, but we appear to be on course to put through as many hundred covers in two days as their old system did in a month. And that’s on launch day. Things will only improve over the next year or so.

So, yeah. That’s done. Next!