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This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.
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I don’t know that I agree with that specific argument (or that Williams does) – one is a reclamation of a derogatory term, the other the reverse – but it’s an interesting read regarding the attempt to police children’s use of language.
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More cooking programs should be as relaxed and entertainng.
Category Archives: Digitalia
Links For Tuesday 11th March 2008
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Must pop down and check this pub out in the next week or so. My birthday is coming up (keep March the 22nd free if you can folks) and I hear this a rather nice whisky bar, so if it’s half decent, I’ll probably be drinking there.
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So true. So painfully, painfully true.
Links For Monday 10th March 2008
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A safer means of allowing websites to access your contacts/addressbook data without having to give them your gmail password. Not that I know anyone who’d be stupid enough to do that, right?
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Wikipedia article on “Earth’s second moon”. I was dimly aware that earth had more than one satellite, but this is so much cooler than I had first thought when I heard about it…
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I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.
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OK, you can’t draw an exact cause-and-effect line, but that line to a history of “Hallelujah” that I posted the other week did the rounds (I think I got it off Waxy), and suddenly, Jeff Buckley’s version of the song is the top selling track on iTunes.
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An astonishing account of a photojournalist that did, well, exactly what he says, while covering a story in Colombia. Utterly compelling and thought provoking.
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I love Lightroom for working on images and library mangement, but it doesn’t half take ages to impport stuff. If I can use this for a first-pass step, it might be quicker…
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I suspect this will also work in Lightroom, which is handy, because the current cross-processing filter I have in LR is for shit, so instead, I shall build my own.
Links For Friday 7th March 2008
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A short cultural history of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. If, like most people, you think it’s always been a relentlessly sad song, you should probably read this.
Links For Wednesday 5th March 2008
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Friend and professional mad bastard Hugh Hancock has finally managed to get himself a home waterbath suitable for cooking in. I urge you all to learn about his progress in Cooking With Science, because it’s both informative and fucking funny.
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Just, y’know, in case it should ever be handy.
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A salutory warning to non-US citizens doing business on the internet – make sure you register your domain names with places that aren’t American companies, otherwise the American government may claim that their laws apply to you.(tags: evil_empire mad)
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This is just fucking stupid. I’m fine with keeping an eye out. But picking specific things to advertise as potential terrorist activity is just asking for trouble. Whoever came up with this one must be a special kind of moron.
Links For Tuesday 4th March 2008
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Handy mac app that’s been getting good press as a reliable means of mounting an external SFTP volume as a local drive, making it much easier to work with remote files.
Links For Friday 29th February 2008
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Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…
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Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.(tags: socialnetworking livejournal)
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A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)
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More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?
Links For Thursday 28th February 2008
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Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.
Links For Tuesday 26th February 2008
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These are almost all awesome, and I want most of them on my walls.
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On the back of weekend conversation
I present for your delectation
A bunch of limericks, quite nerdy
Some of them short, some wordy
But all of them worth the quotation.
Links For Monday 25th February 2008
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This might come in handy at some future point – I’ve been working on a graph-heavy project for a client, and it would have been ace to have this available when we started.
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They say: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
They’re right, and it’s superb.
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Most programmers I know have one or two of these to hand most of the time. I’d like to take time to go through them, anhd work out which ones best fit my needs.
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The camera on the phone is for quickblogging while out and about, and I email the pics I want off it so it’s a pain to have to close iphoto every time I plug the thing in. Here’s how to stop it.