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How have I never turned up this man before? Pioneering rocket scientist and a Crowley devotee who would invoke Pan before every rocket launch…
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HST on Breakfast. No reason, other than that it made me smile and wish I was in a position to begin each day like that.
Category: Digitalia
Links For Thursday 24th April 2008
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An absolutely superb photo essay about war photography. Requires sound for the commentary.
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Is it bad that I would wear these without shame?
Links For Wednesday 23rd April 2008
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On the one hand, this sort of compliation CD seems, I dunno, faintly patronising – to take an entire musical culture, and bung it on one sampler CD. On the other, you’ve got to start somewhere, and there’s loads of music here I know *nothing* about.
Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
Sorry, folks, just testing a problem with one of my websites, and I need a public post in an RSS feed to do it. Move along, nothing to see here.
Links For Tuesday 22nd April 2008
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I was unfair yesterday – turns out the Economist has been talking about the semantic web for longer that I thought. There is another article from 2006 as well, but I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But still, hooray for the Economist.
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Potentially security-hole-tastic, but also amazing for site admin systems and the like, it’s now possible to install an extension that allows a site to telnet into your copy of Firefox, and do various things to add a whole new layer to what a site can do.
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Just a note to myself – missed this when it was on. I note the BBC still haven’t fixed the iplayer on OSX – because it’s flash based, it does not stop my screen from going dark through lack of mouse movement, like a proper media player does. Grr.
Links For Monday 21st April 2008
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No, I have no practical use for one of these. Yes, renting it instead of buying outright is kind of annoying. Yes, I desperately want one. With a jetpack, if at all possible.
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Well, it’s nice to see that the press has noticed. Good of of them to credit Reuters with the big push, as if there haven’t been any number of people shouting about this for *years* at small operations like Yahoo and the BBC.
Links For Friday 18th April 2008
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Or “Idigenous Content” as we call it round these parts, of course. He’s not *wrong*, but the power of IC for big media is in being seen to curate it, so that the public only find the good stuff. I would love to see Paxman’s UGC picks…
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A bad workman blames the cat. And other gems.
Links For Monday 14th April 2008
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Everyone and their dog has already linked to it, but that’s because it’s well worth a read.
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Using Virgin as your ISP? I’d strongly urge you to end your account, and find an ISP that believes in your right to use the internet as you, rather than they, see fit. If they get away with this, then other ISPs will too, and then we’re all fucked.
Links For Friday 11th April 2008
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I want to structure some of my time in evenings and at weekends a bit better, and this might help.
Links For Thursday 10th April 2008
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I feel like I know almost no-one round where I live, but still: I shop regularly at my local butcher. A couple of my local cafe’s recognise me when I come in. I like that, and I’d hate to live in the world described here.
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Handy set of tools for producing grad based designs. I particularly like the fact that there’s both an OmniGraffle template and an HTML demo. This is going to make going from wireframe to mockup about 70 times faster.
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Nice, minimalist photoblog theme. Might use it as a start point for sprucing up my portfolio site, to bring it more into line with the design of my other sites.