Willpower is, apparently a finite resource – exercising it in one matter depletes the amount you have available to apply to other things. Good news though: exercising it regularly leaves you with more to go around.

(tags: brain interesting research willpower)

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An interactive on-line music video/teaser. Music companies could benefit from doing more of this sort of thing – this one is, very, er, rathergood, but it’s a music video and it’s viral. The principle could easily be applied to less kitten-related stuff.

(tags: music viral interactive)

This might be fun. I’ll see what next month’s suggested theme is.

(tags: blog nablopomo writing)

This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.

(tags: news science nanotechnology)

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.

(tags: language homophobia children)

More cooking programs should be as relaxed and entertainng.

(tags: cooking video)

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.

(tags: pub whisky)

So true. So painfully, painfully true.

(tags: interface design)

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?

(tags: google api contacts addressbook sharing)

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…

(tags: science astronomy)

I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.

(tags: science fiction video web)

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.

(tags: music marketing meme)

An astonishing account of a photojournalist that did, well, exactly what he says, while covering a story in Colombia. Utterly compelling and thought provoking.

(tags: war love Colombia photojournalism essay)

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…

(tags: osx apps photography tools)

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.

(tags: photography crossprocessing tutorial)

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.

(tags: leonardcohen culture essay analysis music)

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.

(tags: food cooking science)

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Just, y’know, in case it should ever be handy.

(tags: eeepc osx leopard howto hacks)

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)

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.

(tags: police paranoia propaganda photography uk)

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.

(tags: osx software sftp filesystem)

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…

(tags: typography design web)

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)

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.)

(tags: php mysql database hierarchical development)

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?

(tags: hierarchical tree database mysql howto)

Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.

(tags: photography history reference photojournalism)