Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.

(tags: photography history reference photojournalism)

These are almost all awesome, and I want most of them on my walls.

(tags: design typography posters)

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.

(tags: humour limericks)

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.

(tags: google api chart graph visualization)

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.

(tags: garfield comics funny existentialism)

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.

(tags: programming cheatsheet reference)

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.

(tags: iphone iphoto howto osx)

An animated gif showing a progesssion in size of various celestial bodies, starting with the moon, and ending with the largest known star. Awesome, in the most literal sense.

(tags: science as)

You know how I said I was happy with the look of Black Ink? I lied. I’m happy for values of “tweaked off the shelf”. I’m working on my own completely custom design, and I will be using this font in the new look one.

(tags: design)

My writing site has finally been given the wash and a brush up it’s needed for years, and for the first time in ages I’m happy with it. It’s only a modified off the shelf job, but I like how it looks.

(tags: photos fiction)

Wikileaks is under attack by a bank whose shady dealings they’ve published info on – unable to effectively censor their hosting across multiple countries, they’ve gone after their DNS. The site is reachable by IP, and linking will help stop the bastards.

(tags: wiki journalism wikileaks freedom information)

A friend-of-friends is currently imprisoned in Dubai on utterly fabricated charges, and facing several years in jail, and his friends are raising money for a legal defence. Please, please, donate what you can.

(tags: corruption false_charges help appeal dubai cunts)

New weekly webcomic from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield

(tags: steampunk comic free)

I’ve been having trouble with Quicktime not playing some video encodings properly (specifically, audio free), and I’m hoping that this might fix it, because I’ve tried updating every codec I’ve got to no avail.

(tags: freeware software plugins OSX quicktime)

S&W talk about movement as a metaphor for the web, and in the process, introduce a means of syndicating form-type actions via a modified RSS protocol they’re calling Snap. Potentially a huge change in the way people will interact with websites, here.

(tags: interaction webdev design internet)

A number of big name photographers answer the question. I’ve only skimmed this right now, because I’m barely awake, but it looks interesing enough to come back to when I can get more then 2 neurons to fire at once.

(tags: photography essay)