- dompdf – The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
I think I'm going to need a HTML->PDF converter for a project in the next month or two, and I won't be able to use my usual one. So I'll probably wind up using this.
- Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' | UK news | guardian.co.uk
I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster standard ranting here.
Bookmarks for April 16, 2009
- Free as in "Me" | 43 Folders
Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit by their work.
- Tropo.com
API for a telephony service that can be used with any one of a variety of the usual web languages. Might be handy if I need to start building telephony functionality into web apps.
- Vice Magazine – THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS
This is the problem with my auto-linkblogging. I should have blogged this one first, so that you would have gotten to it second. Damn. OK, go look at the link below. Then come back and look at this one, because bands below really should have gotten in touch with this guy instead.
- The most unreadable metal logos – my 13 picks | Lady Omega : : Design, Art, Music
These are just stunning. As in I'm stunned that anyone thought "yes, that's what I want the logo for my band to be".
Brain Freeze
I keep feeling like I want to write a long blog post about something. And Then I come to sit and write, and I have no idea what I want to write about. This is very peculiar. Theoretically, I owe Hester and Andrea a topic each, but I’m not happy with either of the pieces I’ve got half written, as one of them is just a paean to the general aceness of my various flatmates over the years (which, while it would be lovely and ego-stroking for them to read, lacks entertainment value, and besides, if they haven’t got the idea that I think they’re ace by now, there is no bloody hope) and the other basically reads “advanced theoretical physics makes my head hurt”.
I dunno what to write about. So if anyone feels like suggesting topics for me, I’ll be delighted to at least consider them. Ever wondered what I think about something that’s important to you? Well now’s your chance to watch me detonate our friendship when you discover that I think it’s a pile of rancid donkey toss!
Yeah, this really wasn’t a very useful post was it?
Bookmarks for April 15, 2009
- Blood Bath Shower Curtain | spinninghat.com
I think I may need to buy this, and the matching bat mat.
- Slug and Lettuce website picked as an honouree in this year's Webbys
Obviously, I think it should have won, but still, the S&L site that we built last year got picked out of thousands of sites as an honouree in the Restaurant category in this year's Webbys. Nice to know that I worked on a nearly-award-winning website. Or something.
Bookmarks for April 14, 2009
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet Mr Chicken
An interview with a man who reckons that he's designed logos for 90% of the fried chicken restaurants in London. The thought occurs that I don't ever note the names of these places. I refer to them all by one catch-all term that I stole from a friend "the local branch of Rank Chicken". I don't know if that's an endorsement of his work of a condemnation of it.
Bookmarks for April 12, 2009
- Boks – A Visual Grid Editor
Really handly little tool to swiftly knock together basic page layouts. Given that I basically build everying off a grid these days, having a grid layout generator is no bad thing.
Bookmarks for April 11, 2009
- Block the Diggbar WordPress plugin
Well, I'm installing this, and I strongly encourage anyone else with a wordpress blog to do the same.
Bookmarks for April 10, 2009
- 3-D Printing Hits Rock-bottom Prices With Homemade Ceramics Mix
I have no personal use at the moment for a 3d printer, but I'm sure the day will come when I will, and I'd really rather not have to pay through the nose for raw materials.
- Cover versions – a set on Flickr
Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absolutely beautiful stuff.
- Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar
Jon Gruber has implemented an anti-DiggBar tool for his pages. I will probably do the same for mine. Read about why and how he's done it, because while this may sound a bit like a crank thing to do, rejecting potential traffic from a popular source like Digg, the important principle here is that what Digg is doing is subverting on of the basic premises of how the web works, and it should be discouraged.
- Behold the GIGAFLAKE!
Truly, the confectionery of gods and titans.
Bookmarks for April 9, 2009
- David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air: Download
I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time – an actual accessible book on the maths of energy consumption vs. possible energy production, as opposed the usual waffle.
- Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Latex/Guns/Gnosis: The Matrix Turns 10
A short retrospective of the first Matrix film, as it turns 10. a) it is horrifying to me that that movie is ten, because it means I am very old, and b) I particularly love the title of this article. It occurs to me that I have never satisfyingly run a game with all three of those elements, and I really must get around to having a go at that.
- Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Culture | guardian.co.uk
I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all copyright enforcers are held to the same standard: three wrong accusations, and they're out, too. Want to bet me that they'd all be gone before the rest of us would?
- Focal point (game theory) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Must remember this on in future – the basis by which two parties that are unable to communicate will still be able to select the same focal point in a game/challenge.
- re: diverselessness (tecznotes)
A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the origins of elites, and the social effects of these technologies, and some opinions on where these phenomena are likely to lead to.
- Whimsley: Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche
Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though everyone feels like they're finding more niche stuff.
- BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!
I have significantly less than fuck all architectural training, but it hasn't escaped my notice over the last few years that many of the most interesting creative types I know do have some history with the discipline, and I've increasingly found my own interests tending that way – not literally in the designing buildings sense, but in the sense of being aware of people's relationship with the space around them, and how to optimise that space to get the best out of life.
Postopolis therefore sounds like it would have been a fascinating event to be at, even if 90% would have gone sailing over my head. Any chance of holding the next one in London? It's at least as interesting as LA… - cityofsound: Postopolis LA
Dan Hill was at Postopolis and has written an excellent series of posts on it, and on LA in general. Thoroughly recommended reading.
A Recommendation:
I am posting just to say: if you are not watching riotclitshave then you fucking well should be. It is the best round-up of weird, wonderful, absurd, and occasionally horrible, images that I know. Every time I finish looking at a particular set of pictures, I am comforted that the world is a better, stranger and more interesting place than I thought it was.
Here, for example, is one of today’s images.
Someone out there in the world genuinely has that inked on them. Either the world is a marvellous, entertaining, fucked up place, or we urgently need a nuclear armageddon to scourge the face of the earth with white hot fire. I’m good with either.