Samsara II
I really wanted a word for karmic escape velocity for this one, but my vocabulary fails me.
A fairground ride on Brighton Pier.
Bookmarks for December 18, 2008
- Six Grid Desktop.
Anyone who has seen my desktop will know it tends to er, fill up a bit. So let's see if this makes it easier for me to manage my home work flow. (I know it won't work in the office, because of the sheer amount of random crap I need to get swift access to in any given week…)
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
I finally got around to watching Helevtica (the film about the font) while I was away at the weekend, and it was really very good. I look forward to seeing this.
- k-punk: The voice of Weird paternalism
On the difference between Oliver Postgate's heyday and now: "There are no children, there are no adults, there is no wonder: only adolescents in waiting, being spoken to by screamingly selfconscious adolescents in their twenties and thirties."
- Simple White WordPress Theme
What it says on the tin. I'd need to play with it a bit to get it to work for me, but I do like the basic structure.
- Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.
Yes, I shall be wanting some of these for my phone, for those times when I get bored of my own photos.
- 11 Creative Coffee and Tea Mug Designs
May of these are superb, and I would be delighted to own them. Just, y'know, saying.
- undrln
Digg/Reddit type site for design/branding/media stuff.
- 2008 Greek riots – The Big Picture – Boston.com
I am torn between awe at these pictures, and horror at the events they depict. Even if you don't normally look at the photography links I post, you can't afford to miss this one.
Scrub Up
Spruced up the look of http://ala.sda.ir last night. Will probably leave http://www.alasdair.biz as-is for the next year – I haven’t found any clean and professional looking designs that I like as much as the one it’s currently using, and it is on my CV, so probably shouldn’t be anything too odd.
That just leaves me wondering what to do with site number three, the old and faded http://www.black-ink.org, which is traditionally where I put pieces of original writing, and is equally traditionally something that I only update in the first third of every year, after which point I become distracted by some other shiny thing.
Anyone got any fun suggestions for what I should do with it in the first part of next year?
Bookmarks for December 17, 2008
- appropriate christmas
This was pitched to me as "the sound of a mall dying". I would call it the death knell of the holiday season. It is a massive dose of festive bitterness, as some genius has basically mashed up every festive song ever, and produced well, just give it a listen.
Back
The heat has been off in my house for the last 4 days, because I have been away. I can see my own breath in my bedroom. I am going to bed, and not getting up until the thaw sets in.
Bookmarks for December 15, 2008
- Mir:ror – Give Powers to your Objects – Violet •• Let All Things Be Connected
I think I want one of these, provided I can hack it not to transmit to a third party for it's scripted rubbish, because I can do without my private life being profiled…
- DreamHost Status » Blog Archive » debian upgrades and custom php
I suspect I might need this in the next few days.
Bookmarks for December 11, 2008
- rune guneriussen
A norwegian photographer. Really very lovely stuff, has given me a few ideas.
- Photojojo » Take Family Portraits That Break the Rules.
I have a well documented hatred of portraiture, and family gatherings are always a bit of a photographic trial for me – I feel obliged to attempt a bit of photography, but I'm never happy with the results. I might see if I can get anything out of some of these ideas…
Bookmarks for December 10, 2008
- Optimistic, though accurate advice.
Please view these links as a pair. Mangement accepts no responsibility for cognitive distortions caused viewing either without proper context.
- Pessimistic, though accurate advice.
Choose between this, and the next link.
- Upgrade Me! | Ask Metafilter
I pretty much do have everything I want aside from more and more camera lenses, but I have a number of possessions I want to upgrade over the next year or so, particularly in a homewares kind of line. This might be a handy reference.
- 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe
It's about the time of year I start putting a little brain space into the revamp of my website(s). I'll probably go with yet another off-the-shelf template in the end, but some of these icon sets are just fucking beautiful, and crying out to be used in some way if I do finally do another roll-my-own.
- Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions
An on-line friend passes this one on, saying "new favourite wikipedia page". I think it may be mine, too.
Bookmarks for December 8, 2008
- Not My Gorilla
This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.
Bookmarks for December 5, 2008
- Terminal Tips: Enable "path view" in Finder – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Than fuck. I hate not having a proper path in my finder windows.
- Johnny Chung Lee – Projects – Wii
It occurs to me that I own a Wiimote, but no Wii. Using it to turn my Mac screen into a multitouch surface might be fun. As long as, y'know, I use a pen and not my fingers. I'm not a client, after all. I don't need to do fingers-on-the-screen rubbish.