Bookmarks for July 16, 2008
- Battersea Power Station – A New Energy for London
Well, I know what I’m doing on Saturday.
A Rare Chance To See Me Naked
OK, for those of you who haven’t started gouging your eyes out at the very idea…
What, *everyone*?
Yeah, OK. You can put ’em back in, I’m only kidding. I’m not naked. (As far as you know, anyway.) But a few people have asked about my tattoos recently (since I got my latest, unsurprisingly), and since you’re either very distant, or not someone I’m comfortable being naked in front of (read: another human being), I thought I’d post a few photos. You will see nothing to appall you in any of them – they’re all cropped to show off nothing but the tattoo.
Bookmarks for July 15, 2008
- Rare ‘Star-Making Machine’ Found In Distant Universe
Just read that headline a few times. Go on. Now: that’s not science-fiction. It’s, y’know, a real thing. Tell me that’s not enough awesome for a week, right there. That’s cheered me right up, that has.
Bookmarks for July 14, 2008
- Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked … as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
I feel unclean linking to the Dail Heil, especially for a non-story like this “rebellious artist is middle class public schoolboy shocker”, but I remain a fan of Banksy’s work, and will be interested to see what impact this has on his future efforts.
- The Magistrate’s Blog: Deliberate Misinformation
Counterbalance – here’s the sort of crappy sensationalist headline that the Express likes to run with, about the decaying state of out society “Buglars to be let off” type stuff, being shredded by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
To Don’t
The only thing the iPhone has been missing, as far as I’m concerned is a decent To Do list application. On my desktops and laptop, I use Things, which is just about the best To Do app I’ve found. I could sing it’s praises for quite some time.
So I have been eagerly awaiting the 2.0 upgrade, and the app store, because I have been waiting for Things to be available on my phone, making it truly The Promised Phone. So after a certain amount of impatient waiting, I upgraded my iPhone at lunch, and swiftly paid the six quid for Things on my phone.
The fucking thing does not appear to sync with my Mac. It’s a completely standalone app. Sure, I now have a decent To Do app on my phone. But if I can’t keep in sync with a master list on a desktop, it’s really only going to be of limited use. Bollocks.
Bookmarks for July 8, 2008
- Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
Good metaphor. I get my geek news through blogs instead of community-type sites for this sort of reason – the window where the site is gentrified enough that the a-geeks don’t annoy me but the masses and the attendant noise/churn haven’t arrived is small.
Monday
And I feel less rubbish than I did at the weekend, but still not yet human again. Apologies to the various social things I didn’t make it to, but staying in and shifting the damn cold was rather more important to me. I still have lungs full of mucus, but at least my head is more or less unfogged. Which is good, as I have a load of stuff to organise this week.
Bookmarks for July 7, 2008
- Warren Ellis » The Patchwork Years
This is an idea I want to revisit. I know a number of very creative people, and see no reason why a bunch of us should not get together and make something clever.
- British Journal of Photography – Home Secretary green lights restrictions on photography
Very very angry now.
Bookmarks for July 4, 2008
- Every looked at anything you’d prefer not to admit to on You Tube?
Well, now Viacom is going to know about it. This, right here is why Google is dangerous. They may try not to do evil, but they can be compelled to hand over vast amounts of their oh-so-nice-honest data to people who are much more evil.
Friday – Hesitate.
Hancock: bland. Funny in places, more-or-less the right side of sentimental in others and satisfyingly explodey. Will Smith is, well, Will Smith, but in the quite watchable way, rather than the in need of a slap way. It’s not a bad film. It’s just another bland Hollywood action film without much bite.
Weekend: I feel slightly like I’m coming down with a cold. Obviously, I’m not, because I have stuff to do, but I’ve been feeling a bit run down, and unusually wheezy for the last two days, to the point that I’m actually carrying my inhaler on me, which I generally forget to do. Still, I think a weekend of not-doing-very-much might be a good idea – nothing that involves leaving the house other than maybe a trip to the shops. I’ve got organising of stuff to do anyway.
What’re your plans for the weekend?