Alasdair Watson

• Silent-Bob – audio recording app

  Not only will it record anything going through your soundcard, but it keeps a two minute cache, so you can switch it on on short notice, and still get the whole clip you want.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• Muji: Brandless design

  I awnt to come back and re-read this later. It hadn’t hitherto occured to me that what Muji have done is taken the idea of being brand free, and turned it into an extremely strong and recognisable brand.

• Distressing fonts

  Guide to turning any font you like into a distressed stamp like effect for logos and type effects.

• Ontology is Overrated – an article in praise of tagging, with some good insights into historical classification systems

  (And the second link I have thieved from Ciaran today.)

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• Bible Quotations Visualisation

  Not, perhaps, useful for everything, but I’m getting damn tired of seeing “tag clouds”, and this might offer a start point for another means of easily visualising how often a data item recurrs.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• El Reg on Sony’s frankly ludicrous response to being caught offering software that will destroy windows systems if uninstalled

  They’re not going to fix the software so it uninstalls properly, as would be the obvious thing. They’re just going to stop the software getting picked up by virus scanners. Noted partly out of DRM interest, and also to warn people not to use it.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• Information Aesthetics

  An excellent blog on different ways to visualise information.

• Sparkline PHP Graphing Library

  PHP library for generating sparkline graphs quickly and easily.

• Orchestral Version of the Super Mario Brothers Theme

  Another one for the remix culture file, with the added bonus of being a surprisingly cool piece of orchestral swing…

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• Top 40 Covers Of The Past 40 Years

  The American Society of Magazine Editors list of well, the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years.

• Critiquite of the 40 covers article

  Something that makes the top 40 covers thing a lot more interesting – excellent critique and context for it…

• Albums I am listening to

  This is nice – last.fm have added a function that pulls up the cover art for the albums that a user listens to most, sort of like an online equivalent of browsing someone’s music shelves when left alone in their room…

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• MySQL 5 finally available

  MySQL finally catches up with some of the other database engines out there, with the new stored procedure/view stuff, as well as finally doing basic stuff like subqueries. Maybe I can finally go back to using it as my database-of-choice…

• The Art of Self-Branding: Part One

  Interesting bit of think that might be useful to freelancers/people starting their own (solo) business.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday

• List of Javascript Rich Text Editors

  Handy reference for all those times I need to provide a better HTML editor than just a textarea in a form.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

• BBC iMP – Legal P2P dowloads of BBC content.

  Can I please have a job at the Beeb? They’re forever doing reasonably switched on media stuff like this, and I want to do it to. That Coates fella is leaving, I could try and do his job…

• Flock

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