Alasdair Watson

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Links for Monday October 7th 2013

  • 31 days of halloween | Atlas Obscura
    I want to remember to come back and read this lot.
October 7, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Why Buy Old Sounds

Sun Ra's old business card

One of Sun Ra’s business cards, and a mantra for life.

October 7, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Friday October 4th 2013

  • russell davies: the web, the web, the web
    Follow up to the post I linked yesterday, explaining his thinking (which I agree with, and is what I took from his post) in more detail.
October 4, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Thursday October 3rd 2013

  • russell davies: death to innovation
    Yes. Very much this. Spend as much time and money on ensuring you meet the basic minimums your customers expect as you do on innovation. Do this on a *ongoing* basis. Revisit what you've already build. Spend money on building it again, better.
October 3, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Thursday September 26th 2013

  • buger/gor · GitHub
    This is a tool that will take traffic that's hitting your live server, and replay it against other environments – effectively conducting as-live testing against other systems. This could be very useful indeed.
  • Lyke-Wake Dirge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    I turned this up a few years back, and then forgot about it. I have uses for it, and don't want to forget again.
September 26, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Wednesday September 25th 2013

  • Frank Chimero × Blog × The Inferno of Independence
    This is some utterly splendid writing on, well, I guess it's on work, creativity, and loneliness.
September 25, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Tuesday September 24th 2013

  • View Park Sloper walletpen by OneStarLeatherGoods on Etsy
    Quite tempted by one of these – a bit bigger than I like my wallet to be, but I like the idea of being able to keep a Field Notes notebook in there without it getting dog eared.
September 24, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Sunday September 22nd 2013

  • Shahr-e Sukhteh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.
September 22, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Friday September 20th 2013

  • Elephant cognition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Elephants are jut awesome.
  • Scientific proof that creative people have messy desks | Business News | Business and Finance News | | Herald Sun
    Vindicated at last!
September 20, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

Links for Thursday September 19th 2013

  • Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut : The Salt : NPR
    Weird and funny, although not, I imagine, if it happens to you.
September 19, 2013Alasdair Leave a comment

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