Bookmarks for May 31, 2012

Bookmarks for May 30, 2012

Bookmarks for May 28, 2012

Bookmarks for May 25, 2012

  • Griot
    The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
    Tags: research, shaman
  • UI design in the Avengers
    Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
    Tags: design, ui, film
  • London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
    A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
    Tags: underground, steam, trains

Bookmarks for May 24, 2012

  • Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
    If I know anyone who lives in these zones (and I suspect I do) I *strongly* encourage you to buy competitor products, and leave them prominently in your windows. And, indeed, to pass this idea on. It would be *lovely* if the streets in these areas were plastered with the logos of competing brands – not as paid for advertising, but just as spontaneous citizen reclamation of the space that belongs to them, not to advertisers and marketers.
    Tags: london, advertising, olympics

Bookmarks for May 23, 2012

Bookmarks for May 21, 2012

  • The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps
    Really useful set of stuff. Wonder how fast I could roll my own wordpress layout with these tools.
    Tags: design, tools, webdesign
  • electric imp
    Easy to install wifi for well, everything. If this takes off, things (no, literally, things, physical-object-things are going to get interesting. The only thing I object to is the same thing I do with all cloud services – that the devices talk to the company's servers, rather than a system in the home, thereby making the company a single point-of-failure for its own technology. You would not buy a wristwatch that stopped working if Casio went bust, why sould any other technology be different.
    Tags: hardware, electronics, wifi

Bookmarks for May 18, 2012

  • Easter island heads have bodies!?? | Thinkbox
    From the department of "I did not know that". There's a story in there somewhere. Possibly underground.
    Tags: weird, statues, trivia
  • Blogging is not a thing, it’s an attitude
    A simple and clear insight into why "corporate blogging" is an oxymoron. In order to blog, one must be free to express one's *true* thoughts, on any subject that one is moved to. Otherwise, you're just writing on a website. Which is not a bad thing – there is not value judgement necessarily implied here, although yes, I do have a preference, and you can guess what it is – but it's not blogging.
    Tags: writing, blogging