How to write faster. – Slate Magazine No shattering insights, but the sort of everyday tips that it's worth reminding oneself of every so often, particularly the importance of routine over quantity.
Sun Drums I wish to acquire this for to listen to on the electrical ipod. I must remember to download it when I get home. For free and everything.
PayPal Here Paypal have launched a competitor to Square. Neither are available in the UK, so I don't care that much, but they're an indicator of the future, and it's good to see competition in this space. Although frankly, I think you'd have to be mad to try and run a serious business with Paypal, given their oft-demonstrated willingness to simply seize their users assets for spurious reasons like "we thought you were making too much money".
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod | Video on TED.com It's not going to come as a galloping shock to anyone here to discover that the numbers quoted by the pro-copyright-enforcement lobby in terms of lost revenue and jobs are total crap, btu this TED talk makes it clear just how much total bullshit they are. And is funny. Go watch.
Amazings This is brilliant, but I don't live in East London. This does not seem like the sort of thing it would be hard to roll out to new areas, mind. I just wish they'd hurry up and get to poor neglected Tooting.
Internet of Things Camera – I have often thought that I should learn a bit about this arduino business that all the cool kids are playing with. This one speaks directly to my interests, and looks (relatively) simple. If I find the spare time and cash, it might be a good place to start.
Crossed Mr Spurrier has a new free-to-air weekly webcomic for your delight and edification, which I urge you to read. I cannot possible top the official blurb for it, so here it is: “Wish You Were Here is a story about a fixed community on one of the bleak little rocks off the coast of Scotland. It’s about monsters who look like people, and people who act like monsters. It’s about how a changed world changes its inhabitants. It’s about class and violence and dignity and love. It’s about twenty-four doomed souls, each with their own story, trying to find a reason to Stay Alive. It’s about resources and strategy and survival. It’s about faith and art and misery. Oh, and in Episode #3 a cow shits out a grenade and explodes.”
3.1 Million Pixels Are Heavy (Global Moxie) Food for thought as regards serving images to the iPad3. And, indeed, any similarly hi-res display. Even if one were tempted to pretend the problem didn't exist for now, because it's "only" the iPad (and I'm aware of the absurdity of that position already, in any case), we're clearly going to reach a point where other displays are as good as well.
A Precious Hour I am generally at my happiest when I do this. I should make sure I do it more.
What will the #NHSbill do? I don’t think you’re worried enough. Read this, maybe write to your MP. – bengoldacre – secondary blog Just in case you're in the UK and have missed this, here's Ben Goldacre, on the bald facts of the NHS Bill, which are basically that it clearly signals the end of free healthcare in Britain. Any MP voting in favour of this bill is the kind of scum who wants their children (and yours) to receive less than they themselves have had. Write to your MP, and inform them that you will note vote for them again if they vote in favour of this bill, because voting for the kind of creature that would endorse this makes you one of them.
Calvin and Hobbes desktop wallpapers. I usually use my own photos as a desktop background (I wouldn't take them if they didn't make me happy) but I think I may have to use a few of these, instead.