- 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.
Links for Wednesday March 14th 2012
- Alchemist Dreams – Handmade Liqueurs from Organic Spirit › Home
I am quite excited about this place, from where you can order the custom made boozes. I have ordered a couple of small bottles of my own devising, and will report back as to taste. - 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.”
Links for Tuesday March 13th 2012
- Benjamin Franklin’s List Of 13 Virtues To Live By
Nothing that'll blow your mind in here, but still nice. - Fantastical and BusyCal
Reminder to self, mostly. - 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. - Create a custom map of your city in 30 minutes with TileMill and OpenStreetMap | MapBox
Well, this might be fun. And possibly useful, too.
Links for Monday March 12th 2012
- Portenzo iPad case
Another iPad book-case manufacturer. Choices, choices… - Flickr Sometimes Deletes Your Content Even Though They Don’t Have To | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
I keep meaning to have a look around for a decent flickr competitor. It'll make me very sad to leave, but there we go. - www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/list-hub/emusics-best-albums-of-2011-3/:
As my housemate put it "new music a-go-go!" Time to start going through this lot and seeing what sounds good.
Links for Friday March 9th 2012
- 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.
Links for Thursday March 8th 2012
- Air quotes, "product"
Matt Webb on products – what a product is, and how they're changing. - Old Maps Online
A really, truly lovely bit of google maps work. pick an area out with google maps, see the old maps that were made of that area.
Links for Tuesday March 6th 2012
- Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
This would be very handy for mobile apps. - Who Said It? Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?
Just a little bit terrifying. - 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. - iPad Folio Cases by Fieldfolio
I have no idea why I might be contemplating a new iPad case. None.
Links for Monday March 5th 2012
- How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Magazine – The Atlantic
At last, science looks like it may have proven that which I have always known to be true: owning cats is bad for you, and yes, they really are controlling your brain.
Links for Saturday March 3rd 2012
- Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction
Any once again, I mutter "I'll get round to it one of these days" to myself… (In case you're wondering, I've been largely away from the t'internet for a week, being either parked in front of the Xbox or out doing museums and galleries, and I'm catching up on what I've missed.) - In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
I find the sort of future he's describing here quite pleasing, as he's essentially saying that the one aspect of modern life that cannot be reduced away is the idea of a social hub. The practical reality of the matter is that someone with an internet connect does not need to go to the shops, the office, or really anywhere, except places where they can be among other humans. - CERN | booktwo.org
Here's a nice, easy to understand, and very readable bit of writing about CERN, what they do there, and why it's important. - Olloclip vs iPro Lens review | The TechBlock
Been vaguely wondering about getting one of these. On the strength of this, it looks like the iPro is the one to get. - Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities. » blog2.easydns.org – Happenings and observations
The US government have just demonstrated that they will sieze the internet based assets of foreign entities, even though no transaction related to those assets took place on US soil, and the crimes it thinks the company may have committed are not illegal in the places they may have committed them. This is (very) roughly like the US government marching into someone's home in London, and taking away their TV (that was purchased in London), on the grounds that it can be used to watch programs made in the US, because the owner, while living in London, drank alcohol at the age of 19. (I pick a trivial offence only because it's the first thing I can think of as an easy and everyday difference between US law and the law elsewhere.)To quote the article: "This is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened."
- 15+ Google Chrome extensions for better privacy control
Every time I need to set up a new install of Chrome, I have to hunt this page out. I'm bookmarking it so as to save myself a little time next time. Some of you may find a lot of it useful, too.
Links for Monday February 27th 2012
- Infovore » A Year of Links
This is really quite tempting, particularly as Tom's been kind enough to make the source code so readily available. I've been doing this sort of thing pretty much as long as he has (in a slightly less interesting manner) and it might be fun to have a physical object sitting on the shelf to represent that.