- Why I have left Twitpic, and why you should too.
If you are a photographer who likes to maintain any kind of control over the licensing of their images, or even if you just don't like corporations whose default assumption is that they should have all the rights to do as they please forever and ever, including profiting off their users creativity without sharing that profit with their users, you should probably stop using Twitpic.
Bookmarks for May 10, 2011
- The New Aesthetic | Blog | Really Interesting Group
Interesting mapping of a maybe-trend. Not 100% convinced, but it's something to think about.
Bookmarks for May 9, 2011
- Anonymiss Communications
"Anonymiss is an Anonymous operations group. It’s focused on women’s issues in the emerging economies, amongst other things. Anonymiss is partnering with regional NGOs, bloggers, and human rights organizations to leverage resources and get results. Grab a stick, get in the game. Fellas welcome." Interesting business.
- Above 49: Those Other Indie Games
Have heard brilliant things about Fiasco, and most of the others here sound like top rate stuff as well. Must give them a look.
Bookmarks for May 8, 2011
- FITC Toronto 2011 Titles on Vimeo
This video is a work of genius. Go watch.
Bookmarks for May 6, 2011
- From Me To You
Some really clever effects here, almost a redefinition of what a photo can be for the 21st century. Go look.
- One generation, new species – all-female lizard bred in a lab
Men to be declared obsolete within the next 100 years. Probably for the best.
- Even Robots Can Be Heroes – ScienceNOW
Robots running an evolving algorithm have been shown to spontaneously develop altruism as a beneficial strategy. One in the eye for objectivists or selfish bastards – it turns out thta evolution can, in fact, produce altruism, and that it works better than selfishness.
Links for Thursday May 5th 2011
- Kinect and 3D printer turns people into action-figure souvenirs – Boing Boing
Another one from the "shut up about your fucking jetpack already" files: using consumer-grade tech and little hacking, we can now scan people in full 3D, and print out action figures based on them. Stop and think about that – all those sci-fi body scanners where the hero walks through some kind of light grid, and then we see the little £D spinning image of them on some computer screen? Yeah, that. Now think about that for just for tailoring alone, for god's sake. - Look at this DIY banana DNA extraction – Boing Boing
If you're wondering where science is at these days, look here. It's a bloke in a tent with a drill, some stuff you've got in your kitchen, and about 10 quid's worth of kit that you can buy with paypal over the electric intertubes, demonstrating how to extract your own DNA, and where you can go from there. - ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform
Need to grab this and have a play with it when time permits. - Byword
Another "focus on your writing and only that" type app. They're not a magical thing that will make you write better, but they do often improve the experience. This one looks particularly aesthetically pleasing. - Use SSH scripts to share Safari tabs between two Macs
Less interested in this for itself, and more as a demonstration of principle. - Information Architects – Business Class: Freemium for News?
To any news-publishing company execs who are reading this: I would pay in the region of 25 quid a year *per publication I read online* (and I read a lot) for a Business-Class news experience. I'd like to pay less, of course, but I'm just saying: an annual subscription to a *really good* news experience is something I'd love.
Bookmarks for May 4, 2011
- 25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future
Why are all of these not arranged within convenient walking distance of my house? They are utterly brilliant bits of work.
- Workers leaving the googleplex
A story about how someone got fired from Google for being curious about his fellow employees. One might almost think that Google didn't want it getting out that they appear to be making use of minimum wage labour, and treating them worse than they treat all their other employees. That might make them look like they don't care if they're evil or not.
Bookmarks for April 21, 2011
- 2D Glasses
This is 100% of brilliant. One of those oh-so-simple ideas that you encounter and think "why didn't I think of that?". I'll be ordering a pair!
Bookmarks for April 20, 2011
- In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay?
A short list of reasons why people will pay for things, even when those things are theoretically available for free. There's no great rocket science here, but it's a handy single-place checklist, if you're planning a creative project, and wondering how you might get paid for it.
- petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
This solves a problem I've been trying to solve for myself for about a year now. Need to grab this and get to work.
Bookmarks for April 19, 2011
- The pernicious influence of immigrants in the UK
If, and only if, you actively hate everything on this list, may you even think about making an anti-immigrant remark. If on the other hand, you have ever thought about doing so, and like even one of these things, even a little, then you must leave the country at once.
- cityofsound: Stadsmuziek, by Akko Golenbeld
Just go and look at this. If architecture is frozen music, then this is the music being played. What a brilliant idea.