The Best Questions For A First Date « OkTrends Another bunch of interesting statistical slice-and-dices from OKC. I really hope they keep doing this, even through they've been acquired by match.com
Why second-hand bookshops smell good File under: interesting trivia I never knew. Also: "Why yes, given enough time, science *can* explain everything."
Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind The BBC it seems, refuse to learn lessons from their own history. I'm usually one to defend the BBC against a lot of the flak it gets, but this is just plain stupid. Archiving these sites should be a matter of maybe an hour's work each, at most.
Isotope Tech bollocks. JS (specifically, jQuery, my new best friend) library for doing all sorts of very nice layout/sorting tricks. Bound to be handy.
To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the century If you live in the UK, stop what you're doing and read this, assuming you haven't already. This is somewhere between absurd and terrifying, and I simply don't understand how anyone in Cameron's position can contemplate it. Well, I do, but the only way it makes sense to me is active malice and contempt for other people, which is a motivation I find hard to ascribe to any human being.
NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device If this isn't vapourware, then I am at least interested in having a play with one. I've never been happy with scribbling handwritten noted on the ipad, but I do want to stop carrying paper for scribbling on.
V&A Victoria Albert Museum > ‘Pause and Wonder’ by Aardvark (Print) Not by my employers, but by a Hastings-based operation, selling this particular object through the V&A shop. I like their work (you may recall that I linked/purchased their 2010 manifesto last year), and think this is particularly lovely. I'm bookmarking it as a memo to self, so that I remember to try and pick this up next time I'm in the V&A.
This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big, to contain so many volunteers. | openDemocracy Philip Pullman, speaking in defence of libraries, neatly skewers the problem with Dangerous Dave's beloved Big Society, where we will all help each other and and volunteer to keep public services going: who do you know has the spare time, energy and ability to go without earning a living or looking after the kids in order to volunteer?
3-D TV? How about holographic TV? Wow. Only 15fps, and currently requires IR kit to watch, but against that – this is done with off the shelf consumer goods and was made in a matter of weeks. Are you happy with your future now? For consideration: add a second kinect/mocap device and a bit more coding, and you could have interactive 3D.
Lost Bomber – Techbelly Mentally link this with the story of the woman the other week who was looking to put her disabled daughter into care, because she couldn't cope with the cuts. Futher thoughts: anecdote != data, but anecdote is useful to understand and connect with data.
Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things – Emoticomp Interesting idea to bear in mind when designing apps/systems – how to give it an emotional face, that it is consistent, and ideally, compelling.