Bookmarks for June 7, 2010
- Longform.org
Absolutely superb idea – I've been instapapering stuff left and right, thanks to the new toy, so a site that is geared to recommending good Instapaper fodder is a great niche.
Dream Sequence
I’ve been playing with an app called Plastic Bullet on my iphone. It takes an image, and applies a bunch of random filters to make it look like it was taken with a particularly crappy old camera. Most of what it does isn’t fit for anything but amusing myself, but every so often, it throws up a gem, like this one, snapped at the pub yesterday.
Bookmarks for June 4, 2010
- Street Giant » Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR
In the course of excoriating BP, a noble end in and of itself, he says this: "You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand. Offer a great, innovative product and make responsible, ethical business decisions." To which I can simply say: Yes. This. Now please all got and read the whole piece, because it's great.
- Coins database: Government opens up books on public spending for first time | Politics | guardian.co.uk
You know, I don't think I have a spare 120GB of storage space. I may need to do something about that. In any event, this might well make things interesting over the next while, as people start digging into how much is spent where…
Bookmarks for June 3, 2010
- AndrewBlum.net: Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacobs in an Age of Global Change
Interesting piece about the mapping of digital community to real-world local-level community.
Bookmarks for June 2, 2010
- "Likejacking" Takes Off on Facebook
Oh look. Facebook "likeing" has security vulnerabilities. At the moment, what's out there appears just to spam your facebook friends by inserting extra "likes" into your feed. Wonder how long before someone uses it to do something more malicious? This is pretty much the ne plus ultra of my problems with Facebook – it's not just that they're shady privacy invading bastards, it's that they're actively encouraging people to have bad security habits, by teaching them to trust things that are not trustworthy, and it's only a matter of time until someone gets seriously screwed by that.
Bookmarks for June 1, 2010
- How to Get More Privacy From Facebook's New Privacy Controls | Electronic Frontier Foundation
For those of you that have remained with them, here's a step by step guide to sorting out your privacy settings so that they'll give you maximum prviacy, until the next time the rules change. It's over 800 words long, and contains a video, and I'll restrain my ranting for now but the point is that at least you can get the job done.
- SproutRobot!
Lovely idea. Wish that a) I had a garden and b) they operated in the UK. Still the US-ians among you might get something tasty out of it.
Self Portrait #1
I let Miranda get at the new iPad. Behold the result of 10 minutes playing with the Brushes app. She is no longer allowed at the iPad.
Bookmarks for May 27, 2010
- Restaurant websites: the food, the bad and the ugly | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Bookmarking because I want to come back to it and look at any comments, once it's had a chance to garner a few. Work-related, obviously.
This Will Get Easier In A Few Days
I’d like to get in the habit of doing the blog-all-dog-eared-pages thing, but I really really hate dog-earing pages. I’m not absurdly fussy about the state of my books – they are working objects after all – but I don’t like folding the corners of the pages. So I thought I’d note this one down while it was fresh in my head.
“The craftiest storytellers can tell you a tale without you realising it’s being told. They are called advertisers [..] They can tell a story with a phrase, a picture, and sometimes with a single pencil line. Without them transnationals would become extinct because in order to sell, they have to tell stories. They have to tell them to survive”
From Mark Thomas’ “Belching Out The Devil“
Bookmarks for May 25, 2010
- What have we today? (Phil Gyford’s website)
"A few inches of skirts, page three girls, children swearing, glue-sniffing and acid house parties. How will it end? Is this progress? " This has been my amusement for today.
- The Magical Menagerie
It turns out that sometimes good things *do* happen in Milton Keynes. I know, I'm as shocked as you. A new thing, by the people who did the Sultan's Elephant. If anyone fancies making a group trip out of it, Miranda and I have tickets for 3pm on the 31st of July.