- The Berlin Reunion – The Big Picture
By the look of it, Royal de Luxe knocked it out of the park again. I really, really wish they'd come back to London. I mean, I know we got them a few yers ago, and everyone should get a turn too, but they really are a dose of pure magic, and I would love to seem them perform again.
Bookmarks for October 7, 2009
- TidBITS Macs & Mac OS X: Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application Mode
This is absolutely brilliant. I've just enabled it on my work Mac, which generally has 10+ apps running. (Browser, Mail, IDE, chat client, iCal, spreadsheet, DB client, RSS reader, terminal, iTunes, PDF reader, various others), and suddenly my level of visual clutter is down to near zero.
Bookmarks for October 6, 2009
- 30 Free Comic Fonts
There's a few absolute gems in here…
- BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself
A bunch of leading psychologists give their answers to the above question. It's interesting what's revealed – these are the people who best understand how our brains work, and the cognitive quirks that they throw up, and yet they're still at the mercy of these same quirks themselves.
Bookmarks for October 2, 2009
- Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize
Sexy *and* useful.
Bookmarks for October 1, 2009
- New Theme: DePo Square « Blog « WordPress.com
Hmm. Might want to have a play with this – I used to use Powazek's themes for all my sites, before deciding I wanted them to be a little more visually distinct. This one would suit tumblelog type content.
Bookmarks for September 30, 2009
- nef 'five-a-day' to well-being in major new government report
None of these are rocket science, when when considering them as a checklist, I suspect generally manage about 3-4 of these on any given day – one or two of them almost always fall by the wayside. Must try and find ways to structure my day so I hit all 5 more often.
Bookmarks for September 28, 2009
- Mitch Horowitz: What is the occult? – Boing Boing
Interesting definition supplied. I like the term "occult" because it's admirably woobly-woo resistant, when correctly understood (something far too many "practicioners" fail to do). As I'm sure most of you know, it means "hidden". And what is hidden may be revealed with science when we work it out. It's a lot better than "supernatural", which is a term I don't like – there is no supernatural, merely the natural that science has not fully explained yet.
- Chord by Conrad Shawcross
Must remember to book tickets to see this.
- re:vision recycled camera lens bracelets – Oye Modern. Unique, funky, limited edition jewellery.
Beautiful, and I kinda want one, but much, much too pricey to be worth it.
- MediaPost Publications Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account
This sort of combination of abuse of power and utter moronic stupidity by the courts and major institutions makes me incandescent. There are far worse things that happen in the world every day, and I know it, but this sort of thing is a particular hot-button for me, because it's so self-evidently unjust and unreasonable that I cannot fathom how any sane person could conceive of it as a decent or sensible thing to do.
- Dyatlov Pass incident – Wikipedia
Well, this is crying out to be recycled into some nasty bit of horror/mystery fiction or something.
Bookmarks for September 24, 2009
- Innocent in London – 'Suspicious behaviour on the tube'
Interesting, if long, account of one man's unlawful arrest shortly fter the 7/7 bombings, and his long, slow progress to getting the records expunged, and a general apology for the shoddy behaviour of the police. Worth a read.
- Stacey, Simplified portfolios
Really, really simply image portfolio system. Might have a go at this myself, as and when I get around to organising my photos in some useful manner.
- Blood-powered lamp
This is awesome on a number of levels. I want several.
- Nee Naw – Marshmallows
On the one hand, this is a tragedy. Someone's, y'know, dead. On the other, well…
Bookmarks for September 23, 2009
- Let Pandas Die out, Says Naturalist – ABC News
I have been saying this for years. They're bad tempered (even by the standards of bears), given any sort of choice, they will choose eat food that is nassively bad for them, and they don't like shagging. And while I know I fit two of those three criteria myself, the difference between me and them is that I'm not draining the resources of charities that could be better used for other, more useful species.
- russell davies: ruricomp
Some musing on the fate of those who may not get caught up in the u(r)bicomp culture shift of the coming decades.
- LRB · Roy Mayall: Diary
Fucked off by postal strikes? (I know I am – my twice-weekly delivery from Graze hasn't had any delicious fresh fruit in for weeks, and often turns up on completely the wrong day of late.) Go and read this, and learn a bit about what's actually going on with your post. Maybe you'll have a bit more sympathy for the poor bastards who have to deliver it. I know I do.
- Red Dust – a gallery on Flickr
Jesus cocking christ. A) I am glad I do not live anywhere near Sydney right now. B) These are some fucking stunning photos – it's like looking at life in some future martian city.
Bookmarks for September 22, 2009
- David Byrne’s Perfect City – WSJ.com
A quote by David Byrne from Matt's article that I thought I was worth saving in it's own right:
"A city can't be too small. Size guarantees anonymity—if you make an embarrassing mistake in a large city, and it's not on the cover of the Post, you can probably try again. The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is invaluable—it's how things get created. In a small town everyone knows about your failures, so you are more careful about what you might attempt." - The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future – Future metro – io9
Matt Jones on the future of cities, their place in sf, and well, a typically smart piece of joined up thinking. Just go and read it.
- YouTube – Outlaw commentary highlights
This is one of the funniest bits of DVD commentary I've heard in ages. I am genuinely unsure if this is a joke or not, but still, it's hysterical.
- The Ultimate Uncluttered Tube Map – Londonist
This is inspired. I recommend this map to all vistors to London. It really does contain 90% of everything tourists need, and for the other 10%, just ask a native. (Assuming you know any. If you don't, then how the hell are you reading this?)