- Ariana Osborne » Happy Birthday To Me.
Internet friend Ariana Osborne on the magic of the present. If you're annoyed with your lack of jetpack, I suggest this as a dose of perspective.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2009
- David Foster Wallace on Life and Work – WSJ.com
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the 'rat race' — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."
Bookmarks for August 17, 2009
- Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule (via Nick…
"The morning question, what good shall I do today?" "Evening question, What good have I done today?"
Bookmarks for August 13, 2009
- YouTube – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
This is where you live. Go and look.
- The Trouble with the Segway
Interesting piece on the design of objects, and the effect it can have on perceptions of their use.
- New consumers and new business opportunities
My brain is a bit fried right now, and even though I'm mainlining coffee, I'm not in a state to really retain serious information. So I'm marking this as one to come back to, as it looks interesting.
- Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
I cut my teeth building systems for a local newspaper company – one, in fact, that I had delivered as a teenager, for pocket money. It's very easy to dismiss local papers as lacking in real news content, and full instead of trivial local rubbish, but the reality is that they provide local-community level news that really is important to the daily lives of many people. There is a very real need to find alternative infrastructure to distribute this information, ideally in a non-digital form.
- Introduction To LED Lighting | DIYPhotography.net
I think I could have fun with some of this shit. Need to go LED shopping soon.
Bookmarks for August 12, 2009
- Steampunk gas mask in black leather by TomBanwell on Etsy
The rest of this guy's work is good, too, but this is just fucking gorgeous.
Bookmarks for August 10, 2009
- Stross-Krugman 2009-08-06-24.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Charles Stross in conversation with Paul Krugman. Well worth a listen. Particularly the bit about what ladies who lunch will be eating in fifteen-twenty years time, which made me laugh like a drain.
Bookmarks for August 7, 2009
- The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull – The Morning News
A day in the overheard life of London.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2009
- 1938_Phantom_Corsair.jpg (JPEG Image, 801×481 pixels)
Why do I not own one of these? Someone see to it at once!
- Sator Square – Wikipedia
I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it in a stuffy classroom.
- LOVE ME (work in progress) | Maisie Crow Photojournalist
Go. Look at this. Stunning, bleak, depressing photojournalism on poverty in America.
Haven’t Done A Book Meme In A While
Don’t take too long to think about it. 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They don’t have to be the greatest books you’ve ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
The House at Pooh Corner – A.A. Milne
The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
45 – Bill Drummond
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night – Christopher Brookmyre
Accelerando – Charles Stross
The Great Shark Hunt – Hunter S. Thompson
Bane – Joe Donnelly
Raw Spirit – Iain Banks
Fucked By Rock – Zodiac Mindwarp
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
Quantum Psychology – Robert Anton Wilson
King Rat – Chine Mieville
I Was Dora Suarez – Derek Raymond
The Complete HP Lovecraft – HP Lovecraft
Nicking nalsa‘s Variation: that took me six minutes and ten seconds – timing myself made it a bit more interesting. (Also I could have been faster, but I was disqualifying comics.) (I suspect that my inclusion of Kitchen Confidential might be partly due to bleed from his list, but I left it in, because I think it deserves to be there anyway.)
Adding My Own Twist: If you’d like to know more about a book, or what it means to me, leave a comment explaining what you’d like to know about my relationship with that book, and I’ll tell you.
Bookmarks for August 3, 2009
- Movie box office charts
Is you have any interest in data visualisation at all, you need to take a look at these. Really interesting way to present information of this kind – it allows interesting abberations to be identified really quickly and conveniently. What else might be suitable to present this way, other than the pop charts?