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OK, I need to read this in more depth when I get home tonight. I'd missed this before, and it looking like it could do some seriously interesting stuff.
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A photographer friend of mine is most of the way through a project to take photos in all 50 states of the US, and is trying to raise the cash to finish the job. If you've got a few quid to spare, please consider pitching it her way – she's bloody good, and I want to see the results of the complete project.
Genuine, For Real And Serious Question
Can anyone think of anywhere in London I can get an astronaut costume from on very short notice, and for sub 50 quid? I need it this time next week. I don’t mean an average, shitty fancy-dress-party type outfit, I mean something that actually looks within some reasonable mark of the real deal.
Links For Friday 10th July 2009
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Some really interesting picks here. I think I'm going to have to make efforts to acquire a few of the works mentioned in here that I've never read.
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Advice about dealing with Photographers given to officers by the Met. Sensible, clear, know your rights stuff. If an officer talking to you does *not* know your rights, then you might try giving them this, because after all, it's their boss telling them what they're allowed to do.
A Little Summer Music
Bruce Sterling At Reboot
Shut up and listen to the clever man.
Links For Wednesday 8th July 2009
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Look, I know I go on a lot about IE, and most of you are sick of it, but the gods honest truth is that using IE actively stifles innovation on the internet, because we have to spend so much time working out how to support it that we don't have the time or budget to get on with anything really interesting. Until Microsoft either take the web seriously enough to implement some proper fucking standards, then using IE is actively hindering the rest of us getting on with inventing the future. Even if you don't care about viruses, please stop it, or urge the people who are making you use it to stop it – I will happily provide supporting documents to counter *any* or their arguments about "business" or "security" reasons.
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"Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika."
Links For Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Iphone app for mac users – get growl notifications from your mac forwarded to your iphone as push notifications. I can see a number of uses for this one…
Music Video: Sour
Via Phil’s always-worth-the-time Sleevelessness, this is the one of the cleverest music video’s I’ve seen in a while – both for the visuals, and the involvement of their fanbase. The bit with the cameras is particularly impressive, just for the careful planning it must have taken.
Another One And Other
Just a reminder, mostly for the Londoners, (although I will be getting broadcast live on the the elektrical internets by webcam, if anyone is that heart-stoppingly bored) that I will be on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of One And Other on Monday July the 20th (not quite two weeks away, now) between 10 and 11pm.
I plan to be up there with camera and tripod taking such pictures as suggest themselves to me, weather permitting. If you fancy coming along to watch/throw things, I’d appreciate the support. If you fancy turning up in some kind of ludicrous outfit, thus helping ensure that I have things to photograph from up on the plinth, that’s even better, but outfit or not, if you’re in town, and not busy, do swing by.
Links For Monday 6th July 2009
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"The next time you see an application you like, think very long and hard about all the user-oriented details that went into making it a pleasure to use, before decrying how you could trivially reimplement the entire damn thing in a weekend. Nine times out of ten, when you think an application was ridiculously easy to implement, you’re completely missing the user side of the story."
Clients at work routinely ask up to "just you what you did for [otherclient] – just reuse the code, so it won't take you very long", and then look at us like we're trying to con them when we explain that no, we can't do that. And this is kind of why – we learn and reuse relevent bits, but each client gets a custom codebase, because we build the best tools we can for each one. So they're not interoperable.