- Making Software
Someone out there is writing a comprehensive quide to making software, stating from first principles. At present, there's only one chapter available, on how displays work (because almost all software invovles something being displayed to someone at some point, and without them, there'd be no software). If the rest of the book is up to this standard, it'll be amazing.
- Information is Beautiful
These are great. There are several in here I believed, and I'm probably going to start adding oil to pasta water again, if it really does stop it boiling over. And I'm going to stop worrying that I'm not drinknig enough water.
Tag: books
Bookmarks for March 7, 2016
- Nook pulls out of UK – can't guarantee access to ebooks
If I owned a Nook, I would a) be furious and b) be looking to break the DRM on everything on it, ASAP.
- Dymaxion: Infrastructural Games and Societal Play
An article on using Nordic LARP tools to design and build societal infrastructure. Fascinating/important and at the perfect intersection of my interests.
- The Official Hannibal Cookbook Will Not Include Human Ingredients
The important bit: there's going to be a Hannibal cookbook!
Bookmarks for August 8, 2014
- 100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels
Many of these are brilliant. I think we should bring back eighteenth century style naming for fiction.
- How London’s Rivers Got Their Names | Londonist
Just in case you're curious.
Bookmarks for May 29, 2014
- 10 Books That Could Change the Way You Understand Modern Cities
OK, I think I may need to pick up a few of these, so just noting for future reference.
Bookmarks for May 27, 2014
- Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil? – Charlie's Diary
Here's a good primer on why Amazon are likely to be long-term bad for creators. As well as being short term bad for anyone who works for them…
Bookmarks for January 2, 2014
- Mapped: London’s Independent Bookshops | Londonist
Not that i buy a lot of physical books these days, but handy nonetheless.
Bookmarks for August 7, 2012
- Crowdsource book tours and host author events | Togather.com
A kickstarter-like arrangement for book tours. That's actually pretty cool.
Bookmarks for March 23, 2012
- A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Presumed Inane
This si interesting food for thought – a couterpoint to the usual amazon-is-bad publishing-industry rhetoric. I don't know if I buy it (and I don't know if I don't) but it's certainly made me think about some of the things I've taken for granted as "facts" in the debate.
- On Improving iBooks – Connor Tomas O'Brien
This is two years old, and I am frustrated that most of the things that are being talked about here are not implemented. At the very least, it seems it ought to be possible to make iBooks-DRMed content available to other apps on the same device, via API. Apple/Publishers still get to make their sales money, while another app could do the work of tracking my reading habits.
- Large Bookbag – Henry Tomkins
I think I may have found the bag of my dreams. Satchel strap, double buckle, with front pocket. Knocking on the door of 200 quid, as opposed to my current 40 quid effort, but oh, isn't it beautiful? Time to start saving.
- Cool Tools: Where There Is No Doctor
This is either brilliant, or pure hypochondria fodder.
- Geeklist and a public apology
In the spirit of fairness: Geeklist have made a pretty unreserved public apology in the time since I bookmarked that first link. I'm still annoyed that they didn't get it right first time, but then, who among can say that they always do?
- Cow magnet – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have absolutely no reason to blog this, except that I did not know these were a thing, and the words "Cow Magnet" make me laugh. I also wish that there was an accepted a alt.fan.warlord syntax for blogging as this comment would have been shorter if I thought more than three of you would understand IHNW IJLTS "Cow Magnets" without having to look anything up.
- OH HAI SEXISM · charlesarthur · Storify
Short version: woman calls geek men on their sexism. Geek men lash out in a grossly disproportionate and unprofessional manner. This is nothing new, except that these people are in the same industry as me, with a product that is targeted at, well, people exactly like me – well, it's saddening. And pathetic.
Bookmarks for February 27, 2012
- Infovore » A Year of Links
This is really quite tempting, particularly as Tom's been kind enough to make the source code so readily available. I've been doing this sort of thing pretty much as long as he has (in a slightly less interesting manner) and it might be fun to have a physical object sitting on the shelf to represent that.
Bookmarks for August 24, 2011
- New Android spyware answers incoming calls – SC Magazine US
Anyone want to bet me that there was a governmental intelligence agency involved in the development of this, at some point?
- Home – Readmill
I've just signed up for the beta of this service. Will dump books across to it in the next day or so, and give it a go. The app certainly looks nice, just as a shame apple don't expose an API to pull books out of the iBooks app, meaning I'm going to wind up with (quite a lot of) duplicate data on my iPad.
- FOSS Patents: Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' movie as prior art against iPad design patent
This one is really interesting, and I kind of hope they succeed, just so sci-fi writers all over American can get really litigious with big corporations going around turning all their ideas into reality.
- What Does Google Mean By “Evil?” (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
This has been on my mind lately, and it's an interesting perspective. Swartz is suggesting that Google's definition of "evil" is "not making things worse for users in order to make more money". It's not a bad suggestion, and if it's accurate, it's still more than many companies even attempt, but (as is probably obvious if you've listened to me bang on for a while) I think it's perfectly possible to be "evil" and still hew to that definition. (I also don't agree that the G+/real names nonsense passes that definition of "evil", but that's another thing.)