- Engineers asked children to come up with useless inventions then actually made them
Absolutely brilliant, some really handy things in here.
- Hackers hijack Hollywood hospital.
Alliterative dystopia is the future.
Tag: creativity
Bookmarks for August 21, 2015
- Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version) – YouTube
These people put together a real-life FPS played via Chatroulette. This is some superb work.
- sqmk/Phue
A PHP client for Philips Hue. Because reasons. Also, Dave is a bastard. Because reasons.
Bookmarks for September 25, 2013
- Frank Chimero × Blog × The Inferno of Independence
This is some utterly splendid writing on, well, I guess it's on work, creativity, and loneliness.
Bookmarks for March 13, 2012
- Benjamin Franklin's List Of 13 Virtues To Live By
Nothing that'll blow your mind in here, but still nice.
- Fantastical and BusyCal
Reminder to self, mostly.
- 3.1 Million Pixels Are Heavy (Global Moxie)
Food for thought as regards serving images to the iPad3. And, indeed, any similarly hi-res display. Even if one were tempted to pretend the problem didn't exist for now, because it's "only" the iPad (and I'm aware of the absurdity of that position already, in any case), we're clearly going to reach a point where other displays are as good as well.
- A Precious Hour
I am generally at my happiest when I do this. I should make sure I do it more.
- Create a custom map of your city in 30 minutes with TileMill and OpenStreetMap | MapBox
Well, this might be fun. And possibly useful, too.
Bookmarks for April 20, 2011
- In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay?
A short list of reasons why people will pay for things, even when those things are theoretically available for free. There's no great rocket science here, but it's a handy single-place checklist, if you're planning a creative project, and wondering how you might get paid for it.
- petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
This solves a problem I've been trying to solve for myself for about a year now. Need to grab this and get to work.
Bookmarks for February 22, 2011
- Edwin Himself is Edwin Negado » 10 lessons for young designers.
Good advice atany time, I feel.
Bookmarks for November 3, 2010
- Did somebody just try to buy the British government? – Charlie's Diary
I uh, don't quite know what to make of this. It sounds like conspiracy theory meets internet fraud scam on a national level. But if it's legit, and anyone from Foundation X is reading this and would like to fund me to the tune of say, 4 or 5 million quid with no strings attached, then I'm certainly willing to enter into discussions about how I would usefully use the money…
- The Do Lectures | Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee explains the context through which he came to computers, and makes the case that while people aren't ever going to come to thme that way again, there are still some vitally important things that we should be teaching our children about computers.
- Antony Johnston – Scrivening Comics
If you write, whether it's comics or not, I imagine that by the time you have read this article, you will understand why you need Scrivener in your life. It is hands down the best writing app I have ever encountered, and what's better is that it's surprisingly intuitive to use. Antony's article may have you thinking "god, that sounds like a lot of options, how confusing", but what I love about it is that they're not intrusive, and you can come to them as you need them. Try it just as a word processor, and you'll find that over time, you'll pick up more and more of it's features, just because they're there and easy to understand, until you wonder how you managed to write without it. Just the ability to hold my research notes in a meaningful structure alongside my actual writing, and view both at the same time is invaluable to me, never mind the bits of process tracking it enables me to do…
- The protocol-relative URL « Paul Irish
I didn't know that one could do this. It's pointless tech stuff to most of you, but I'll find it very useful.
Bookmarks for October 13, 2010
- the creative internet (106 things)
Possibly the single biggest and most interesting time-suck I've seen on the internet to date. I've run across a lot of these things before, individually, and the ones I know are very awesome, which makes me think the rest of them will be too. One to sit down with when you've got time to spare, and want to be blow away by the artistic cleverness of others.
- Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex « OkTrends
I adore OKTrends (OKCupid's stats analysis blog) out all measure. Especially when they prove bigots wrong with y'know, actual facts.
- Locals and Tourists – a set on Flickr
Photography heatmaps for various cities – things tourist take photos of compared to locals. Fascinating stuff.
Bookmarks for January 29, 2010
- Adria: elBulli Restaurant to Close for Two Years – TIME
Bugger. Eating at ElBulli was pretty much the top spot on the "things to do before I die" list, and yeah, he's going to re-open, but it's still an experience I'm unlikely to ever get to have, in it's current form. I shall revise it to "Eat Ferran Adria's food", but it's still saddening.
- stevenf.com – I need to talk to you about computers.
Excellent article on the place for an iPad in the history of computing, and the generation shift that is occurring. For myself, I am having to keep reminding myself that I don't need one as a priority, that version 2.0 will be much better, and so on and so forth. I really do want a decent ebook/magazine reader…
- xkcd: Spirit
I found today's XKCD near-heartbreaking on a number of levels. Why aren't we trying to get it home, for fuck's sake? I know it's not alive, but it's out there, and we're not even trying to go after it…
Bookmarks for January 20, 2010
- Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report — Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 — BMJ
Ever wondered what it would be like to perform surgery on yourself? No? Why not? Well, anyway: here's a description of what it's like to have to give yourself an appendectomy. In the Antarctic. With next to no help.
- A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky opens up a serious can of worms, noting that women do not push themselves forward in the way men do. Part of me wants to say "well, *duh*". Shirky suggests that if women behaved in a more self-aggrandising manner, they'd get more equal treatment. I'm just not sure that I want to encourage any more people to behave like some of the self-promoting male pricks I've met.
- plasticbag.org: Should we encourage self-promotion and lies?
Tom Coates identifies some of the problems with what Shirky is suggesting – the problem isn't just that women don't push themselves forward, but often that the wrong people do, and what we should be focusing on is ensuring that everyone correctly advertises their own level of experience and ability – that those that *do* self-promote heavily while they can be useful, can just as often be a total pain.
- apophenia: whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success
Danah Boyd's repose to Shirky and Coates is excellent reading.
- Mass Photo Gathering – I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist
Trafalgar Square at noon on Saturday. Anyone interested?