- Air quotes, "product"
Matt Webb on products – what a product is, and how they're changing.
- Old Maps Online
A really, truly lovely bit of google maps work. pick an area out with google maps, see the old maps that were made of that area.
Tag: history
Bookmarks for December 6, 2011
- Waldo Jaquith – On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
One of those things that no-one stops to think about. We think about how the world changes in ways that make things that were impossible into possible, but we don't think about the ways that we are given new ways to combine the already-possible. A century ago, we had tomatoes, lettuce, beef, cheese and bread, but it's not until recently that we could combine them with any kind of practicality.
Bookmarks for September 7, 2011
- Mastergram
Instagram is an absolutely brilliant thing – I'd be using it for my photoblogging, if it hadn't launched about three weeks after I started 365bullets, but it's going to be the tool I use for the next photo project after that. But, as this project shows, it's not the filters that make the photo (and they're not why I think instagram is great). Sure, sometimes they enhance what's there, but they'll destroy a great shot more often than they'll rescue a mediocre one.
Bookmarks for July 11, 2011
- BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: RUPERT MURDOCH – A PORTRAIT OF SATAN
Well worth a read in these deeply pleasing times.
Bookmarks for April 19, 2011
- The pernicious influence of immigrants in the UK
If, and only if, you actively hate everything on this list, may you even think about making an anti-immigrant remark. If on the other hand, you have ever thought about doing so, and like even one of these things, even a little, then you must leave the country at once.
- cityofsound: Stadsmuziek, by Akko Golenbeld
Just go and look at this. If architecture is frozen music, then this is the music being played. What a brilliant idea.
Bookmarks for April 4, 2011
- Why #StartUpBritain is nothing more than a government backed link farm
I have some interesting in start-ups – I've worked at a couple, and I hope to work at more later in my career. I am dismayed to see that this government, with claims to value entrepreneurship so highly, is essentially devaluing the hard work and enterprise that goes into them by offering a package of "help" that amounts to nothing more that a series of money-off vouchers roughly akin to the usual supermarket "£5 off when you spend £20", and links to sites that frankly, encourage deeply unethical business practices.
- Rogue on the Sofa
One that'll appeal to the old school computer gaming nerds. And probably provide you with a few new games to play.
Bookmarks for March 10, 2011
- The Back Story | Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
The reason I am a web developer now is that in 1995, I was able to use Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet, and then run Mosaic to browse the then-very-nascent web. I have therefore donated a couple of quid to this campaign. If you used it like I did, then I strongly suggest you kick in a couple of quid, too.
- BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
So there's going to be a new law about what websites need to do around setting cookies, and getting the user's permission to do so, that will probably change how a low of UK and European websites have to work. But at the time the law comes into force, the government will not have spelled out what websites need to do to comply with that law. Someone phone Terry Gilliam and tell him that he's won?
- HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
How to make an web app look and feel like an iphone native app. This could be very useful at work.
Bookmarks for March 3, 2011
- YouTube – Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
This sounds criminally dull, and while I wouldn't claim it as the most interesting thing I've ever watched, it's still more fun than you might think. If nothing else, it's a clear demonstration that while Windows might suck in lots of ways, if you care about backwards compatibility, they're pretty much the kings. Supporting software written by third parties 23 years ago is no mean feat – I have trouble supporting software I wrote myself five years ago…
Bookmarks for February 8, 2011
- Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind
The BBC it seems, refuse to learn lessons from their own history. I'm usually one to defend the BBC against a lot of the flak it gets, but this is just plain stupid. Archiving these sites should be a matter of maybe an hour's work each, at most.
- Isotope
Tech bollocks. JS (specifically, jQuery, my new best friend) library for doing all sorts of very nice layout/sorting tricks. Bound to be handy.
- Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb Across My Head – morning routine food | Ask MetaFilter
I have been reflecting of late that I could do with adjusting my morning routine a bit. A lot of what's in here is moderately standard hippy crap, but the annoying thing is that I know quite a lot of it works, if one sticks to it. So I should probably get on that.
- To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century
If you live in the UK, stop what you're doing and read this, assuming you haven't already. This is somewhere between absurd and terrifying, and I simply don't understand how anyone in Cameron's position can contemplate it. Well, I do, but the only way it makes sense to me is active malice and contempt for other people, which is a motivation I find hard to ascribe to any human being.
Bookmarks for January 26, 2011
- Ten Obscure Factoids Concerning Albert Einstein
Reading this made me smile. I have no other reason to link it.