Bookmarks for October 16, 2012
- The Good Night Lamp
This is a very lovely idea.
- Index of Jon Boden, John Spiers & Bellowhead's Songs
This is a superb resource for the history of the songs performed by the above named. Proper English folk history.
Tag: history
Bookmarks for June 13, 2012
- Has L.A. changed since the 90s? – losangeles | Ask MetaFilter
A hundred-year history of LA. Makes the place sound interesting.
Bookmarks for May 30, 2012
- UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks.
- Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.
Bookmarks for March 8, 2012
- 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.
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.