- A real person, a lot like you | Derek Sivers
This should be stuck to the monitor of every internet connected computer in the world.
Tag: internet
Bookmarks for January 21, 2010
- BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop.
Trying this out at work. Initial stuff seem positive.
- Ipredator – Surf the web anonymously and secure
This is very tempting. Certainly, if the DEB bill passes in it's present form, I'll be switching to this, or something very like it. (I tried TOR for basic web browsing, but it's sufficiently slow and fucked that I stopped again.)
Bookmarks for December 4, 2009
- Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
I'm in two minds about whether to use them or not. But it's good that there's a DNS provider I can fall back on if my ISP's DNS goes tits up that isn't sodding OpenDNS.
- Don't give DVD box sets as gifts – Slate Magazine
Heh. I have an absolute *stack* of unwatched TV, and yes, it is daunting, to the point that basically, I'd rather rewatch an odd episode here and there of something I've already watched, than crack open the start of five seasons worth of something else. Starting a totally new show feels like a serious time commitment, whilst rewatching something old is a way to pass a spare 40 minutes. And mostly all I have is the odd spare hour here and there that needs filling up.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.
Bookmarks for November 1, 2009
- The internet without Net neutrality
Seriously: if you do not think it is important, or that it does not affect you, please, take a look at what your internet connection bill might look like in a few years, if net neutrality is not maintained.
Bookmarks for September 15, 2009
- Open Rights Group | Stop Disconnection without trial
Go here. Sign this. Now. It is almost certainly the most important and useful thing you will do today.
- The Amazing Renewable Dress! — Scene 360 Illusion – Amazing Art, Design, Technology, and Video
Another really cunning bit of product design, although I think I can do without actually owning this one myself.
- Nearness – Blog – BERG
A short film about RFID and NFC. It is very pretty.
- but does it float : Mona Hatoum
Some lovely installations here.
- chris chapman: roll-out vegetable garden
There are absolutely inspired bits of design genius. I want them. Of course, I would also need a garden, so my plan falls down, but still, these are just fucking magic…
Bookmarks for June 1, 2009
- Barbican – Helvetica + Objectified (12A*)
June 28th, Double feature of Helvetica and Objectified at the Barbican. I've seen Helvetica, and could happily watch it again, but not Objectified. Anyone fancy a double bill of design documentaries?
- Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
Has anyone used this operation? Or anything similar? While I've got time machine, I have no offsite backups, which bugs me slightly. Particularly curious about the system performance impact of their background process, and also what kind of bandwidth useage spikes I could expect to see.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories
A summary of the conference I spent a chunk of Friday watching over the web. Sounds like the presentation they killed the video on was completely fascinating. I'm still processing of of the ideas I came away with, and doing my best to make sure they don't leak into anything else.
- Sleevelessness: Video Mixing With Microsoft Surface
This is some seriously impressive shit.
- Siggis ZX81 web server main page
Someone has managed to get a ZX-81 on the internet as a webserver. Awesome.
Bookmarks for April 24, 2009
- MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS
Obviously, I will have to order some of these at the first available opportunity. And then people will be able to contact me. Contact me with meat! And lasers!
- Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008 | Typeface Reviews | Typographica
Font nerds ahoy – there are some total gems in here, and all are at least worth a look.
- Geocities to close
To be honest, I'm only surprised it's taken this long. Sure, they were very important in 1999/2000, and yes, it's a slice of internet history vanishing here, but I really don't recall the last time I looked at a geocities site, or met anyone who had one.
Bookmarks for April 10, 2009
- 3-D Printing Hits Rock-bottom Prices With Homemade Ceramics Mix
I have no personal use at the moment for a 3d printer, but I'm sure the day will come when I will, and I'd really rather not have to pay through the nose for raw materials.
- Cover versions – a set on Flickr
Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absolutely beautiful stuff.
- Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar
Jon Gruber has implemented an anti-DiggBar tool for his pages. I will probably do the same for mine. Read about why and how he's done it, because while this may sound a bit like a crank thing to do, rejecting potential traffic from a popular source like Digg, the important principle here is that what Digg is doing is subverting on of the basic premises of how the web works, and it should be discouraged.
- Behold the GIGAFLAKE!
Truly, the confectionery of gods and titans.
Bookmarks for April 9, 2009
- David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air: Download
I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time – an actual accessible book on the maths of energy consumption vs. possible energy production, as opposed the usual waffle.
- Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Latex/Guns/Gnosis: The Matrix Turns 10
A short retrospective of the first Matrix film, as it turns 10. a) it is horrifying to me that that movie is ten, because it means I am very old, and b) I particularly love the title of this article. It occurs to me that I have never satisfyingly run a game with all three of those elements, and I really must get around to having a go at that.
- Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Culture | guardian.co.uk
I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all copyright enforcers are held to the same standard: three wrong accusations, and they're out, too. Want to bet me that they'd all be gone before the rest of us would?
- Focal point (game theory) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Must remember this on in future – the basis by which two parties that are unable to communicate will still be able to select the same focal point in a game/challenge.
- re: diverselessness (tecznotes)
A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the origins of elites, and the social effects of these technologies, and some opinions on where these phenomena are likely to lead to.
- Whimsley: Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche
Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though everyone feels like they're finding more niche stuff.
- BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!
I have significantly less than fuck all architectural training, but it hasn't escaped my notice over the last few years that many of the most interesting creative types I know do have some history with the discipline, and I've increasingly found my own interests tending that way – not literally in the designing buildings sense, but in the sense of being aware of people's relationship with the space around them, and how to optimise that space to get the best out of life.
Postopolis therefore sounds like it would have been a fascinating event to be at, even if 90% would have gone sailing over my head. Any chance of holding the next one in London? It's at least as interesting as LA… - cityofsound: Postopolis LA
Dan Hill was at Postopolis and has written an excellent series of posts on it, and on LA in general. Thoroughly recommended reading.