Bookmarks for May 14, 2012

Bookmarks for March 16, 2012

  • Sun Drums
    I wish to acquire this for to listen to on the electrical ipod. I must remember to download it when I get home. For free and everything.
    Tags: music
  • PayPal Here
    Paypal have launched a competitor to Square. Neither are available in the UK, so I don't care that much, but they're an indicator of the future, and it's good to see competition in this space. Although frankly, I think you'd have to be mad to try and run a serious business with Paypal, given their oft-demonstrated willingness to simply seize their users assets for spurious reasons like "we thought you were making too much money".
  • Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod | Video on TED.com
    It's not going to come as a galloping shock to anyone here to discover that the numbers quoted by the pro-copyright-enforcement lobby in terms of lost revenue and jobs are total crap, btu this TED talk makes it clear just how much total bullshit they are. And is funny. Go watch.

Bookmarks for March 6, 2012

Links for Wednesday January 5th 2011 through Thursday January 6th 2011

  • The Tearoom of Despair: Last night The Invisibles saved my life (24-month countdown remix)
    If you have not read the Invisibles then you should have. If you have read the Invisibles then you may enjoy this reminiscence of the experience of reading it for the first time.
    Tags: comics
  • Ninth Art: for the discerning reader
    Minor pleasure of the day: getting 9A back on one of it's original two domains. If the person who jumped on ninthart.com the instant that ISP incompetence cause it to lapse is reading this: please can we have it back? There's still hundreds of links pointing to your site that are dead. I will buy you the domain of your choice in exchange?
    Tags: trivia, 9a
  • Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform | TightWind
    Solid analysis of Google's behaviour and strategy in respect of Android and the bigger picture. It's why I tend to call bullshit on their mantra a bit re: their evilness, because I would prefer to be the customer, not the product sold. I will admit that for a company set on selling me as a product, they provide a much better service than most in exchange, but even that's not all good, as it means they tend to blow away paid-for competition that does stuff (or might do stuff) better than they do.

Bookmarks for October 25, 2010

  • The Most Popular Phone in the World
    This is the sort of thing that it's useful to keep in mind as perspective, when considering technology. "90% of the phone for 20% of the price" is something that could be applied to all sorts of different sorts of development work. (Especially since is it my experience that the first 90% of any project, the rough functionality type work is indeed, less that half the work/cost.)