- San Diego, Why Don’t You Come To Your Senses?
Please, pass this link around. It's worth doing. Reblog, re-tweet, pass it on to your friends so they can do the same. If you are a geek or a nerd of any stripe, you should be aware that some small fraction of the money you spend on entertainment media is going to fuel homophobia (if you're giving money to companies that are then giving money to an operation that is fuelling homophobia, then yes, that *is* what is happening), and that this should be stopped. And unless they are publically shamed, then there is no reason for companies like Marvel to grow a spine. So you should circulate this link.
- Strange Fish Identification Site
It does exactly what it says on the tin. I have no use for this, but I love that it exists.
- Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
Watching this, I had to keep reminding myself that he's a politician, and that his words are unlikely to be backed up by action, that he's not going to be called on the content of this speech, and that he has teams of people whose job it is to help him seem engaged, aware and generally serious about the world. Still: this is a good speech, talking sense, and it's quite nice to see him saying things I agree with 100%.
Tag: reference
Bookmarks for March 4, 2009
- The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Your one stop primer on controlling your relationship with Big Brother.
- 55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes | OpenSourceHunter
There are a few truly beautiful grunge-look themes in here, and I've been thinking about switching to a grunge look for at least one, maybe two of my blogs, just to get away from the very formal look, and mark them out as obviously personal. I'll try a few out, and see what I think.
- Relevant History: Thoughts on design + futures
"we need to learn to talk about the future through things"
- Corpus Chronophage
This is a dozen kinds of cool. Made slightly less so by a particularly rubbish website, but take the time to watch the video, because it's sodding ace.
- twistori
Pretty, interesting, and faintly voyeuristic.
- Back to My Mac through iChat » All Forces
I can see this being a useful thing to be able to do.
- Open the Future: The End of Long-Term Thinking
Jamais Cascio on the difference a change in language may make when dicussing the many vast problems that are heading our way over the next generation or two.
- city benches by adriano design
Someone has finally taken a look at the design of the park bench, realised that it's signiificantly sub-optimal for modern uses, and come up with an alternative design. Ace!
Bookmarks for October 6, 2008
- Amazon.co.uk: Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture by Raven Digitalis
Seriously, look at this rubbish. And what kind of a name is "Raven Digitalis"? I bet that's not the fucking name on her birth certificate. I'm all for letting people reinvent themselves, and an individuals right to self expressing, and to be called what they want, but there's people who spoil it for the rest of us, you know?
(And yet, there is a small, horrible part of me that want to read this book.) - The Lesser Key of Solomon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes. Today is esoteric claptrap day. Which reminds me, I saw a completely horrifying book at the weekend, that I nearly bought for its sheer awfulness.
Bookmarks for September 7, 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
- MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
- Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for September 4, 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady’s Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
Bookmarks for August 24, 2008
- A Guide to CSS Support in Email
Wow, Eudora supports fuck all. I gave up on Eudora years ago, but serious: what's their excuse?
Bookmarks for July 1, 2008
- Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union – Wikipedia
Doing a bit of research. There may be a few links in this vein coming.
- OSNAZ – Wikipedia
I won’t bother to commenting on these, they’re just for me, not stuff I think it’s worth other people looking at, unless you’re facsinated by the nasty bits of Soviet Russia.
- Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research poison)
- Pyotr Grigorenko – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research)
- Oleg Kalugin – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research)
- A Brief Numerology Of London
Diamond Geezer explains some of the significance of the numbers 1-30 in the context of London
Bookmarks for June 20, 2008
- Map of London Postcodes
I could really do with something like this that goes all the way out to the M25 (and would even be prepared to pay a modest sum for such a thing), but this will do for a start.
- London Postcode and Administrative Boundaries Map :: A-Z Maps
Oh, look, I found one. Handy. This is why people really ought to spend a bit fo time doing SEO work on websites – this was buried on the third page of my search results, despite being about the most authoritative result for my search.
Bookmarks for February 28, 2008
- 100 Photographs that Changed the World
Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.
Bookmarks for February 25, 2008
- Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API
This might come in handy at some future point – I’ve been working on a graph-heavy project for a client, and it would have been ace to have this available when we started.
- garfield minus garfield
They say: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
They’re right, and it’s superb. - List of Cheatsheets
Most programmers I know have one or two of these to hand most of the time. I’d like to take time to go through them, anhd work out which ones best fit my needs.
- Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone – (37signals)
The camera on the phone is for quickblogging while out and about, and I email the pics I want off it so it’s a pain to have to close iphoto every time I plug the thing in. Here’s how to stop it.