- IDENTITIES NAMES OF CATHARS BURNT AT MONTSEGUR MARCH 16 1244
Useful bit of research for a thing. Yes.
Tag: research
Bookmarks for September 22, 2013
- Shahr-e Sukhteh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.
Bookmarks for August 31, 2012
- human.io
Oooh, interesting. Gaming applications abound.
- HAUNTED ALTON: HISTORY & HAUNTINGS OF THE RIVERBEND REGION
A coincidence of name, nothing more, but this looks interesting and I want to come back to it.
- Alton Estate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just a bit of research for a vague idea. Ignore me.
Bookmarks for July 2, 2012
- Parliamentary train – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'd never heard of these before today. Noted and filed, to be used later.
- Unusual Words Rendered in Bold Graphics | Brain Pickings
I have learned words, and seen pretty pictures.
- PHP solves problems. Oh, and you can program with it too!
I am a PHP coder. It is, in truth, the only programming language I'm any good at. Well, OK, maybe javascript, too. I got into it because I wanted to get things done, and PHP maybe it very, very easy for me to do that. I'm not the sort of person who learns new languages for fun, so PHP is where I've stayed. But the reason I've stayed is because I've never found anything I wanted to get done that I couldn't do in PHP. Which suggests to me that the hate it gets from "proper" programmers is basically, so much bullshit. So I liked this article.
- "Obamacare" explained very well. via reddit.com
Just in case anyone reading this is confused about what the healthcare reforms in the US mean. Basically, if you read this, and are still opposed to them, then I can only assume that you are someone who would like more people to die. In which case, perhaps you could help the rest of us out by setting an example.
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 June 6, 2012
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
- The world's worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
- Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
- cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
The design of street food culture.
Bookmarks for May 25, 2012
- Griot
The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
- UI design in the Avengers
Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
- London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
Bookmarks for April 4, 2012
- The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes by Jess Nevins — Kickstarter
Jess Nevins is crowdfunding his next volume of stupendous cultural research. I own his Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Victoriana, and it is *brilliant*, as well as being large enough and heavy enough to stop a charging rhinoceros. No, I'm serious. I've actually used it to do that. Anyway: you should fund this. And even if it doesn't sound like your sort of thing, you should fund it on my behalf, because I'm sick of not being able to fund things on Kickstarter thanks to amazon's fuckery. Someone pay Jess on my behalf.
Bookmarks for November 19, 2010
- MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU
I'm reminded of reading someone's new definition of cool "If I'm hanging out with you, I never see your mobile phone". I know I'm, ah, less than faultless with this, but then, I've never claimed to be coo (althought I've tried to do better since reading that particular article). Still, getting one of these might be a good start. Although, reflecting on it a bit, there's a fine line between signalling to someone that they're important to you, and acting like you want brownie points for simple politeness…
- Abandoned Communities
No idea what I'll use this stuff for, mind. But I bet I will at some point.
- BBC News – The secrets of Britain's abandoned villages
I imagine that I'll find a use for this information at some point.
Bookmarks for November 13, 2010
- Alistair Bell's LU Record Attempt
Horrifyingly, I may have a use for this. I don't want to complete with the record, and I won't died of misery of if I fail to get the lot, but it, er, may come in handy as a chart of a way to get a job done a lot quicker than I might otherwise have thought.
- A renaissance rooted in technology: the literary magazine returns | Books | guardian.co.uk
Lots of things to think re: the future of literary publishing here.