- Kingsnorth report reveals shocking police campaign of intimidation against protesters – Britcit
This one's worth circulating far and wide – police using the various powers they've been given over the last while to suppress a peaceful protest.
- 20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know | KomunitasWeb
There's plenty of non-geek stuff in today's pile of links. Just skip past this one.
- Undesigning the Emergency @Etech Benjamin H. Bratton
Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social, the paired need for both open software and hardware is clear. The design of the open public space is dependent on the design of the open software which is, increasingly, dependent on the design of open cities."
- Søren Vind >> pc_user
Might be handy in future projects – one of the first things I almost invariable do it set up a user class to handle logins and similar rubbish, and it'd be nice to have a handy boxed-up model to do all that with.
- iPhone 3.0: everyware-ready? « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones identifies the really interesting thing about yesterday's Iphone 3.0 announcement, and it's not copy-and-paste.
- Espionage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This looks like a fairly decent starting point, anyway. Of course, that's probably just what the government wants me to think.
- Intelligence cycle management – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today is "everything you didn't need to know about intelligence, and weren't afraid to ask" day.
- Category:Secret broadcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fascinating espionage-related stuff I had never heard of before now.
- Computer programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive – Telegraph
I probably don't need the little finger on my left hand, you know…
Tag: research
Bookmarks for February 6, 2009
- Readers Pick: 30+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Web Design
Handly list of tools, many of which I hadn't seen before, and will have to try out.
- Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just an aide memoire so I don't forget the name or era.
Bookmarks for January 28, 2009
- Immortal jellyfish swarming across the world
"Stars nearly aligned" says Professor Angell. On the other hand, maybe this will finally give us a leg up all becoming young and thin and energetic again. Or turn us into a race of degenerate fish-men, I guess. Either's good by me. Ia! Etc…
- Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG
Ding! Correct! This, right here, is why I have never played an ARG. And why I would love to get paid to write one.
- alexyoung's ico
Former colleague's JS graph library. Looks handy.
- Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries :: Hackdiary
About to start an Objective C/Cocoa spare time project. Don't know if I'll need any of these tools, but it can't hurt to have a reference to find them.
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 Monday September 1st 2008 through Wednesday September 3rd 2008
- 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 1, 2008
- 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 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 April 4, 2008
- Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind – New York Times
Willpower is, apparently a finite resource – exercising it in one matter depletes the amount you have available to apply to other things. Good news though: exercising it regularly leaves you with more to go around.
- Mouse Organ
An interactive on-line music video/teaser. Music companies could benefit from doing more of this sort of thing – this one is, very, er, rathergood, but it’s a music video and it’s viral. The principle could easily be applied to less kitten-related stuff.