- Santa Claus (loadedsanta) on Twitter
"I'm making a list and checking it twice. Ha! Fuck that. Drinking and playing it by ear." "I like how everyone thinks Rudolph did shit. Fact. Rudolph is an oh-look-at-me-I-have-a-red-nose diva fuck." and similar gems.
Tag: twitter
Bookmarks for April 22, 2009
- iptps-fethr-talk.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Proposal for an open, distributed set of protocols to run a (better) version of Twitter, and a compelling argument for why they should be adopted.
- Andart: A *really* green and sustainable humanity
Some thoughts on the energy economics of postbiological humanity.
Bookmarks for March 6, 2009
- Twitter = YouTube. – John Battelle's Searchblog
Clear analysis of why Google's might wish to acquire Twitter, and an interesting note about the likelihood of them being able to acquire the microblogging platform.
- Robots – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Stop whining about your lack of a fucking jetpack. Take a look at this lot, and tell me we're not living in the future.
- World Builder on Vimeo
Very pretty short film – a simple plot description will not do it justice, so just go watch. It's ten minutes out of your life, and will make your day better.
- Graphic Journey Blog: From Caveman to Spray Can
An address given in 2005 to the RSA about design and the world we live in. No earth shattering insights if you've read a lot of the design stuff I've linked to before, but some excellent commentary, interesting examples and nice turns of phrase.
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 ยป 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 January 7, 2009
- Twenty Typefaces of 2008
Not really much to say about this, other than that there are some very nice typefaces in here.
- Rails Worst Practices: 13 Coding Nightmares You Should Avoid
Ostensibly for Rails, but most of these apply to anyone using an MVC framework, and are worth a look.
- Long URL Please | Lengthening short urls so that you don't have to
This is a pet peeve of mine: people who use tinyUrl type services completely needlessly in blog posts and the like. I understand why, say, twitter does it, because of character limits, but it's still shit practice. URLs should clearly indicate the content they are the URL for. So I'll be plugging this in to my browser.
- Ecofont
This is an interesting idea – a more environmentally sound font, but will it have any actual impact on ink use at small sizes? I couldn't find any actual maths on the site. Also, I am a slave to Helvetica, and particularly Helvetica Neue, so until someone produces an ecofont variant on them, I don't see myself picking this up.
- LiveJournal deletes 'about a dozen' jobs | The Social – CNET News
Can we all please just move on from this now there's some accurate reportage about it?
Bookmarks for January 6, 2009
- ljdump – livejournal archive
Quick and dirty tool to grab an LJ archive on any system that has python available, which includes OS X.
- LiveJournal: The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
SUP have knocked the american tech staff on the head. I don't believe they're going to fuck off tomorrow, or anything, but any way you slice it, this is bad news, and I'm going to have to find a good LJ archiving tool for OS X just so I do have a decent archive somewhere that isn't on LJ, but I should have done that anyway. Still, most of the public content over the least few years is already in databases on my own servers, anyway, but I'd like to get the private/friends locked stuff saved, too. I may also flip back to blogging on my own domain, and just mirroring the content into LJ, just in case.
- Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists – Joe Lazarus
I may want to take this apart and rebuild it for other services since my tumblr account is used for my not-a-photoblog-honest. Or since the blog is called Dead Air, I might just pipe it in regardless, as it does kind of fit with the theme.
- Baby twitters via kicks – Hack a Day
I blog this mostly because I want to use the phrase "spime child", which is agreeably SF sounding. And because, well, it's an interesting application of the technology.