- Wintergatan – Marble Machine
Just an absolute musical marvel. Go watch.
Tag: video
Bookmarks for April 26, 2012
- Dead Air
Dusting off an old tumblr, now using it mostly just to reblog things that catch my eye. Almost certainly gong to have more stuff on their than on Black Ink, if you can about that sort of thing. Black Ink is (mostly) for things I want to comment on, or think that other people might find interesting or useful. Dead Air is for stuff I just don't want to forget. You may or may not find it interesting.
- Your Summer Beach Reading List for 2012
There's a lot in here on my must-get-round-to list. Assuming I can get them day-and-date digital. And ideally DRM free. :)
- The Verge at work: sync your text everywhere, never lose an idea again | The Verge
I need to make a couple of tweak to my note taking workflow, but this article is a good pointer for where I've been going wrong with getting simplenote and dropbox to play together.
- AeroPress “Ritual” on Vimeo
I adore my aeropress. Anyone who likes coffee and does not have one at home is missing out.
Bookmarks for November 4, 2011
- Video: London From A Bus Window | Londonist
This is a very pretty video, and worth 5 minutes of your time.
Bookmarks for July 12, 2011
- Project Meteorite – Matroska / MKV Repair Engine
Been having some trouble with dodgy .mkv files (seriously, what's bloody wrong with .avi?), so hoping this will fix them.
Bookmarks for May 8, 2011
- FITC Toronto 2011 Titles on Vimeo
This video is a work of genius. Go watch.
Bookmarks for November 12, 2010
- You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'
Joel Johnson treats people who write the comments on gizmodo like they deserve to be treated.
- Is this evidence that we can see the future? – life – 11 November 2010 – New Scientist
Between this, and the whole "the universe is actually only two dimensional" thing from a few weeks back, I'm becoming concerned about the informational underpinnings of reality. Of course, it's statistically more likely that we're all participants in some vast simulated reality than it is that we're actually really here, so y'know, whatever. I'd just like it if we were in a high resolution universe without the memory leaks.
- A LIFE ON FACEBOOK on Vimeo
Amusing conceit, slightly flawed movie. Has anyone written the Facebook equivalent of an epistolary novel yet, I wonder?
- London Bloggers
The London bloggers directory updates. Nice! I've just been through most of the Tooting Broadway ones, though, and most of them are dead or no longer updated, and I can spot a couple of people in there who I know don't live in Tooting any more. It's just me left hanging around, making the place look untidy…
Bookmarks for September 20, 2010
- Make Games – Finishing a Game
Applicable to just about any creative endeavour, and there are a number of things in here I could do with remembering more often.
- Looxcie Wearable Camcorder: Capture Unexpected Moments
Mildly tempted by this, if they produce an iphone version. It's a bit deep geek, but that's never stopped me from doing anything before. (Not so much interested in it from a sharing-with-the-world POV, more as a personal outboard memory tool – the ability to clip the last 30 secs of my life is potentially useful in a number of contexts.)
- How to get search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN) referal keywords using PHP, php, Steven York.com
Reasonably trivial task, but once I'm going to have to do at work soon, I imagine. No sense re-inventing the wheel, and this looks like some decent code snippets to build into what we'll need.
- DarkPatterns.org
A listing of intentionally bad design patterns – tricks websites use to get you to do things that they want, or that cost you money. I'm happy to say that most of our clients don't ask us to do these, and those that do are usually dissuaded by us. But still, this is a good list of tricks to learn, so you can be aware when various sites might be trying to use them on you.
- A working hypothesis – Charlie's Diary
I had been blaming the decade long rise of extremism and authoritarian clampdowns on some kind of post-millennial fallout – the calendar ticks over, and nothing changes, and all that pent up stress has to go somewhere – but the idea that a significant chunk of the population of the planet might actually be suffering from future shock hadn't occurred to me, but it's an idea worth acknowledging, I think. (And playing connect the dots with – qv. Clay Shirky's Gin and Sitcoms ideas about cognitive surplus as an exacerbating factor.)
Bookmarks for August 12, 2010
- What Happened to Yahoo
Yahoo was somewhere that, ten years ago, I would have love to have worked. I would have loved to have worked at some of the companies they've since bought. But I wouldn't have taken a job there any time in the last six years or so – I'm sure it would have been, y'know, fine, but it wouldn't have been what I really wanted in working for a internet company. This article does a pretty good job of explaining why.
- Words on Devour.com
Watch this. It will be the best three minutes you spend all day.
- Smart Swarm: popular science book on emergence meets business-advice book – Boing Boing
Reminder to self to pick this book up.
- YouTube – Nathan Barley
The complete Nathan Barley on the YouTubes. I imagine that some of you might like this.
Bookmarks for April 19, 2010
- YouTube – Iron Man Punches Hugh Grant
A daft little video that tickled my funnybone in a disproportionate manner.
- This Is Apple's Next iPhone – Iphone 4 – Gizmodo
"Whoops" say Apple. "We've accidentally generated a load of hype for the product we were pretty much ready to announce in a matter of a couple of months. Oh dear."
- Penny Red: There's just no pleasing some people.
I skate in just ahead of the group that Penny Red is talking about here – a decade older, with fractionally more financial security, I can afford to rent a place on my own, although not do anything as extravagant as *buy* somewhere, but the sense of political disenfranchisement she's talking about is bitterly familiar.
Bookmarks for March 24, 2010
- John Nack on Adobe: Video: Sneak peek of Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Jesus shitcocking Christ! If this is in the next release, then we're about 2 generations of photoshop away from a single "just sort this image out, would you" button, and then professional photographers and stock photo libraries are going to be obsolete. And as one commenter points out, this bit of technology is going to effectively make watermarking images impossible – it'll be trivial to heal the watermark off the pic.