- YouTube – Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand
One of those things that requires a stack of practice, but something I wouldn't mind getting good at. I'm the sort of person that like to be able to see how the trick is done, so this sort thing is catnip to me.
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Bookmarks for June 25, 2008
- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
Bookmarks for May 6, 2008
- Atomic Tragedy — Photos
Previously unreleased photos taken in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Hugely moving photos that convey the human cost of the atomic bomb. Should be in every history textbook, under the heading “there can be no excuse”.
- Boris Johnson Facts
“Not even twelve pygmies have the strength of a single Boris Johnson.”
- random($foo): Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown
Well, that’s half my evenings this week gone. Some of these sound fascinating. (The other half, like total waffle-shop bilge, but let’s focus on the positive, shall we?)
- Alan Moore’s Outbreak of Violets
Given away at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1995, the postcards with text by Moore, and art by a number of utterly splendid illustrators now change hands for absurd sums. Or you could just read them on-line.
- The New Yorker profile of Grant Achatz
A really compelling account of the effect that his battle with mouth cancer, the experimental treatment he got, and the effect it has had on his life, and his cooking.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » Designs on Your Money
Interview with the guy that came up with the designs for the UKs new coins. Insteresting insight into the design process, and how some of the initial ideas were refined and improved (or even just unworkable).
Bookmarks for March 12, 2008
- Chemical brain controls nanobots
This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.
- Zoe Williams: This po-faced rectitude – “If you accept that queer no longer means strange, you need to accept that gay no longer exclusively means homosexual”
I don’t know that I agree with that specific argument (or that Williams does) – one is a reclamation of a derogatory term, the other the reverse – but it’s an interesting read regarding the attempt to police children’s use of language.
- John Bull’s Reggae Kitchen
More cooking programs should be as relaxed and entertainng.
Bookmarks for March 10, 2008
- Google Contacts API
A safer means of allowing websites to access your contacts/addressbook data without having to give them your gmail password. Not that I know anyone who’d be stupid enough to do that, right?
- 3753 Cruithne – Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on “Earth’s second moon”. I was dimly aware that earth had more than one satellite, but this is so much cooler than I had first thought when I heard about it…
- @ETech: Matt Webb’s Tour of a Fictional Solar System
I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.
- File this one under holy crap! It starts with (kottke.org)
OK, you can’t draw an exact cause-and-effect line, but that line to a history of “Hallelujah” that I posted the other week did the rounds (I think I got it off Waxy), and suddenly, Jeff Buckley’s version of the song is the top selling track on iTunes.
- ‘I fell in love with a female assassin’
An astonishing account of a photojournalist that did, well, exactly what he says, while covering a story in Colombia. Utterly compelling and thought provoking.
- Photon – High performance Mac OS photo browser, sorter and viewer
I love Lightroom for working on images and library mangement, but it doesn’t half take ages to impport stuff. If I can use this for a first-pass step, it might be quicker…
- Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3 | Layers Magazine
I suspect this will also work in Lightroom, which is handy, because the current cross-processing filter I have in LR is for shit, so instead, I shall build my own.