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His oover’s in the loover
Tarnations, last I heard this song, Tom barged into a Futurism seminar and played the song as his class project (more than two years ago)
Your Parents Were Awesome
Been thinking a lot about my parents this afternoon… Came across this great shot of “Mike” on http://myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com. The site says it all Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your p...
Big guys doing bad things to little guys
On the left above, some lovely work available for sale on Etsy and on the right, a tote bag for sale at Paperchase spot any similarities?
RFC822 Address (a bit of tech nonsense of a Friday eve)
Ahh looks like the old MT vs. Wordpress flame war may be heating up again. Not a fan of the bitching and defo supportive of Project Melody initiator Byrne Reese’s attitude that the Melody crew needs to keep to a p...
Can I just quote Stephen Fry on Stephen Jobs please?
Everyone is quoting the really great stuff from Stephen on the importance and likely reach of the iPad but after following Lynetter’s link I was struck by a different part of Fry’s text
The other side of a shiny new coin
The Free Software Foundation has been running the defectivebydesign.org campaign for a number of years now, so it’s no surprise they set up a protest camp outside the Yerba Buena centre yesterday.
Skimmer building some social currency for Fallon
Just installed Fallon’s Skimmer app and as much as I’m uncomfortable with the Air platform I’m really enjoying it. They set out to achieve a few simple goals and have pretty much succeeded.
Hillary Clinton on internet freedom
Love these comments from Hilary Clinton as they rekindle my belief that micro-markets, micro-credit and micro-insurance supported by converged, federated and mobile networks will have an increasingly large role to...
Software patents vs. collaborative creativity
This latest example takes the biscuit. I have read several documents produced by a number people inside and outside of the mobile industry that clearly describe the service or one just like it. Also, Nokia, Craigs...
Hey, I had a good idea on the way into work
I forget who said the that the best way to have great ideas is to have many ideas but I can tell you, I’m not particularly stupid but I can remember most of the great ideas I’ve had–they just don’t come knocking t...
John Resig says -- "Google Groups is dead"
This post isn't so much about the usefulness of mailing lists as a discussion medium, it's the complete failure of Google Groups as an adequate purveyor of public discussion software. For the jQuery project we're ...
Brainstorms and thought showers
Nicki first mentioned the “thought shower” thing to me when she was working at the BBC. At the time I thought it was both a bit amusing and a bit disapointing–another example of political correctness going crazy…
Able Planet Clear Harmony NC200 foldable headphones
So I got an email from a pr in the states before Christmas asking me if I wanted to try out a set of noise-canceling headphones and having heard a lot about active noise-canceling but never having experienced the ...
Apple’s 10 Dumbest iPhone App Rejections
Not sure I 100% agree with the attitude but yeah… 10 dumbest iphone app rejections This first one got me. Banning satire does seem like an early warning of unpleasantness to come.
2010 Vibrations -- Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda
Well it looks like Caitlin Zaino is up to more rockin publishing for 2010.
Scottish advent calendar
Nicki sent me this last week, cracked me up… I think this may have started here
LED traffic lights don’t melt snow
Franco just sent me this utterly wonderful example of what happens when design is divorced from context-of-use:
le mouton enragé is back in business
BulkRegister was the last major U.S.-based pure-play registrar in the market. Its acquisition by eNom marks the end of an era in the history of domain names and the Internet as a whole. (more info here)
An implausible use of wireless bandwidth
Love this Guardian article by Cory Doctorow. It still amazes me that mobile operators spend fortunes trying to put the customer at the heart of the business but don’t follow Cory’s simple suggestion that giving cu...
Numbers
One the things I find most wonderful about type is that the typographer invests the sum of human experience into the tiniest, most trivial form. Never mind using tools and language, what makes us special is our ab...
Good Idea! -- Man Submits Drawing Of Spider Instead Of Payment For Overdue Account
Fantastic! I reckon with seven legs that spider was easily worth 240 dollars:-)
Suprises
Just came across this tweet and it made me grin. I’ve already forgotten which particular video it was, but with HEF and CU-1 increasingly using the computer, there’s got to be some kind of lesson there. HEF is oft...
Flea Market Montgomery
Fer, our star groovy Android developer just recommended this as a key research resource for marketing our new trading platform. Mmmmm…
MAGMA La Légende du Siecle
Wow, I’m speechless, and get a load of those necklaces:-) YouTube - Magma La Légende du Siecle, French TV, February 26th 1973. Sort of reminded me of Helen Marques’ band, “GPS” which stood for “Global Pulsation Sy...
Wikipedia more beauty in nonsense…
Heather pointed us at Magma’s page on Wikipedia. I loved this disambiguation notice just as a fragment of culture in itself:
Edward Frederick Falby
Well CU-1, well H, the time has come again to think about Edward Falby. The googlemaps StreetView doesn’t go down Lewisham High Street so the above image is the closest I’ve come to his memorial in his home parish.