December 2009
66 posts
Walking Papers →
“Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail.”
Top Web Design Bookmarks of 2009 →
Wow, it’s going up at 2 floors a week from now on. RT @se1: The Shard at London Bridge http://bit.ly/6x86Cq [The Times]
There’s a butterfest of baking going down.
In Ragebows: Reality TV and A Future For The... →
“I genuinely do think that the lesson the record industry can learn from Rage vs X-Factor is that when music is virtual goods, its biggest opportunity lies in becoming more like reality TV, not…
siteInspire | Home | inspiring web design and CSS... →
via @swissmiss
Pitchfork’s top 69 of 2009 on Spotify →
Just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying Pitchfork’s top 100 this year. It’s uncanny how many of them I like. And an extra treat that I hadn’t heard loads of them before today (who is this…
Browser Size →
Useful numbers for choosing browser window sizes. Maps over your own window.
Watch4AD’s best of the year. Some goodies on here.
I’m so Pitchfork it’s ridiculous. Loving the best of 2009, loads I hadn’t heard. http://bit.ly/72CCbI (@Spotify playlist)
Robbie Cooper →
Portraits of virtual worlders and their avatars. Go to Simulations, and then Alter Ego (flash site). via @brainpicker
Beautiful: Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines from BERG http://bit.ly/7ZJ5CR
I got a magical message on my phone from @gowalla telling me about http://gowalla.com/gift. Not a text nor a DM. Slightly spooky, but cool.
Was hoping some kind soul would make this RT @Spotify: Spending the evening with Pitchfork’s top tracks of 09 playlist. http://bit.ly/72CCbI
Sheltering from the weather. Radio 4’s on! #likehomebutwithaddedmincepies — at Blackbird Bakery and Cafe http://gowal.la/s/kk8
And there we have it.
Following the southward progress of #uksnow, thanks to @laurajaybee and @timd. Next stop Peckham, please!
My ‘home workspace’ is ‘well parky’. Might have to move to the ‘sofa’.
I’m watching ‘Lola’ ▶ http://bit.ly/7i3eiW
Silly auto-tweets make you sound like an idiot. But it’s true that I’m watching Lola. Tres bien.
Morgan Stanley - Institutional Services →
“Our global technology and telecom analysts set out to do a deep dive into the rapidly changing mobile Internet market. We wanted to create a data-rich, theme-based framework for thinking about how…
Just seen a tv in selfridges so sharp it made will smith look less ‘I am legend’ and more ‘I am an actor on a film set’. Bit sad.
Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2009 →
The annual treat that is Pitchfork’s top 100 tracks. Here’s the top 10.
The Guardian iPhone app is much better once you spend some time with it. The customisable version for offline reading is great.
Cosmetically, I’d still like tilt-scrolling, a link to ‘more stories’ and an option to send to twitter. And where’s the crossie? #guardian
VC blog » Blog Archive » Visualization for... →
On the Met Office making available a dataset collected from 1000 weather stations over time: “This represents a great momentum for all of us involved in Visualization at large to be part of the…
Standing in a Post Office queue and being disappointed with the Guardian iPhone app. It should be so much better.
Have just seen Berlusconi’s beaten up face on the news. Reminded me of the Two Tribes video.
Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Atlas Sound - 20. Throw Me the Statue - 12. Thurston Moore - 12.
three weeks in india →
Anthony Fletcher’s India writings
This is becoming an alarming trend. RT @hannahnicklin: @documentally seen this? http://bit.ly/8gnur7
Oh yes. RT @theauteurs: “The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” -Jean-Luc Godard http://bit.ly/tasrd
Revo Heritage →
“Deluxe multi-format table radio with docking for iPod.” Just beautiful. Via @brendandawes
Welcome - Ommwriter →
“Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.”
RT @bigspaceship: Yann Tiersen on 6 iPhones. wow. http://post.ly/Egyh
mark cridge \ muck and brass: Conversation is king →
“The motion that ‘In digital, data is the only currency’ was a tough nut to crack, but was perhaps fatally flawed by the insistence that it was the ‘only’ currency, something we set out to disprove –…
Facebook Connect: 365 Days, 60 Million Users,... →
A run followed by a slab of lasagne. Circle of life, innit?
Google Code Blog: The latest addition to Google's... →
“Yesterday, we announced the latest addition to Google’s open source projects - YouTube Direct, a new tool that enables any developer to solicit video submissions, moderate and display them on their…
