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Digital rights in a restrictive age
One of the difficulties of working in the internet industry is we sometimes feel like we’re fighting a losing battle against regulation. Despite the new horizons the digital age offers:
state databases of our information are growing, yet our access to public information is being eroded,
copyright is becoming more restrictive, making a criminal out of [...]
Easter links
Merlin Mann’s SXSW presentation - “uncomfortably sticky”
Interesting article on the controls of Shadow of the Colossus. Seems to me (and this was backed up by a chat with a friend in the industry) that gaming is not particularly au fait with interaction design, surprisingly. Here’s an example that breaks the mould
Shrine of the Mall Ninja
The [...]
Bulk discount
I’ve not yet stopped buying CDs because I like having the physical artefacts. Mostly because I have a pretty decent hi-fi setup that trumps any MP3 in quality but, candidly, also thanks to mild music snobbery: the narcissistic chance that some visitor to my home will examine my collection and be suitably impressed. It does [...]
February links
Lasagna Cat - live action versions of Garfield strips, with ridiculous (Dadaist?) musical homages. I found it horribly funny, but then I do like nonsensical crap.
Cuts in movies, and their impact on memory
Joshua Porter on Why I’m excited about the Google Social Graph API (although, like Tom Morris, I loathe the term)
Here’s Looking At You [...]
FFFFound
Just to air my love of ffffound.com, a new image bookmarking site in private beta (as every new website is these days). Full of beautiful pictures like this:
At the moment I’m just taking the entire RSS feed, which will obviously become unmanageable once the userbase grows. No indication yet of whether there’ll be any easy [...]
New Year links
Australia plans web censorship, as seen in China, North Korea etc. For bonus points, they’re even using that truly idiotic “free speech = kiddie porn” argument. The web’s too important to be left to politicians.
Matt Webb’s 2007 braindump is fascinating reading, if rather heavy going.
Create unpleasant photographs by replacing people’s eyes with mouths.
Stop storyboarding now!
DRM [...]
All I want for Christmas…
Been busy working on exciting things (I’ll post them when they’re done), drinking Christmastide pints, and watching Pitchfork’s Top 50 music videos of 2007.
It’s not that I’m opting out of Christmas. I’m just doing it my own way. A little selfish, yes, but really all I want to do this year is relax, walk around [...]
November links
Stop, filler time.
How To Be Ugly - the rise of New Brutalism in design
Google v Yahoo homepages over the last ten years
Why percentages don’t add up - which is scarier: a medical procedure with a 95% survival rate, or one that kills 1 in 20 people?
Spam One-Liners - “experiments in hand lettering… an ongoing series [...]
Oktoberlinkfest
Bernie’s better beginner’s guide to photography
A little visual perspective on the $87 billion being spent on Iraq - or ‘big numbers - just how big are they?’
How does it feel to die? - fascinting if morbid New Scientist article
I just discovered this hilarious comic strip called Garfield and Conceptual terrorists encase Sears Tower in Jell-o [...]
Transit(ory)
Stuck on the Tube, I remembered I also had some cute transport-related links to share. So here they are.
Incomprehensible intersections - road design gone horribly wrong. I know the Americans denigrate the fine British roundabout, but at least we don’t often end up with monstrosities of this scale.
Airport - a neat little Flash animation made [...]