Archive for the ‘links’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]