2008

Oct

It’s the simplest manifestation of what a day planner is all...

Fear Factor

Tim Bray spoke to a packed room (highlights) about what best to do in times of financial worry in...

Tech. and Psych.

The first of the talks that had anything worth writing about was by Suw Charman-Anderson and gave a...

Back from FOWA

So, back from London. I made quite a few notes on the various talks, and have taken away plenty of...

FOWA

I’m off to Future of Web Apps in London on Thursday and Friday of this week, quite looking...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-5)

A Cross the Universe

Journalism / Coding

Twitterific last night presented me with an advert for scholaships available to coders wanting to...

Portal’s Still Alive, with Typography. (via)

Johnson Banks’ latest Thought for the Week explores...

Dexter gets his own Newsstand

Sep

Singapore Grand Prix on The Big Picture

A Terror Campaign of Love and Hate

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28)

Music Online

This week saw the launch of Myspace Music, described as being a new, separate entity with the...

This is Norman the Doorman, and he’s a Nerdbot and...

Giles Coren’s letter gets the Downfall treatment. (via)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21)

Three pretty good albums released on monday from TV on the...

The 50 Best Jokes from Edinburgh

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-14)

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

Brad Sucks, in his own words: I write, record and produce songs and put them on this website for...

Creativity Audit

Free Music from Wichita

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-7)

Sony Reader Review

Gnarls Barkley has been a great act to work with. With “St....

My face makes water - My face is magic

Alinea Book Photos

A Layperson's Guide to Graphic Design

Approaches to middle-management

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-31)

Aug

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24)

Zooma-Zooma-Zooma? Hmm.

Fellow Traveller

On Ways of Dealing with Tripping in Public

Remix of Flaming Lips’ Yeah Yeah Yeah Song by The Twelves Jam. Made me smile. (via)

MABELs and ANABELs

Back in June I linked to pieces from the Observer Music Monthly covering what they hesitatingly...

Day & Night. With no display for the hours, minutes or...

Snarf! Snarf! Made me smile on this lovely sunny saturday morning. (via, where it saddens me he was...

Hollywood or Bust?

I came across two completely unrelated articles in my reading just now, but both carry what’s...

I’ve never seen a video-trailer for a book before, so just the concept of this grabbed my...

Letters and letters and letters. Letters about a moment in...

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

A police officer cuts a gun in half with acetylene, a highly...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17)

People Who Don't Like Noel Gallagher

Testing OMEGA's Timekeepers

Malcontents Need Not Apply

14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely

In 2006 researchers at The University of Leicester...

It's the great taste of risk

Internet Abbreviations that Never Gained...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10)

The Driest of Tinder

I can’t see how watching the whole thing could be...

Unbelievable, really.

What would Principal Belding say?

Go! Team Free Stuff

Why do we capitalize the word “I”?

The Rain Before It Falls

‘Your favourite sort of rain?’ said Thea. I remember that she was frowning, and...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-3)

A way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark. The...

Jul

Quite costly in T-shirt lettering

58 Cute Monsters. (via)

No Joke, by Drew Friedman for Vanity Fair. (via)

No, Mom. Not like in Quadrophenia

Fox is Fuselit’s 12th issue. It kicks off with the...

Hot on the heels of The Curious Case of Benjamin...

Winning the War of Words

Album Covers recreated in lego. Lots of Beatles. Velvet...

Sigur Rós @ MoMA. Filmed in June, the full video of the...

The best Wikipedia page ever.

The Process. What would happen if there were no stop signs and a large corporation attempted to...

Mercury Nominations

The Urgent Bowline

Jon Stewart on last week’s New Yorker cover. Hilarious. (via)

Fabulous pictures of water drops and splashes.

He also has a way-cool facial scar

Can cartoonists go too far? Yes. Should they?...

Icon Progression

No cameras. No lights. Just data.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13)

Wall-E Down To Earth - “Saw the movie, loved it, made this”. (via)

Google as the new pressroom?

Bloc Party’s new single, Mercury. To be included on their 3rd album, possibly due out before...

Third-party iPhone apps make great...

I want this as a massive piece on a wall of the...

Fractal Robots, making Robots. (via)

Happy Birthday Sub Pop

Summer's Last Call

After 'The Wire'

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6)

Elliot Smith (not that one…) decided he was going to buy the cheapest album available in...

Mood and Conscience Strike Again

Books in Places

Bobby Sololon of Kitsune Noir has posted another mixtape on...

Believe Me, It's Torture

The lady who did face-painting at school fairs when I was...

Rolando, a game for iphone and ipod touch due in August. Looks like it could be a lot of fun, though...

Show us a better Way

Problem: Terrorists want to hijack a plane by trying to...

Jun

delighting with data

There’s no such thing as New Wave - “you didn’t dare to say punk”. (via)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29)

The hedgehog that was having a wander around my garden last...

How I see Words in my Head

Closing Time for Tartan Films

Skating in Kabul

the story so far ... and beyond

Interview with Eels

Trailer for Generation Kill, more here. From a Guardian blog piece. To be broadcast over here...

From The Gospel According to Santa Claus, by Roman...

The Paper Version of the Web

Great Lyricists

"You can't arrange them 'by penis'!"

Just came across this on Boing Boing, it’s a book and...

Don’t understand a word of it, but the idea is genius. Trains that never stop, but use...

Team Fortress 2 Art Direction

Guitars and Graphics

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22)

A visualisation of my del.icio.us tags, from Wordle. The...

Another Letter from Paris

"Grab and Go" News

More web-serialised books

“This is ITV - I want a recount.”
— Joan Rivers on being told that...

Pride & Prejudice, 140 characters at a time?