February 2008
37 posts
Postcrossing - Postcards Traveling The World →
megpickard:
It’s a project that allows anyone to exchange postcards (paper ones, not electronic) from random places in the world.
It’s a lovely idea. I immediately signed up and shall be posting one off to a fellow postcrosser in Virginia Beach, USA tomorrow!
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The Graphing Calculator Story →
dailymeh:
A classic. I still don’t know exactly what I’ll end up working with, but I do know how I want to do it: like this. Because I care. (Not that sixteen hour days sounds very attractive. I was more thinking of the “because I care” part)
A facinating and inspiring story that’s well worth the read. In my workplace (pharmaceutical formulation) there is a great divide between those who...
“Gosh my invite to TED must have gotten lost in the mail AGAIN this year.”
– Twitter / Matt Haughey — Mine too.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-24) →
BBC Radio 4
Morcheeba
Gotan Project
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
The Fray
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
in·cul·cate
–verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually fol. by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually fol. by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.
Single Serving Sites (kottke.org) →
kottke:
Lately I’ve noticed a pattern of people building Single Serving Sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing.
These sites are beautiful in their simplicity. Ranging from the useful (Is Twitter Down?) to the random (Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue), the hilarious (It’s not lupus), and the frankly bizarre (Khaan!).
—...
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...”
– W.H. Auden (via katydid)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-17) →
Michael Nyman
BBC Radio 4
Miles Davis
Morcheeba
Alex Lindsay and Scott Bourne
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“Marketing is a tax you pay for being unremarkable.”
– Robert Stephens — via Ryan Carson and Merlin Mann.
that bacon chocolate bar..
daryn:
For the record, the Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar is really quite tasty. The bacon isn’t like bacon bits, but actually still a little meaty, very flavorful, and goes quite well with the smoked salt and chocolate. I wouldn’t buy it everyday, and not just because it was $7, but if you’ve got the curiousity, it’s worth a try.
Following on from the legendary bacon and cheese baconburger and...
Daviesesque?
I’m really enjoying my Miles Davies at the moment. Especially the revolutionary Bitch’s Brew which I’ve struggled to get into but am now really digging (Miles runs the voodoo down is a masterpiece).
This stuff would must have been mind-blowing to have seen live. What would the lazyweb recommend to see live in these modern times?
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converse.com (& clarks.co.uk) →
igowen:
AKA, “How not to design your website.” Seriously. 100% flash does not work well when ecommerce is involved. Heck, 100% flash doesn’t work well, period.
Seconded. I recently needed to find my local Clarks shoe shop. Not only does the terrible colour scheme make reading the darn thing impossible you have to put up with a forced maximised screen and a ludicrous flash based transition...
Seaweed allows Smarties comeback →
BBC News:
Blue Smarties are to make a comeback, after being dropped nearly two years ago, and will now be made with a new colouring extracted from seaweed.
Fantastic! I just hope they will manage to recreate that lovely ‘artificial’ blue. The newer ‘all natural’ smarties appear rather dull in colour and hence less appealing. Part of their charm was wondering what all...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-10) →
Josh Ritter
BBC Radio 4
Leo Laporte and the TWiTs
Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Scott Bourne, Merlin Mann, and Alex Lindsay
The Economist
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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“For an artist, and I try to be one, everything that happens is material for your...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, on the question “Why are you thankful for pain and blindness?”. By the way, I didn’t know until now that he was blind, so he must’ve molded his clay well. (via dailymeh)
“Windows Vista: Operating System of Kings — Erm, probably.”
– My housemate, Alex.
“This is not an unreasonable request. It’s called etiquette, and the opposite...”
– numblr: Your options for reblogging — Very much in agreement here, and liking the new option to reblog in a different style (e.g. link/quote) from the original post.
“It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard...”
– Fake Steve Jobs on Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo.
Shawn Blanc interviews Cameron “i/o” Hunt →
Tumblr’s bookmarklet was really the turning point for me. Above all other easy-to-use Tumblr features, the bookmarklet is their pride and joy. The bookmarklet is the easiest way to post something you found. If Steve Jobs demo’d it, he’d say “boom” at least 4 times, and “like butter” at least twice. It’s really good.
“Arguing that blogs will replace the traditional media is like saying forks are...”
– The most sensible comment of the day | Technovia
The Mother of all Telephotos →
joelaz:
“The Canon 1200/5.6L USM has been built on a special-order basis since 1993, and the ‘official word’ is there are “more than twelve, less than twenty” of them in existence. With a price tag equivalent to a pair of his-and-her sports coupes, they were produced at the rate of about 2-per-year and a delivery time of about 18 months.”
One word. Wow!
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Archive.org should be nothing but full-length... →
Adam Howell:
Archive.org is great, but there are so many sites it flubs because of CSS tricks, broken images, etc. that it’ll never be the resource it could, and needs to, be. Especially if — thinking ahead 50 years — it’s billions of saved pages are useless because browsers no longer parse HTML that old.
That’s why we need an Archive.org that only takes full length screenshots of a site’s...
AppleScript to send from NetNewsWire to Tumblr →
This looks like it could be just what I’m looking for for posting on the fly from my RSS reader.
LimerickDB →
dailymeh:
A database of limericks courtesy of xkcd’s Randall Munroe.
Lovely!… And some not so lovely. This will keep me entertained for hours.
fred-wilson:
If you want to see a hillary/obama ticket and don’t care who is at the top, who do you vote for?
A Satyr Against Mankind
Were I (who to my cost already am
One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man)
A spirit free to choose, for my own share,
What case of flesh and blood I pleased to wear,
I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear,
Or anything but that vain animal
Who is so proud of being rational.
— Lord Rochester
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-3) →
Jack’s Mannequin
Josh Ritter
BBC Radio 4
Sir Edward Elgar
John Mayer
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“If I could have ‘friend’ not be a verb I’d be such a happy...”
– Merlin Mann
