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Links for 2008-08-23

God, will you look at these Microsoft TV adverts from the last ten thousand years. Some of them are so painful, I can't watch them all the way through. (tags: microsoft tv advertising pc windows)

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Links for 2008-07-20

"Erik Huggers made BBC new media boss" I don't know the man at all There was clearly some succession planning going on here, though, which doesn't entirely fill me with joy. Sigh. (tags: bbc erikhuggers ashleyhighfield)

All electronic music fans need to listen to Delia Derbyshire's "Experimental Dance Track" from the late sixties on this BBC News story Extraordinary. Unbelievable how contemporary it sounds. (tags: deliaderbyshire music electronica)

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Links for 2008-05-22

The Online Shoppe of Christopher David Ryan includes some lovely bits of design involving Apple Shortcuts Pretty much as design nerdy as you get without actually replacing your limbs with anglepoise lamps and Eames chairs. (tags: christopherdavidryan design)

How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight? Apparently I could take eighteen. (tags: quiz poll survey)

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Links for 2008-05-13

Domestic sell all kinds of weird and awesome vynil stickers and stuff to put on walls I think we're going to try and get some of these for the Brickhouse office to design it up a bit. The more it feels like a teenager's bedroom, the more creative we'll be. (tags: design designers vynil)

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Links for 2008-04-22

Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle! And this blog post explains all the value that they're getting out of being involved. Very excited to have them with us! (tags: plazes fireeagle)

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Links for 2008-04-17

Jeremy Paxman's position on 'User Generated Content' should now be clear And truth be told, he's right. The last few years have seen a decent number of fairly feeble attempts to harness the wisdom of the crowds that do indeed end up schlocky and amateurish. People will get better at it in time. (tags: jeremypaxman)

There's a fun argument in progress over at 37 signals about whether urgency and long working hours are ever a good thing. People always generalise from their own experience. You get several incredibly bright, diligent self-starting friends in a room and--shock--they're naturally productive and find their own equilibrium. (tags: 37signals urgency work)

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Links for 2008-04-16

Young Marshall's Django Fire Eagle package... "The django_fireeagle package contains code to handle the Fire Eagle authorisation process within Django. You can use it to manage connections between Django users and their respective Fire Eagle access tokens." (tags: fireeagle stevemarshall django location locative)

Phil Pearson's Fire Eagle C# library Should you want to cut down the time it takes to develop Fire Eagle related goodies using C#. (tags: c# fireeagle philpearson)

Art of the Title Sequence Lovely site full of video clips of sexy TV and film title sequences. (tags: titlesequence video)

here.unlike is a mash-up of berlin.unlike and...
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Links for 2008-04-15

Ashley Highfield is to leave the BBC. It won't be a shock if I tell you that I think it's about time. The only problem is who follows him. There are some particular candidates that I think would do the job well, but I'm afraid I suspect they won't end up with the job. (tags: ashleyhighfield bbc)

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Links for 2008-04-14

Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It's not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies are a bit forced and hurt their own message. Still, enjoyable. (tags: gay gaypolitics genetics christianity lunatices antigay homosexuality science satire politics)

Really useful article on creating software installer disk images on Panther. Unfortunately I need a similar article for Leopard. Surprisingly fun making disk images and putting in background images and aliases and stuff. You can see our finished work for Leopard users if you're...
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Links for 2008-04-13

The lovely guys at Skyhook have announced that they're going to be opening up their mobile clients to update Fire Eagle - which rocks! Those of you who have Fire Eagle invitations will - with any luck - have already noticed that we've started adding some select apps into the gallery. More to come. It's actually quite overwhelming. (tags: fireeagle yahoo skyhook loki)

Django auth wrapper for Fire Eagle makes getting your Django app all Eagled-up super easy Constructed by Steve Marshall. (tags: stevemarshall yahooeurope django)

Andy Baio has redesigned Waxy.org and it looks pretty great. At some point when the current lunacy is over...
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Links for 2008-04-12

Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time. (tags: swarming architecture technology)

This 3d printer can churn out copies of itself, prefiguring a day when all things will be sentient 3d roaming printers Occasional errors will be introduced through replication. For error correction 3d printers will connect to each other and blend their schematics. It's not quite what I expected as our future but it makes sense. (tags: 3dprinter printing...
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Links for 2008-04-10

Get your weighted companion cubes here! I'm sure Cal was scratching on the front door of the Steam offices (or whatever they use instead - orbital organitropolis probably) for one of these a while back. (tags: portal weightedcompanioncube)

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Links for 2008-04-09

Clay on the Colbert Report?! I think my head just imploded with the sheer amount of squee going on right there... Very exciting - impressed by both sets of people there. Remarkable good taste, by all accounts. (tags: clayshirky stephencolbert herecomeseverybody)

Brightkite is a location-based social networking service that apparently has Fire Eagle support built-in It looks great, but unfortunately I've not had much of a chance to play with it yet as I don't have an invitation. Sad Tom. (tags: brightkite lbs fireeagle)

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Links for 2008-04-07

BBC News did a redesign a couple of days ago--and you know--it's fine, but I wonder... Design patterns are now established. Probably people need to redesign less. So is it a bold new step, or is it a distraction from where the changes actually should be happening? (tags: bbc news bbcnews design redesign)

I'm deeply troubled by Phorm. This seems to be a service that could only be reasonably offered to a site owner, not an ISP... I mean, otherwise, there's a precedent for surveillance where we just sort of have to take Phorm's word for the idea that they're not tracking personal or private stuff. It seems particularly sinister...
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Links for 2008-03-25

I've ordered myself a Flip video in expectation of interesting websites to come Had a play with one for the first time the other day down the pub and it was undeniable fun. Looking forward to getting my pink one on Tuesday. (tags: flip video videocamera)

Kerry spotted a singular clip from Ellen DeGeneres' TV show on You Tube I do get into some trouble for not having much of a sense of humour about gay jokes. This is why. (tags: ellendegeneres youtube gaypolitics)

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