Entries for week beginning November 29, 2009
➠ December 5, 2009
Oh, huge ignored pile of Yellow Pages
You're so very, very obsolete.
➠ December 4, 2009
Unhenged: A Coverville Tribute to Spinal Tap
I love Love LOVE the Coverville podcast, and here’s the Spinal Tap tribute album they’ve compiled.
The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009
Posted without comment, for fear of offending about 60% of the people I know in San Francisco.
➠ December 3, 2009
➠ December 2, 2009
Is Porn's Bad Reputation Overstated? - CNBC
“Lajeunesse initially had hoped to conduct the research with men in their twenties who had never seen porn. “We couldn’t find any,” he says.”
Webfinger.org
Blaine Cook’s demo site for “WebFinger”, the much-needed open way to turn email addresses into portable IDs, and actually turn OpenID into a usable technology. GMail addresses all work with WebFinger for now.
➠ December 1, 2009
The kind of happiness you can only truly get with a beard
themeleon :: Twitter Profile Designer by COLOURlovers
Lovely lovely lovely! I’ve been using COLOURlovers patterns to decorate my Twitter profile for some time. Their new “themeleon” lets you customize and tweak in-place then upload directly to Twitter.
BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage
Oh, BBC Radio, I could kiss you sometimes. A thirty minute show about science and comedy from Robin Ince and Brian Cox? With Dara O’Briain as a guest? And available as a podcast? YES PLEASE!
➠ November 30, 2009
Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch
This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!
Happy Cuppa
Smiley face drawn by the good folks at Cento to signify that i wanted a caffeinated latté.
➠ November 29, 2009
Waze
Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.
HAPPY MEAT DAY!
Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday I was sending out my "Tofu Day" cards.
Bands of color in four directions & all combinations, 1971
After the disappointment of the King Tut exhibit, it was fab to find a piece of art which made me smile, and erupted every geek OCD cortex in my brain!
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