December 2008
52 posts
likes Narrow Stairs by Death Cab For Cutie on... →
Textecution Hopes To Put An End To Texting While... →
Technology firm eLYK Innovation has created a $10 application called Textecution for Google’s Android mobile platform that will sit in the background and use the phone’s GPS system to detect whenever the phone is moving faster than 10 MPH, at which time the app will deactivate the phone’s SMS capabilities. Once the phone comes to a standstill (say, at a stop light) the driver will be allowed to...
The Death Throes of Print? →
The medium of print will not die, but its spot atop the mountain of mainstream content distribution is in its final days. This could bring about a rebirth of design innovation online. We can help bring about change and find new ways to connect with audiences. This is an exciting time to be a designer, assuming we can all hang onto our jobs long enough to see what happens.
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target... →
The UK’s second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring technology to specifically target and restrict BitTorrent traffic, its boss has told The Register.
Weezer - O’ Come All Ye Faithful
The Number Of Fucks In Deadwood →
Cumulative series FPM: 1.56
“The closure of their firms - including hotels, shops, estate agents, building...”
– BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Guernsey | Barclay brothers defend Sark move
bitten off so much more than I can chew with my rails project. :\ :)
Great idea: “why HR should Care”
pondering FaceBook connect integration with project.
was out with work friends till 2AM, got woken up at 7AM with a solution to my ruby issue and have been awake since. McDonalds coffee ftw.
~/Downloads/ directory is just under 20Gb … whoops …
McDonalds so nom.
hate how you can’t DM people that don’t follow you. Seems like a really weird “feature” :/
am i the only person that would really like a comments field on twitters user pages? tempted to make a greasemonkey script ..
paypal blow. My account is locked so I can’t use it - but I have tons of old subscriptions still taking money …
OpenID is a project I’d love to get more involved in - some fascinating challenges before it really takes off (which it will, eventually)
going thru 170 screenshots of URL shortening interfaces.
I need a date for the TechCrunch party. @pierrefar?
Last.FM layoffs :(
having a cup of Cylon tea. I mean Ceylon.
celebrating xmas free time with jam doughnuts, cylon tea, and a bread tin purchase.
feeling a little pissed off that I missed joyents insane xmas deal, ordered my accelerator like two weeks ago … :\
Is your subway system a platform? →
Wish Cambridge buses had this.
itunes has crashed and wont stop playing music
I love working to close deadlines, like within 4 hours. :F
designing @cligs a truely gorgeous user interface. Hand sculpted fields innit.
del.icio.us mobile http://cli.gs/WHyyTH isn’t that like two years too late?
on a windows machine, ick - can anyone recommend a good windows, non-adobe air, twitter client? are there any good online ones?
“Google Zeitgeist 2008: All other search reports Palin comparison”
TwitterFox is really handy, good recommendation @technicalfault !
reading about microsofts new MVC CMS - http://visitmix.com/Lab/Oxite
JQuery saves so much time when prototyping web apps
my new favourite cookery blog “eatlikeagirl.com” :D
gosh: http://www.nationaldigitalinclusionconference.co.uk/ from @davebriggs
tr.im website breaks entirely if you make a privacy code URL. Whatever that is.
i’m looking for some nice examples of notification (eg, you are/arent logged in) on websites - anyone got any examples?
simply happy news now has a submission bookmarklet, woot! http://cli.gs/S4RVgy
“Obj-C” == “Objectivley-Crap” :D
cool interview with Mark Penn in IoS. http://cli.gs/z74HHY
seems like google is using froogle on its internal policy, ahaha.
“If you’re going to devote your life and livelihood to building software on Rails, do NOT do it on Windows.”
War wounds http://snipurl.com/7nrw2
mechanical turk is rapidly becoming my favourite toy. I’m using it to analyze data and such. Fascinating. It really is magic.
