Buggering Up a Blog
With a renewed vigour one feels compelled to renovate and tidy up for the new year. So with that energy I threw a bit of time at the blog look and functionality. Making sure that links actually go somewhere and…
Random links added from del.icio.us for 4 January 2007
We welcome you to ‘Make The Move’ (tags: linux switch resource tips) New Scientist Technology Blog: The stuff of dreams (tags: science fun physics material)
“I’m sorry, we don’t do God”
Yes, it’s Tony Blair when asked whether he prayed with George Bush when he visited the White House. A quick quip. What did he mean by this answer? No he and George W. don’t share religious practise, or is it…
Do Ten Years Make a Difference?
It is interesting to consider the vastly different (yet similarly targeted) Apple eMate of 1997 and the OLPC pof 2007. Floating about the internet currently is a really cool screen capture of the ‘Sugar’ interface used by the One Laptop…
Survival Tips for Parisian High Society
From Michele comes this very musing correspondence about
Randomlinks from del.icio.us for 3 January 2007
Zone of Influence » Anatomy of a Wargame (tags: games war strategy commentary) Decision Games (tags: Games wargames retail) Dashboard Themes – DOA (tags: xbox themes preview)
Privacy Concerns in the 21stC
Another interesting list I came across during the season of listing. This one comes from a bit of a site of paranoia…but maybe we should be afraid :-0. On the upside, this is a list of 13 Easy Ways to…
Another Best of List
It’s that time of the year when we are bombarded with these, and like all of us I am trying to develop the appropriate strategies for winnowing out the chaff. The list of Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without…
Changing Glasses for Changing Tastes
Thanks to Usama for this one. Glasses that have interchangeable parts so you can choose a colour to match your mood or your fashion. The toulch ONE eyeglass system has a series of arms and nosepieces in a variety of…
Architecture Imitating Something…
Simply too absurd not to blog. Apparently there’s a new luxury condo planned for Dubai which is designed to resemble an Apple iPod (I probably don’t actually have to brand tag that do i?). Designed to reemble to that extent…
Bubble Travel
Easily understood representation of the CIA factbook represented in a flash-based relationship browser. Very smooth and intuitively navigable. Relationship Browser from Moritz Stefaner is a very clever and robust implementation of the interactive bubble charts that are all the rage.…
Honing Presentation Techniques
It’s always good to be reminded of tips, techniques, both basic and advanced. I was shopping for new remote clicker for my Dad today and so as I am want to do did a quick survey of what the current…