I have been moved to post by the following message from my Dad:

Dear Sir,

My blog has more recent entries than yours.

Yours truly,

RJ Mottram

The shame of being outblogged by a silver surfer!

To make up for my long silence, I will be weblogging seven shades of shit out of the Edinburgh Art Festival, which opens tomorrow.

• channel4.com - watch online
  New iPlayer-type service. Windows/IE-only. Pubic service broadcaster, my arse.
• Strange fiction | Review | guardian.co.uk Books
• Firefox 3 brings Ugliness to the Mac at Johan Sanneblad
  Most of this sloppy UI stuff has been getting on my wick too.
• Minimal
  Great post on minimal weblog design. Goes too far, but I’m going to borrow some of these ideas.
• Administrative Debris
  More minimalism for weblogs. I really like the editing in place features outlined here.
• plainview : software : the barbarian group
  Full-screen browser for OSX.
• Questions For Gore Vidal
• Psychogeography
  Self and Sinclair in conversation.
• Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail
  Really slick.
• LogicielMac.com - News : Snow Leopard : adieu les PPC !
  The end of an era.
• Conway’s Game of Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• RealityStudio » William S. Burroughs and Joy Division

I’m taking part in a panel discussion on Positive Piracy at the mighty EIFF next week. We’ll be talking about the way cinephiles are increasingly turning to the web to get their fix of rare and cult cinema, the impact of digital distribution on future film-making, how Bittorrent is way cool, and stuff like that.

The other panelists are Alex Orr, whose bonkers-sounding horror flick Blood Car is screening at the Festival, Mike Gubbins of Screen International, Mark Adams from the ICA and Eddy Leviten from the slightly scary Federation Against Copyright Theft, who should ensure that the discussion doesn’t end up being a big file-sharing love-in. So will I, in fact—despite the two terabytes of media obtained by questionable means currently littering my hard drives, I’m pretty ambivalent about, you know, nicking things people have worked hard to make.

If you’d like to come along, it’s at 6pm on Wednesday 25th June at the Traverse and costs a measly fiver.

In other EIFF news, vote for Hannah in The Herald Fashion Awards! Should she win, I will be demanding a credit for spending countless hours waiting for her outside the changing rooms of fashionable boutiques.

• The BBC’s "Green Book"
  Guideline for BBC producers and writers in the 40s and 50s.
• Mobile01 線上購物
  A touch screen for the Eee PC 700, apparently very easy to install.
• ASUS confirm Eee Box B202 desktop: $269 for 1.6GHz Atom - SlashGear
  Looks fucking ridiculous, but might make a nice media downloader/viewer for under the telly.
• How to fit 1TB of data on one tiny thumbdrive | News | TechRadar UK
  Blimey.
• Meerkat | Code Sorcery Workshop
  App for setting up SSH tunnels. Not sure I want to pay for something that I can do from the command line pretty easily, but it does have some fancy features, and looks very simple to use.
• macosxhints.com - 10.5: Set Help Viewer windows to non-floating mode
  You know, how it should be, instead of obscuring the application you’re asking for help about.
• Phocus
  App for processing images from Hasselblad digital cameras. (Yet another reason to buy a Mac, Dad!)
• What the Papers Say axed by BBC after 52 years | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Fuckers. I’ve been watching for as long as I can remember.
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
• Frieze Magazine | Archive | Nicolas Bourriaud
  Books that have influenced Mr. Relational Aesthetics.
• Sorry, Asia, you smell: the not-so-subtle sales ploy as Unilever scents profits
  “The sense of paranoia created the market.”
• Bid To Remove Branding And Logos From Cigarette Packets (from The Herald )
  So they want to discourage smoking by making fag packets look cool? Clever.
• The Atlantic Online | Index of Literary Interviews

I really must get over my weblogger’s block, rather than posting these link dumps every couple of weeks, eh?

• There’s No Such Word As Firstly
  Weblog by Catherine Weir, one of the best graduates of Dundee’s Time Based Art programme this year.
• The Fall of Gallerist Larry Salander — New York Magazine
  "Why is an El Greco worth less than a Koons? Gallerist Larry Salander called it a moral travesty, and decided, catastrophically, to do something about it."
• The Symbols on My Flag (And What They Mean): newyorker.com
• Typotheque: Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans by Ben Archer
• k-punk: The Place I Made The Purchase No Longer Exists
• MSI Wind review: Te enamorarás! Yes, it’s an Eee-killer - Boing Boing Gadgets
  Not it’s not: at 10", it’s much too big. Though I wouldn’t mind if the Eee could claim 7hrs battery life.
• Artes Mundi - Home Page
  Off to Cardiff to see the show soon.
• Shirley Clarke: A retrospective - News - Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Really looking forward to this bit of the EIFF. (Note to EIFF web designers: make your video embeddable. What is this, 2005?)
• Spillers Records, Cardiff - The Oldest Record Shop In The World.
  Will have to pop in here when I’m in Cardiff next week.
• www.studio355.com
  Cheryl Field’s website - she makes kinetic sculpture.
• FlexTD
  A utility that lets you enter iCal todos via a window that pops up when you hit a hotkey. Free.
• J. G. Ballard - A Collector’s Guide
• Ambit Magazine
• Ironic Sans: Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
  I use Method #3.
• Eye of the Goof: The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org
  Cult cinema on Archive.org
• Amazon Kindle Review
• Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter attention sp…
• Literature and Latte - Scrivener
  Fancy word processor thing. I have no need for 99% of its features, but I’m still tempted, because you can set a target word count.
• Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language
  Crikey Moses, Firefox 3 RC1 is ace on the Eee PC.
• Remember everything. | Evernote Corporation
  This would seem to be a bloody remarkable application. The facility for text searching images is particularly cool (business cards/wine labels/handwritten notes snapped with a webcam all worked well for me). At last, computers can fix my fried memory!

• Kid Drawings Made Realistic - The Monster Engine (GALLERY)
• Yeondoo Jung - Wonderland
  Children’s drawings photographed in the real world.
• Macworld | Create good queries in Spotlight
  See especially the keyword search feature.
• app4mac - RapidoWrite
  I already use TextExpander (a lot), but this looks worth a try.
• tseetseetsu.org
  Graeme Plunkett’s weblog - he’s showing an ace (if possibly offensive to animal-lickers) piece at the Dundee degree show, involving a bird, some sensors, custom software and recorded birdsong.
• Google Doctype - Google Code
  "Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more."
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do
  Alternate title: "Top 10 Standard Features You Use All The Time (Except #10 and #9 Which Are Useless Gimmicks But Which We Had To Add Because No One Does Top 8s)"
• Google Friend Connect
  Add social features to a website, no programming required - eg. sign in to a site with your Facebook id, find your Facebook friends who use the non-Facebook site. Are there any OpenID-powered social networky sites that could plug into this?
• claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. » Archive » New Feature: OpenID-based contacts
  Yes, there are. Don’t think anyone uses this one, mind you.

• Heresy Corner: Blasphemy: the last rites
  "Few people seem to have noticed, but the law of blasphemy was repealed yesterday…"
• Jonathan Glancey on the influence 50s comicstrip Dan Dare has had on modern architecture
• Instant Rimshot
• "Mark As Unread" Doesn’t Work For Me Anymore | Ask Metafilter
  Email tips.
• Life Without Buildings: Art From Disaster: an architecture blog
  "…New Orleans homes still bear the spray-paint markings used by rescue workers… some residents have installed a metal sculpture permanently memorializing these new urban hieroglyphics."
• tms [fernLightning]
  "Allows basic cvs style operations on Time Machine volumes." Great for quickly checking what Time Machine has been up to.
• Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know
  I just signed up to this very pretty and slick site to keep track of what I’m reading/want to read. Not sure I’ll use the social aspects, but if anyone’s already using it, let me know.
• MovableType.org - Home for the MT Community
  I’m well impressed with the current version of Moveable Type. (I used it for many years before switching to Wordpress, and it used to be a total nightmare.)
• Nisus Thesaurus
  I’m just hoping this app will give me another word for show/exhibition/exhibit/installation.
• Creating an image in our likeness - The Herald
  My review of the Elipssis show at DCA.
• The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  Fascinating profile of Pascal Dangin, who retouches photos for advertising and fashion editorial.
• One week of the Guardian: Monday // Designing The News
  "…a series that takes the news from one week of the Guardian newspaper, and visually represents it as a series of static visualisations."
• Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography
• John Resig - Processing.js
  Wowsers.
• PowerBook Guy
  Ooh, you can get a lovely old Powerbook for about £150.

• no2self.net » Blog Archive » compact family home
  Rob compares two compact home solutions that come complete with interior fixtures fittings.
• Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » The Car that Ate Bournville
• ART TORRENTS
• YouTube - WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 1/4
  All four parts of John Berger’s series are up on YouTube.
• Román Cortés » Homer CSS
  Unbelievable.
• Verbarius
  "Verbarius is the first clock in the world that tells time the way people do." And I really, really want one. (And I’d probably set it to German or French, like a big ponce.)
• Tweet Book
  More fiction on Twitter, this time collaborative. Doesn’t seem to be going very well.
• twittories » home
  Collaborative fiction written through Twitter. Not bad.
• twitterfic - Twitter Fiction
  140 character microfictions.
• Twitter / junkdnafiction
  More microfiction on Twitter. This time quite bonkers!
• Google Docs Offline
  FAO: Mr. Bob.