Tumblelink November 23, 2005
MAKE: Blog: Laser etched Powerbook! – laser etching anything on a Powerbook is quite fabulous, laser etching a tarsier on a Powerbook is just… perfect.
« »Tumblelink November 18, 2005
Tired of the Soup du Jour? Some Problems with ‘New Formalism’ by Nick Evans, who has a show coming up at Sorcha Dallas which, in part, looks set to explore further the issues he discusses here.
# art, formalism, glasgow, theory
Tumblequote November 17, 2005
I keep stumbling onto my old archives in Google searches and each time I end up spending 30 minutes or more reading everything. Sometimes it feels like I’m reading someone else’s journal. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking when I was writing what I did — Matt Haughey on that peculiar weblog feeling.
« »Tumblephoto November 16, 2005
A Wee Girl With Her Unhappy Goose Friend, By Hannah, photo by Mot.
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Tumblelink November 13, 2005
Darren’s urban exploration documentation.
# exploration, glasgow, spooky
Tumblelink November 12, 2005
20 Jazz Funk Greats – cracking MP3blog from folk who are members of that site it is verboten to mention of which I am also a member, yeah?
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Tumblelink November 12, 2005
UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look & feel as one. – I am almost moved to tears by what this has done to my computer. Thanks Bonaldi!
« »Tumblelink November 12, 2005
Welcome to the Official Site of Muammar Gadafi – it’s basically a weblog. Between this and the Pentagon podcast, my mind is reeling.
« »Tumblelink November 12, 2005
DRUIDSTREET V. – it’s only a tumblelog made with Backpack. Web 2.0 singularity approaches.
« »Tumblelink November 10, 2005
Greatest Internet Moments, 100 of them. Half wondrous nostalgia (Pokey the Penguin!), half, ‘Huh?’. For me at least. Possible proof that the web was much more fun in the 1990s.
« »Tumblelink November 10, 2005
Rag & Bone – very, very nice clothes. Fucking awful Flash website (why do fashion labels always do that?)
« »Tumblelink November 10, 2005
fumblings: A Response to Michael Sharpe – I can’t summarise this piece by Honey on ME and CFS, just go and read it.
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Tumblelink November 10, 2005
Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. – they’re not doing to badly, either. It’s very fast, and has a nice sidebar feature for accessing bookmarks, history, downloads. (Bit flakey when it comes to forms, though.)
« »Tumblelink November 10, 2005
Today I noticed that a del.icio.us user called lstryder has been using the del.icio.us for: feature to send me links he thinks I might like. Since I don’t recognise the username, I bookmarked lstryder’s del.icio.us page and marked it for:lstryder with a note asking him/her to get in touch. At present, lstryder is the only person who marks stuff for: me, but I rather like the idea of using the for: feature as a little messenger thing, because a) I don’t use iChat/AIM/MSM/Jabber/whatever, and b) posting to delicious is so quick and easy. (Doubtless everyone else on del.icio.us already does this, but hey ho…)
# chat, del.icio.us, web
Tumblephoto November 8, 2005
Gerard Removers, originally uploaded by Gerard.
This is very funny indeed if you have a friend called Gerard. Though it gives him the fear.
« »Tumblephoto November 8, 2005
Woke Up This Morning, Diddley Bow At My Door, by Mot.
Woke up this morning, diddley bow at my door. Also woke up this morning with no discernable musical talent, but, hey, it’s fun twanging away noisily! Must resist urge to buy distortion pedal…
« »Tumblelink November 4, 2005
The Long Blondes are playing at the nightclub this Sunday. Lazy hack description: a bit Elastica-ish. The entire band have really nice noses, too, judging by the photos page. Important in a band, good looking noses, I’ve always thought.
« »Tumblethought November 4, 2005
Hey, here’s a thought for Innocent Smoothies: much as I love your fruit-packed concoctions and whimsical marketing strategy, if your Blackberries & Blueberries drink has half a fucking mashed banana in it why the cocking fuck don’t you call it a Blackberries & Blueberries & Bananas drink instead of sneaking the information into the ingredients list? You bastards. (I really don’t like bananas.)
« »Tumblelink November 4, 2005
backstage bbcsearch by jim – fast searching of BBC RSS feeds, very nicely done.
« »Tumblequote November 3, 2005
Tumblelogs; just a fancy name for the weblogs people like me used to have back in the day, really, back when Blogger was state-of-the-art. Before Movable Type made us put a title on everything, and suddenly posting a link or a snapshot of your thoughts wasn’t ‘substantial’ enough. Of course then linklogs came along, and del.icio.us and Flickr and all that jazz, and it seemed like every component of what a weblog used to be had been spun off into its own format, its own identity. Like sit-com characters starring in their own shows. — MacDara Conroy, nails Tumblelogs on his newly tumbly weblog.
« »Tumblelink November 3, 2005
Yahoo! Maps – it’s incredibly slick and has a totally wild set of APIs, but if it only has one country out of the 193 on earth it’s not much fucking use, is it? I mean, I get why they might not be able to get the data to map, say, Turkmenistan. But Europe? Come on. (Sorry, but it annoys me that web companies think that they’re based in one country, so retro.)
« »Tumblelink November 3, 2005
Fuck this article: the Yugoslav lexicon of swear words . Ne vrediš ni pola pizde vode!
« »Tumblephoto November 2, 2005
A still (I think) from Cathy Wilkes’ new film piece, Most Women Never Experience. (Read me gushing about her most recent show in Glasgow.)
Tumblethought November 2, 2005
Since a fair few folk have mailed to ask: Tumbletumble isn’t powered by a slick new Rails app, it’s just ‘good’ old Movable Type with the Tags and Markdown plugins, swift and easy posting enabled by a slightly tweaked posting bookmarklet. The templates, all three of them, are about ten lines long – once they’re finalised and tidied up, Ill post them here. I hope this doesn’t get me banished from the tumblelogging community – I party like it’s 1999 0.9! (Update, 27th July 2006: Tumble is now WordPress-powered.)
Tumbletip November 2, 2005
A useful little habit: when writing, select all your text and copy it to the clipboard at frequent intervals, before you hit save (which if you’re as paranoid as I am, is every few lines). This gives you an easily accessible revision history, especially if you use a utility like Jumpcut, and lets you pause for a microsecond to gather your thoughts.
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Tumblequote November 1, 2005
Some people call me Mister Ra. Some people call me Mister Ree. You can call me Mister Mystery – Sun Ra
« »Tumblelink November 1, 2005
‘I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund – a second round of the anti-ID card pledge. 10,000 of us have already made this pledge, please join us.
« »Tumblelink November 1, 2005
I couldn’t resist linking to a PC that is a) called Jack and b) a thin client.
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