I made two new websites! jackmottram.com is a fancy modern homepage which lets you see what I’m up to all over the web, and Work collects stuff I’ve written in the newspapers and magazines.
Goodreads is a website that lets you track what you’re reading and share reviews with others.
Me And Billy Bob: artist Jillian MacDonald has a thing for Billy Bob Thornton.
Rid yourself of the wildly annoying warning that pops up when opening newly downloaded applications in Leopard.
Greg Wilson was the first British DJ to mix on the telly. (Via Andrew.)
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online. Or it will be, soon.
Watchification compiles the best telly available online, mostly from the BBC.
In Twin Peaks: locations from the series as they are now. More In Twin Peaks provides background info.
Mark E. Smith reads H.P. Lovecraft. See also: Mark E. Smith reads the football results.
My friend Al Seed has a new website, all about his current movements within the world of avant garde performance.
Nicola Atkinson Does Fly is doing some fascinating public art stuff in Abbeyview, Dunfermline. And, unlike most pesky artists, she has a great website and project weblog.
DJPremierSalutesJamesBrown - TheFoundationofHipHop_2Cd`s Mp3 Album Download–ace mixtape, the first mix pure James Brown, the second songs that sample him. I hardly ever listen to Hip Hop, but this has been on permanent rotation.
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger. It’s funny that, ten years after Barger coined the term weblog, his tips now apply more to tumblelogs than weblogs, as most people understand those terms.
Excellent Stirling gallery The Changing Room is moving to new premises after ten years.
The BBC’s iPlayer now works for folk with non-Windows computers, by streaming content online. Unfortunately the selection of programmes is absolutely rubbish, and you can only watch for a week after broadcast.
The Secret Life Of Machines, every episode of Tim Hunkin’s wonderful series on technology,
The hyper-reality of fiction techniques has transformed the way we consume the news. A good piece on the strange narratives in the news.
Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Looks tasty.
Fantastic photographs from the set of Twin Peaks by Richard Beymer (aka Benjamin Horne). I like the one of Bob enjoying a cup of coffee.
Yesterday in the pub, I told noted internet ventriloquist Mr. Trippy (aka Stewart Home) about the wild knitting pattern filesharing scene, today his MySpace blog posting on the topic has garnered some 250 comments. Which I can’t read because my new computer won’t load MySpace.
I love the fact that COBRA–the cool and scary name for the committee that meets in cases of national emergency–stands for something terribly dull. I wish I could tell you how I found this out, but suspect that doing so would bring shadowy forces to my door!
Weblogging editor thingy MarsEdit 2.0 has lots of lovely new features, including very slick integration with Flickr. (It might just tempt me away from the TextMate blogging bundle.)
I’ve always sympathised with the Archers Anarchists (who believe The Archers to be a fly-on-the-wall documentary, and that all supposed cast members are BBC stooges), but the discovery that the ‘actress‘ who ‘plays’ Emma Grundy is terribly pretty has tipped me over the edge into anger. BBC, stop your lies now! Emma Grundy is quite obviously a right dog!
Suitably butch books–by Conrad, Hemingway, Stevenson–are now available in fag packet form. (Via Smallist, an excellent weblog about wee stuff.)
This program is an implementation of the well-known Othello or Reversi board game. For the time being Tothello is the best program in the world playing reversed Othello (anti reversi) on 8×8, 7×7, 6×6, 5×5 and 4×4 boards. Enjoy the art of the reversed games with this ultimate player!
The Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration contains records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality.
Her Noise - The Making Of–a film about the 2005 show at South London Gallery.
Alexander “Sawney” Bean(e) was the storied patriarch of a forty-eight member clan in 16th century Scotland brutally executed for the mass murder and cannibalisation of over a thousand people. Not really, obviously.
Productions of Waiting For Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame directed by Beckett himself in 1985.
Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. (240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.) I want to be pencils when I’m dead.
Lost voices of Victorian working class uncovered in political protest poems
» Kill Your Idols–a documentary on New York music from post-punk to the recent past.
# documentary, music, NYC
Horses eat a lot
prances in the lovely field
They are beautiful.
–haiku by a pupil of Bloomfield Elementary School
An amazing demo of a touch-screen interface by Perceptive Pixel
Off The Flickr Grid Step 4: Running the Import Script–Paul Bausch is documenting the process of grabbing his photos and metadata from Flickr, then building them into his own site.
AITOR THROUP–fantastic fashion design, illustration.
Performancing is a full-featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox.
Crazy lady complains about neighbourly noise; schoolkids respond, belatedly, on the neighbour’s behalf.
