• Nick Brad­bury: Hit The Deck: Taste­ful Ads in Feed­De­mon
  If this comes to Net­NewsWire I *really* hope they offer an option to pay for an ad-​free ver­sion of the appli­ca­tion. (If they don't I doubt I'd switch away though - NNW is so much better than the alter­na­tives, espe­cially when you take the iPhone client into account, that there's no app to switch to.)
• Real­i­tyS­tu­dio » Michael Moor­cock on William S. Bur­roughs
• STACK inde­pen­dent mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tion and deliv­ery
  A sub­scrip­tion ser­vice that sends you a vari­ety of mag­a­zines. Bril­liant idea, and not too pricey at £3 per mag.
• The Agrippa Files
  "Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between artist Dennis Ash­baugh, author William Gibson, and pub­lisher Kevin Begos, Jr." It included pages that faded over time, and a Gibson poem that "ran from a diskette once before encrypt­ing itself into oblivion".
• BBC NEWS | UK | Eng­land | Cam­bridgeshire | Love letter jigsaw takes 15 years
  Sweet story, even if it shame­lessly plugs a vanity pub­lish­ing outfit and learndirect.
• Cus­tomize­Google: Improve Your Google Expe­ri­ence — Fire­fox Exten­sion
  "CustomizeGoogle is a Fire­fox exten­sion that enhances Google search results by adding extra infor­ma­tion (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and remov­ing unwanted infor­ma­tion (like ads and spam)."
• tap tap tap ~ 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

• Another coun­try: Artist Charles Avery dis­cusses the Island - The Scots­man
• VUKZID06 - Good­iepal - col­lected works - V/Vm Test Records
  “Here for the first time in an easy to down­load set of zip files are a series of col­lected Good­iepal works which include at Goodiepal’s request ‘Narc Beacon’ and his ‘Mort Aux Vaches” releases. There are also a selec­tion of rare Good­iepal tracks along with some of his selected advertisments.”
• Pos­ter­ous: Min­i­mal­ist Blog­ging - Read­WriteWeb
  Pos­ter­ous is an inter­est­ing weblog­ging app that you post to via email, and which can then send your posts on to Flickr, Twit­ter, your weblog, &c.. Cool, if not ter­ri­bly secure.
• Why I Chose Pos­ter­ous: a Quick Review - Joel’s pos­ter­ous
• Evo­lu­tion of the visual system is key to abstract art
• Aeeeris Tablet Con­ver­sion Kit
  A custom face­plate for the Eee 70x that turns it into a nice-​looking mini-​tablet.
• Medi­a­Con­sumer 0.1 - David Raynes
• The Pixel Palace
  "Tyneside Cinema, the oldest sur­viv­ing news­reel cinema in the coun­try and one of the UK's lead­ing cul­tural venues, is explor­ing cinema's poten­tial in the new dig­i­tal world, using the latest dig­i­tal pro­jec­tors, high-​speed net­works, games con­soles and mobile devices to help us uncover ways in which we can make cin­e­mas (and per­haps other arts and cul­tural spaces) as rel­e­vant in the 21st cen­tury as they were in the 20th."
• Sucked Into The Tun­nels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

• The Art of the Title Sequence
• Would cur­rent tech­nol­ogy allow some­one to make an audio record­ing of their life? | Ask Metafil­ter
  Answer: yes, but pro­cess­ing the data would be very hard/expensive.
• Dept. of Tech­nol­ogy: Remem­ber This?: Report­ing & Essays: The New Yorker
  "Gordon Bell… by means of custom pro­grams and gad­gets, now col­lects the daily minu­tiae of his life so emphat­i­cally that he owns the most exten­sive and unwieldy per­sonal archive of its kind in the world."
• The Grid System
• 35 Days Against DRM — Day 7: Prince: Friends with­out ben­e­fits. | Defec​tive​By​De​sign.org
  This is why I didn't buy any­thing from the NPGMC. That and all the songs released were bibble.
• Dinosaur Gar­dens » BBC Radio­phonic Work­shop - Fourth Dimen­sion
• Sucked Into The Tun­nels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

• BNP member prox­im­ity search
  Enter your Post Code to see if there are any fas­cists in the vicinity.
• Why Were Still Look­ing At You (from The Herald )
  Alter­nate head­line: Why do the Herlad keep cred­it­ing me with James Mottram's work, and he with mine?
• Pub­lish­ing Google docs to your blog
• On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel
• rus­sell davies: spec­u­la­tive mod­el­ing
  Mod­i­fy­ing Hornby model build­ings to look like they might in 2050. I can't wait to see what people come up with (I'm too cack-​handed to par­tic­i­pate, sadly).
• Jon­estown 30 Years Later
• Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC - Wired How-​To Wiki
  I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu Eee, really, but this remains very tempting.
• Aquar­ium Drunk­ard: MP3 Blog, Music Blog » Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash :: 1969 Ses­sions
• Europa Film Trea­sures

This month I’ve made quite a few posts at MetaFil­ter, an Amer­i­can web­site where thou­sands of people gather to share links to cool web­sites and shout at each other. Here they are:

The Tone Generation

The Tone Gen­er­a­tion is a radio series by Ian Hel­li­well ‘looking at dif­fer­ent themes or com­posers in the era of ana­logue tape and early syn­the­sizer technology’. The orig­i­nal globe-​trotting series: Great Britain, France, Ger­many, Italy, Hol­land, Scan­di­navia, East­ern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus pro­grammes: Expo 58, The RCA Syn­the­sizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alter­na­tively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by sub­scrib­ing to the pod­cast feed.

Theatre of the New Ear

The­atre of the New Ear. Two radio plays: one by Char­lie Kauf­man, the other by the Coen Broth­ers, recorded live and star­ring Steve Buscemi, John Good­man, Philip Sey­mour Hoff­man and Meryl Streep.

The Coen Brothers’ Saw­bones can be down­loaded from the site linked above, or streamed along with Kaufman’s Hope Leaves the The­atre here. Via Sub­trac­tion.

L’Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

A com­plete archive of French mag­a­zine L’Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It’s a trea­sure trove for fans of fash­ion, pho­tog­ra­phy, adver­tis­ing and design.

Architecture, Sampled And Remixed

Dion­i­sio González makes pho­tographs of imag­i­nary fave­las, Filip Dujardin makes pho­tographs of imag­i­nary build­ings.

The Demarco Digital Archive

The Demarco Dig­i­tal Archive holds 10,000 images and doc­u­ments gath­ered by Richard Demarco, gal­lerist, Beuys col­lab­o­ra­tor, founder of the Tra­verse the­atre and a key figure on the Scot­tish arts scene since the ’60s.

The Lost Synthesizer Classics of Ursula Bogner

It seems almost incred­i­ble that Ursula Bogner’s musi­cal tal­ents should have remained undis­cov­ered until now.

• Jour­ney­man Leather Belts
  Nice belts, hand­made in Shetland.
• BNP Mem­bers List Leaked - Com­plete details of all British National Party Mem­bers here!
  One member, a man from Pinner, that the press haven't picked up on, whose notes are just a tri­fecta of fail: "Former police­man. Lec­turer in human rights/data protection."
• RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Porta­bil­ity
  Lets you farm out authen­ti­ca­tion, so users can use their exist­ing accounts on other ser­vices (Google, Yahoo!, Face­book, OpenID, etc.) to log in to your site.
• Iran­ian Blog­ger Could Face Death Sen­tence
  It's Hoder, who I know through MetaFilter.
• Radio Wallah
  "Click on the links below to see some fab­u­lous tran­sis­tor radios from the fifties."
• GREY GAR­DENS ONLINE INFOR­MA­TION DATA­BASE
• Mens Under­wear and Male Under­wear from Sun­spel
  Nice T-shirts. As worn by Char­lie Watts!
• groupr
  "groupr is a small web appli­ca­tion that groups photos in Flickr groups that you belong to into a series of web pages, so that you can easily look at them and see what's been added."
• Offi­cial Google Blog: Feed me! Google Alerts not just for email any­more
• Fix for Flick­er­ing Fullscreen Appli­ca­tion with Compiz | Tombuntu
• Type­Pad - Why Blog - Jour­nal­ist Bailout Pro­gram
  Send a link to your last pub­lished piece to SixA­part, and they'll give you a free Type­Pad account, and enrol you in their adver­tis­ing programme.
• A Tuto­r­ial on Hyper­fo­cus Tech­nique
  Thanks for the link Dad!
• Hyper­fo­cal Focus­ing Pho­tog­ra­phy Tips - Dig­i­tal Camera Tech­niques

This is likely to be of lim­ited inter­est to most read­ers, but the denim heads¹ will drool. Iron Heart have just released a new pair of jeans in a lim­ited edi­tion of one hun­dred: the Triple Works Hidden Rivet TWHR01.

A belt-​loop stitched to a waist­band, for extra strength.

Like the mighty Iron Heart IH-634S, they’re based on the 1955 Levi’s cut, though prob­a­bly not too closely, as Levi’s sued Iron Heart and other Japan­ese repro brands last year for trade­mark infringe­ment. Unlike the IH-634S, which is made of incred­i­bly hefty 21oz selvedge denim, the TWHR01 comes in a rel­a­tively light­weight 13oz selvedge, though it’s woven on the same 30” Riki-​Shokki—that’s Japan­ese for “power loom”—and from the same long-​fibre cotton.

Some more nerdy details:

• Goatskin leather patch
• Hidden rivets
• Donut buttons
• Button fly
• Selvedge detail­ing inside the watch pocket and the fly con­struc­tion of the jeans
• Two colour stitch­ing throughout
• Extra-​heavy twill pocket bags
• Half-​lined rear pockets
• Belt loops stitched into waist­band for extra strength

And if you order now, you can get an optional crotch rivet free of charge. Yes, you read that right, an optional crotch rivet!

1. Hello Roger! Hello Mike!↩

• BBC NEWS | Pol­i­tics | Shops may take ID card bio­met­rics
  ‘Supermarkets could be asked to take people’s fin­ger­prints as part of the government’s iden­tity card scheme.’ What. The. Fuck?
• Barack Obama: How He Did It
  Fas­ci­nat­ing, some­times gos­sipy behind-​the-​scenes look at the Pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. The fact that the reporters ‘were granted year-​long access on the con­di­tion that none of their find­ings appear until after Elec­tion Day’ is pretty dubi­ous, though.
• Pod­cast Down­load­ing Con­firmed in iPhone Firmware 2.2 | TheAp­ple­Blog
  Cool. (For some reason I’ve got really into lis­ten­ing to pod­casts on my iPhone, though I never did on my iPod.)
• PdaNet — Use your iPhone as a Wire­less Router for your PC/Mac
  If there’s no offi­cial way of teth­er­ing in the next month, I’m going to have to jail­break my ‘phone for this.
• AT&T-sanctioned 3G teth­er­ing on the way for iPhone
  Fin­gers crossed O2 follows.