Today’s Links (05/06/08)
- 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
ââ¬ÅThe sense of paranoia created the market.ââ¬Â - 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?
Shock - company tries to develop new market .
Hardly suprising that a business which sells something which makes you smell different trys to convince people that the way they smell in the first place isn’t as nice.
I have to confess that even though I don’t exactly work for them my annual bonus is dependent on them selling their stuff …so France your jam is horrible buy more marmite, America your clothes reek wash with persil, China your tea is too hot drink Lipton’s iced tea, ladies of the world you too can look/live/love like that woman from Desparate house wives just by eating magnums. Asia you already know what you’ve done wrong.
Posted by franko at 3pm on 18.06.08