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Today’s Links (14/12/08)

Jack Mottram — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:20:55 +0000

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 ÃÂ£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

Today’s Links (09/12/08)

Jack Mottram — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:54 +0000

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

Today’s Links (06/12/08)

Jack Mottram — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:16:50 +0000

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. | DefectiveByDesign.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

Today’s Links (23/11/08)

Jack Mottram — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:00:49 +0000

The link to the ‘BNP proximity search’ has been removed after a series of threatening emails. It may or may not be reinstated pending legal advice.

~~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

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This Month’s MetaFilter Posts

Jack Mottram — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:00:24 +0000

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 GonzÃÂ¡lez 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.

Today’s Links (20/11/08)

Jack Mottram — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:19:56 +0000

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

Today’s Links (07/11/08)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:41:08 +0000

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.

Today’s Links (05/11/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:42:42 +0000

wp-Hyphenate 1.0 beta • KINGdesk
‘HyphenÃÂation is finally availÃÂable for the web.’ I just installed it, and it works very well.
Twitter / NumbersStation
Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run
From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family’s Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre - News - LA Weekly - LA Weekly
The Croft
Mike D.’s new weblog (at least I’m pretty sure it is!) about the Hebrides.
Hand-Knitted Luxury Aran Icelandic Jersey ‘Odin’ from Scotweb Kilt & Tartan Store
Very nice hand-knitted wooly jumpers. Bit pricey, mind you.
Clarkson joke sparks complaints
Looks like funny jokes on the BBC will have to be banned.
PyRoom — distraction free writing
WriteRoom clone. I think I’ll go with this one for the Eee PC.
textroom - Google Code
WriteRoom clone. Has some interesting features, including set target word count, but fiddly to install.
The Comics Reporter
"Garry Trudeau has confirmed… that he has submitted Doonesbury strips for next week that are based on Senator Barack Obama winning the presidential election to be held on Tuesday."

Today’s Links (31/10/08)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:44:38 +0000

WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7
Looking good.
Shepard Tones
"The "sonic barberpole" illusion invented by psychologist Roger Shepard at Bell Labs. The illusion consists of a seemingly endlessly rising or falling set of tones. The trick is done by simultaneously sweeping eight (or so) pure tones (i.e., sine waves) tuned exactly one octave apart. The human ear/brain has a really hard time figuring out which pure tone is the fundamental, so it "slips" periodically, just like an eye watching a barberpole (or looking at an Escher staircase)."
Five Things You May not Know About NetNewsWire: NewsGator Widget Blog
The screenshots of old versions are making me all nostalgic.
Griffin Technology: iTalk Sync
Free audio recorder for iPhone. (It irritates me no end that a separate Mac app is needed to sync files - it'll be the third such app I've installed, when I should be able to mount the iPhone on my desktop and drag files off it.)
Does Obama / McCain slash fiction exist?
Of course it does.
Conky - Home
A Linux utility (equivalent to Geektool on the Mac) that puts info on your desktop - uptime, network activity, email notifications and whatnot. A bit fiddly to configure, but there are squillions of sample config files on the web.
Minefield
An experimental new version of Firefox. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now, and it’s incredibly fast. Stable too, surprisingly, and all my add-ons work fine (thanks to Nightly Tester Tools).
hildamagazine.net
An art magazine.

Today’s Links (29/10/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:04:15 +0000

Betavine - Betavine
Vodafone’s R&D lab. Lots of interesting stuff, plus drivers for some of the operating systems Vodafone don’t officially support.
Hands on with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix
It’s kind of cool, but I disabled the special launcher thingy and automatic maximising of windows thingy after a day.
Lit Without Buildings - The Apocryphal Cartographies of Carroll and Borges : Life Without Buildings
Linux.com :: Desktop search comparison: Beagle vs. Tracker
I went with Tracker.
Art and Sports, Meeting on a Level Playing Field - washingtonpost.com
No mention of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s Zidane film, weirdly.
ScribeFire - Blog Editor
Full-featured weblog editor in the form of a Firefox add-on.
No Labels for the Olsen Twins, Unless It’s Their Own - NYTimes.com
Bug #286465 in Ubuntu Eee: “Lots of wrong permissions or missing setuid,setgid: /dev/fuse, unix_chkpwd, passwd, mount, ping, …”
Pretty much everything you try to do on Ubuntu Eee (maybe standard Ubuntu too?) is stymied by fucked permissions, or weirdly restrictive permissions. I’m bored of typing sudo all the time, and I’m nowhere near Linuxy enough to know what permissions things are supposed to have.
Custom Compiz Effects in Ubuntu 8.04 | Tombuntu
Compiz works just fine on the Eee 701 with 1GB of RAM, which really surprised me. You do have to install this settings manager to turn off a lot of daft stuff - what’s the point of wobbly windows? - but the fancy workspace switching is both pretty and useful.
Many Tricks · Witch
I used this window switcher for yonks, then forgot about it for some reason. Reinstalled.
Essentials, 2008 edition [dive into mark]
Mark's fave apps and tools on Linux. GNOME Do, a Quicksilver-equivalent for Linux is really good.
Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker
Sarah Palin redistributes the crikey out of wealth in Alaska, but Obama is the ‘socialist’? (Alaska has no income or sales tax, but taxes oil companies so heavily they can give citizens $3k a year.)