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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 (22/10/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:57:52 +0000

Art review: Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton - Scotland on Sunday
Choosy - A smarter default browser for Mac OS X
‘Forget the Ã¢â¬Ëdefault browserÃ¢â¬â¢, Choosy lets you open links in the browser you want. Just set up a few simple options and Choosy will do the right thing, whether that’s opening a browser or letting you pick from some or all of the browsers on your system.’ Great little utility.
The Snow Queen
The Arches Christmas play, written by Megan, directed by Al (and I think Guy is doing the sound design too).
Easy Lifestreaming with SimplePie
Atheist Campaign
Campaign to put nice adverts for atheism on London buses, reading ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’. (They raised ten times their original fundraising target on the first day!)
dotmac - Google Code
A version of .Mac you host yourself - data sync, iDisk, Backup all work apparently. Doesn’t look too fiddly to install on a machine running Linux (you have to patch Apache, install a bunch of Perl modules) but there’s no easy way of installing. If they get that sorted, this could be really popular.
Riddley Walker Annotations
Savoy Records: Heroes
I did not know that PJ Proby recorded a rendition of The Waste Land backed with a VarÃÂ¨se composition. Now that I do, I must own it!
Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who’s the Windbag?
albam - clothes
Interesting brand: plain and simple, mostly made in the UK, kind of Margaret Howell-ish.
Black Bird Fly(BBF-ブラックバードフライ)
A gorgeous plastic-bodied TLR that shoots medium format-style square images on 35mm film. Looks like you can only get them in Japan, sadly.

Today’s Links (25/04/08)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:04:00 +0000

Textism: Podswollop
Most of the podcasts I listen to are actually radio programmes too. Or made by professional broadcasters. (Podcasting is a new mode of distribution, but it’s not a new medium.)
New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs
This is the stupidest idea I’ve seen in a long time.
Print writing versus web writing « gilest
I’d add "You probably get paid | You probably don’t’ ;-)
Documentary Section Announced - News - Edinburgh International Film Festival
For whatever reason, it’s always the docs I see at the EIFF that stick in my mind. (And I’ll see way more this year - fuck August!)
radio for back up on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A Flickr user reports on being harrassed for (perfectly legally) taking a photo of a shop.
Made in Japan? | TABlog | Tokyo Art Beat
"This discussion paper proposes that the medium of digital photography inherently displays qualities of Japanese aesthetics." Hmmn. No.
Twitter / DowningStreet
The Prime Minister’s Office has a Twitter account - they get it, too: lots of replies to queries by other users.
LG Optical Drives - Model GSA-E50L
Works well with the Eee. Shame it’s so ugly.
Welcome to Usb.brando.com.hk
Portable USB DVD drive - pitched at the Eee/Air, but also says it’s Windows only (eh?!), unclear whether it’s bus powered or not.
Birkhill Castle
Spent the day hanging out here, after a screening of Antonioni’s L’Eclisse. DCA know how to launch a show!
patrickrhone.com: (Re)Introducing Machine Methods
Clever idea: Patrick’s business website is designed so that it can also serve as a printable brochure or folded mailout.
carrierdetect.com » Back Standard Time
We’ll all be setting our watches to BAST before long. Probably. Photos here.
Anil Dash: Embedded Journalism
"I’ve created a javascript embed tag at the bottom of every post on my blog, to let you embed the title, an excerpt of the post, and a list of commenters on the post in your own blog or site." Interesting idea.
Josh Millard . com » HURF DURF METAFILTER ANALYZER
Disturbingly exhaustive examination of the phrase HURF DURF BUTTER EATER as used on MetaFilter, by cortex. (The fact that total asshat un owen introduced it to the site kind of takes the shine off.)
Mobile Computer - Asus Eee PC 900
The more reviews of the 900 I read, the more I think of flogging my 701 on eBay and upgrading…
The Fridge Gallery
YouTube - Isosceles: Kitch Bitch
Gerard directed this video for Isosceles (which is great fun, though I’m not terribly keen on the song.)

Today’s Links (15/04/08)

Jack Mottram — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:38:49 +0000

Epson R-D1: Sensor cleaning
I need to do this - my pinhole bodycap has revealed quite a bit of dust on the sensor.
Through the Viewfinder: A Tutorial
I assume this would be next to impossible with a rangefinder? I might try to cobble someting together involving an old twin lens reflex, a couple of close-up filters on my 50mm and a precisely-measured ‘smokestack contraption’. Or just take pinhole through-the-viewfinder photos for extra silliness.
Fire Eagle : Gallery - Getting Started
There are now some Fire Eagle apps listed, a couple of which I’d not seen before. If anyone wants an invite, I have 4 going spare (it’s a potentially very useful service that lets you tell the web where you are).
cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
Fascinating look at the design of Monocle’s site.
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
Piece profiling Jan Chipchase of Future Perfect fame.
Where have all the cheap, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computers gone? « gilest
It seems to me that the ‘long-battery-life’ bit is the main problem. Why is battery technology so shit? (Or is it that screens, chips, etc. are too power hungry?)
Sunday Herald: Around The World In 80 DVDs
Nice long-running world cinema feature by Alan Morrison. Shame the website is lagging behind the newspaper.
The Art World Is Often Accused Of Being Aloof And Too Out Of Touch For The Public To Engage With The Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Visual Arts Aims To Change That But It Wont Be Easy (from Sunday Herald)
Barry Didcock’s intro to the Gi. Quite a headline, that!
Glasgow international - A. Vermin
Cracking show in the basement of the State Bar on Holland Street.
Luke Fowler: Winner of the First Jarman Award for Artist Film-Makers
Congrats Luke!
six twenty nine on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A nice, very Flickr-ish example of the ‘long photo’ idea the site is using to justify the limitations on video uploads. Bonus: it’s a sunset, not a cat!
Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar
My next lens…

Today’s Links (15/03/08)

Jack Mottram — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:45:12 +0000

Flickr + Del.icio.us + Weblog + Dad = Book - Submit Response
Backtagging posts on my weblog, I found this old story, which made me smile!
I Own A Flat Now on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Bookmarked so I can tell how long I’ve lived here.
ExpanDrive 1.03
No more .DS_Store files littered everywhere, standardised Command key combinations.
kottke.org is ten years old today (kottke.org)
I think I found kottke.org via plasticbag.org, which I’m fairly sure was the first weblog I read. (I’m a n00b, the first post here was made on 10/10/01)
po-ru.com: BBC iPlayer fix hacked again!
Cat and mouse. I wonder if the Beeb will just give up.
I CAN HAZ dot COM
Not unamusing URL-shortening service.
BT Business Broadband - Terms and conditions - Fair Use Policy
Incredibly vague, and there isn’t one for home users that I can see. I assumed throttling Bittorrent to 10kbps up/30Kbps down during the day would be fine. Wrong
SubEthaEdit
The latest version has very slick collaboration features (which I don’t need, but I’ve always like SEE as an editor).
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Damaged Recap - TV.com
This episode of L&O:SVU is defo the ickiest, which is saying something.
Light text on dark background vs. readability | 456 Berea Street
A lengthy discussion. (I absolutely cannot read light on dark sites without my eyes burning.)
Twitter Friends Network Browser
Snazzy.
Ten web memes that failed « gilest
Tee hee!

Today’s Links (14/03/08)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:23:05 +0000

Flickr: The Experimental Rangefinder Photographer
Dad - you should get some of your non-standard lens pics up here.
The Common Guild
Baracuta
Harrington jackets.
An open letter from Nickyskye
Just in case anyone who reads both this site and MetaFilter missed the announcement on Projects.
Plug Finder
"Finding and sharing electricity in your city". Great idea.
HOW TO: Build a Holga Leica M Lens Photo Gallery by orbitalbox at pbase.com
Rip the lens off a Holga and squidge it onto your RD-1. Daft or brilliant?
www.leicagoodies.com
I just ordered one of their bodycap pinhole optics. Hope it arrives in time for me hols.
Photography Pinhole Products and Prices by Lenox Laser, Your Photo Pinhole Source
Bodycap pinhole optics.
Everytime I Think About You I Multitouch My Cell
The app is no use to me, but the title made it worth linking!
Every Ball’s A White Ball
I only just noticed that Rovers Rearguard has moved. No RSS now, though, so useless.
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Cum Stains On My Pillow (Where Your Sweet Head Used To Be)
Cuntry & Western
Fire Eagle for Movable Type | Plugin Directory | movabletype.org
Roll on the WordPress equivalent.

Today’s Links (05/03/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:30:56 +0000

The libTorrent and rTorrent Project - Trac
There are some nice web UIs for rTorrent.
Photonic: A Flickr desktop client for Mac OS X
Very nice. Defo worth the tenner if you use Flickr a lot.
Robin Hood Gardens is not the same as a digital model of Robin Hood Gardens
Indeed not. Good thorough post on the RHG campaign.
Uncle Dirty
Amazing photo-essay about an elderly, very eccentric bodybuilder. (NSFW)

Today’s Links (29/02/08)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:17:16 +0000

resolution error on ibook g3 700 - Ubuntu Forums
How to fix the wonky screen resolution in Ubuntu on the iBook G3.
Light Leaks
A magazine devoted to crap cameras, toy cameras, &c.
JoikuSpot
Turns your mobile into a WiFi hotspot.

Today’s Links (05/10/07)

Jack Mottram — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:00:56 +0000

http://www.gfellercasemakers.com/
Quite tempted by their poncey Moleskine case thing.
Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens
"Why you should ditch that zoom for a classic 50mm ‘Normal’ lens". (I’d go further and say you should ditch the SLR in favour of a rangefinder…)
Gary Voth Photography: Leica Noctilux
All very well until you find out the price. (Over three grand.)

Tigh Beg

Jack Mottram — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:35:56 +0000

I’m just back from a wonderful little holiday with Fiona, Richard and Ruthie at Tigh Beg, a croft overlooking Loch Feochan. We tramped up hills, lit fires, ate delicious food (courtesy of Fiona), drank delicious wines (courtesy of Richard, and Bob) and went on a day trip to Ellenabeich.

My companions and hosts, on the Seil side of the Bridge Over the Atlantic:

It is traditional in Scotland to install boat cabins on the tops of hills (they’re used as hides when hunting haggis):

Tigh Beg is often surrounded by bleating idiots like this one:

Here’s a nice photo of Ruthie:

And here I am, attempting to email copy to The Herald (it only took four attempts):

At Ellenabeich you will find the Highland Arts Exhibition (and an excellent microbrewery):

Inside the Highland Arts Exhibition hangs the work of outsider polymath C. John Taylor:

And finally, especially for Guy, a mostly-rotten sheep carcass:

More photographs are available here, or will be soon. Fans of needless geowankery can have a look at part of one of our walks on Google Maps (annoyingly, I didn’t remember that my new ‘phone has all sorts of fancy GPS features until halfway through our final trek).