July 2008
31 posts
Stephen Fry's brilliant review of the BBC →
Listened to this last night, via Speechification. Absolutely wonderful - if you watch telly, you should listen or watch this (Speechification has the audio as an mp3).
Distributed usability testing with Silverback App? →
Just had an idea, which I’ve mailed to the Geekup mailing list, and thought I’d post here. I’ve been really impressed with recently released Silverback App - a Mac app, that utilises screen…
Google launches Knoll →
Eating lunch today, I flicked through an old copy of Wired, and noticed a story about Google’s ‘Knoll’ service, which is an interesting take on content creation. It’s basically a Wikipedia-like…
“Then there’s the top-shelf stuff. Stumptown sells beans from Nicaragua...”
– The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks?
Aha, capitalism at work!
An interesting read, actually - and worth getting to the end for the punchline.
DaveNet : Platform is Chinese household →
I’ve probably linked to this on Participo before, but it’s a classic Dave Winer essay, in that its 10 years old, and yet bang up to date in its relevance.
There’s an entire generation of these essays, thankfully fully archived.
I think a selection of these essays would make a great book from Lulu - hmm, opml to paginated PDF…now there’s a decent project for...
Turf War: The New Yorker
Great essay in this week’s New Yorker, examining the harm (yes, harm!) that lawns cause.
(crude summary; lawns = weedkiller infested monocultures; let lawns become less cultivated, wilder patches of land. They’d also make great veg patches)
BBC iPlayer - Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason. →
I recommend you set aside exactly one hour and watch this mesmerising documentary on one of the world’s great film-makers.
“What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left...”
– WorldChanging: The Outquisition via Boing Boing.
YES!!!
CommentPress →
CommentPress is a great initiative by the ‘Future of the Book Institute’ - a plugin/structural overhaul for a WordPress blog that enables documents to be presented, and commentable at a paragraph…
WatchOh, fuck yes. I shall be watching this in an Imax cinema, as it’s also happens to be shot with true Imax equipment
Watchsuperamit:
A map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962.
It’s like watching a virus grow.
(From FlowingData, via Kottke)
“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without...”
– Quite.
Reblogged from Gabriel Zaid (via scout)
UK Govt asks for ideas →
Show Us a Better Way Forgot to link to this - it’s a fantastic open ideas submission site for ideas to create tools (mainly websites/alerts) that would use increasingly available government data…
Getting Coca Cola to distribute rehydration... →
I coulsn’t attend the 2gether ideas festival, but have been catching up with the videos and posts. Looked brilliant. One particularly lovely idea, in action, noless, is this guy, Simon Berry, who…
A 60-year revolution in surgery →
BBC NEWS | Health | A 60-year revolution in surgery Of the millions of topics I know nothing about, medicine/healthcare is one of them (being so fit and all :-). So this list of innovations in…
Read at Work →
Read at Work Wonderful - full screen ‘Powerpoint’ formatted novels, for when the boss walks by. This is simultaneously amusing and depressing (I mean if you need this site, quit your job!)