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NPR webcast of the White Stripes, apparently a first for NPR
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Fun wiki story
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Lovely comments to this commentry on Blair's speech
September 2005 Archives
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nice post about the different types of users, noting that the late adoptors only come on board when you have a huge market share
Slightly scary image from Getty on this BBC news story, in the thumbnail Tony looks like he is doing a song and dance routine and more and more like George Bush. No image here as the rights are over 200 quid.
Interestingly the thumbnail image on the homepage of the BBC News site has been changed to a more appealing one, but the image I noted above is still on the internal page.
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FOO Camp 2005 view on Web 2.0 condensed into a single slide, from Tim O'Reilly's flickr stream
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online public book catalog / library
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web security test application for learning about solid web security
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Shocking article about a man arrested for just going about his daily routine on the tube, he now has a persistent police record. Yet any of us could fit his profile
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Interesting for several reasons, the Jobs as company idea, luck playing a part in the success of the iPod and the political angle, plus the usual complex things made easy
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new /tv home page for the BBC, nice billboard pictures
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I think they are really good, they care about having a good community, they host good products like RubyOnRails and encourage development and experimentation while delivering reliable high quality service
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Google Maps :: hurricane Rita mashup, tracking progress and predicted landfall
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shockwave based virtual books, with some of the most beautiful manuscripts from the British Library, and seminal works like Alice in Wonderland, sketchbooks from Leonardo da vinci
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More space themed stuff, big bright red Mars for Halloween, just look up!
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Very nice map of London for you Nokia, series 60, works beautifully
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just plain funny
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Kate Bush is releasing a new album, some commentry from the Indy, via plasticbag
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ajax powered personal homepage page, combines elements of note taking, rss feed reading, search, price checking, looks good
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insightful comment on Blair's reaction to the BBC reporting on Katrina - depressing really
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worth the wait, then click and hold, whilst the image rotates
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just Yay!
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Sober analysis on moon plans, I'd love to see a moon base
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details of the missions, looks tentative to me
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Sort of makes it all make a bit more sense
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24/48 hour focused game design
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one take on Steve Jobs and the nano launch, the iPod is the means of hand held digital playback and the market
Hmm, I was really looking forward to the berliner format Guardian, but having seen the example front page (preview edition, explaining what and why, I like the size, but that white on blue title is just wrong... maybe it'll seem different in the flesh.
More on Monday
I have never written about footbacl on here, but my home team's defeat of England does need a brief mention. It certainly made my Dad happy, I'd just finished watching the first episode of Lost (excellent BTW) and I think the football was more bizarre.
Still there is always the ashes and you are only playing Australia, if Northern Ireland can claim a victory from 85 years of defeat, perhaps the English can get one after 18 years.
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helpful listing of what you can expect to receive in each area of the UK
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Mars buggy climbs mountain and takes 360 snapshot
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Predicts the events pretty well, comprehensive five part article
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analysis of the role of captioning on different images from New Orleans, focusing on a race disparity
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Useful thoughts on presence for IM, which reminds me on a CSCW2002 paper
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Map service, based on Google Maps for the UK, which displays property for sale as an overlay. Very nice for exploring an area and seeing what is available.
I visited New Orleans for CSCW2002, thanks to my friend Elizabeth and the BBC. It is sad to see such a unique city laid waste. The conference was great, but I also took time to explore the French quarter and look at the architecture of the timber buildings, now probably lost forever. I also went up river to see the Audubon Zoo, which was/is one of the best in the world.
In the zoo they had a swamp exhibit, I guess the whole place is like that now. They also had a mud hill, called Monkey hill, one of the highest points in the surrounding area, when the zoo was built, the hill was made from spoils I think. Kids in the area used to take turns walking to the top, as there was nothing similar for miles around. I guess it might have been 30-40 feet high. The Zoo seems to have fared alright, with only some flamingoes dead, see Mongabay and Dallas News, but who can tell how they'll hold out.
Back then, New Orleans was very proud of the future investment in their levees, the American army were building major improvements, but their funding seems to have been withdrawn or reduced in scope. The whole thing is sort of like a hollywood disaster movie, but no one hired Bruce Willis to save the day, Euan's take is a bit different.
I can't comprehend how hard it seems to be to get bottled water to those in need, they can drive coaches in and fly helicopters in. A litre of water is one kilogram, so 10,000 is ten tonnes, so a truck can hold 30-40 thousand litres of water, so a convoy of 10 trucks could give most people a litre of water a day, but it seems that people are dying of thirst. Water is on the way, but by boat. The shooting and looting are difficult to understand too, looting more so, people have nothing so need clean clothes, nappies, food, water. Maybe not electronics and jewellery, but a beer is just clean water... Bush and the federal Government do see to be on the backfoot, this is no terrorist attack, just something that plenty of people had predicted. To see the world's biggest military power letting its own poorest people suffer and die is hard to stomach.
On a slightly brighter note, there are some rapid and interesting web applications being developed by individuals, see the geowanking mailing list for information. BBC News picking up on some geohacking, visualisation and other interesting internet based ways to help. Fast work, new apps in 2-3 days, mainly mods on Google Maps. Finally this image from Nasa, shows the scope of the flooding.
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inspiring stuff across industrial design
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Mice capable of regenerating tail, toes, parts of heart, severed optic nerves
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A combined webserver and wiki, with dock or menu bar access, simple accessibility and zero setup
