August 2007 Archives

Huge space with virtually no stars, kind of fascinating and the stuff of space opera

Well written analysis of form design, particularly looking at the position of submit cancel buttons and varying colour choices, all backed up with eye-tracking data.

Notes on a rel=me tracking tool, similar to what I've spoken about at xtech on provenance, this shows you what you are telling the world about the sites you use

Part one of a seven part set of essays on worth from Simon Wardley, good analysis.

Interesting looking technique for tracking the cost of making things in a web application, trading company, development and user benefits against one another.

This looks like a good competitor for the adventure 9 I mentioned a while back, access to the camera whilst on your back is clever. However no laptop storage, which is the downside. It is made from recycled material though, which is good.

GTD tweaked for people who write for a living. A lot of this makes sense.

A slide from scifoo on the sources of energy for the world

Excellent little mac application that deals with desktop clutter and can turn its hand to other folders too, it has been on my mac for a few weeks and it is staying

Essential viewing for anyone who has been using email pre-gmail.

We just bought one of these, to replace a 10 year old fridge. Why do they have such appaling product names, Exxcel is their mid-range sub-brand. This one is 200cm high and 60 wide and white, so why KGN39X01? Obviously GB means UK...

Useful website from the MET, explaining how to report attempted fraud and giving many examples of attempted scams

Lovely short 5 minute video of Drew McLellan talking about wombles and how really they are the forerunning of good url design

Nero Nero to replace AMT in most London train stations. A pity I've enjoyed AMT coffee for years and the one at Kings Cross will be changing.

14m flooding is pretty dramatic, then zoom out and look north to Cambridge and near Sheffield, let alone the Netherlands

One of these would be rather nice.

Excellent set of reviews of UK released video cameras, this guy really seems to know what he is talking about. Makes up for the lack of any decent video magazines, as compared to the plethora of photography magazines

PW highlighted my session from TOC - Gavin Bell's presentation of social software examined how people use books (read, purchase, recommend, discuss) and software such as flickr, Typepad or MySpace that creates communities that facilitate that behavior.

a mould of the gouge would be reproduced in thermal tiles and tested in a laboratory simulating the extreme heat and friction encountered on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere - now that is pretty clever

Canadian woman who is day by day making her life more green from the simple less packaging to the more dramatic no fridge or car, quite impressive really. Her month updates are good reading, some clever ideas.

Amazing highend digital cinema camera, essentially as if a 35mm digital stills camera took 12Mpixel cameras at 24 odd frames a second. Makes HDV etc look a bit poor. However this will not be for everyone

Jyri extending his thinking about social objects, I like the gravity metaphor

Analysis of how wordpress management interface changed to meet needs of user. Excellent points made, flow is important

An interview with the CSS grids framework Blueprint author

Some are funnier than others, but some are genius

Delivery tracker for a whole host of shipping companies

Differences for British and International English are on the numeric 2 and 3 keys only

A chat at lunch about science and the future

CUTE dinosaurs, just watch the video on the homepage

He will be speaking about Spook Country and signing books, very exciting, I'm going.

My desktop mail is secure and now so can gmail be, via Mark Pilgrim

Matt Biddulph's explorations in mapping the social network for dopplr

Eames mixed up with web design from Mark Nottingham, he has tracked down the source interview of the "design depends largely on contraints" quote

the internet is complete now, everyone can go home

Further grist for the green mill, web apps consume energy, we can reduce this

Lovely concept, virtual flowers you can tend in a greenhouse.

Short analysis of the new and old documents for reforming the EU. The new document is a set of revision statements, so not that easily readable at the minute

Tim Appnel's report on the IETF approving Atom PP as a standard. I like AtomPP and hopw that this will see it getting greater uptake.

Good to see this happening, it should encourage micro format adoption across the web

Lets hope this sorts out the kernel panics with WPA2 on my new Santa Rosa MBP

Using computers to iterate the design process can lead to potentially unintended outcomes, but they are coming

Detailed tutorial on OpenID

Rumors page for the EOS 5D relacement

hcard parser as a web api

UK based online store selling mac skype phones

A good overview of what is new in MT4 from a developers perspective. I'm in the process of moving my personal blogs to MT4, it is a nice platform.

How to implement a vox or LJ like semi-private blogging experience in MT

Fascinating work from Jor Gregorio et al on defining URIs, I'll certainly be joining in on the fun