delicious: October 2005 Archives

Interesting what people capture, their experience with the BBC to screengrabs

Spring 2005 survey of fiction advances in the USA median was 5000USD for first book

If you can't get up, or just want a huge noise

Wikipedia can be shown to not be factually correct, a concern for newsrooms and libraries, how can it be fixed?

A call to action to open up the publication system for the US Government document archive

lovely and useful

Good hack for getting you past the afternoon torpor

This powers the radar.oreilly.com tag cloud

The Gartner Hype Cycle graph, innovation marketing and adoption

cats in boxes, what more could anyone ask for

Ah, wouldn't this just be ace, about the only way I'll get into orbit...

15th version of this conference, this time in the UK, up in Edinburgh, call open til November 4th.

How they make these amazing images

Rough transcript from a panel of five bay area teenagers and their internet tastes / habits

Space elevator competition, opening in a week or so, into orbit in the twenty-teens, I'd love to be.

videos of an autonomous robotic motor bike, which can drive itself in desert conditions

this is cool, spreadsheets are annoying to work with and share.

Collated free content, with a range of public and private contributors, including O'Reilly and the UK national archive. Sort of a wider gutenberg, which is multimedia too. Yahoo and the Internet Archive are partners too.

Really nice webapp that lets you generate custom folded paper pdas, choose the type of page you want and print them out.

David Allen article, author of Getting Things Done in the guardian by Ben Hammersley

The history of childrens fiction in the UK, drawing on Eagle, Pullman and Rowling, looking at why it works and how it reflects our current society - fantastic stuff

opinion piece from theguardian calling for a more open BBC

And then there were three. Today's announcement is a long time coming, I remember this being talked about in 2000, but their bulging debt held the merger back. Should be an interesting competitor on both broadband and television.

A 25 question quiz from the BBC aimed determining how European your thinking is, I come out pretty pro, not surprisingly

room temperature casting resin for tabletops

howto make clear resin / plastic objects of your stuff, I'm going to make tables with it

I particularly liked 14 and 15

a selection of good ajax applications, there is another batched linked off this one

which web apis are playing with which, or where are the cross overs happening

Built on pips - yay!

ajax library offering drag and drop, auto-completion and shopping carts etc