delicious: September 2007 Archives

Good wired interview with Ridley Scott about the final version of Bladerunner. Seminal film for me the interview highlights the impact it has had on the world since from fashion to product design, to architecture. I'm looking forward to the release.

Rules based set manager for flickr, think smart sets.

the possible overuse of the expression "a novel" on fiction work

At least 1.5% of the US energy bill goes on data servers, more than on colour tvs.

Interesting idea about using long pipes in sea water to move cold water and nutrients upwards in the oceans

I'm guilty of this from time to time, bringing a laptop with the meeting agenda means it is open and temping, must try harder.

Some of these are excellent

The basis for company wide environmental monitoring

It must be fun to be able to sponsor efforts like this one.

Biting analysis of the $100 laptop.

Conference on AI and the singularity, not coming next year, but I think in my lifetime. Food for thought.

I learnt something new today and figured out what Jeremy keeps talking about, via Dan. I might even try one before reverting to simple black espresso.

Customised storage and charging for multiple sets of laptops for educational or training settings. Nice looking product, not one I'll be needing soon, but hopefuly of use for a friend.

A good write up of the AMEE project on climate change. AMEE, the avoiding mass extniction engine is an excellent thorough project, that is arguably pretty core to our survival, taking action on the basis of the data contained inside it seems the only way

My review of the superb Gridenstein coffee knock box. This is what you need to get the coffee grounds from the espresso machine basket neatly and quickly.

Humble set of comments prompted by John Nack admiting the real truth most pictures suck, mine too. Do read the comments, they really add to the piece.

Fine china and mainly chinese statues dropped in darkness, the sound triggers a flash and the fragmentary moment of destruction, via plasticbag

a Microformats workshop held in Brighton last weekend, I was in France, but wished I could have attended, looks like it was a good session

Thought provoking microformat case study, exploring the positives and negatives of the process towards creating microformats and their strong and weak points

100% solar hosting provider, so in theory entirely green, aside from the prior machinery, building costs.

A story about water, farming, cats and tourism and the EU

Just competely awesome

Twenty six definitions of terms for web analytics, a useful starting point