delicious: March 2008 Archives

Useful tool for determining fare code or class availbility on different flights, seems to be pretty good. Helpful if you want to see if there is availability in the fare code for an upgrade.

Pleased to have in some small way enabled this conversation between wet lab scientists and those who understand software, looking forward to more of this on Nature Network

Pretty, but expensive stainless steel desk system. It looks lovely, but at 1600 dollars including UK delivery I think I'll stick with ikea...

Analysis of the background app / network access issue for iPhone apps from Craig Hockenberry. It is all about battery life, radios drain batteries really quickly, so one at a time and no background does make sense.

Some good stuff in this interview with Steve Jobs, particularly on Apple culture, hiring and saying no.

Rumored Canon 5D replacement spec

Amazin video of a very stable walking robot, survives snow, ice, being kicked hard and it can even jump

Interesting discussion of the focus performance of the 85 f1.2 II Canon prime lens. It uses the largest Canon ring USM motor at 77mm. Its focus is slow, but accurate.

Super clever Qcode creator for moo cards from Richard Pope

gapingvoid

Summary of a book by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel. Published by Oxford University Press.

Provocative and amusing look at white people, from the comments too close to the mark for some people. Quite american and a bit patchy, but fun.

Objective-c twitter engine

Flocking behaviour in people

Short summary of the main panel ideas on customer service and marketing

design history for a dialog box in the macosx app things

Crawl rates and server response times with huge volumes of content being made available to Google et al.

Amazing footage if a lufthansa plane coming into land in Hamberg and abandoning the landing due to wind (video clip)

Lovely case for a MacBook Air, taking Steve Jobs at his word, a vinyl and fleece liner.

Wishing someone would fix this bug, it makes firefox deeply un mac like

Good information on how to see if there is an issue with your nice Canon 1Ds III slr, seeing this on a potential new 5D would be good

Explains a lot of the decisions behind the powershot g9

Delightful idea to remind you of past events and memories, it sends you an email every two weeks with the most interesting pictures