Mr. Lee CatCam Cat + automatic digital camera + ever so slightly wonky English = some form of genius (tags: cat photos funny geeky) blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity Marc A (ex of Netscape fame) on how to get stuff done; some good, sensible tips in there (tags: blog work productivity) From ContemplativeContinue reading “links for 2007-06-15”
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links for 2007-06-13
Snitchtown – Forbes.com Good piece by Cory Doctorow on the pointless proliferation of CCTV (tags: london politics cctv surveillance forbes)
links for 2007-06-10
SPAMSHIRT – make your own t-shirt! A selection of t-shirts featuring spam slogans (tags: t-shirts shopping spam)
links for 2007-06-07
Custom PC: News: Computex 2007 News Roundup Currently out in Taiwan for the Computex show; this is a roundup piece linking to all the coverage we’ve been doing for the Custom PC site (tags: custompc computex technology)
links for 2007-05-31
new york – Google Maps Google maps for New York is getting some serious advances in tech: as well as some 3D wireframes of buildings (zoom in to see), it now features street level photos. They’ve obviously been taken from some kind of moving GoogleEyeVan, but still, v. impressi (tags: google newyork maps) Pileus: TheContinue reading “links for 2007-05-31”
links for 2007-05-30
Photos of Japanese hot-rod vans by Satoshi Minakawa It’s a flash based site, so takes a while to load, but check out the gallery “Concept 2” for photos of extremely customised vans – straight out of Akira (tags: photos japan cars cool)
Today is a proud day for the Wired Jester
For the Wired Jester is now, officially (thanks, Google), the web’s number 1 resource for FIGHTING OFF NINJAS! If you have reached this site because of a ninja-related emergency, I recommend calling your local emergency services as soon as possible. Aside from this, there is little I can say other than you should be comfortedContinue reading “Today is a proud day for the Wired Jester”
links for 2007-05-27
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows Mooted as the Windows equivalent of Mac OS’s fantastic Quicksilver. Need to give it a go later today… (tags: windows todo)
links for 2007-05-26
THE GOLDEN COMPASS on Yahoo! Movies Teaser trailer for the movie of book 1 of Philip Pullman’s fantastic ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy; some of the CGI looks a bit too fantastic for my taste, but the casting looks great – Daniel Craig as Asriel and Sam Elliott as Lee Scorsby (tags: trailer hisdarkmaterials movies) CampfireContinue reading “links for 2007-05-26”
links for 2007-05-25
i-D run out of winks I never realised this, but apparently, every cover of i-D magazine features a person winking. Now magculture brings us the news they’ve run out winks… (tags: magazines eastereggs design fun) Haiku writing game to be released in Japan The Nintendo DS continues to spawn interesting takes on what a computerContinue reading “links for 2007-05-25”