- MAKE: Blog: Open GPS tracker – A low cost, simple, GPS tracker
- pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet - – "a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."
- xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe – "I've taught it obstacle avoidance and blogging."
- Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Waxy.org – Fascinating background on the game that wasn't to be. The comments are worth reading, as my of the parties involved have commented – not all happy about the article.
- Home Easy – SAVE your money, by reducing ‘Standby’ power and wasted electricity. – The range of home automation products that B&Q sells.
- Ethernet shield for Arduino – Ethernet enabling an arduino – including running a webserver on the board. Interesting possibilities for tweetjects. Update: odd that I bookmarked this one, and not the one I actually bought.
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | World’s best-known protest symbol turns 50 – Interesting history to the CND logo. Never knew it was based on the semaphore for N and D.
- We Tell Stories – ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming –
- The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks – “Great” stuff.
- Nifty Corners Cube – freedom to round – Javascript library for adding rounded corners to elements on a page. Some very Nifty examples.
- BBC – Radio Labs – Now Playing in the Cloud – Using XMPP to be notified of what is being played on BBC radio stations. It will be interesting to see what else is done with this. XMPP is being used to glue more and more parts of the internet together these days.
- FreakAngels – “FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.”
- Five Chinese Crackers: Misquoting the Archbishop – 5CC does a great job of pointing out the flagrant misreporting in the tabloid press. The incorrect reporting of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech from last week is a great example. For all those calling for him to resign, I wonder how many have actual
- Amazon MP3 store to go global – Boing Boing – Confirmation that Amazon’s MP3 store will be rolling out this side of the pond.
- Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture – I can’t think of enough words to describe this. Powerful and moving don’t begin to cover it.
- Tetrical – 3D Tetris Stacking Game Developed by Digital Machina – 3D tetris – what more can I say?
- Evan Davis: How interest rates work – Evan does a good job of explaining the economics of interest rates. It’s simple stuff, but I always struggle to make it stick in my head.
- Scripted Web Frameworks, and why Django Got it Right – “The problem I started to run into fairly early on was I didn’t know the ‘Ruby on Rails’ way to do it, but knew perfectly well how I might have done it in a chitzy CGI.” Interesting piece on why Django was a better fit for one person. I am inclined to ag
- Gaming the Creative Commons for Profit – Fascinating explanation of how a CC license is the perfect tool for someone wanting to make money suing over copyright infringement. As a non-professional, not-out-to-scam, hobbyist photographer, I’m happy to stick with CC.
- Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005 – A plugin that seamlessly integrates S3 into Wordpress. WIll be interesting to see if this works over the xml-rpc upload mechanism as well.
- Black Bird | Progetti » WordPress Library – A python library for accessing Wordpress installations over XML-RPC.
- http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2008-01-01&show=sinfest – The true meaning of the New Year.
- Dave Gorman: Problem Solving. – Dave proposes a solution to the “a month isn’t exactly 4 weeks” problem. I for one look forward to Gormanuary and Intermission ‘08.
- tinker store – UK source of arduino boards.
- 3D LED Charlieplex Cube from Chrismas Tree Lights – The World’s Biggest Show & Tell – tech, diy – Another LED cube project; this uses charlieplexing to provide control over the LEDs.
- DVD playback now standard for Dell Ubuntu customers – Mark shares the news that the pre-installed Ubuntu image comes with DVD playback as standard. No word on the app used, but it is a good start.
- Howto : Scratchbox + Maemo 4.0 + Ubuntu Gutsy = Nokia N800 Dev Environment – Howto setup the Nokia N800 Dev environment using: Scratchbox + Maemo 4.0 + Ubuntu Gutsy Nokia N800 Dev Environment. Now the N800 is £129.99 on play.com, this may soon be something I’ll want to play with.
- GETSful – Joe provides the term for sites that aim for RESTful, but miss.
