- 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
- 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.
