April 2010
30 posts
WatchI remember my dad practicing lettering on bits of wood in our garden for some of the signwriting jobs he used to do — hand-drawn letters and advertising murals are so awesome, it’s a shame that most of them are just faded memories on buildings all over London.
“Up There” is a beautifully shot and artfully made mini-documentary about the guys that still haul themselves up...
WatchAirspace Rebooted - amazing visualisation of European airspace slowly getting up to speed following the ashcloud nonsense.
Oyster Photo Fakeouts →
You know when the photo in a marketig brochure/website for a hotel doesn’t look quite like the room you find upon arrival? Here’s a whole load of those disappointing moments in one blog, from the superb hotel reviews website Oyster.
“There are meetings which, when cancelled at the last minute, give one an...”
– Alain de Botton
“Someone has it backwards—it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all...”
– Trudy Muller, Apple (via Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone)
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
– Orlando A. Battista (via quote-book)
“Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election – or held...”
– David Yelland (former editor of The Sun)
Guru Dies After Long Battle With Cancer →
Tragic stuff, one of the greatest MCs of all time. Today, I will mostly be listening to Step in the Arena.
“Pick a niche that isn’t getting all the love it needs and build something...”
– Interview with David Greiner of Campaign Monitor [WorkHappy.net]
WatchHappy Friday everyone, now get dancing to the insanity of Eric Wareheim’s video for Tommy Sparks’ “She’s Got Me Dancing”.
THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT →
Crowdsourcing a video for Johnny Cash’s Ain’t No Grave by getting individuals to sketch a frame at a time. It’s not quite complete, but it’s looking fantastic.
“If you decide to add paper stacks to your e-reader, engineer them to show where...”
– iA » Designing for iPad: Reality Check
The pagan roots of Easter →
There’s nothing here that any good pagan didn’t know already, but at this special time of year, it’s worth remembering the true meaning of Easter.
Put the pope in the dock →
Please, please, please, please let this happen.
Vote for policies, not personalities! →
Great survey site where you can run through all of the major political party policies and select which you agree with: it then tells you who you most ally with. I’m 44% Green and 22% Lib Dem, and looking at their stats, it’s really surprising that the Greens lead in every category apart from Economy (Lib Dems first, Greens second) and Europe (Labour first, Greens second). Bizarrely, I...