Category Archives: Links

Wi-fi in Birmingham – Another attempt to map the free (and paid for, but that's not so interesting) wifi hotspots in Birmingham. I've added my regular haunts in Kings Heath / Moseley and Digbeth. Part of the wider UK Wifi … Continue reading →

Kottke's Best Links 2008 – When I have a spare day or so I'll be working though these. Bound to be far too much good stuff.

The Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project – "A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer." via Anna J

Photos from the abandoned soundstage for The Wire – Little details. Little details everywhere. via Kottke

Abandoned London – I once walked across London (Waterloo to Camden) on Christmas morning and it really is as eerie as this. via Kottke

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will – via LMG

Tilt Shift Maker – My attempts at buying dirt cheap medium format lenses on eBay that could be bodged into a tiltshift lens for my SLR came to nothing. I have no patience to do it in Photoshop. So this … Continue reading →

Cerebus: A Diablog – Two foolhardly nerdlings decide to read all three hundred issues of Cerebus at a rate of one a week and write extensively about them, an endeavor lasting about five years. I celebrate such insanity and will … Continue reading →

Deadline – A nice Long Now style project from Antonio Roberts and Jon Harrington which sees a frame from Antonio's film and a sentence from Jon's novel posted every day for a year. Also available on Twitter.

Bleeping Expletives – Great article by William Safire explaining exactly what profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets and imprecations are. Fuck, for example, is obscene but is not profane. Gee-whiz is profane because it shows irreverence towards Jesus. An expletive … Continue reading →

How to Snap Up that Twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted – Twitter has loads of really great usernames that are just sitting there doing nothing, registered by someone ages ago who never found a use for them or simply lost … Continue reading →

It’s behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment – Jon Bounds ties up Twitpanto, his audacious and spectacular attempt to stage a pantomime on a conversational microblogging platform. Well worth a read.

disposableWebPage – There are countless ways to throw information on the web in seconds – posterous.com is a current fave – but this one has a rather special feature. You can set it to self destruct in up to 90 … Continue reading →

The great inverted ziggurat of Birmingham: why is it so misunderstood? – Great post that asks "So just what is it about the Birmingham Central Library that generates such loathing (and almost as as much passionate support)?" For the record … Continue reading →

Massive Scrape of Twitter’s Friend Graph – One thing Twitter (and most social networks come to think of it) is missing is a way of mapping the relationships between users. It would be neat to take the Twitter users I … Continue reading →

Genomicon – A blog I recently came across (via Twitter, probably). Not sure exactly why I like it or why it's good but that's probably why I like it and why it's good. Gets the balance right between show and … Continue reading →

What Would Don Draper Do? – Advice blog from the lead character in Mad Men. Surprisingly well written. via Filmoculous.

CulturedCode is going to make a ton of money next week – Two reasons for posting this. First, it's an interesting analysis by Alex Hillman of what he calls "slow-marketing" and second Things, the application in question, looks pretty neat.

Text scam – My first post to the Birmingham Post's blog in ages in which I call on mobile phone companies to be reclassified as ISPs and for voice and txt to be billed as data, which is what they … Continue reading →

Thomas Moronic's End of year music list – Another chunk of albums to maybe investigate from someone who puts a bit of thought into such things.