Nice scientific collection of everything we know about living things (or at least it will be). Try the polar bear pictures.
Archive for February, 2008
Along with Witch (which looks great). I am trying these things for greater Mac happiness:
Hadn’t come across Magellan’s, a US travel supplies company which has a UK arm. I was led there by sleep masks.
I like the idea of a collaborative collection of “hidden” application preferences and a preference pane to list them. Neat.
My gut instinct tells me that Adobe AIR won’t be mainstream despite some nice looking applications. Why? Isn’t it easier for most purposes to be in the browser, with a single set of enhancements (like plugins - how mainstream are they though) that suit your working style?
To counter that instinct, Adobe’s example is of iTunes - a web-technology enhanced stand-alone application. The critical difference with iTunes is that Apple gives you no choice over alternative routes to the iTunes shop. I guess Air might allow people to be Apple-like for less. You can see eBay say: “our Air application is the best route for power sellers”, for example.
The ability of a rich application to knit together web scale (such as S3 storage, web service lookup, Wikipedia) in a highly-functional local interface does sound valuable, and willsuit high volume application users - like eBay power sellers.
The data will still be stored securely on the web, accessible anywhere with a browser (and I mean out of home and office as well as on mobiles, etc).
The issue must be how effective the security of the platform will be: if you can install a dodgy application that has full access to my machine and the web, you can do what you like!
For some reason, this world chart made me laugh. The others in the set are also worth a view, although I can’t work out which songs many of them are.
Very interesting concept: outsource your staff, partly. A PEO employs your employees (and does most of the HR and payroll stuff you would expect) and leases them to you for their operational role on a service contract.
Some more considered remarks on anti-depressants from Ben Goldacre (my mistakes are here) .He’s right to point out that the SSRI news isn’t news, and that the really interesing part of the discussion is around which trial results are published or not.
Neat. I want some.
It is one of the infuriating OSX things that there is no keyboard shortcut for restoring windows that you have minimised to the dock. There are some workarounds though.
I hadn’t come across continuous-aim firing as an example of “it can’t work” innovation before. Joel writes an interesting article about his “it can’t work” moments. Others explain the firing quite cleverly (paras 12 and 13).
From over-effective pills to ones that just don’t work. I haven’t known many people on anti-depressants; I wonder if the efficacy will go down if they read this?
I hadn’t realised how ineffective a stomach pump after overdose can be (after 12 hours) given the toxic nature of paracetamol. Pills can seem like such an easy route with a way out and a way back if it was only a cry for help. Doesn’t look like the way back is really there. Read this comment for the full horror of the situation.
Weave looks like an interesting route for bookmark sync (and more). I’ve been missing Google Browser Sync and Foxmarks on the new Firefox.
This made me laugh, and decide that the petitioner was a nut.
The evidence of chemtrails is now undeniably documented upon the internet.
Love it. Make the ding dong sound with different sized glasses. Wouldn’t have one, though.
Nice way of running Linux applications in Windows without dual booting.
How to do co-creation - we might need some of this in an upcoming project.
I love the design of this bubblebrella, but somehow can’t see it catching on. I almost feel I should buy one and start using it. Maybe if a supermodel uses one it will do the job?
