Nice. Personal selection from dudge.
Archive for July, 2008
Very useful stuff - I hadn’t seen Processing before - very impressive.
Clever bees and dumb bears (sad).
I had no idea there was a fenced border between Lithuania and Belarus. Now I do, thanks to a typically interesting big picture.
Apparently punt saboteurs are causing problems in Cambridge. There are fewer bridges in Oxford, so it shouldn’t be such a problem.
Joel makes a good point in his latest column: your internal systems need to ensure that people can deliver effectively even on a bad day. There is a balance to be struck though: there has to be some flexibility on the ground so that staff can work directly with customers.
So the shrew that drinks beer. Certainly, it is worth some study, but surely it isn’t unusual? If I read the numbers correctly, they “drink the equivalent to nine small glasses of wine, or four and half pints of beer” over 12 hours. And this is 3.8%, not 5% (so a lot of our beer is 30% stronger). Even five pints of wifebeater is easy drinking each 12 hours. Not good for the waist or coordination, but that isn’t the issue.
I might be reading it wrong if “the equivalent” means they are actually drinking the pints of volume. As I read it, this means they are drinking the equivalent for their size / mass / volume.
Nice idea for transferring large files: you can download while the file is still being uploaded. Not sure how it will deal with uploads / downloads that are abandoned mid way?
As the climate changes and the economy contracts, its good to see that mankind can worry about the important things: that the removal of the letter “a” can ruin a joke about blow jobs.
Like nothing I’ve seen before. We’re looking side-on at it, but the false colours and “glow” are just wonderful.
Well, that’s what it looks like to me!
A nice template for group commenting on issues. I might use it in the NHS.
..on. If you have a good story, that is.
Is sharing the lever that will accelerate social change? Any article that mentions Jared Diamond has to be good, no?
Amazing that one erroneous bit can cause the whole of Amazon’s storage system to crash.
Lots of good reading on changing people’s minds; the value of free as a marketing tool and a classic of advertising lore from nineteenth century research.
Make time-based slideshows of “lives”. Seems like a blip, to me.
Lots of nice tweaks for GMail IMAP.
My friend Mark recommended legalsounds, but I can’t be doing with signing up for the services they need to get payments, so I’m trying mp3fiesta instead. It had a good number of the albums recommended by The Album Club, and at £1/album, you can’t really go wrong. Will I buy eight times more than I normally do? Absolutely - given that it is two a month at present and I’ve just bought five!
