My delicious.com bookmarks for January 11th through January 13th

January 13th, 2010

Priori Acute – What if M.C. Escher had been a typographer?
What "Nothing to Hide" is Hiding – Why "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a bad argument in favour of increased surveillance.

My delicious.com bookmarks for December 9th through December 21st

December 21st, 2009

exactly – "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" Looks like we're not going to find out because of a few hold-outs…
A Typeface for the Underground – Design and typography on the London Underground. Fascinating stuff.
Britain to Levy a One-Time Tax on Banker Bonuses – "To a large extent the levy underpins a quite broad understanding here — even among those generally sympathetic to the industry — that bank profits this year were largely subsidized by the government due to historically low interest rates." The best discussion I've seen of today's pre-Budget speech is, bizarrely, in a US paper.

March 10th, 2009

The Numbers Post (aka Brutal Honesty) – "I hope that this article might serve as a counter-point to the articles that seem to go around the web about devs making hundreds of thousands of dollars off an iPhone app. Everyone within the dev community understands that the odds of that happening are very slim, yet those are the stories that people like to hear."
Why we've reached the end of the camera megapixel race – I had many reasons for upgrading from my 300D, but the 6MP sensor wasn't one of them.
Bring bad design to justice – Do your part…

February 9th, 2009

The League of Moveable Type – Most free or open source fonts I've seen have been pretty poor but these guys seem to have the right idea.
Government plans travel database – "When your travel plans, who you are travelling with, where you are going to and when are being recorded you have to ask yourself just how free is this country?"
Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace – Fascinating ten minute video on what Pixar look for in candidates, summarised as Depth, Breadth, Communication and Collaboration. Given those criteria I'm guessing they're very selective!

July 23rd, 2008

WordPress for iPhone – It turns out that my recent review of WordPress for iPhone was the four-hundredth post on ZX81.org.uk. Time for a small celebration!
Font Conference – Typeface adventures…
Simon Pegg's Geek Roots Show in Spaced – I'm no longer a twenty-something, but I still love Spaced. Now available in the US.

April 5th, 2008

The Cost of E-Voting – One of the many reasons that I am against e-voting machines: the cost. "The cost … increased 179 percent per voter on average." All that money for a less reliable system. Bargain!
Change we can believe in – I didn't realise that we were in line for some new coins. They look surprisingly good, certainly much better than the new US notes. (Originally from daringfireball.net)
Bali bombings: A sister's search for justice – I've always said that it's much easier to be against capital punishment when it's just an abstract idea. Here the sister of one of the Bali bombing's victims argues why she's still against it.