- Senior City-zens: The World's 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities – "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from." Maybe Eddie Izzard should have gone with "I was born in the middle east, where the really old history comes from."
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule – If you can't actually avoid meetings, then at least try to schedule them so you can maximise your productivity. Rings true…
- There’s a pretty significant problem in the new… – I'm starting to expect Graham Chapman to burst in at any second and announce that this is getting far too silly. Apparently any iPhone app that allows "unfiltered internet access," everything from web browsers to Twitter clients to, presumably, delicious.com clients, now requires a 17+ rating.
Tag Archives: creativity
My delicious.com bookmarks for March 2nd through March 10th
- 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…
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 7th through February 9th
- 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!
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 25th through January 27th
- China 'Strikes Hard' in Tibet – Not good.
- Creativity and stretching the sweatshirt – "For me, creativity is the stuff you do at the edges. But the edges are different for everyone, and the edges change over time."
- Red Dwarf voyages back to Earth – I've been watching the reruns and, well, the episodes I've seen so far just haven't been as good as I remembered them to be. I'll probably still watch the new ones of course…
- Banks now refusing to lend pens – Only funny because it's true. Ish.