- Objectified – New documentary from the people that gave you Helvetica. Looks interesting.
- Georgia recalls Soviet crackdown – I visited ten years after this. It's a really beautiful country and such a shame that it keeps descending into civil war or getting into a scuffle with its northern neighbour.
- Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack – "You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist." Maybe the government should start protecting us from the police instead? (via Kottke.org)
Tag Archives: design
New Look
If you’re a regular visitor you will note that the ZX81 has an exciting new look and feel. It has never looked more like a real ZX81. It’s also about as usable as a real ZX81, though it does have more memory available and the wobbly RAM pack is likely to be less of a concern.
I’m currently running it as a one day trial but may extend if popular. Please let me know what you think.
Update:
Due to popular demand, I have reverted to the old look-and-feel for ZX81. People seemed to think the new visuals introduced yesterday was an April Fool…
If you missed it, here’s what this page looked like:
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 28th through February 3rd
- Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge – "A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases."
- The Palm Pre's possible Achilles heel: battery life – All the glitz you see in the Pre demo and videos may come at a price.
- Tags: Database schemas – Interesting article on how sites like delicious might handle tagging. Yummy until v2.0 uses the "Scuttle" method. Subsequent versions modify this a little for performance reasons.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 29th through August 4th
- Polly Toynbee and David Walker: an extract from their new book on the widening gap between rich and poor | Money | The Guardian – "Most dismaying was their lack of empathy and their unwillingness to contemplate other, less luxurious lives. They could not see that the pleasure they derived from possessions, prospects and doing well by their children is universal and that others deserve a share of that, too."
- Hands on: Delicious 2 cleans up social bookmarking – In case you were wondering why a lot of my old posts suddenly reappeared in the RSS feed… First impression: looks nice.
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit – New film from the people that brought you the documentary "Helvetica." Looks intriguing.