January 2009
38 posts
When Google Van goes bad... →
UPDATE: Looks like google has taken the carnage down.
We love the Google street view cam, especially out in the rural areas where things get “Deliverance”. But we feel sorry for Bambi, who paid…
When Google Van goes bad... →
UPDATE: Looks like google has taken the carnage down.
We love the Google street view cam, especially out in the rural areas where things get “Deliverance”. But we feel sorry for Bambi, who paid…
Twitter →
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twitter is so in fashion now in a matter of less than a week!
The original gently rising path that marked the growth of my Twitter followers has recently taken a sharp upward…
Wow...just Wow. Jobs, Gates, Macintosh dating game →
Bizarre
2009 - Thomas the Tank's journey to IT Hell →
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Somehow missed this analysis from The Reg first time round. Interesting stuff
The passengers are revolting
As Sodor wakes to a new year, Thomas and his friends notice some very…
On Cycling And Twitter. →
Bumper Car, originally uploaded by Dave Gorman.
Cycling: So as I’ve explained previously I’ve recently been experimenting with some straight forward stand-up. I’ve been enjoying…
UK's 'Google for Film' service... →
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Good idea but I think its missing a lot of features Vs IMDB that will stop this taking off.
The British Film Industry has always been something of a lovable oddity, when…
The Simpsons set to make HD debut →
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Is there any point in this whatsoever? “Man those black lines are really sharp”
The Simpsons is all set to finally make its debut in high definition in February, meaning you can…
Geeks re-invent breakfast →
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I want that toaster
Wii-style toaster fires slice onto wired plate
We all know breakfast’s the most important meal of the day. So ditch your cafe-bought Marmite toastie and cook…
NYC, Google join forces for high-tech tourist... →
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled this week a new information center, located at 53rd St. and 7th Ave., where visitors can browse the metropolis on Google Maps-powered…
New Images from Peugeot Sport →
Some images from the Monte Carlo Rally from Peugeot Sport
Peugeot 207 Super 2000 Specification →
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One for the car geeks
Peugeot Sport have used their experience gained in WRC with regards to the behaviour of different materials, brakes, damper technology, vehicle set up and…
Google and the Great Wikipedia Feedback Loop →
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Sour grapes from Brittanica definitely but he does have a point.
The information triumvirate monolith
Google’s Wikidependence is worse than ever. And Jorge Cauz thinks it’s time…
Russell Brand hits Twitter, takes off fast →
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Here we go…
Russell Brand, my fellow Guardian columnist (ho ho), has just been signed up to Twitter by his friend Jonathan Ross (@wossy), who posted a Twitpic of him…
Repurposing the suburbs... →
What Will Save the Suburbs? by Allison Arieff… Interesting, maybe some of these places can become “TechShop” like tool centers… …Take as an analogous example their symbiotic…
Subscribe to property searches with RSS →
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If anyone ever asks you what RSS is, point them to the video in this post.
I love RSS. I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds to get the latest news and updates from my favourite…
Quick note about shipping →
It’s 10pm and I’m tired. That is, it’s 10pm in New Zealand, where I am after a completely epic trip. On Thursday, we flew to London, then Hong Kong, then Auckland. Even though both the London ->…
Lego Virtual Box Makes It Easy To Choose The Right... →
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A nice example of relatively simple technologies combined to produce something that amazes people
The only problem with choosing Lego for some kid [ahem, or yourselves] is that the…
White House web revisited →
On Tuesday, I noted that Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov, and pointed to the fact that it now had a blog.
The Christian Science Monitor has published a good analysis under the headline …
Stephen Fry reaches 50,000 Twitter followers →
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It’s quite easy to forget just how niche Twitter is. Seems to me Fry mentioning it on national TV has piqued quite a lot of interest.
Stephen Fry, one of the most famous…
How to fail: 10,000 users or bust →
Working out how to suceed in any competitive market is hard, but learning how to fail can be even harder! It’s easy to know when you have found success but accepting you’ve failed and moving on can…
Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime,... →
Boot Beep - The story of the Mac’s boot chime, with source code written in 68000 assembly language… Andy Hertzfeld - When you powered up an Apple II, it would make a short beep sound…
Kids Day →
Everyone in the company came into work to find their computer monitors vandalized with crayon scribbles. To promote “Bring Your Kids To Work Day,” childlike art was hand-drawn on acetate…
Kids Day →
Everyone in the company came into work to find their computer monitors vandalized with crayon scribbles. To promote “Bring Your Kids To Work Day,” childlike art was hand-drawn on acetate…
Our Friend Kevin →
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One of the first Indian players in the English league could be coming to Cov
Cup Referee Announced
January 21, 2009 →
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WOW
The Whale Shark Tank, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008 from the series Second Nature Photo © Kyle Ford featured in Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2008
Your Questions: Best way to structure forms in... →
Time for question number two! This time, it’s a short one… about HTML. Brian Liles asked today’s question: What do you think about form design? Are you a div with p? Are you an ol with ...
Robinson faces union wrangle →
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Good ol’ Geoffrey
CITY Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson has become embroiled in a row over trade union rights for staff at the left-wing New Statesman magazine he co-owns.
Peugeot →
Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro
Copywriter: Roberto Vilhena
Art Director: Tico Moraes, Bernardo Romero
Creative Director: Roberto Vilhena
Illustrator: Alessandro…
OGC cracks one off on with new logo →
Finally unleashes revised brand frontage
LogoWatch Fears that the UK’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) - the Treasury department “responsible for improving value for money by driving up…
DIY panoramic tripod mount →
In response to my previous post on creating panoramic photos in Linux, reader Tim pointed us to this DIY camera mount tutorial. When you rotate the camera to take different frames of the…
Hitachi highlights gesture-controlled HD TV →
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Extremely cool.
Video You are your own remote
ybike 1.0: The Purple Pedals project →
The Purple Pedals project consists of 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bicycles called the ybike. It’s also a really interesting look at why a major sponsor…
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BRILLIANT
Facebook removes Burger King's friend-culling... →
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A very clever campaign
Burger King recently launched a hugely popular Facebook application encouraging users to ditch the mates they didn’t like.
Ditch ten of them and you were…
The hardest task: getting the peanut butter out of... →
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Read the memo The Guardian link to from back in 2006 - parallels with a lot of large companies I know!
On being appointed, Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s new chief executive, said:…
Real Dan Lyons "banned" from CNBC in row over Jobs... →
Dan Lyons, the journalist formerly known as Fake Steve Jobs - before he gave up that gig last summer, because of his worries that Real Steve Jobs was seriously ill - had a hell of a (verbal)…
Ridley Scott's Nottingham loses Sienna Miller →
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Made me laugh - Crowe’s too fat and ‘Nottigham’ isn’t green enough
Ridley Scott’s revisionist take on the Robin Hood story, Nottingham, shows no sign of shaking off its…