May 2007
meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught... →
When your commute changes, you often try (i often try) to work out the best ways of improving it, ie. where to stand in the carriage to get a seat, where to stand on the platform to get on easiest, which carriage to be in to interchance with ease etc. Thi
Award#0712183 - SBIR Phase I: AcceleGlove: A Cost... →
A grant awarded to a project attempting to automatically translate ASL into English. I’d be interested to find out what my ex-girlfriend thinks of this, as a sign language interpreter.
Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea -- Infinite Loop →
sometime i realise my life isn’t unique, i’m just like every other spod.
Loading.Ready.Run. - Rejected WiiPlay Games →
After last night’s Wii activity and Matt and Emma’s, this further inspires me to potentially think about looking to find prices to see whether i would want to start thinking about buying a wii. maybe.
Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel →
Upload and explore data.
As a preview it’s rough around the edges, may your love for data guide you.
Geonames →
fantastically large database of placenames and geographic information, along with a webservice for hooking the data into your own projects. very useful.
Recently spotted... May 28, 2007
I found out today that delicious has a limit on its ‘notes’ field - which is rather disappointing - especially as i’ve been increasingly use it to store longer thoughts and discussion on the articles / sites i’ve been bookmarking. I’m going to try out ma.gnolia, and see if that’s any better for more indepth bookmarking. Lord knows how i’ll migrate my...
Threadless T-Shirts - Spoilt by Oliver Moss →
reminds me of a “You don’t know jack” post-game advert - The Movie Spoiler Hotline.
Your Right To Know » Tomorrow's bill on exempting... →
This is just disgraceful - MPs trying again to get themselves excempt from the Freedom of Information act.
The secrets behind Angelina's baby tattoos | the... →
Angelina Jolie is geotagged. permenantly
www.myspace.com/brookeshieldsalphabet →
does this have anything to do with the graffiti? i hope not.
del.icio.us/help/linkrolls →
a self-referential link to delicious linkrolls - must set this up on my site
YouTube - Star Wars ! What really happened after... →
i’m sure the voice of the dude in this is seth macfarlane. which makes it doubly cool
Unclutterer: Sock Purge: Getting rid of mismatched... →
never gonna happen in my world - i only have odd socks
Al Gore's American Life | Photo Essays | TIME →
sweet monitor setup - looks a bit like my desk. not quite as messy as my desk though.
The brooke sheilds alphabet sightings →
map of sightings of the random graffiti
Everyday Innovations - Picopad →
neat idea. now if only my laptop would fit in there too.
New Attraction Simulates Shuttle Launch at 17,500... →
I just watched Apollo 13 on a rainy bank holiday, so this article piqued my attention. seems just dropping you down a few stories in a lift doesn’t cut it no more.
How to Change the World: Guy Is Nude No More →
article on threadless’s workspace from guy kawasaki
iwantsandy →
email productivity tools - just CC in Sandy, and she’ll sort out the rest
Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests →
Fantastic list of tools to grade your website’s readiness against SEO, standards, accessibility, etc. I already use a fair number of these, but this is a great list to start from if you’re lacking in these areas
Seth MacFarlane speaking at Harvard →
Geekologie - Water balloon not exploding in... →
really neat high speed footage of a water balloon.
Geekologie - Fanimation Enigma Fan →
I recognise this fan from I Robot (the Will Smith version rather than the book). can’t help wondering how many people it would decapitate if it fell from the ceiling though. maybe it works like a boomerang.
/Message: JP Rangaswami on Open Email →
wow - this guy is really adopting openess in business - it takes real guts to do that - although i do wonder how much he purged his sent items before he let people take a look!
Who is the Silver Surfer? The Official Wiki →
The Silver Surfer website is based upon mediawiki - allowing their users to modify the content of the website. This would, I’m sure they’re hoping, lead to a fuller base of content around the Silver Surfer character, and get the fanbase to build upon the
What is reCAPTCHA? →
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and use
Freebase : Sign In →
Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons. Freebase.com is enabled by the technology of Me
ROXIK | PICTAPS →
create a humanoid shape, and then watch it dance
current work →
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds
Using HTML Lists Properly - Beast-Blog.com →
de-construct cards
we have a tradition at de-construct of creating someone a card when its their birthday, along with a big ass cake (or several), the same for leaving parties. we’ve been doing it since year 1 (birthdays, no-one left that early!), and we’ve built up quite an archive of cards. this is the first time they’re being collated together and put online. alex has posted his, fred is in...
New York Post - Coworking article →
Sputtr. →
search engine across many systems
Survey Software - Online Survey Tool - Zoomerang -... →
survey questionnaire software
Web 2.0 Content Management System for Designers |... →
Light is all about making you a hero to your clients. Instantly offer a full load of web services through a simple, branded content management system (CMS) that makes your agency shine.
Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime.... →
our website was probably down last month. Email servers, FTP servers, firewalls, and a multitude of other services can also perform poorly or even stop responding entirely.
The question is, are you aware of it? Do you know when it happens? Do you know
Hugg / →
digg for treehuggers
Online Project Management, Task Management... →
send an email to wrike, and it helps you track your tasks
flickrvision (beta) →
Create your temporary spambox! →
With this service you can create a temporary e-mail address that will forward all incoming mail to your usual e-mail address.
Simply enter your e-mail address and the life time of your spambox and we will generate you a temporary @spambox.us e-mail.
Custom T-shirts - Design, Buy and Sell Customized... →
Zooppa →
It is a user-created advertising platform. People create ads for participating brands, then rate them. The top-rated authors get paid. Within zooppa.com advertising becomes social: a new deal between brands and customers.
Chessboxing →
In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In every round of chess the FIDE rules for a “Blitz game”
Microsoft Silverlight: Light Up the Web →
Sneakerplay: About →
Since its inception in June 2006, Sneakerplay has established an influential and active community of avid sneaker enthusiasts, collectors, artists, designers, boutique owners, and photographers.
What is Sneakerplay?
Sneakerplay is an innovative invite
Flickr Set Manager →
Flickr Set Manager allows you to automatically create new sets on Flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband kills off... →
BT is to withdraw Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) services from consumer use later this year.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Young women dominate UK... →
Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. Women in the 18 - 34 age group account for 18% of all online Britons.
The climate map of Europe | Environment | Guardian... →
This “map” shows the equivalent climate cities can expect in the future: for example, London of 2071 most closely matches the climate of the west coast of Portugal today.