Blogs

Saturday 20 October 2012

9to5Mac: Smaller iPad to Start at $329
9to5Mac: Smaller iPad to Start at $329: Apple’s entry price for its upcoming smaller iPad is between the base model of the new, fifth-generation iPod touch ($299) and the currently shipping WiFi-only 16GB iPad 2 ($399). According to our sources, &# [...] Technovia

Friday 19 October 2012

What I have been reading (or meant to read) this week October 19, 2012
Newspapers are the New Startups | Parse.ly Blog The newsonomics of The New York Times’ expanding global strategy » Nieman Journalism Lab sambrook: Mark Thompson’s year 1 objectives: http://t.co/TifNuFHs Google’s Android strategy [...] Alex Balfour

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Lovie Gold award winner!
Well done the whole London 2012 Gamestime website team. Deserved Lovie 2012 winners for best sport site.        The post Lovie Gold award winner! appeared first on Alex Balfour Consulting. Alex Balfour
London 2012 digital Games – Olympic and Paralympic traffic report and full statistics
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Digital StatisticsThe post London 2012 digital Games – Olympic and Paralympic traffic report and full statistics appeared first on Alex Balfour Consulting. Alex Balfour

Links

Monday 22 October 2012

Monkeys Ride Giant Rodents - YouTube
Monkeys Ride Giant Rodents uzoouk Kim
The rapidly increasing ideology of the US Republican Party
A chart showing the changing political positions of US political parties since 1789. I'd love to see something similar for the UK. (via Kottke) Phil Gyford
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Wow but the IA of the site for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year is crazy. About 8 clicks and I still hadn't got to a nice big picture. Kim
Felix's Node.js Convincing the boss guide
When (and when *not*) to use node.js, and "how to convince your boss" … should you have to. Dotcode

Sunday 21 October 2012

20 Best Premium Fullscreen WordPress Themes
Kim
Café Brecht
Antimega
Seminal Study Finds 'Climate-Change Footprint’ In North America, ‘Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters’ | ThinkProgress
“In all likelihood, we have to regard this finding as an initial climate-change footprint in our US loss data from the last four decades. Previously, there had not been such a strong chain of evidence. If the first effects of climate change are [...] Kim
Cyberdyne Creates Mind-Controlled Robot Exoskeleton to Protect Fukushima Workers from Nuclear Radiation - StumbleUpon
This week Cyberdyne unveiled a robotic exoskeleton called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) that allows its wearer to carry superhuman loads while shielding them from radiation. With the Fukushima nuclear disaster still fresh in Japan’s national memory, [...] Kim
Timpulse - Who Works With ‘Creative Coders?’?log=out
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Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, some pointers :: Hackdiary
starred items / Hackdiary: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, some pointers / from Haddock Blogs http://www.haddock.org/blogs/ Via Matt Biddulph Kim
The secret US lobbyists behind Police and Crime Commissioner election - Telegraph
"Mr de Unger Brown said his campaign would comply with all disclosure requirements of electoral law, but under a loophole in Electoral Commission rules, independent candidates do not have to publish details of their donors until after the election [...] Lee
Torture UK: why Britain has blood on its hands
"Unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories," [Jack Straw] said, "and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States… there [...] Lee

Saturday 20 October 2012

Cafe Papeneiland
Antimega

Friday 19 October 2012

Drawing / by Adara
by Adara from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Drawing / .
. from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Green Stuff / Horse made of concrete and moss - Terraform Sculptures by Robert Cannon
Horse made of concre from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Things / Wood Carving
Wood Carving from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Things / Teapot.
Teapot. from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Texture / Aerial Photography #1 – Bon Expose | All About Art and Design
Aerial Photography s from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim

Thursday 18 October 2012

Night and the City • Articles • Xbox 360 • Eurogamer.net
A lovely description of exploring the 1947 world of 'LA Noire' with the author's father who grew up in LA around then. (via Infovore) Phil Gyford
:: procatinator ::
Damn, been trying to remember this URL for weeks! Hurrah! Kim
Cover Story: Bat for Lashes | Features | Pitchfork
Really interesting use of CSS3 animation stuffs. Kim
Versioning is an anti-pattern - Designing Hypermedia APIs
"Versioning is only one way to manage change, though... and my contention is that it's not appropriate for hypermedia services." Dotcode
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0-rc.1
a simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented Dotcode
Eat Noodles Love Noodles: London Hall of Fame
Antimega

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote - NYTimes.com
"The callers will be guided by scripts and call lists compiled by people — or computers — with access to details like whether voters may have visited pornography Web sites, have homes in foreclosure, are more prone to drink Michelob Ultra than [...] Lee
Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Really nice visualisation of how different states have voted over time. (via The Functional Art) Phil Gyford
Our favorite computer bags
A good start for finding a decent bag. Plenty of backpacks. Phil Gyford
HTML5 Video Player Comparison - HTML5 Video
Kim
Data / An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation
An Historical Timeli from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation
Kim

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Drawing / k. tanzaku
k. tanzaku from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Drawing / Denise Nestor
Denise Nestor from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Data / Tai Chi Motion Study #154 - Slit-scan photography by Jay Mark Johnson.
Tai Chi Motion Study from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Data / Slit-scan photography by Jay Mark Johnson.
Slit-scan photograph from Kim http://pinterest.com/mildlydiverting/ Kim
Western Australia - DIY Drones
This is one of my post on the arducopter site from last week that I would like to share with you guys especially the ones that are playing with APM and telemetry. I'm using a 3DR 900mhz radio and it always worked flawlessly ever since I got it 3 [...] Kim
nomensa/Accessible-Media-Player
Kim
A2-TYPE
I like this font. Particularly the ampersand. Kim
Timpulse - Who Works With ‘Creative Coders?’
Handy and interesting. A "list of institutions—both EU and Stateside—that are using creative coding". (via @RandomEtc) Phil Gyford
The Foursquare you don’t know: It hasn’t all been Gap ads and nosebleed valuations for Dennis Crowley | PandoDaily
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Henderson - General - Henderson launches new plans for Smithfield Quarter
Description of plans for the west end of Smithfield Market. I am never optimistic about these things. Phil Gyford

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