December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
13 posts
Pinboard: bookmarks for philgyford →
I won’t be saving links to Delicious any more. Head on over to Pinboard if you want to keep seeing new stuff. All my old links are there too.
Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing... →
Obama: “The reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over.”
Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » If They Come,... →
“If we launch starships, whether of exploration or settlement, they won’t be conquerors; they will be worse off than the Polynesians on their catamarans, the losses will be heavy and their state at…
Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss →
This looks good. A three hour video tutorial about deploying Django, “including Amazon’s EC2 and S3, Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more.” I just…
Pinboard/Fandom OTP - Renaming tags →
A way to rename any/all of your tags on Pinboard using Python. (via @pinboard)
September 2011
18 posts
Infovore » A quick guide to Inspector Spacetime →
A lovely account of an amazing runaway myth created by fans out of a single throwaway joke in an episode of ‘Community’.
Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition →
BBC Dimensions: How Many Really? →
Lovely thing from BERG that “compares the number of people involved in key historical events or situations to the people you know through Facebook or Twitter.” Very good.
Association of Professional Futurists -... →
A bit tempted by paying to watch the sessions from this. (via @wendyinfutures)
Our Universities: How Bad? How Good? by Peter... →
I’m not sure why I keep finding these articles about universities so interesting. Maybe because it’s so hard to pin down what they’re *for*, never mind how to achieve that.
The Mad Men Account by Daniel Mendelsohn | The New... →
“…even as it invites us to be shocked by what it’s showing us, it keeps eroticizing what it’s showing us too.” Yes, all this. I’ve never understood why the show’s supposed to be great.
Custom Fit Jeans by Sam & Leona — Kickstarter →
Project to make custom-fit jeans for only $60 a pair. I am very sceptical that the material and manufacture can be much good, computerised cutting or not. (via Charles Stross)
Matthew Diffee →
I liked the drawing in a ‘New Yorker’ cartoon of this chap’s, Googled him, and lots of his other cartoons are funny too. Nice.
Crossword blog | Crosswords | guardian.co.uk →
I don’t play crosswords (yet) but I’m really enjoying Alan Connor’s crossword blog. Fascinating and funny.
Jezdez/django_compressor - GitHub →
“Combines and compresses linked and inline Javascript or CSS in a Django templates into cacheable static files by using the compress template tag.” Can work with Sass CSS I believe.
August 2011
10 posts
Populations: End of history and the last woman |... →
Taking projections of declining birth rates literally results in Hong Kong’s population dying out in 2798, Brazil by year 5000.
Fleet street fox: 43 and never been spanked. →
Other people have made similar points, but it bears repeating over and over. That Gove and co can get away with stealing taxpayers’ money while normal people get months in prison for doing very…
Martin Woodhouse - Telegraph →
“Martin Woodhouse, who has died aged 78, was a psychologist and medic, but worked variously as a novelist, scriptwriter, engineer, programmer, government planner, artificial intelligence researcher…
Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller... →
Very good, and worth some time. On how Twitter is conversation, and how that compares with written language that some people are concerned is threatened by social media. (via @blech)
BBC News - One word we don't hear enough: 'Erm' →
From January 2010, Michael Blastland shows how wrong the Bank of England’s GDP projection fan charts can be. (Also, that daft “The face of uncertainty…” stock photo and caption is priceless.)
Hackney London Riots | Stylenoir →
A decent report and photos by a style mag from the London riots, #2. (via @catfunt)
Crazy Walls →
Cataloguing the walls covered in photos, newspaper clippings, string, etc by obsessive men in movies and TV shows. Because no one else seems to have done this yet.