January 2008
42 posts
Reaper →
I’m not very good at watching TV. I tend to miss things the first time round (and sometimes the second or third) and catch up via DVD. I may not see this as it airs, but I caught the first episode tonight, and it’ll probably end up in my rental list some time next year…
“Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records,...”
– katie paterson The more I think about this, the more I appreciate the beauty of this work of “art”…
Where Do You Get Your DRM-Free Music? →
“There are world maps and cassette tapes and record albums, drinking straws and...”
– Tome tomb (Metro Times Detroit)
Jsamlarose.com 2.0: the latest...
CMS woes: Don’t like Wordpress, don’t want to pay for Expression Engine, Drupal’s too complicated, Joomla doesn’t sound like my cup of cha, Textpattern just doesn’t feel right (and that covers a lot of others I can’t be bothered to name), Symphony would be great if I didn’t have to grok XSLT first, and Silverstripe’s just too darn slow. Might be...
“I always wonder about poets writing narrative and breaking these up into lines...”
– Quick poetry thought: what makes a poetry collection a good collection? [poetaensanfrancisco.blog-city.com]
“If the world were a village of 1000 persons, there would be five soldiers, seven...”
– State of the Village Report …and how many poets?
“last year the world produced more computer chips than grains of rice”
– Nicholas Bate: What are you reading?
“Staring at a blank canvas in Photoshop (or your preferred graphics program)...”
– Overcoming blankcanvasphobia ~ Authentic Boredom Note to self: respond to this with notes from a poet’s perspective…
“Mattel and Hasbro, makers of the board game Scrabble, have asked Facebook to...”
– Hasbro and Mattel Move to Shutdown Scrabulous; Help Save It! Although it’s probably the biggest productivity killer (outside of email), don’t touch my Scrabulous. My working day won’t be the same won’t be the same without it…
“all those romantic notions you have of absinthe spoons, manic episodes and...”
– Working In Close | 43 Folders Amen.
hitotoki : A Narrative Map of London →
Excellent, excellent, excellent. A narrative map of London. A map of narrative London. Narratives map a London. And all of the above.
GMail Adds Group Mailing List Functions →
One for the mail geeks and google suite fans…
“Whether due to the limits of the attention span or listener fatigue, there is a...”
– ursprache Discuss.
Moneygami 2: Return of the Bills... →
Apparently this is the original source for many of the images posted via the earlier Moneygami post I logged…
Rion.nu: photoblog by Rion Nakaya →
One of the best designed photoblogs I’ve seen for a long time. There’s a default layout for photoblogs, as proliferated by software such as pixelpost (of which I’m a big fan, by the way) - this breaks that mold. Oh, and great photography as well… ;)
“Origami is the art of paper folding. The word is Japanese, literally meaning to...”
– The Art Of Moneygami (Origami + Money + Moneygami + Money Folding) (Follow the link for muy cool pics. When I’m a millionaire, I’ll take this up as a hobby. Until then…)
Tad's Opus 40 Blog: 7 Things You Should Know About... →
And I’d be happy if my students read points 3, 4 and 6…
“No matter how well crafted your poetry becomes, it will be read far less than...”
– 1000 Black Lines: 7 things you should know about: being a poet Sobering, but quite probably true…
7 Things You Should Know About Being a Poet: A... →
“Life, long or short, looks to be simple addition. Factor in the matter of...”
– Composers’ Lives: Speed Is Critical, Not Length - New York Times Maybe I can churn out a couple of genius-worthy collections of poetry this year, then? Maybe… ;)
“First the writers and designers did the writing. Then the non-writers who had...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Self-publishing is the new blogging Lol.
The Decapitator - a photoset on Flickr →
The Decapitator is decapitating posters in Shoreditch. Absolute genius.
Kenya vs Scoble-gate... →
“If there isn’t time to do it right now, you can bet on even less time to do it...”
– Full-time freelancing: 10 more things in 360 days ~ Authentic Boredom
“Any way you look at it, Crunch Mode used as a long-term strategy is economically...”
– IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons No more 80 hour work weeks for me, then…
Levi van Veluw on the Behance Network →
(Skin as canvas. Amazing.)
“What I’ve observed in the various communities I’ve been part of is the entrance...”
– You may be a community freeloader if you… | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon Hallelujah, sister. I’ve spent the past few weeks trying to recover from the burnout that comes from dealing with “rational fools” day in, day out. Stop what you’re doing, and read the rest of...
Happy new year, and all that...
New year’s day, and I’m clearing down RSS feeds before dinner with the extended family. Interesting night last night (expect pics sometime soon, once I’ve waded through the backlog). Also expect a deluge of links and quotes over the next 10 minutes…