http://www.haddock.org/blogs/ Links by Haddocks en-gb 2009-07-20T00:46:16+00:00 Phil Gyford http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65fa5c18-7260-11de-ba94-00144feabdc0.html for Russell ChrisDodo 2009-07-19T20:58:41+00:00 http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/travel/19pubs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ChrisDodo 2009-07-19T17:28:57+00:00 http://www.gourmet.com/travel/2009/07/a-midsummer-nights-sandwich Gourmet go to Jaskan Grilli and WUSS OUT ChrisDodo 2009-07-19T17:10:10+00:00 http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17461-moon-landings-in-london-ny-sydney/2 blackbeltjones 2009-07-19T12:46:33+00:00 http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/where-the-pies-are/ ChrisDodo 2009-07-19T10:56:34+00:00 http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/global-table-nonstop-eating-in-paris/ ChrisDodo 2009-07-19T10:46:50+00:00 http://worldmysteries9.blogspot.com/2009/02/abandoned-space-technology.html Photos of elderly shuttles, NASA mobile labs, launch pads and more. megp 2009-07-18T09:13:42+00:00 http://phonegap.com/ "If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you." Open source, too. (via bill curtis) yoz 2009-07-18T08:36:15+00:00 http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/travel/19surface.html?partner=rss&emc=rss ChrisDodo 2009-07-18T07:12:20+00:00 http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/travel/12heads.html?partner=rss&emc=rss ChrisDodo 2009-07-18T07:11:57+00:00 http://sera.lighthouseapp.com/ Another simple, pretty bug tracking web app thingummy. philgyford 2009-07-17T11:37:49+00:00 http://sifterapp.com/ Looks pretty and simple which is always a bonus. philgyford 2009-07-17T11:36:10+00:00 http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/letters_from_london/the_present_sound_of_london.php I was sceptical about this -- "I don't have time to listen to sounds!" "I live in London, I don't need to hear it through a computer!" -- but it's really quite lovely in its framing of brief moments of life. Would [...] philgyford 2009-07-17T11:35:22+00:00 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693971 John Resig, the chap behind jQuery, wondering (like many people I imagine) why the BBC wrote its own bespoke JavaScript framework. (via Haddock) philgyford 2009-07-17T11:33:52+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/15/augmented-reality-smartphone "Meanwhile a Swedish company, The Astonishing Tribe, has gone a step further, with a facial recognition system called Augmented ID. It tells you who people are, based on identifying their picture via a technology called Polar Rose, which [...] blackbeltjones 2009-07-17T10:15:24+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths even better than the European motor routes ChrisDodo 2009-07-16T22:08:37+00:00 http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4688393M/Tomorrow%27s-World Got this book at a market stall at lunchtime, scanned the cover, and it's in the openlibrary a few hours later... Tomorrow's World indeed... blackbeltjones 2009-07-16T17:26:40+00:00 http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/events/ Interesting London-focused calendar of lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random miscellany (via Simon W). Lots of geeky and otherwise fascinating and fun sounding things. megp 2009-07-16T16:14:35+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjsDc23-J7I "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Mr Gary F. Numan and his Nine Inch Nails". lee 2009-07-16T13:00:18+00:00 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35040/Playfish-unsure-of-Facebook-Connect Hmm, MCV thinks Facebook Connect is something belonging to Microsoft. crystaltips 2009-07-15T16:30:28+00:00 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35041/Channel-4-on-lucrative-educational-games Pff, okay, what I ACTUALLY said was, we have a license to *experiment*, which *could* result in something amazing that prints money as we're *open to new business models*. crystaltips 2009-07-15T16:28:42+00:00 http://www.nin.com/photoblog/uploaded_images/grant-tr-kristan-s-776783.jpg "The Quickening" lee 2009-07-15T11:51:28+00:00 http://www.iteddy.com/ o gods there's an iTeddy. Do you think iCarly plays with her iTeddy when she's not watching the iPlayer or listening to her iPod? crystaltips 2009-07-15T10:13:55+00:00 http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7552 "I’ve worked in television, and there are a hundred people between you and the audience. I’ve worked in film, and there are a thousand people between you and the audience. In comics, there’s me and an artist, presenting our stories to you [...] blackbeltjones 2009-07-15T10:12:35+00:00 http://kotaku.com/5314775/resident-evil-shirt-feasts-on-the-flesh-of-the-living GENIUS. crystaltips 2009-07-15T08:29:12+00:00 http://www.kottke.org/09/07/typography-reference-for-the-iphone blackbeltjones 2009-07-15T05:40:42+00:00 http://www.recipezaar.com/Sudanese-Tomato-Salad-Salata-Tomatim-Bel-Daqua-311688 I used to love this at Mandola Cafe back when it was open. Must try making this sometime. megp 2009-07-14T19:47:04+00:00 http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/07/its-not-that-i-agree-with-him-its-that-hes-ahead-of-his-time/ There's something weird about Bruce Sterling quoting chunks of Charlie Brooker. It's an edge between two nodes, where there should be none. Willam Gibson discovered TVGoHome yesterday, it's just *not right*. lee 2009-07-14T17:01:50+00:00 http://failblog.org/2009/07/13/omg-u-fail-so-hard/ GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LIMITED WIN AT TEH INTERNETS! lee 2009-07-14T16:48:42+00:00 http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/07/14/eggs-milk-bread-the-worlds-first-grocery-api/ A Tesco API. Fridge-door simulators are doomed in the real world (unless the calendar/to-do/photos are just decentralised instances), but the API is interesting. lee 2009-07-14T10:30:43+00:00 http://kotaku.com/5313864/indies-being-shut-out-of-xbox-live-arcade Rumours! crystaltips 2009-07-14T10:28:27+00:00 http://www.laserportraits.net/ omg I love this. crystaltips 2009-07-14T09:02:11+00:00 http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/innovation/a-new-kind-of-economic-indicator the McKinsey Bohemian–Gay Index. you couldn't make this up. ChrisDodo 2009-07-14T08:58:05+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/2009/07/13/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-not-data "The City, and sections of the media, are getting a touch over-excited by a “research note” written for Morgan Stanley by Matthew Robson, a 15 year old on work experience. This is one teen describing his experience. It is not a reliable [...] rooreynolds 2009-07-14T08:56:36+00:00 http://deadspin.com/5313572/dear-pixar-stop-making-me-cry-like-a-bitch "God forbid they ever produce a straight comedy, one I can watch without turning my shirt into a roll of Bounty." (via cherie) yoz 2009-07-14T08:55:49+00:00 http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be-persuasive genmon 2009-07-14T08:44:02+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/10/not-safe-for-work-internet-london If we can't impress the geeks then we sure as hell can distract them. "Oh look! There's Big Ben coming around again! Aren't we high up?" "Doesn't Soho House have a marvellous roof terrace?" HILARIOUS. The [...] crystaltips 2009-07-14T07:39:23+00:00 http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/im-calling-a-time-of-death-for-londons-media-industry-episode-36/ Mike on old meeja vs new. crystaltips 2009-07-14T07:36:02+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/12/berlin-squat-music-food-parties?page=all ChrisDodo 2009-07-14T07:19:50+00:00