January 2008
Screencleaner! →
hwkn:hah! thanks shelbot for this. Very useful tool and a practical cleaning solution.
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Employee Benefits for Peer to Peer businesses? →
Etsy’s First Five Years Etsy just raised a startling ammount of investment, which makes me very happy. They do so much right. There’s a very interesting post on their site about what their intentions are. This in particular caught my eye It is immensely important to me that all Etsy workers are paid a good salary, provided with full benefits (medical, dental, vision) by the company....
QR-Code Generator →
BBC Collective RIP, 2002 - 2008 →
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“But not your own cocks. Cocks you’ve seen in magazines that one day you...”
– B. Tandy on the cock-comparing of Mac vs. PC spec debates.
I S O C I T Y →
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The Reunion
Dan says: what of the Tusk reimagining?
David says: the wha?
Dan says: That fleetwood mac business
David says: nope, you've lost me
Dan says: apologies, apologies
Dan says: completely wrong conversation box
Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer →
Electronic memento mori
Eurogamer: Author "regrets" Mass Effect nudity... →
“Cooper Lawrence originally accused the role-playing game of portraying female characters as sexual objects in a storyline that has the male lead “deciding how many women he wants to be with”. Lawrence later laughed and said “No” when asked if she had actually played Mass Effect. Subsequently angry fans of the game found her book The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace...
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ZEN →
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WatchBBC Worldwide have gone done got a MySpaceTV account
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How To Style Yourself To Anonymity →
“The internet is in a bit of a design rut. We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners. This, my friends (and soon-to-be enemies), is a perfect example of how trends can show their ugly side. I am writing this article to ask if we are...
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“Hit the right buttons or get left behind, you medieval dunce. Do you want the...”
– C. Brooker
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WatchTHIS IS WHAT SPORT SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT (e.g. Nintendo)
WatchThe Greater Than Symbol and the Hash live at Ginglik, West London. Produced by Truffle Pictures, Directed/Edited by Toby Barnett. Apologies for Calums spitting, he wouldn’t do that in his own house you know. — dananananaykroyd
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WatchZe Frank guest stars on Super Deluxe’s All My Exes!
Overwriting the past →
I was asked to edit or remove a previous post on Tumblr. I complied.
Fundies →
A chap called Joe sent me a link to a site that collects stupid comments. It seems to focus on “Christian Fundamentalists”. This one made me laugh until I wet myself. Luckily I have a wipe-clean chair. Emphasis added.
One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues...
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Update: Joost Fires CTO →
Joost CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik was fired by the Internet TV software company. He has taken another job as chief technical architect of the BBC Future Media and Technology Group, which is responsible for a similar project, the peer-to-peer video software iPlayer. We published this story a few minutes ago under the assumption van Gulik had left the company of his own accord, but a Joost...
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“This is a theme Clinton developed when she said: ‘I believe in what we can...”
– Armando Iannucci
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Troy. Just Troy.
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Watch— justin This is in every way why CHTV is my preferred “video snack” at lunch hour. — rach