Links for Wednesday 1 July 2009
- Pulse Laser: Shownar
- This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
- Scope (Schulze & Webb)
- More Matt Webb, his opening presentation at last week's Reboot. It was very, very good, and it's great to have the whole thing written much as he delivered it.
- The Viridian Design Movement
- Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
- Newspaper Club - A work in progress
- Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome.
When theft isn't theft
Yesterday I wrote a letter to the Guardian. Originally I put quote marks around the word “Theft” in the phrase “Federation Against Software Theft”. In the context of the letter this was unexplained and was as as immature as replacing the “s” in “Microsoft” with a dollar sign (a sure sign of an impending knee-jerk response). It did me no favours and I removed the quote marks (and, for what it’s worth, shamefacedly re-sent the email) but I thought I would explain my aversion to the word theft in this context.
In Writing on 8 Jun 2009
Recent YouTube Favourites
Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
When talking about the Best Books I linked to this great Ask MetaFilter thread from 2007: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?.
At Septivium on 7 May 2009
Pepys on Twitter
Ever one to keep up with the latest technologies, Samuel Pepys has now started twittering regularly. He’ll be updating around three times a day, so feel free to follow him if you want to keep up with what he’s doing before he gets round to writing his diary at night.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 10 May 2009
Photos for Tuesday 30 June 2009
New old Metropolitan reviews
I’ve belatedly got round to collating links to some old reviews of Metropolitan that reader Eric Burritt kindly sent in. I’ve added them to the appropriate page, but here’s a summary of all the new additions:
At Whit Stillman on 29 Jun 2009
Letters: There is a hidden - and high - cost to illegal downloading | Music | The Guardian
[ A letter to the Guardian in response to the final letter on this page. UPDATE: I made a slight change to this, explained here. ]
A comment on another site on 7 Jun 2009
Bye for now
I’m going to stop posting things here. When I started up again a few months ago I had a fair amount of free time but I’ve realised I can’t keep it up.
At Overmorgen on 15 Apr 2009
My Spotlight page
I recently got my page on Spotlight sorted out. I should also be appearing in the next addition of the Spotlight book.
At PhilipGyford.com on 11 Nov 2008