Wednesday 19 September 2007

Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Device and Desires

Splendid essay about all the smartphones he's owned. He cares, he knows what he's talking about, he's such a lovely, lovely geek. (via ChrisDodo)

Orbicule | Undercover | F.A.Q.

Fascinating software and service to help trace your Mac if it's stolen. Even sounds vaguely feasible. (via Daring Fireball)

Crooked Timber » » Globollocks Watch

I like the "objective" scoring of articles. I want to do something similar to calculate genuine "newsworthiness"… +1 per person killed, +1 per million dollars stolen, etc. (via Nick Sweeney)

LastGraph: Home

Create completely stunning and fascinating colourful graphs of your Last.fm data. The best way I've ever seen of getting a good impression of what you've listened to. If only I had data for my whole life of listening. (via Plasticbag)

Last.fm - the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata

Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)

The Morning News - Still Life

Awesome photo of a shattering ceramic figure. (via Rodcorp)

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter

I'm fascinated by the single book that summarises an entire field, and here's a list of loads. Some are a bit too opinion-based (eg Jane Jacobs, as good as she is) rather than fact-based, but maybe I'm a pedant. (via ChrisDodo)

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