Links for Wednesday 5 October 2011

Melin Maildy
I’m enjoying this blog, chronicling one person preparing to make and sell things they knit. Suppliers, materials, processes, etc. (via @hiutdenim)
Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » If They Come, It Might Get Built
“If we launch starships, whether of exploration or settlement, they won’t be conquerors; they will be worse off than the Polynesians on their catamarans, the losses will be heavy and their state at planetfall won’t resemble anything depicted in Hollywood SF.” (via Futurismic)

Wednesday 5 October 2011, 11:58pm

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5 Oct 2011 at Twitter

  • 06:49am: @gwire My killing Bin Laden so definitely, the FBI have really messed up the future of that movie franchise.
  • 06:55am: Getting tired of the Onswipe WordPress theme that assumes iPads are only used in portrait, hiding the bottom of the page from everyone else.
  • 07:06am: Newspapers reporting what "David Cameron will say in his conference speech today"… isn't that what we laughed at the Daily Mail for doing?
  • 09:43am: I LOLed: “I went to see the new Woody Allen film in Cornwall last week.” “Torquay?” “Yes, aren’t they all.” (From http://t.co/OfCZQ8ZE )
  • 12:07pm: They are nice; apply for job, young tech folk! RT @ranarama: Are you good at computer? Come work at Hide&Seek! http://t.co/j0WUvd8I
  • 12:08pm: The stage of the project where the “Browser test” ticket is becoming annoyingly hard to ignore.
  • 01:16pm: Surprised I haven’t seen this on Twitter: Man who stalked the Queen laid dead in St James’s Park for 2-3 years: http://t.co/qTXUbDoT
  • 01:36pm: @spaceboy I thought you’d have people. You should have people. Can’t you send the little man down to pick it up?
  • 01:56pm: Two salesman type guys wandered in to our office claiming to be something to do with @NSPCC and @Lovefilm. Seemed suspicious… anyone else?
  • 02:04pm: @zzgavin I don’t think they were strong enough to be honest.
  • 02:12pm: @rooreynolds That sounds exactly like the guys I just tweeted about…
  • 02:42pm: Obituaries/memorials for people who delete their online selves. “Mark Pilgrim. 1991-2011. He will be missed.”
  • 02:49pm: @qwghlm He’s just deleted everything he’s done off the net. He is apparently OK though.

5 Oct 2011 in Comments elsewhere

Bear in love | Holly Swain Illustration
I love the colours Holly, somehow bright and jolly but without being too garish. The bear’s shadow is a nice touch too - makes it all seem gently 3D. And yes, nice golf shoes!…

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Music listened to most that week

  1. Zomby (25)
  2. The Venopian Solitude (20)
  3. Shabazz Palaces (14)
  4. Julio Bashmore (13)
  5. Kings of Convenience (12)
  6. Red House Painters (12)
  7. Lau Nau (10)
  8. Au Revoir Simone (9)
  9. Bedhead (9)
  10. Forest Swords (8)

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