Writing tagged Misc
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Creating a 1980s virtual world
Chip Morningstar’s entertaining and still relevant 1990 essay on building and running ‘Habitat,’ a mid-80s online multi-player game.
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I’ll give them a word burst or two…
Accpording to the New Scientist it might be possible to track societal change by monitoring the…
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HotWired archives
A conversation on The Well about HotWired of old prompted me to Google for the remnants of the…
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Decent UK TV guide
A really simple telly guide, at last.
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Protesting the war in Estonia
My sister sent me this photo from a friend of a friend in Estonia and says: In Tartu the defence…
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How many Americans own passports?
Investigating the often quoted, and always varying, statistic that “only x per cent of US citizens own passports.”
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Yay for Rosie!
The Rosie Butler Ideal Man Application Form is now closed.
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Gadget bag
Where I have travelled back in time to make it easy to find a particular bag.
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Laser Squad by email
A great time-drainer of my youth returns to haunt me.
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Mexican food and restaurants in London
Originally wondering why the few Mexican restaurants in London are unfortunate tequila fests, rather than tasty taquerias. Now a summary of Mexican eating options in the city.
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They all start blogging in the end
My friend Ted has just started a weblog. He lives in Santa Barbara, makes films, writes film…
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An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers
Explaining terms such as weblog, permalink, RSS and Trackback to people who are new to weblogs.
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“They both hated DLT”
Snippets from ‘The Nation’s Favourite: True Adventures of Radio 1’, an extremely gripping read.
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Friendster and FOAF
On the lessons Friend-of-a-friend developers could learn from the sudden success of Friendster.
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New Yorker Gawker
Asking why is there no Gawker.com-style site for London and an explanation of why it will make our heads explode.
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Where your FOAFs are
Find people on a global map generated using Friend-of-a-friend files.
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Uses for friends-of-friends
In my previous post I talked about FOAF files and longed for some exciting things to do with them.…
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Skin this site
You can now skin this site, not that there are currently any useful skins.
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Hal Hartley on BBC2
‘Book of Life,’ a movie by my favourite director, is on BBC2 on Friday night at 1.15am. It’s not available on DVD/VHS and was never released at the cinema. Hurrah!
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The mouse’s debut
In 1968, at the Stanford Research Institute, Douglas Englebart gave a public demonstration of the…
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What to do when morale is low
Certain people might find this article useful. A stream of advice that you might think is common…
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Way Back Machine Bookmarklet
If you’re viewing a webpage you want to find an old version of, or the page you’re…
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Phil’s Unofficial Whit Stillman Home Page
Where’s the net’s grand tradition of obsessive fans when you need it? I looked all over…
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Downturn
Sitting upstairs in a quiet pub in central London, letting the sausage and mash and spotted dick…
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Sun(SeaAndSand).com
While wealthy Silicon Valley tech stars spend their money and leisure time on fast cars and extreme…