Category Archives: link

Links with minimal commentary

moleskine hard-drive?

July 10, 2008 – 11:48 pm

[freelance switch] Hi-tech meets lo-tech in this how-to for a moleskine as HDD case.

By dave | Comments (0)

goosh

July 8, 2008 – 5:36 pm

[k10k] goosh - the unofficial google shell; a javascript-based command line interface to google.

By dave | Comments (0)

children’s design in totalitarian regimes

June 25, 2008 – 7:24 am

Branding the Youth in the Totalitarian State - when you’re trying to control the hearts and minds of a people, it stretches even to the way that you present your children’s books, and their schooling. Some examples of how this was put into practice last century.

By dave | Comments (0)

Procrastination is making a cup of tea.

June 13, 2008 – 8:05 am

[Good Experience] Short animation about procrastination: Procrastination is making a cup of tea. Procrastination is thesaurusizing your emails.

By dave | Comments Off

Polaroid camera

June 5, 2008 – 7:46 am

Detailed video from the 1970s explaining how a Polaroid camera works. We’ve come a long way, downhill, in terms of what level of technical detail it’s reasonable to put into a video about photography.

By dave | Comments (0)

how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds

June 5, 2008 – 7:45 am

We all remember the video where someone folds a t-shirt in two seconds, but this video explains how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds.

By dave | Comments (0)

lego stephen hawking

June 3, 2008 – 8:47 am

[haibane] Lego Stephen Hawking with transforming chair!

By dave | Comments (0)

improving your creativity

May 30, 2008 – 9:54 pm

A few experts discuss ideas on how to improve your creativity.

By dave | Comments (1)

using email well

May 30, 2008 – 9:54 pm

Some questions to ask before you send that email

By dave | Comments (1)

design of footers

May 30, 2008 – 9:52 pm

Gallery of Footers

By dave | Comments (0)

16 tips for keeping your focus at work

May 30, 2008 – 9:51 pm

Keep your focus at work

By dave | Comments (0)

the iPhone multi-touch interface: coming to Windows 7

May 30, 2008 – 9:51 pm

Does any one else think that this looks like a direct copy of the iPhone interface?

By dave | Comments (0)

an improvement to a macbook?

May 21, 2008 – 7:50 am

Customise your macbook for offline note-taking with blackboard paint. Warning: don’t try this at home.

By dave | Comments (0)

darth vader persecutes jedi church

May 14, 2008 – 9:22 am

Darth forced to pay court costs after attacking the jedi church.

By dave | Comments (0)

gin, television and social surplus

May 1, 2008 – 10:55 pm

[kottke] Clay Shirky on social surplus. How much of their leisure time do people pour into TV that they could pour into other projects, and how long will they continue to use “lean back” forms of entertainment, instead of “lean forward’?

By dave | Comments (3)

miniature computers

April 30, 2008 – 7:15 pm

[Stephen’s Web] List of tiny portable computers - it seems that people are looking for smaller and lighter computers - a far cry from the monster tower case and giant screen that we used to stay up late playing Doom II on, many years ago.

By dave | Comments (0)

r2d2 data projector

April 30, 2008 – 7:14 pm

[Neil] I can appreciate the geeky beauty of this
R2D2 data projector, but I’m not looking to own one.

By dave | Comments (0)

punctuation mistakes everyone makes

April 24, 2008 – 4:38 pm

[43 folders] Punctuation mistakes everyone makes - great reading for punctuation nazis. Shows that computers of today still don’t make it automatic, or even easy, to do this correctly.

By dave | Comments (0)

history of the ampersand

April 21, 2008 – 11:17 pm

[kottke] the history of the ampersand.

By dave | Comments (0)

being stabbed in the back

April 18, 2008 – 8:40 am

Sometimes, even being literally stabbed in the back isn’t so bad.

By dave | Comments (1)