Links for Today - or the past week really

What can't you send through the post? Hamsters, what about ladybirds - or worms?
BBC's Obsolete Law recent item you know the kind of thing... Are you allowed to drive your sheep through the streets of London?
When heroin was legal
And some pretty computers to look at. Sony Vaio Type F light in all colours

I am thinking of compiling a list of the rss feeds I subscribe to and blogs i read ( i don't read many - i feel i should be reading more blogs) - or I could just del.icio.us it, but the thought of it just puts me right off even looking at the keyboard. Yep del.icio.us is the way to go I think. Why am I even bothering with this? Why do I get any satisfaction when I know no one is reading, except myself? Myself and perhaps a few seagulls - I think.

Google Earth and Journaler

Looking at the features of the app Journaler, looks mighty fine.

A few notable features that I like:
Entries filed under date unlike other apps I have come across.
Insert images, video, make voice recordings (via mp3 encoder).
Add files to your entries or photos from iPhoto, music from iTunes, addresses from Address Book via browsers (ie. without having to launch the programs themselves).
Has categories, keywords, search feature.
Upload entries to weblog or Email entries

As yet this is Donationware. I intend to donate when I have given it a good going over.

Google Earth looks good too. Google earth Mac that is. I was using it yesterday and I'm not sure whether it has gremlins within or whether my 800 MHz iMac isn't fast enough to run it, but there were some problems.

Links

the best of flickr? the best of flickr?
Critique of iPod design
Tawainese (sp?) mobiles though I have read so many american blogs that I am starting to think of them as cell phones.
More nice looking mobiles!
A live version of Demons by a band called battle, I heard on bbc radio one with annie mac and blokie sitting in for Zane Lowe . I haven't listened to that programme for a long time. Another song ny them - Isabelle.

http://www.utdallas.edu/~kilgard/lectures.htm- lectures on neuroscience in video form.
See through hard drive from western Digital. enchanting no?

mindlessness and links for today

there is nothing to blog about so I instead offer up some links. So much unevent that it is almost enventful.
I did visit my friends and family yesterday, though they were having a good time lying on the pond bank dozing so not a good time was had. I think they thought I was a pain for trying to disturb them with my ponderances. They were conserving their energies I think. Perhaps in a few weeks once Spring is on its way they will liven up a bit.

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pretty pics of sweets/candy/whatever you call it.
like this OSX launcher called Butler, I think it's donationware, though I can't remember.

A few nice bits of kit

Apple gear in glorius colour. Pretty pink iPods and ferrari red Powerbooks - oh la la.

Intel-Apple news

optimus keyboard very cool looking in the photo, but photos are often disappointing. Has keys which are image-customisable. could be distracting. Imagine icons staring up at you from the keyboard. I am used the the keyboard being a "nothing to see here" kind of thing. (Unobtrusive rather than ugly.)

tablet pc laptop with detachable screen

links for 8th Jan 06

an intoduction to motherboard fundamentals at ars technica - very useful i think.
a list of the books in Howard Bloom's Western Canon
the BBC's Open News Archive looks interesting.

I have a fear of saying anything about anything anymore. It seems all there is is is this insubstantial stuff. well... There sees to be a lack of life going on at the momennt with me. I'm chasing my tail - well I would be if that was a feasible thing for a duck to do - Chasing my tail any watching TV and recorded stuff: The OC and Smallville and other US Drama. Quantum Leap is being shown on ITV 3 at the mo., and Kojak.
I'm reading War and Peace and Martin Chuzzlewit - oh and The Blind Assassin that's Tolstoy, Dickens and Margaret Atwood. The next book on my to read list is Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Books and TV and sleep, that's the good stuff in my life right now, and the odd bit of M.I.A and some music I downloaded from legaltorrents esp. the album 2063music netlabel MP3 Archives - Volume 1.
I need more music, I must remind myself.

Holidays Bye Bye

The end of the "holiday Season" is quite sad. Decorations and lights are put away, and there is no longer an excuse, since one seems to be required, to indulge in luxuries. So although i don't have much of a christmas thang gong on, i am still sad to see the year stretching out ahead of me. It all seems so bleak.

OK, linky-links:
Vienna. A nice OS X RSS reader. Open source, with it's own built in browser for opening links in. I am currently trying this out for my main RSS reader in place of NetWNewsWire Lite.
Women lovin' their training shoes
Webcams from around the world
Slothcam widget at apple.com a dashboard widget allowing you to view various webcams - allows you to add your own webcams.