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.

Option Click

In Tiger, in the Finder, to get a single "Get Info" box for several documents, or to open several documents in an application you can use the option (alt) button when you go to file (or right click) on the selected items
"Open With" turns into "Always Open With".
"Get Info" turns into "Show Inspector".



It's easy to begin books, I have begun four at the moment though i am only really reading two of them. If you abandon a book for long enough when you return to it you won't have a clue what's going on when you finally pick up where the bookmark tells you you left off. I'm trying to finish at least one of the books before the end of the year; that is in about a day and a half. It's a good book that can suck you through past the lost momentum that emerges after 30 or so pages. If it's a "rollocking good read" then it never loses any momentum in the first place. I find that Margaret Atwood's novels and short stories are in the "rollocking good read" category; also Edith Wharton and Michele Roberts (writers I chose because I have been reading them recently).

More Links 31st Dec 2005

coolhunting.com interesting things - design, pop culture etc.
shoes bearing microprocessors
nice "urban gear" (whatever that is)
dot software - some nice Mac software that is now freeware. Aquaruler is useful.

A few links again

Here I am, back once again for the renegade master.
I have some links and stuff tat I have been gathering all this time, but I have either forgotten them or I haven't the energy to get over this inertia.
So a few links that aren't representative of much except what I can recall right now.

ODM Watches - very lovely,interesting watches.
I decided to buy ecto, blogging client. It's all good.
Top 100 downloaded texts on Project Gutenberg.
From the channel 4 programme Demolition a website with some related architectural links.
Desperate Housewives Spoilers?