Category Archives: Links

Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr

Free Flickr export plugin for Lightroom from Jeffery Friedl.

Decapitated

Photographs of adverts on the street that have been “vandalised” to look like the people in them have been decapitated.

SnuzNLuz Alarm Clock

ThinkGeek is selling an alarm clock that sends a donation to an organisation you don’t like every time you press the snooze button. This must be a joke, especially with this text at the bottom:

Really Fine Print: ThinkGeek reserves the right to take up to a 50% commision on all donations made [...]

Intel Bails from OLPC

Fake Steve on Intel’s decision to quit the OLPC project:

See, that’s how it goes with freetards. They’re like a bunch of guys with a weekend touch football team who go around talking smack about how they could totally beat the New England Patriots — and they could, as long as the [...]

Self-Publishing is the New Blogging

From Zeldman:

Enter Lulu, all slinky hips and clodhoppers. Self-publishing is the new blogging. No more compromises. No more external deadlines. No more heavy-handed editors and ham-fisted copyeditors. No more teachers, lots more books. You don’t need distribution, you’ve got PayPal. You don’t need stores: there’s only two [...]

You Get What You Pay For

Some seriously bad knockoffs of Pixar’s Ratatouille and Cars, called Ratatoing and The Little Cars. (Via MetaFilter.)

100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year

From the BBC’s Magazine Monitor, 100 things we didn’t know last year, including:

To be found attractive, women should sway their hips and men their shoulders

and

There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.

They also have lists for 2006, 2005 and 2004.

Motherwell Captain O’Donnell Dies

Motherwell midfielder and captain Phil O’Donnell collapsed and died near the end of their 5-3 win over Dundee United.

Tragic.

Photographs of Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination

Spectacular photographs captured by Getty photographer John Moore of the final moments of Benazir Bhutto’s life, and the aftermath of her assassination.

The 50 Most Loathsome People in America

A list compiled by The BEAST of it’s 50 most loathsome people in America, number 9 being “you”:

Charge: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for [...]

The Rise and Fall of Netscape

After 14 years, Netscape Navigator is to be discontinued by AOL, who bought them for $4.2 billion in 1998.

Did Coke Really Turn Santa Red and White?

In short, no.

IE8 Passes Acid2 Test

The latest internal Microsoft build of Internet Explorer 8 now passes the Acid2 test. A big step in the right direction.

My Other Christmas Present is a Definition List

An excellent article by Mark Norman Francis on 24 ways, about why definition lists are almost universally misused and how to use them with the proper semantic meaning.

Activision and Blizzard in $18 Billion Merger

The BBC:

The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry. Activision and Blizzard have said they will form “the world’s most profitable games business” in a deal worth $18.8bn (£9.15bn).

Are You Getting Enough?

The BBC Magazine:

“A 20-minute nap gives you an amazing boost, it’s much better than having a coffee,” says Dr Stanley. “Even closing your eyes for 20 minutes is better than nothing. “But in the UK it is culturally unacceptable for us to be found napping with our head on the keyboard. [...]

Mourinho Rules Out England Job

England’s best chance of international success has ruled himself out of the managerial job. A shame, he has the strong and egotistical personality to stand up to the FA instead of being a yes man like McLaren.

T-Mobile Selling Unlocked iPhones in Germany

Caveat: they cost €999, or £719 at the current exchange rate. This is T-Mobile’s way of saying “fuck-you” to Vodafone for taking them to court.

The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Parts)

Mark Pilgrim on Amazon Kindle’s business model.

Nikon 18-55mm VR lens

Nikon has performed a veritable U-turn and announced its newest standard range zoom lens will have VR image stabilisation. The precisely name AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR is the first lens announced after their new AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED, which doesn’t have VR as Nikon believed that VR wasn’t required on short zooms.

However, [...]