links for 2010-09-28
Interactive Fiction and The End « Enemy of Chaos Makes me think about 'completeness' and finishing things, but also playfulness and being playful in life. Important. (tags: media fiction books)
the snailr project – postcard 90!
Anna Pickard writes a lovely and entertaining blog called Little Red Boat. She recently had the BRILLIANT idea of ‘the snailr project‘, which entailed travelling around the US by train, sending postcards to people who’d requested them. She describes it as: One journey of almost 7000 miles, six new cities, eight trains, fifteen days, and [...]
links for 2010-09-24
My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain The iPhone isn't just for playing Angry Birds (tags: iphone technology accessibility apple)
links for 2010-09-23
A Bootleg E-Book Bazaar Operates in Plain Sight | Publishing In the 21st Century (tags: publishing ebooks piracy) The Digital Innovator Interviews: James Bridle on E-books, Google, and “The Long Prose Curse” (tags: books publishing publishers ebooks future)
links for 2010-09-14
The Bechdel Test: Movie List [aka Bechdel-Wallace, Mo Movie Measure] Mo Movie Measure (tags: bechdel entertainment feminism culture films film gender)
links for 2010-09-11
Digging in to TextMate — Circle Six Blog I keep meaning to get my head around TextMate (tags: textmate)
Bodies by Susie Orbach
I’ve just read Bodies by Susie Orbach. In it, she argues our bodies and the way we think about them are shaped by our early experiences with our parents and, as we carry on through life, we are influenced by how our culture tells us to think about our bodies. In broad strokes, of course, [...]
links for 2010-09-10
YouTube – Herding Cats Behind the scenes at Ikea with 100 cats. I guess this is about to be an advert. (tags: cats furniture youtube ikea video)
links for 2010-09-08
Courses – Google Code University – Google Code A long list of interesting documents to read through (tags: tutorials code webdev tutorial google learning programming resources) 28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know | Nettuts+ (tags: html5 webdev) The real costs of digital Publishers don't do a great job of making this case. [...]
links for 2010-09-07
War Cabinet (ukwarcabinet) on Twitter "Watch WWII unfold day by day through original Cabinet Papers from 1940 held at The National Archives." Excellent idea. (tags: twitter education history)