Bookmarks for December 20, 2010

  • A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I'm An Atheist – Speakeasy – WSJ
    Yes, it's a rehash of the same old pro-atheism arguments we've all heard time and time again. But it's eloquent, witty, and surprisingly warm and kind, and I liked it.
  • notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours"
    This made me laugh with recognition. After all, delicious doesn't go anything complex, does it? It's got all of three different blobs of data – users, who have links, which have tags. (And some optional text, but that's trivial). How had can that be to throw together? And one one level, that's true. I could roll my own personal delicious in a weekend. But I couldn't make it available to anyone else without months of work.
    Tags: design

Bookmarks for December 15, 2009

  • YouTube – i'm not a terrorist
    This is unreal. I know that beat officers are getting more and more direction from above that harrassing photographers and videographers is not a crime, but seriously, I think there perhaps needs to be a bit more that that. Perhaps a total relaxation of the powers relating to photography, because that this can happen in London is just nauseating.
  • YouTube – Christmas Light Hero
    I have a soft spot for really, really tacky christmas ligt displays. I'm glad they're not as common here as they are in the US, but oen now and again is fun. This one, however, is *really* impressive.

Christmas Eve Day

Sitting here in my grandmother’s lounge, looking out over her lawn at the wind whipping the trees. I’m always slightly awed by th sheer size of the houses round here. Anyway, the only reason I’m really posting this is on the offchance anyone reads this in the next day or two. Merry Christmas, folks.