QR code on headstone

Posted: 15 July 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: | Leave a comment

Part of me likes this as an interesting use of technology and of celebrating someone’s life. But at the same time, part of me is saying “huh???” You can make up your own mind – http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/qr-code-tombstone/

Twitter

Posted: 15 July 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , | Leave a comment

It’s no wonder the impact Twitter had on the News of the World phone hacking scandal when you consider these statistics – http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

Wheels of Steel

Posted: 24 June 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , | Leave a comment

This is another really cool HTML5 site. Wheels of Steel was developed by Scott Schiller who works on Flickr and brings to the online, digital age turntables in your browser. Give it a go and you might just become a superstar dj

wheelsofsteel.net

Such Tweet Sorrow

Posted: 15 June 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , | Leave a comment

I’m a bit late in finding this but Such Tweet Sorrow is Romeo and Juliet set in modern Britain and on Twitter. Really cool way of re-telling a classic play

http://www.suchtweetsorrow.com/

Nobody surfs the web anymore

Posted: 14 June 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: | Leave a comment

Here’s quite an interesting article about how no-one seems to surf anymore. It’s picking up on a talk Steve Rosenbaum gave at Confab 2011. Essentially the argument is because of the sheer volume of data being created, we can only handle pre-curated now, such as RSS feeds, Twitter timelines etc. Not sure I agree as I like to think I ‘surf’ as part of research for my job. I’m not saying I don’t use RSS feeds or other forms of curated data but they’re just part of the sources that I look at. Anyways, read the links and make your own mind up.

http://www.entradista.com/post/6516636415/nobody-surfs-the-web-anymore

http://www.magnify.net/blog/item/3K61WZ2J4WDYZK97/Sleep-Friends-Work-All-Victims-of-Data-Overload-

Women in computing

Posted: 7 June 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

This is a very interesting article on how programming was initially perceived as ‘women’s work’. The quote from Grace Hopper liking it to planning dinner seems a bit condecending to me.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2011/06/researcher-reveals-how-computer-geeks-replaced-computer-girls/

I wonder who said this….

Posted: 11 April 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: | Leave a comment

‘every time my phone rings I hope its you, but in my heart I know it never will be, coz even if I need you.. you don’t need me’

SOUR/MIRROR

Posted: 20 February 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

This is a nice piece of HTML5, fantastic integration of Facebook, Twitter and webcam. It’s interesting that most of the good pieces of HTML5 all seem to be used for music promotions. Anyways, give it a look – http://sour-mirror.jp/

Scroll clock

Posted: 1 December 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Nice to see Mootools used in such a creative manner – http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

Kinetic drivers created.

Posted: 11 November 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

According to geek.com drivers for the Kinect have been made using Linux and OpenGL. The full article can be read here

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