links for 2007-04-03 Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK “Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat at this computer? The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of... More
The parent button It’s my younger son’s first birthday today. He has been given some amazing presents, most of which make various electronic noises and tunes when bits of them are pressed. It struck me that a lot of them don’t have an “off” button, or “parent button” as I call it. Some do, but many, like the... More
Listen As we are surrounded by more and more noise, we need to get better and better at listening. More
links for 2007-03-31 BBC NEWS | Technology | IBM helps blind ‘see’ web video Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments. Codenamed the Accessibility Browser – or A-Browser – the software was created by a blind employee in Japan. (tags: accessibility web multimedia... More
links for 2007-03-29 BBC NEWS | UK | British architect wins top prize (tags: richardrogers architecture maybeonedaytheyllgetit design) More
links for 2007-03-24 How to Stop Bullying on Squidoo “The aim of this lens is to become the most informative anti-bullying resource on the net.” (tags: bullying squidoo) evolt.org – Browser Archive Includes standalone Internet Explorer for Windows, versions dating back to 3.0 so web designers can test their sites even if they’ve upgraded to e.g. IE7 (tags:... More
Ad nonsense Listening to Xfm on my phone on the bus on the way home from work on Thursday night and an ad came on that went something like this: Imagine a world where we all watched one TV channel. Imagine a world where we all read just one newspaper. Imagine a world where we all used... More
links for 2007-03-17 Helvetica I can’t wait to see this. “Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger c (tags: fonts helvetica typography design film) More
links for 2007-03-15 nigelpaine.com – Blog – Tuesday 7am Good reasons to run… in case you need some… fron Nigel P. (tags: nigelpaine running inspiration) More