Big Ben is wrong! It’s not often I witness this, so thought it worth writing about. I just cycled home from central London and checked my watch against the time on ‘Big Ben’ and noticed one of us was one hour out. I didn’t stick around to see if Big Ben has actually (been) stopped at 12 o’clock. I... More
links for 2005-10-27 Damn cool illusion Dotty optical illusion (tags: illusion) W3C Semantic Web Not Web 2.0 ” The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.” (tags: semanticweb web w3c) More
links for 2005-10-26 Communicating – Forbes.com Articles by and interviews with some key thinkers (tags: communication) Crossroads Films Presents: The Speechalist “When people hear the President speak — frankly, they think he’s really stupid … but there is a genius behind the stupidity. And that genius is Harlan McCraney” Thanks to Paul H for this one. (tags: bush... More
links for 2005-10-25 A List Apart: Articles: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign (tags: design) BBC NEWS | Technology | Music site inspires remix culture “Soundjunction, created by the UK’s Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, lets people explore jazz, west African, and western classical.” (tags: music onlinelearning bbcnews) More
links for 2005-10-24 John Battelle’s Searchblog: $94, er, $106 Billion Google’s gazillions (tags: google market growth business companies) More
Two things I’m doing to declutter Using a shredder. It’s very cathartic! Regularly transferring my ideas and actions from my PocketMod and emailing them to myself. PocketMod, my new PDA! More
links for 2005-10-22 Flock Follow the nerd herd (tags: flock socialsoftware bookmarks blogs browser) More
links for 2005-10-21 Google Privacy Center: Privacy Policy Film Showtimes – Google Search Cinemas and times of films showing near East Dulwich (tags: SE22 cinemas movies films eastdulwich London) More
links for 2005-10-18 Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Jakob Nielsen continues to win friends and influence people 😉 (tags: jakobnielsen blogs alertbox usability mistakes) east dulwich :: gada.be New find thing – this example brings back results for East Dulwich (tags: search metasearch rss broker) About Us :: gada.be “It’s a metasearch service,... More
What’s a great question? If someone says “That’s a great question” – is that because they have an answer to it or because it’s a great question? [Edit] I should clarify… I was thinking of interviews I’ve heard on the radio or seen on tv. I can’t remember hearing or seeing an interviewee say “Now that’s a great question”... More