Links (11,732 links)

Exhibitions, events and other interesting things in London.

For this short project I wanted to photograph the cubic shape of the open-front stalls, shops and spaces in and around the market in On-Nut in Bangkok, Thailand. I was interested in the fact that each one looks like a miniature theatre production with the actors on stage and the scene lit from above.

"teepay is a place where you can buy, design and make money from T-shirts". Started by howies.

a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."

It will help you find shows that others have not only watched, but are talking about. Hopefully it'll throw up a few hidden gems. People's interest, attention and engagement with shows are more important to Shownar than viewing figures; the audience size of a documentary on BBC FOUR, for instance, will never approach that of EastEnders, but if that documentary sparks a lot of interest and comment - even discussion - we want to highlight it.

Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It’s an experimental prototype we’ve designed and built for the BBC over the last few months

Tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype.

At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative browsing devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone.

Bicing recently launched a mobile application that consumers can use to get location-based information about bicycle and parking availability. Residents of Barcelona use Bicing by applying for a personal card and then using that card to rent and pay for use of one of the service's 6,000 bicycles. Bicycles can be picked up from and returned to any of 400 stations throughout the city.

Farm, cafe and park all rolled up.

Grazing lunch options in Noho.

ScotRail’s Caledonian Sleepers... overnight train services operating between London Euston & Scotland.

We're building a service to help people make their own newspapers.

Another brilliant talk from Matt Webb.

Bandstand Busking

“There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? …well we hadn’t so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.”

Google hops on the performance bandwagon. Should be interesting.

"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.

"Software engineers today are about 200-400% more productive than software engineers were 10 years ago because of open source software, better programming tools, common libraries, easier access to information, better education, and other factors. This means that one engineer today can do what 3-5 people did in 1999." And so say all of us.

Here’s my thesis: As a profession, we do a lot more software maintenance than we do greenfield development. And it’s at the maintenance end where TDD really pays off. I’m starting to see lapses from the TDD credo as more and more forgivable the closer you are to the beginning of a project. And conversely, entirely abhorrent while in maintenance mode.

An independent radio promotions company based in East London.

Jasuto

“The first truly modular synthesizer for the iPhone”

Stephen Bayley’s opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks

“The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate” between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles’s unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers’ dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass.“

"The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate" between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles's unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers' dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass."

RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.

The first truly modular synthesizer for the iPhone

An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.

A light, portable and eco friendly laptop stand.

"There are a number of misconceptions about CSS Sprites, the main one being that they have no downsides." Memory usage.

Makes spriting easy.

A walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK. It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed, and all you need really is a MobileConfig file, which is essentially what O2 wants to charge you for £15 min per month

Interactive map that shows the births, marriages and deaths of the digital design industry of London across the past 10 years

Hubba-hubba.

Custom M&M's. Feels like we've done the custom sweets to death already but you never know.

ASCII-O-Matic : SUBPOP RECS

New Sub Pop sampler. Handsome Furs, Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords and more, with an Angelfire circa 1997 design.

This post explains how, if I didn’t have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate right now, I would get YSlow failing builds.

Where this is all going is that the bigger and sandboxier games get, the more it is possible to play cat and mouse with the developers - to see if they have anticipated a particular response to stimuli, or whether unexpected actions can have a positive effect on gameplay - cheating without cheating, in effect.

Explore London on foot with our suggestions for some great capital walks, including riverside rambles, architectural adventures, even the odd pub crawl.

An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you.

Steve Jobs’ farts (stevejobsfarts) on Twitter

“The Twitter Apple fanatics everywhere have been waiting for. Updated in real time.”

Makes working with SWFUpload easier

What is a monome? Monomes are fun to watch, but what is actually going on?

"Gain a unique insight into the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition this year with the Academy’s first official iPhone Application." £2.99, mind.

The most distinctive feature of GPS MapCard is that it can display a photo and a map on the same screen and shows an address based on its coordinates. Additionally, it displays date & time and a user comment as well on the map.