I knew I should have planned an archiving system when I started this...
September 30th: The Wired Magazine Phrase Generator.
MSN's new web communities: ug-er-ly.
The Register now taking banner ads shocker.
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September 29th: I love the design and useability of Take It Offline. I have started a test discussion (about rumours of a _second_ Channel Tunnel) to see how it copes. I'd be interested to know what other folks think.
I'll declare my vote now: Ken Livingstone for Mayor of London!
Join the campaign to get Peter Gabriel to grow his hair back.
Headline: Cash strapped student has no regrets after setting fire to penis.
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September 28th: Free map of the UK, courtesy of the Ordnance Survey. Warning: big GIF file.
It's depressing to see how many Slashdotters are clearly in a lot of pain because of computers. When is voice recognition software going to catch up?
Barry Parr on designing the web for people's mums: "Stick to big, obvious navigation ... leave links underlined and in the default colours ... and watch people flock to your site." I hate to sound cocky, but I've been advocating "mum-tests" for site navigation for years.
Calculator in your browser: verrry neat.
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September 27th: Oh, this is marvellous. The folks at STAND have outdone themselves.
New iMacs smaller and lighter than older ones.
Internet Magazine hypes up its new web site in the latest edition, but what do we get? A nonsense animated intro, updates once a month, and this kind of rubbish. Hopeless, completely hopeless.
"We are the party of e-commerce," says Labour. Well try searching for "e-commerce" on its spanking new web site and see how many hits you get. Sigh.
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September 24th: Nice page about Edinburgh.
Andrew expands on the Pitas idea with a new service called Diaryland. I've said it before: Geocities, Tripod etc should be implementing services like these for their members right now.
Quite a radical design for the new Sony Memory Stick Walkman. I love the idea of Memory Sticks. So simple.
Stephen Baxter writes a brief piece for Amazon UK about his new novel, Time. I have read most of his back catalogue this summer, and I'm looking forward to this one coming out in paperback.
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September 23rd: Clay Shirky's open letter to Microsoft: "I tried to give you some of my money last weekend, but you wouldn't let me." (Reproduced here with Clay's permission.)
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September 22nd: An insanely detailed index of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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September 21st: Just found Attrition's "media errata" page, which picks up various journos (including me) for their lax reporting on Net security issues.
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September 20th: Arrghh! It's hideous! Take it away from me! Nooo! etc...
An amusing message of support for granny-spy Melita Norwood, which appeared on the hacked www.lic.gov.uk site.
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September 17th: Yikes. Big hoo-haa in hacking land. Strikes me the Attrition people have a pretty sound defence here.
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September 16th: Free picture scanning. Surely there's a catch?
... Big clear-out of bookmarks folder today, so here's a job-lot of oldies:
Everything you ever wanted to know about forms.
Towards a European Framework for Digital Signatures and Encryption (European Parliament document).
Lindkvist does great e-cards.
Links to over 100 architecture magazines.
The home page Cait asks people not to bookmark.
Andrew Wiseman's 625.
Phew. Glad I got that lot out of the way. Going through old bookmarks was a bit nostalgic. Although I was surprised at the number of pages that are still there, two years or more after I last looked at them, it was also a shame to see some fondly-remembered ones had vanished - what ever happened to Denounce? To Jim McClellan's excellent cyberculture columns?
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September 15th: Very large, but very impressive, jpg satellite image of Hurricane Floyd approaching Florida.
More hurricane stuff from Weather Underground. Is there weather underground then?
The sad story of the death of a Mac.
Matt's excellent fridge poetry. This one made me laugh lots.
Sega Dreamcast browser is crap shock! Doesn't support JavaScript horror!
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September 14th: Amusing Drudge Report hack, mirrored for your browsing convenience.
Everything about Visor - except UK prices and release dates.
Type with your thumbs! This is bonkers.
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September 13th: Emily Bell, in the Observer, gives Blair's e-policy a kick where it should hurt.
I'm quite pleased to see that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a text-only site - but it's amusing the way it is designed to emulate the layout of the graphical site. Wouldn't all those tables defeat some text-only browsers?
The new UK government e-envoy's personal homepage. I quite like it, actually. Here's Tony Blair announcing his appointment, and doing the PR-stunt thing of saying he can't use computers and will sign up for a training course himself. Only a half-day one, though.
The government's e-commerce report, published today (PDF file).
Riverisland.com - another brilliant example a of an over-Flashed, corporate waffle extravaganza, with no shopping. When will these people ever learn?
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September 10th: Gay or Eurotrash? Play the game. Who said political correctness had taken over?
NASA: "The first human to set foot on Mars is probably alive today."
David Litchfield posts this very readable, and quite scary, scenario for a Win2000 backdoor to Bugtraq.
Some nice web growth numbers.
Does anyone else think the whatsnew.com domain is being put to a frightful waste at the moment?
A whole bunch of links and info about the crisis in East Timor, which arrived in my inbox via Nettime.
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September 8th: Power Mac G4 and Pentium III machines compared - guess which wins.
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September 2nd: Michael Schmacher is not coming back to F1 for at least another two races.
Billy Bragg interview in the Guardian: he drives a 4WD, says his singing voice is bad, and believes we are alone in the Universe. I bought his new B-sides compilation the other day, it's excellent.
PalmPilot co-creator Jeff Hawkins writes a brief piece about computer design.
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September 1st: If anyone finds a web site worse than this, which treats users in an even more contemptuous manner, please let me know.
A new 3-D look for Lemmings?
