Links from 2007

Steven Poole: Trigger Happier

Steven Poole is giving away his book Trigger Happy as a DRM-free PDF.

Trigger Happy is a book about the aesthetics of videogames — what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics.

(reblogged from headlessness)

Suburban Home Records, when faced with the complexity and unpredictability of online consumer behaviour, have thrown their hands up and said ‘Oh go on… just download the album already’.

A new domain, even for many of the world's largest brands, is not a particularly good idea.

Chris Heilmann's presentation and notes from @mediaAjax.

Some people are naturally wide, some people are naturally deep. But the assumption is, in most business contexts, that you can — and should want to — jump between the two as the need or situation dictates. But this is a load of crap.

New TV spots for World of Warcraft

“I’m William Shatner and I’m a shaman”

IE on Mac using Wine. Not sure how useful this is without testing.

or why I won't, until the money runs out...

Testing your design in all the different email clients out there has got to be the most frustrating and time consuming parts of sending email campaigns. Our design and spam testing tool changes all that.

General purpose utility for Mac OS X

A systematic analysis of the 100 most popular applications - those that have at least 1million users - in an attempt to get a better grasp on favoured activities that take place in this global playground.

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him…

— Ask MetaFilter, So this consultant walks into a bar…\_

‘Everybody is happy now’ | Guardian Unlimited Books

Margaret Atwood on Huxley’s Brave New World.

I’m asking publicly, and hoping these folks will show up here to give me their answers: What is it about CSS frameworks that bothers you?

Did someone go out of their way to help you? Is a web site being particularly slow and flaky? Make your feelings known with plusplusbot.

"This online marketing revolution is going to generate quite a lot of these creepy feelings. We're going to be wondering how companies know so much about us, why they're talking to us in such a familiar way and how come they get everything just slightly w

His fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means they want to interact with him all day long online.

The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.

Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.

Sums up the writer’s strike nicely; Winter of our dissed content.

RCRD LBL

“A network of ad-supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music streams and downloads from emerging and established artists.” Labels include Warp and Kompakt.

A few years back I used to have a strong dislike of TCFTS(IST). This is great, though.

Launching applications and documents is just Quicksilver's gateway drug: The more you get used to doing things with Quicksilver, the more things you want to do with it.

Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked.

Connecting audio... from any OS X application, to any OS X application

The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.

Do something with a group, but only when you have the numbers to make it worthwhile.

For Mac users who want a simpler way to stay organized and get things done.

Smart favicon creator.

"The 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective."

Via Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

Two Radiohead/Adam Buxton videos in a row? I know, but this works so well.

Must buy helmet cam.

Radiohead and Adam Buxton together at last.

One of the best presentations I’ve seen; Jared Spool’s The Dawning of the Age Of Experience at dConstruct 2007.

Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.

New and interesting websites from around the internet that may be of use to independent musicians and the music business.

Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.

Extension of big red angry text but c'mon... CSS expressions? Evil!