Links from 2009

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.

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

This Noble Art. Society of Revisionist Typographers. Letterpress. Printers & Purveyors of Typographic Design

TextMate is dead. Long live TextMate. "In short, TextMate development is going strong: TextMate 2 isn’t done yet, but progress is steady, it is starting to take shape, and the end is in sight."

MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis.

New Type Records site. Nice.

The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing.

Graph mentions of any word on national U.S. television

Before working on this piece, I spent a lot of time listening to the track and album as I really wanted to immerse myself in the subtlety of the music and create a video that reflected my own emotional response.

Visual concepts developed as a response to repeat listening. I was then inspired to develop a new technique using expressions in After Effects. This technique allows me to create markers in the audio track which can influence pretty much any effect or property of the visuals.

"Hit the snooze button on your "verbose" Twitter friends." Worth reading the details before use.

"While working on the Odeo relaunch, we kept running into a frustrating problem: When we saved out the slices, the awesome Odeo pink flattened to a dreary "light coral". I'd seen the problem before, but never so pronounced: The color, through no fault of its own, was obviously changing, and we were at a loss for a way to prevent this."

Why Photoshop color changes washes out lightens darkens unsaturates desaturates fades when Save for Web, Jump To, Edit In ImageReady Photoshop, or posted on the www internet, on the monitor display screen or on the printed inkjet laser print.

Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.

The Book Seer

“Excuse me, I’ve just finished reading \_ by \_. What should I read next?”

A design, technology and marketing consultancy, with specific expertise in planning and producing web, film, mobile and new media projects for clients in publishing, business, and the arts.

Talk from Matt Jones. Spimes!