Archive for February, 2006

Vanishing Dots, Uxbridge Monsters

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Vanishing dots - because everyone loves a good optical illusion (blocked by some proxies)

Monsters of Uxbridge - amazing photographs of Uxbridge’s concrete edifices reflected and reassembled into bizarre Transformer-esqe monsters

Cargo Cults, Lightbulbs, Sponsored Tube

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

An interesting article on Cargo Cults from the Smithsonian Magazine

Ban the Bulb

Yet another Underground map: the Sponsored Tube Map

Skype

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Just to let everyone know that I am contactable via Skype.

If you have a computer, a broadband connection and a headset of some sort (or speaker & mic), you should be able to call me free of charge - just download the software and look me up - just search for my name. If you can’t find me, send me an email and I’ll let you know my Skype username.

While Skype is closed-source and therefore evil, it does look like it might be the winner in the battle for free voice over IP services in the future. It even has a revenue stream in the form of SkypeOut and SkypeIn, features which allow Skype users to call real land-lines, and vice-versa - for a fee, obviously.

Telemarketing, Pixel Games, 3D rooms

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Get your revenge on cold-callers by

Mini-games - classic games reinterpreted for those with 18×18 pixel screens

3D Rooms

Night photography, touch screens, web design

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Night Photography using floodlights

Next-generation touch-screens with an amazing video demo (Quicktime)

Current Web Design Styles

Degrees, Eggs, Underground music

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Degrees of separation between Wikipedia articles

Ruth Kelly pelted with eggs as she turns up to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of pelting her with eggs

Musical London Underground Map [pdf]