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BBC NEWS | Pol­i­tics | Shops may take ID card bio­met­rics ‘Supermarkets could be asked to take people’s fin­ger­prints as part of the government’s iden­tity card scheme.’ What. The. Fuck? Barack Obama: How He Did It Fas­ci­nat­ing, some­times gos­sipy behind-​the-​scenes look at the Pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. The fact that the reporters ‘were granted year-​long access on the con­di­tion that none of their find­ings appear until after Elec­tion Day’ is pretty dubi­ous, though. Pod­cast Down­load­ing Con­firmed in iPhone Firmware 2.2 | TheAp­ple­Blog Cool. (For some reason I’ve got really into lis­ten­ing to...

WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7 Looking good. Shepard Tones "The "sonic barberpole" illusion invented by psychologist Roger Shepard at Bell Labs. The illusion consists of a seemingly endlessly rising or falling set of tones. The trick is done by simultaneously sweeping eight (or so) pure tones (i.e., sine waves) tuned exactly one octave apart. The human ear/brain has a really hard time figuring out which pure tone is the fundamental, so it "slips" periodically, just like an eye watching a barberpole (or looking at an Escher staircase)." Five Things You May not Know About NetNewsWire: NewsGator Widget Blog The screenshots of old versions are making me all nostalgic. Griffin Technology: iTalk Sync Free audio recorder for iPhone. (It...

Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker Ekow Eshun and the ICA’s death blow to live art | Stage | guardian.co.uk Readdle — iPhone book reader and file storage ‘A.I.Disk is an elegant solution to access files on your MobileMe iDisk, save them to the iPhone or iPod Touch, read on the go and even email to friends.’ Definitely the best way to get files onto the iPhone and then email them, but it’s still complicated (and expensive) compared to just sending the file over Bluetooth, which you can do with pretty much every other ‘phone in the world. reQall Interesting app that lets you record voice notes on your iPhone which are then transcribed to text files which are synced to the web app or Firefox extension/turned into reminder emails...

Subterranean Homesick Blues Encoded I’m horrified to admit that this made me laugh. Evernote API Overview | Evernote Corporation This should allow for some cool stuff. Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Web Inspector Redesign Splendid. iPhone Developer Program ‘We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.’ As a user, does this mean the developers who have made apps that can email files will tell all their freinds how to do it? Hope so. Mackerel Economics in Prison Leads to Appreciation for Oily Fillets Sha Na Na and the Invention of the Fifties London A-Z In iPhone form. Searchable, shows current location, generally looks quite slick, and you don’t need to be online to use it (which, since I drain my battery using Google...

John Harris on council housing and the consequences of Right to Buy | Society | The Guardian Get More Out of Google Analytics Griffin Technology: AirCurve ‘AirCurve looks like a simple, elegantly minimal stand for your iPhone. But inside is a cleverly designed coiled waveguide that collects the sound from the built-in speaker of your iPhone, amplifies it, and projects it into the room.’ languagehat.com: WHAT. Caravan - Your home folder on the go FTP client for iPhone. Shame it doesn't let you email files from the ‘Phone as well (my personal holy grail feature). Pork barrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hyperwords Company Interesting Firefox add-on that lets you highlight text on a web page and do stuff with it - search, translate, convert currency,......

Ever since I bought my lovely iPhone 3G, I’ve only really missed one thing about my Nokia N95: the ability to easily put files on the ‘phone, so that I can email them later. I don’t need to do this often, but when I do it tends to be quite important, in a ‘copy is missing, and it’s half past four on the day before it’s due to run’ sort of a way. At long bloody last, this bog standard feature has arrived courtesy of TextGuru. The app has garnered quite a bit of attention thanks to it being a rather well-designed, easy to use text editor, one that includes the holy grail of missing iPhone features: cut and paste. I’m not terribly excited by the text editing features, to be honest—if I want to write and edit text, I’ll do it on...

waffle → Cr-24 ‘Google Chrome is a funny creature.’ The UI sounds kind of interesting. Shame there’s no Mac or Linux version as yet. Flickr: iPhone Cubism Interesting iPhone camera glitch. Not happened to me as yet. Fantastic Journal: The 1:43 Scale Atrocity Exhibition. Dropbox Review: Easy Backup, Sync and Sharing | position: absoluteI’ve been using it for a while now, and it really is a brilliant way of keeping stuff in sync between various computers and out on the web. (No more subversion for me, in other words.) TUAW Faceoff: Nike + iPod versus iPhone 3G ChallengersComparison of the various GPS tracking apps for the iPhone, for folk who are either improving their fitness or, like me, have a strange desire to look at where they just went on their bike on...

Flickr: National Media Museum’s Photostream The National Media Museum at Bradford has joined the Flickr Commons project. Includes some fantastic spirit photography. BBC - Reading and Leeds Festivals 2008 - Seasick Steve There’s tons of footage from Reading and Leeds here, but Seasick Steve is the only one I fancy watching. Order and Action Streams - Fine Structure Cool stuff like this almost makes me want to switch back to Movable Type from Wordpress. Don’t think I’ll ever shake the memory of how totally horrible it used to be back in the 1.x and 2.x days, though. My personal homepage, as they used to be called, and my Work weblog are both powered by MT, and it’s certainly hugely improved over the last few years - the template tag system is easy to grasp...

Getting things done (simply) in Leopard | Dennis Best "Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch:" The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry URL as UI LW ORIGIN Interview about loopwheel machines, which make lovely comfy sweatshirts. mythologicalobjects - Mythological Objects by Christolina Minaret I’m starting to think I’m not clever enough to play this game… shorttermmemoryloss.com Nice homepage design. Nationwide iPhone shortage reported; 3G model soon? | One More Thing - CNET News.com Hope so - I’m teetering on the brink of getting an iPhone, 3G would tip me right over. Twitter / rabbitchaser: Hoping Slice has her phone … Hmmn. Avant Game: The Lost Ring - the alternate reality game for the 2008 Olympics 60% of Editors Blog...

ZiPhone’s Blog Another iPhone unlocker thing. site:thingsmagazine.net "a weblog" - Google SearchThings is a reliable source of good sites, so I sometimes do this search to catch up on their recently recommended weblogs. Ten Radical Moments In 20th Century Art TapeOp.com“The creative music recording magazine” The Medical Messiahs "The 1966 edition of this book described the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s."...

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