hmm, gotta blog this before I write up the entity relationship diagram for my databases project 
Did you know the creator and illustrator of The Simpsons did an apple booklet back in 1989 targeted at students without computers…neither did I (until a few days ago anyway)
Wonder if there were any decent movies you missed last year? This page has a round-up of all of the movies worth giving any time too (and some that definitely aren't).
It is actually a list of critic's top ten lists of 2004, this is a lovely idea but the best is yet to come.
At the bottom of the page is a large histogram, with all of the movies vs where they appeared on each list. This means there is an immediately visible, obvious show of which movies are worth getting or not. Certainly found a couple which i hadn’t heard of to add to my shopping list 
Wow…I am so glad it never gets THAT cold here…that kind of weather makes for some fantastic ice photography though.
Most people regard television as largely free, apart from license fees, commercials etc…interestingly enough the television industry has been notably quiet about people downloading their programs.
While the music, movie and software producers are shouting and screaming and throwing lawsuits everywhere, Television producers has been looking to change their business model, look at what people want and attempt to provide it…for a price.
This article takes a look at the revolution of on demand television, although doesn’t really say much that is new, it is refreshing to see an industry that doesn’t think it can solve all of its problems by suing its customers.
Also the graphic at the top showing the most downloaded TVeps is quite interesting, Simpson’s (300+eps) and the long-canceled family guy (40eps or so) are the top two…why wont someone bring back family guy!
^ It is only a matter of time…but this isn’t about that…
Cyberspace may even be an altered state of consciousness, a dreamlike world, that addresses a basic human need to experience oneself and reality from a different perspective. It is psychological space that becomes an extension of one's conscious and unconscious mind . We could even imagine the global network that comprises the whole internet as a larger transcending mind or "self" which reflects the evolution of human consciousness. The first conscious machine maybe not come as a stand-alone HAL 9000, but as the internet-mind. A grandiose, but conceivable thought!
Much as I loath the term 'cyberspace' this is actually a pretty interesting html book. It looks at all sorts of areas of the internet and analysis the people who occupy those areas…If only I had the time (and patience) to read it all.
Well, this is a blogging staple I hadn’t discovered until now…but really is great fun.
A page where a community of bloggers post bits of conversations they overhear while wandering around NYC. Some absolute classics here…
Him: You know what I'm saying, because I was all "you know what I'm saying", you know what I'm saying?
Her: I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Flygirl #1: My brother was like mad drunk when his lady went into labor. He was gonna beat up these guys that were messing with our little brother, but he didn't have his gun. He passed out but his friend got his ass to the hospital.
Flygirl #2: He gonna be such a good daddy.
Flygirl #1: Yeah.
British Woman: So, what's the purpose of the Empire State Building again?
British Man: It's a sign of American power.
This is a pretty cool project, using these 18yr old Mac Classics as a display and the equally defunked Hypercard programming language to create the material.
As the artist muses, most people who use technology in art are preoccupied by the latest and most impressive. He is exploring machines which the creators never dreamed would be used for any kind of art.
This is (part of) the impressive sounding Picture of Everything, where someone has spent months or possibly years trying to draw a picture which contains just about every symbol, every character, robot, spaceship, icon into this huge picture. Kudos for effort, shame the artist isn’t actually that good at drawing, but hey…its a bigger and more detailed picture than most artists will ever draw.
Nicely presented too, the picture zooms in as you click until you get down to the nitty gritty, where there is a flash overlay explaining what/who each part is.
This is pretty cool…it all started when someone posted a picture of their cat looking at a flower on an apple forum, another guy posted a picture of his cat regarding the cat on screen. This quickly became the infinite cat project where people send in pictures of their cats looking at the last cat, looking at the cat before, looking at the…you get it.
Interesting to see how cats mimic monitors, seen a couple of pristine white cats matched with apple studio displays, black cats and dell monitors, farm cats and grey monitors etc…
Some have attempted to paint copyright piracy as a victimless crime, arguing that "if I make a copy of a computer program, you still get to keep your copy, and we are both better off." This is hardly the case.
Reducing piracy offers direct benefits. The equation is a basic one: the lower the piracy rate, the larger the IT sector and the greater the benefits.
Some have commented that this statement could be applied to pretty much any industry, and that the only thing that copyright sharing is doing is keeping the sector small. Is this necessarily a bad thing?
This page is a nice parade of the statement where the writer rephrases it to apply to other sectors of the market, same words and meaning although suddenly they don’t seem to apply…
Some have attempted to paint printing as a victimless crime, arguing that "if I print a book, you can buy it from me, and we are both better off." This is hardly the case.
Reducing printing offers direct benefits. The equation is a basic one: the lower the printing rate, the larger the scribes and bards sector, and the greater the benefits.
Some have attempted to paint tooth-brushing as a victimless crime, arguing that "if you brush your teeth regularly, you improve your dental hygiene, and we are all better off." This is hardly the case.
Reducing tooth-brushing offers direct benefits. The equation is a basic one: the lower the rate of tooth-brushing, the larger the dental prosthetic, dental filling, and dental surgical equipment sectors, and the greater the benefits.
Can ya see where he is going with this?
In the 50's, the US government did lots of experiments with LSD, to determine if it was useful, dangerous, entertaining etc…
One of the more visual experiments they did was to get an artist to take some acid, then draw pictures of what he was experiencing as it kicked in. These 9 images show the progression and subsistence of the drug in the artists mind. The above image was drawn 2hrs 45mins into the test, shortly before the artist tried to climb into the box with all of the drawing materials.
Firefox made the cover of wired…not quite Time magazine but thats still yet to come. The photo is of firefox creator Blake Ross, looking sharp and holding a glass firefox icon (now that is cool…)
also, just to keep everyone up to date, firefox hit 20 million (estimated) downloads last week…
This could shake up the monopoly. Google is set to launch a new VOIP (voice over internet protocol) service in the UK. Best thing about it is that it will be free!
Now all they need to do is make google phones and they're set to be a telecom company…hmm
I guess most people want to be tall, but for those who aren't there are different ways of asserting authority…such as building (or photographing) really tall buildings.
This is a pretty well put together site, although I am not positive but i am convinced it is missing a few buildings around the world (that huge one in Indonesia perhaps), not only that most of the buildings it shows haven’t even been built yet…
…still nice photography though
