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This picture of the open pit gold-copper Cadia mine in Australia is awesome.
January at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2010 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
paulcarvill.com
Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.
Archive for January, 2010
links for 2010-01-22
Friday, January 22nd, 2010links for 2010-01-21
Thursday, January 21st, 2010-
"It's re-use of data in new – and often unexpected – ways that creates both social value and opportunities for economic growth. It's not our job to say where data might be useful; it's our job to unleash it and allow businesses and independent developers to build innovative services which they can then deliver to users. That's the story of technology through the years – and the way the World Wide Web itself has grown over the last twenty years."
links for 2010-01-20
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010-
"The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take."
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USA VS. JAPAN TASTE BATTLE!!
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iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers created by a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.
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Everything Panic have ever made
links for 2010-01-19
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010-
Nice web design agency site utilizing some nifty new CSS techniques.
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"Exploration of Beatles music through infographics (ongoing project): These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings."
They are also beautiful, expressive and full of rich meaning and musical insight. Fantastic.
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Firediff is a Firebug extension that tracks changes to a pages DOM and CSS.
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"In just over a week the new Four Tet album 'There Is Love In You' will be released. If you want to check it out before it's in the shops I have put it up to stream on Soundcloud and will leave it up there for the next week:
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"jQuery Lint is a simple script you can download and use with jQuery. It works over the top of jQuery and diligently reports errors and any incorrect usage of jQuery. It will also, to some extent, offer guidance on best practices and performance concerns."
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I don't write Ruby, but this site makes me want to investigate more
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Search and filter console games scores and reviews
links for 2010-01-18
Monday, January 18th, 2010-
Is this the smoking gun in Michael Haneke's Cache? Roger Ebert calls it "a mesmerising puzzle."
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The No-Look Pass, the “Elastico” and the “Espaldinha". Benji Lanyado on the latest signature moves in football.
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"Being gay in India might no longer invite trouble with the police and the threat of 10 years in jail, but in a country still built around the institution of marriage it's a social disaster for most. "It is still very difficult and dark. You'll have to get a job where people accept you, because most places won't. Even supposedly open-minded people have double standards," says Varun, one of the few openly gay men here happy to talk to the media."
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"The historian and travel writer explains what prompted him to co-found the largest free literary festival in the world"
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"Bankers do not deserve bonuses this year, at least not in the Western world. And I don't say this from atop some moral or aesthetic or populist high horse. Instead, my arguments are mostly economic."
links for 2010-01-17
Sunday, January 17th, 2010-
Excellent selection of full length Hindi movies, songs and clips, grouped into playlists such as "Romantic Songs", "Hit Songs (Old)", "Action & Dialogue" etc. Check out the massively kitchsy, kooky and cool song on their index page, Jan Pehchan Ho — ''…from super hit Suspense Thriller Gumnaam"!
Tree command for Mac OS X
Saturday, January 16th, 2010This outputs a structured view of files and folder of the directory you execute it in:
find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'e.g.
. |____.git | |____branches | |____config | |____description | |____HEAD | |____hooks | | |____applypatch-msg.sample | | |____commit-msg.sample | | |____post-commit.sample | | |____post-receive.sample | | |____post-update.sample | | |____pre-applypatch.sample | | |____pre-commit.sample | | |____pre-rebase.sample | | |____prepare-commit-msg.sample | | |____update.sample | |____index | |____info | | |____exclude | |____objects | | |____info | | |____pack | |____refs | | |____heads | | |____tags |____CHANGELOG.txt |____COPYRIGHT.txt |____cron.php |____includes | |____actions.inc | |____batch.inc | |____bootstrap.inc | |____cache-install.inc | |____cache.inc | |____common.inc | |____database.inc | |____database.mysql-common.inc | |____database.mysql.inc | |____database.mysqli.inc | |____database.pgsql.inc | |____file.inc | |____form.inc | |____image.gd.inc | |____image.inc | |____install.inc | |____install.mysql.inc | |____install.mysqli.inc | |____install.pgsql.inc ...
ls -R does something similar, but structured considerably differently.
links for 2010-01-15
Friday, January 15th, 2010-
John Kricfalusi certainly is gracious.
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Good little app for keeping track of a meeting agenda, and keeping track of time.
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"Goodbye Fancypants Agency. Hello Nosotros."
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How did i miss this — R.E.M Condiment Set? Binary Calculator? Consomme Fountain? Terry's Chocolate Orrery?
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Play about with some CSS3 styles
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Mental.
links for 2010-01-14
Thursday, January 14th, 2010-
Giles coren "does" climate change
links for 2010-01-12
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010-
"We're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer — all you need is an Internet connection.
Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. "
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"On Saturday, the New York Times posted an interactive map of Netflix rental patterns in 12 U.S. cities, broken down by ZIP code. The map is smartly designed and great fun to explore, yet what strikes you almost immediately is the lack of regional variation. The most-popular movies across each urban area are films that contended in last year's Oscars [...] But not all of the ZIPs are so boring."
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Sweet new MIA song/video
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"Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we can get in there."
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"In one sense, Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! is a truly exotic bit of esoterica — a game on the Columbia riots, printed back in 1969 in the pages of the Columbia Daily Spectator, and designed by James F. Dunnigan, one of the finest and most prolific designers of board wargames.
But in another sense, you can argue that it is a seminal title: Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! may well be the first commercial simulation game not on a military theme."
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"From early vinyl-desecrating experiments to world championship tournaments, turntablists have honed their techniques to become hip-hop's answer to the lead guitarist"
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"The capacity to listen, and other crucial human attributes, are being diminished by relentless technological expansion"
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"In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon, was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence. The area was a diplomatic black hole, the model of an anarchist society somehow allowed to grow organically without the aid of any government, existing somewhere outside of both British Hong Kong and China."