Matt Jones

Archive for November, 2004

List of BBC Radio Streams

List of BBC Radio Streams
Useful if you want to avoid the cumbersome BBC Radio Player

Atmospheric Optics

Atmospheric Optics
“Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles – rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more.”

In the Beginning was the Command Line

In the Beginning was the Command Line
Author Neal Stephenson on the business of Operating Systems. This piece is a few years old now and pre-dates OS X, but it’s still interesting… if you’re a geek. I must admit I haven’t quite got through it all yet though.

Slashdot thread on Paul Greengrass Directing Watchmen

Slashdot thread on Paul Greengrass Directing Watchmen
Originally, it was going to be Darren Aronofsky in the director’s chair. According to one /. poster, Terry Gilliam turned it down because he didn’t want to be the one to screw up Alan Moore’s masterpiece.

BBC Runs Out of News

BBC Runs Out of News
Resorts to publishing items about Vanilla Ice and his missing pets.

Submit Response Radio Podcast

Submit Response Radio Podcast
With a browser friendly RSS feed. Excellent.

The Grey Video

The Grey Video
(Quicktime) Video mashup of Dangermouse’s “Encore”. Worth it just to see Ringo’s turntable skillz.

The Beautiful Game

The Beautiful Game…
…got decidedly ugly last night.

The Man Behind the Fedex Logo

The Man Behind the Fedex Logo
The hidden arrow is very clever

Dragon Optical Illusion

Dragon Optical Illusion
I can assure you that the video will be the freakiest thing you’ll see all day.

In Business

Siteswap Design is my new business oriented site. I designed the site earlier in the year, but it’s only now that I can put my resources into launching it.

If the weblog looks familiar, it’s using the same database as Helium-3. This is only a temporary arrangement as I make improvements to the code over the next few days.

Siteswap notation is a way of describing complex juggling patterns. Not that I can do any of them but I thought it had a nice ring to it.

Firefox 1.0 Launches

Firefox 1.0 Launches
Now there are no excuses for continuing to use IE

Rhizome RSS Feeds

Rhizome RSS Feeds

Four More Years

On BBC Radio 4 this morning, Simon Schama called the voter turn-out in the U.S. Presidential Election a ‘rebirth of American democracy’ . It’s a kick in the face for the Democrats, then, that such a rebirth has seemingly resulted in a decisive win for Bush. It’s a sad day for America and the world.

Wikipedia Coverage of the US Election

Harsh Words from Apple

If you buy into a proprietary platform where the music industry gets a veto, you’re scr0d. Every time you buy an iPod, you are financing legal and technical countermeasures aimed at taking away legitimate features that enable you to do more with your lawfully acquired music and hardware.

Cory Doctorow > Apple to iPod owners: “Eat sh*t and die”

I tend to agree.