As Above : Changing Colour With The Clouds

Recently listened to:
It Makes The Room Look Bigger Half Man Half Biscuit
Idiot Brother The Auteurs
Turn The Lights Out When I Die Puressence
The Man Who Sold The World David Bowie
Computer Alphabet Automata
Why Vandalism? RiffTrax
Best Friend on the Payroll Morrissey
Lost Property The Divine Comedy
Courage (2008/08/13) Mark Watson - Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better - S02E01
Epitaph For My Heart The Magnetic Fields

Thursday the Twenty-Eighth of August

Project Euler

"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems." (filed under: maths programming puzzles)

Glanced at: Three Ages + Paris qui dort | BFI • Chartjunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • How to Read | Copyblogger • Bloggerheads (UK) - Julie Moult is an idiot • Nihilogic: WolfenFlickr 3D - An unlikely mashup • BBC NEWS | England | Shropshire | Man's 'pants' password is changed

Wednesday the Twentieth

Zaratustra Productions - Omniludicon: OmniLudiCon Intro

Build and share single-level puzzle games, made by combining and mutating the ludemes from retro videogames. Impressive how many genres you can mimic using only a few simple mutation vectors. (filed under: games meta mutation design)

Glanced at: Get Lost - Games - E4.com • Zaratustra Productions - Omniludicon: Brogger • Zaratustra Productions - Omniludicon: Cheezburgr Tiem • Parlett: Incompleat Gamester: "What's a ludeme?"

Tuesday the Nineteenth

Games Without Frontiers: Fun Way to Lose Weight: Turn Dieting Into an RPG

"As I watched her poke around on the screen, managing inventory, calculating points, staying within her range, it hit me: Weight Watchers is an RPG." (filed under: games food psychology)

Glanced at: Bad Science >> My Placebo programme on BBC Radio 4 • Sanctuary of Fear (1979) (TV) • Annals of Crime: The Chameleon: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker • Sci-Fi News Generator - 24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy • Tonight's Episode archive • Subwoofer Tactics on Vimeo • Strokeweight: Writing with fruit and Dunsany on Vimeo • BBC NEWS | Magazine | Putting percentages in context • GamesCrafters • Ernest W. Adams - The No Twinkie Database! • Giant beach items in Rimini - Telegraph • Team Fortress 2 - A Heavy Update

Thursday the Fourteenth

PigeonBlog

"PigeonBlog enlists homing pigeons to participate in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public." (filed under: pigeons air pollution technology gps)

Glanced at: "Mallory" by Leonard Richardson

Sunday the Third

Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon - washingtonpost.com

"With records of 30 billion [MSN] conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation." (filed under: society science emergence) (via: waxy)

Tuesday the Twenty-Ninth of July

Aza’s Thoughts >> Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use

Using Javascript to examine visited-link colours and probe your browser history, a bit unnervingly. "We can use this information to only display one or two badges that we know the reader uses. It solves the which-badges-to-display problem." (filed under: web hacking) (via: lmg)

Glanced at: infinite_motivational_poster.gif (GIF Image, 750x600 pixels) • video • reinvigorate // measure. analyze. evolve. • Nintendo DS does geopositioning with WiFi - Engadget • Lost Garden: Soul Bubbles: A classic game ill treated by expert reviewers • Bubble Ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • The Joy Of Co-Op | Rock, Paper, Shotgun • Mini-Microscope Could Lead to Cell-Sorting Implants | Wired Science from Wired.com • Cooking Horoscope on Russian Foods.com • GRAND THEFT AUTO: CHINATOWN WARS • 'Roadkill' Men's T-Shirt - Yes No Maybe | Fresh, Original, Urban Streetwear • NBC Lets Fans Create Own 'Heroes'

Monday the Twenty-Eighth

Serena Korda | Transport for London

"Working with groups and organisations, Korda has developed a series of crosswords that offer an alternative guide to Stanmore and reveal something of the knowledge, stories and specialisms of those encountered." (filed under: crosswords history london)

Glanced at: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes [entire documentary] • GOOD 008 - Transparency - Vampire Energy • Fire engulfs Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare | UK news | guardian.co.uk • Facebook 'stabbing' game removed following knife-crime complaints | Media | guardian.co.uk • BBC NEWS | Technology | Attacks begin on net address flaw • Gamasutra - The Indie Shooter Roundtable: Mak, Cho, And Omega Fire At Will • BulletML • New Design Tabbed Profile - Facebook Developers Wiki • New Design Tabbed Profile - Facebook Developers Wiki • Review: Venture Arctic - Can A Video Game Be Green? | Geekdad from Wired.com • How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life • My City My Body - Biological Interactions with and in the City - we make money not art

Wednesday the Twenty-Third

US advertising: McMorning Las Vegas, here's the news | Media | The Guardian

"The presenters conspicuously do not drink from the cups, which is just as well - the cups contain a bogus fluid and fake ice to prevent the cubes melting." (filed under: news advertising camrad)

QA Deathmatch - The SlickEdit Developer Blog

"If you find a bug, you score that bug’s severity level in damage. The person who owns that bug sustains that many points of damage." (filed under: programming games)

Glanced at: DeepFUN | Seven Ways to Make Almost Anything More Fun • SF0 / Mouse / Journey To The End Of The Night London • The Art of Deception Revealed | LiveScience • Gamasutra - Practical Fluid Dynamics: Part 2 • I-Fluid | Rock, Paper, Shotgun • Last year I killed a man | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health

Friday the Eighteenth

Ludocity - a ruleset wiki for pervasive gaming and new sports

A new project, with Holly, to fill a gap in the movement - a site for pervasive game rulesets, all released under creative commons licences. A place to write them, to discuss them and to find somewhere and someone to play them. (filed under: creations pervasive games wikis)

Euromyths - Keyword index

The European Commission's catalogue of tabloid nonsense. "Euromyths are scare stories based on hearsay, rumours and half-truths, many of which have been repeated so often that they have become accepted truths within the public and media consciousness." (filed under: news lies law) (via: catriona)

Glanced at: Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game • Review: Standard Operating Procedure | Reviews | guardian.co.uk Film

Thursday the Seventeenth

The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham

"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one." (filed under: science videos) (via: mcios)

Glanced at: BBC NEWS | England | Graffiti vandal faces arrest • Aerophile S.A - Spcialiste des ballons captifs / Tethered balloon 's specialist - Homepage - Tethered balloon 's specialist • Finborough Theatre • Royal Borough Events - Chelsea vs Kensington Game- In Transit • Eyebeam reBlog: Automatic door • Topless Robot - The 10 Mental Illnesses Batman Indisputably Has • BOXHEAD.SEANTCOOPER.COM (WIP) 2008. All rights reserved. • Gamasutra - Measuring Responsiveness in Video Games • Gamasutra - Surviving High School: A Mobile Survivor Story • One in the Eye for SEO :: Shane Richmond

Monday the Fourteenth

Walk Score

"Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle - not how pretty the area is for walking." Includes the UK. (filed under: maps cities walking)

Glanced at: Google Confirms NewsDay.com Received PageRank Penalty for Selling Links • Welcome to ZombieCon! | Zombiecon • Horizontal Navigation Menu Series - PaulGuWiki • Berlin belatedly answers Where's the Wall? query | Oddly Enough | Reuters • Beta.BookLamp.org • Spluch: Weird Animals created using Photoshop! • Mystery surrounds wiped Oyster cards - ZDNet.co.uk • Sightline Institute - Solutions for Cascadia Sightline Institute

Monday the Seventh

Hardcore Gaming 101: Segagaga

A 2001 Sega game about the fall of Sega. "After defeating an enemy, there's a chance that they'll stick around and negotiate for a job. You have 10 seconds to answer a rapid fire series of questions, most of which includes salary offers." (filed under: games history meta) (via: venusberg)

Glanced at: New Scientist Technology Blog: Dual-display e-book reader lets you flip pages naturally - Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Technology | guardian.co.uk - Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records - NYTimes.com - H*E*L*L on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - The sign at the end of history on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Watch promo for More4's Kubrick season | Media | guardian.co.uk - Nova Prospekt Station on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Lost Zombies - fourfour: "I'm not here to make friends": A montage - Slashdot | First Commodore 64 LAN Party - Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities - Wii style controls for the Commodore 64 - Hack a Day - Concrete structure, Bedford Square on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Fabric structure, Bedford Square on Flickr - Photo Sharing! -

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Monday the First of September, 2008