Tuesday the Ninth of February, 2010

Industrial-Strength Fungus - TIME
"After the husks are cooked, sprayed with water and myco-vitamins and seeded with mushroom spores, the mixture is poured into a mold of the desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert." (filed under: architecture fungi construction) (via: zarba)
Reflected Down 2Glanced at: YouTube - The placebo effect • 433 Secret Caves of the Lizard People << Strange Maps • Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy • Kosmograd: Why 2010 wont be like '2010' • World's first personal carbon credit earns $17 cashback for one tonne of carbon dioxide | Environment | guardian.co.uk • | Granta Magazine
"Bioshock 2 needs more period music to get the Magnetic Fields out of my head. There's no point pointing pistols at me now." 6 hours ago on Twitter
Recently listened to:
So Sci-fi Carfax
English Fool Carfax
Lunar Man Carfax
Window Box Carfax
Lowest of the Low Carfax
Arndale Centre Carfax
Keep Me Carfax
Going to London Carfax
Full of Love Carfax
Seek Assistance Carfax

Recently played on the Xbox 360:
BioShock 2BioShock 2
70/1000
Dark SectorDark Sector
270/1000
Modern Warfare® 2Modern Warfare® 2
365/1000
ChimeChime
80/200
Left 4 DeadLeft 4 Dead
565/1250

Monday the First

69 Love Songs, Illustrated.
"We are a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers [who] decided that illustrating – or writing a comic – or a short story – inspired by all 69 songs was a worthwhile and exciting pursuit!" (filed under: music comics art love) (via: currybet)
Lost in Venice, board gameDr D - Government warning (David Cameron)32/365 - Sunset from the Michael Young buildingGlanced at: turingtest2 • Video Library - royalsociety.tv - The Royal Society • Interview: Danny Wallace - Assassin's Creed II | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Apple iPad will choke innovation, say open internet advocates | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Day of the Triffids: How long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it? - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - 1 February, 2010 • They Write For You • Homeopathy proven to work after overdosing protesters eventually fall asleep | newsarse.com • BBC News - Scams affect one in 10 Britons, says OFT • Charlie Brooker | iPad therefore iWant? Probably. Why? iDunno | Comment is free | The Guardian • Sir Terry Pratchett calls for euthanasia tribunals | Society | guardian.co.uk • Bald Eagle Tired Of Everyone Just Assuming It Supports War | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • Rogue Warrior < Reviews | PopMatters • GoodGNUs >> Surrealist writing game - BarCamp Manchester 2

Thursday the Twenty-Eighth of January

Panopticlick
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers." (filed under: web surveillance secrets fonts) (via: brendan)
Grand Union CanalTea Coffee Biscuits BeerSprinkler Stop ValveGlanced at: Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? • Video - The Zoomable Map • Ideashop • Police recently termed protestors 'domestic extremists' so th... on Twitpic • Lingt • How To Write Badly Well • Dolores Labs Blog >> Altruism on Amazon Mechanical Turk • Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash • If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold • Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry >> Nieman Journalism Lab • Romn Corts >> Pure CSS Coke Can • About Axe Cop • The Airplot Design Contest | Greenpeace UK • Facebook | The Daily Mail list of 'Things that give you cancer'. • The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate • RainyMood.com • Kilburn, London, Theatres & Halls • Tweet-o-Meter - Giving you an insight into Twitter activity from around the world! • Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere

Friday the Twenty-Second

Frankie Peanuts and Coercive Logic
Logically exploiting an answer-yes-or-no Magic card (albeit from the joke Unhinged expansion). "Yes or no: You will do the actions in exactly 1 of the two following groups of actions: The first group is answering ‘no.’ The second group is forfeiting this turn but first giving me one rare of my choice from your deck." (filed under: games mtg maths)
IMG_3004Space InvadersCircuit-bending a Funky FurbyGlanced at: docent - galleries for Kevan • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal • Speechification: More Than A Game: The Football War • Caleb Larsen >> A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter • The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures << OkTrends • Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report • Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap | Know Your Meme • Discovered: the west pole, somewhere in London >> malcolm coles • Blurbflies (Sing. Blurbfly) by Jeff Noon from Nymphomation • Jackie's School Food Blog: Vile coco pops ads targeting children on their way to school • Tom Gauld - the art of war • Coercive Logic@Everything2.com • Head of ATSC 'bomb detector' company arrested on suspicion of fraud - Times Online • D Nye Everything: Games of the Year - Left 4 Dead 2 • PodcastFerret.com - The Adam & Joe Xfm Podcast

Monday the Eighteenth

Program Creates Computer-Generated Sports Stories : NPR
"StatsMonkey takes the statistics from a baseball game and produces a computer-generated news story about that game." [...] "We're really aiming this at a genuinely local audience. We're trying to write the stories no one else is writing." (filed under: news sport software) (via: mugla)
HopeStreet PlotGlanced at: Silly Numbers And Other Things • Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone (Phil Gyfords website) • The Director of Downfall Speaks Out on All Those Angry YouTube Hitlers -- Vulture • In The Games Of Madness: How Gameplay and Narrative kill Meaning in "Games" • Flickr: Control Panel • Help not hinder Haiti | Red Cross Blogs • BBC - A History of the World | Sheldon Tapestry Map Of Warwickshire • Black Cherokee - The Winger • NEW london in pen and paper PRINT 11x 14 by studiokmo on Etsy • Conservatives: Adopt a married couple < Beau Bo D'Or • Mock tube station gives London Underground staff real-life training - People Management Magazine Online • Alectryomancy Definition | Definition of Alectryomancy at Dictionary.com • U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes - ABC News • Anti-science can be a lethal game | Alexander Holmes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Monday the Eleventh

BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere
"Watching something originally built precisely as a simulation of the Earth—the 2 in 'Biosphere 2' is meant to differentiate this place from the Earth itself, i.e. Biosphere 1—slowly taken over by the very forces it was naively meant to model is philosophically extraordinary: the model taken over by the thing it represents." (filed under: architecture dereliction ballard photos)
on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Empire State BuildingGlanced at: My David Cameron - Airbrushed for change - Make your own poster • D Nye Everything: Games of the Year - Borderlands, Torchlght • Smartphones Helping Magazines Become Interactive - NYTimes.com • Predictably Irrational >> Blog Archive >> What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google • Wokingham Weather • collision detection: Mind hack: Think of your pay in hourly terms, and money impacts your happiness more • British Garden Birds - Blackbird • Clive Thompson on How Group Think Rules What We Like | Magazine • Greenfield ousted for 'bringing bling to Royal Institution' - Telegraph • 4 - New Nukes • John Graham-Cumming: CNN.com jumps the shark by writing a story about a forum containing 129 people

Friday the Eighth

Board Game Selector
I made this since nobody else seems to have. "Enter a list of BoardGameGeek usernames to get the games with the highest average ranking between you. You'll also get the five games you all hate the most, and some highly-contested ones to reassess or argue about." (filed under: board games creations)
#uksnow split desktop wallpaperRoundaboutMoleculesGlanced at: Sniffy, The Virtual Rat • notes.husk.org. "How to build an iPhone app". • stfj 3.0 • Nil by mouth - Roger Ebert's Journal • Two Gentlemen of Lebowski • See what everyone else is doing, and then don't do that - Now That I Have Your Attention • Choose Your Own Dark Arts << Pervasive Games: Theory and Design • Through the Eye of an Octopus | Animal Intelligence | DISCOVER Magazine • DSC01493 - BARG • Ritzy Jukebox • Unsold H&M clothes found in rubbish bags as homeless face winter chill | World news | guardian.co.uk • russell davies: datadecs • YouTube - Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters • Chris Coltrane - Addressing some criticisms of the Polljack project. • The Psychology of Video Games • YouTube - LittleBigLife - The Game of Life in LittleBigPlanet • SPNS Original: I Don't Know, What Do You Want To Play? • Snatch | Board Game | BoardGameGeek • MediaShift . Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS • MediaShift . Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS • The Third & The Seventh on Vimeo • National Theatre : Productions : Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Thursday the Seventh

Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater | COSMOS magazine
"Duane Hamacher, an astrophysicist studying Aboriginal astronomy at Sydney's Macquarie University, used Google Maps to search for the signs of impact craters in areas related to Aboriginal stories of stars or stones hitting the ground." (filed under: maps history australia space) (via: duncan)
Close-upMystical machine gunsLibertyTimeIceGlanced at: Taunton second-grader sent home over drawing of Jesus - Taunton, MA - The Taunton Gazette • notes.husk.org. Snow, directed by Geoffrey Jones, 1963. From the.... • Easily Mused: Panels 66: Why Chicks Cry • YouTube - Ginger - David Devant And His Spirit Wife • Christmas Tree Recycling - Christmas Tree Recycling in London • Are Games Design? | Edge Online • Family of Blade Runner author Philip K. Dick to sue Google over Nexus One phone - Telegraph • Body By Victoria - Secure Computing: Sec-C • Frozen bubbles - a set on Flickr • Newspaper Club • GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg • sciencegeekgirl >> Why does snow squeak when its cold? • Funniest Dog Costume Ever • Microsoft's body-sensing, button-busting controller - tech - 07 January 2010 - New Scientist • YouTube - Dungeon Adventure trailer

Monday the Fourth

Year of the Dungeon
Small and barely explained RPG dungeon sketches. "Within a few days I picked [a notecard] up and started sketching a dungeon map on it. Pretty soon I'd done a half dozen." (filed under: roleplaying maps art) (via: brendan)
Mr GreenTedious Science; TryingGreen KateLooking Into the Past: 8133 Main Street, Ellicott City, MDcallExhibitGlanced at: Gambling Lambs >> Christmas Werewolf • Broadband, Yes. Toilet, No. - NYTimes.com • WiFi for passive-aggressives | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com • SteamPunk Magazine >> A SteamPunks Guide to the Apocalypse • Alan Moore: Comics Wont Save You, but Dodgem Logic Might | Underwire | Wired.com • 2009 in Evening Standard headlines | Samizdata.net • flocking.me - search tweets from just your friends • Behold the Humboldt Squid | Outside Online • BBC News - Bono net policing idea draws fire • Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit • London's abandoned Underground Stations on Google Street View - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - 21 March, 2009 • AIN'T IT GRAND TO BE BLOOMING WELL DEAD ! - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground • Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes | blasphemy.ie • Science Museum - Visit the museum - Future Foods • Remains of early 1900s plane found in Antarctica • So what's in your nonenergy drink? | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times • Insomnia • Looking Into the Past - a gallery on Flickr • Big London exhibitions in 2010 - Time Out London • blasphemy.ie • ITV prepares to enter The Crystal Maze | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk • Twitter / Zaratustra: I wonder if cops would use ... • One Frame of Fame - Got a webcam? Help us finish off our music video! • Less Wrong: That other kind of status • Salted butter caramel | Heston Blumenthal recipes - Times Online

Wednesday the Sixteenth of December, 2009

MC Frontalot :: Dorknotes :: How to GM Your Own Habit Abatement Campaign
"Whenever you feel like smoking, that means the GM (you) is trying to poison your character (also you). Time for a saving throw! [...] Fifteen days into the campaign, I will only be allowed to smoke when I roll a natural 1." (filed under: cigarettes dice psychology) (via: waxy)
Silk RoadSwitchesGlanced at: Kv0yM.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024768 pixels) • Vimeo Sued Over Lip Dubs • The case for a fair fight • Three strikesa present from The Ghost of Christmas Clinton << Why, Thats Delightful! • Dear Musicians - Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of TheWay - MTT - Music Think Tank • Railway Eye - the railway blog: Pointless signs - Epping station car park • The Daily Mash - LONDON SACRIFICES VIRGINS AFTER CENTIMETRE OF SNOW • Gamasutra - Features - Pondering Indie Spirit: Derek Yu Speaks • Three Bonzos and a Piano | Bloomsbury Theatre • BBC News - Passengers injured as bus toppled • Amazon Buying Tricks: Find the web giants secret bargain basement... • BBC - Comedy: Extra - The Thick of It - Out of the Thick of It: Episode 8 • Elephant & Castle southern roundabout and subways to go by March 2011 [16 December 2009] • Wooster Collective: ROA Creates A Giant Lanticular in London • Industrial robot arm pretends to do chores in Dyson's London pop-up shop -- Engadget • The People's Republic, Neighbourhood Bar, Customer Feedback, SW4

Monday the Fourteenth

Privacy implications have Google running scared - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
"We are blocking out people's faces if people try to use Google Goggles to search for information about them. Until we understand the implications of the facial-recognition tool we have decided to make sure we block out people's faces." (filed under: surveillance faces photography) (via: antonia)
Nifty physical prototyping systemsMay contain shotGlanced at: Facebooks loosening sense of privacy | qwghlm.co.uk • Dave Gorman on Absolute Radio - Listen Again and Podcast - Absolute Radio • Box Canvas Print of PAUL ROSS from MirrorPrintStore: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home • Response: The conkers-with-goggles story was a myth. I know I started it | Comment is free | The Guardian • Men turn tables on regime by donning headscarves and dresses - Middle East, World - The Independent • BBC News - Octopus snatches coconut and runs • STRANGE GAMES: The Passive Agressive Door Holding Game • Health Insurers Caught Paying Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

Friday the Eleventh

Charlie Brooker: why I love videogames | Technology | The Guardian
"Newspapers and television still largely report on the gaming world as though it is something mildly amusing that happens overseas." (filed under: games)
Spillway: London in 2010
Observer article from 1990. "Bankside power station has been converted into a museum, although here it's the 'Thatcher Museum of Commerce'." (filed under: london future history architecture)
CrossingCansI wonder if it was worth it?Quadster-MonsterGlanced at: Pervasive Games - gaming in physical space: Visions of Sara (Danish title: Saras Syner) • TopatoCo: Most Dangerous Game Shirt • How videogames took over the world | Technology | The Guardian • BBC - BBC Comedy Blog: Locating The Thick of It • Open the Future: A Cold War Over Warming • The Boing Boing 20, pt. 1: the best console and handheld games of 2009 Boing Boing • YouTube - The Tetris God • The iTunes-ization of short fiction is here | Books | guardian.co.uk • Gamasutra - Features - The Designer's Notebook: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! X • Voices From The Great Beyond: EVP MP3s - WFMU's Beware of the Blog • Take on the libel bullies | Alexei Sayle | Comment is free | The Guardian • Viscount Monckton calls young climate activists 'Hitler Youth' | Environment | guardian.co.uk • Spying begins on UK web users - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist • US games company sues British blogger | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22) • bucket chemistry - Wiktionary • Un-idealistic avatars considered griefing? | The Border House • Official Google Blog: Seeing the forest through the cloud • GameSetWatch - 15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition Winners Announced • Criticising the GM industry Bad Science

Thursday the Tenth

LibriVox
"LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. " (filed under: books mp3s) (via: fisharepeopletoo)
bournbrook diggingsThe Meeting Place, St PancrasScottish Martyrs MemorialGlanced at: BBC News - Police arrest 461 in 'Christmas crackdown' raids • the framley examiner • Team Fortress 2 - The Administrator • TW1TT3R ART (TW1TT3Rart) on Twitter • Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation • Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine • Achievement Chore: She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether It's Fun Or Not - Feature - Kotaku • Mountain Maniac - Free Online Game From Adult Swim • Stories from the stores >> Happy birthday, XMM • We don't need God, we've got biscuits | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk • Climate change and winter • Pinch Light brings forth light from a sheet of card • Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • New Bug Spray Forces Insects To See People As Human Beings With Feelings | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • Strategies for making bird feeders feed only birds part 1. • Nature gets down to business • Francis Davey: Government wants new powers to block wikileaks and squeeze web tv

Sunday the Sixth

MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team
Nice tiered approach from the winning DARPA Network Challenge team - $2000 of the prize money for a submitted sighting, $1000 to anyone who referred that person, $500 to the person who referred them, and so on. (filed under: emergence money secrets maps)
Arkonaplatz Fleamarket on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Network Challenge - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - David Mitchell | Boyle's in the bag. Now for Marmite | Comment is free | The Observer - Arkonaplatz Fleamarket on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Amazon in secret plan to open high street shops - Times Online -
This is an automatically reformatted view of my del.icio.us bookmarks, with tiny contrails of pages I've glanced at, my Flickr photos, my Last FM recent tracks, and my five most recently-played Xbox 360 games. I really should add Huffduffer at some point as well. There's a combined RSS feed of the delicious, Flickr and Huffduffer at FeedDigest, if anyone wants it.