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Return of the Observer Blog
Mothballed last year, the Observer Blog has returned in preparation for the Sunday newspaper’s relaunch into the Berliner format — the same process its stablemate The Guardian successfully went through in September 2005. newsdesigner.com has more details on the relaunch.
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Microsoft WMF Patch
Microsoft WMF Patch — it’s live and available.
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“You Call This Archaeology?”: An Indiana Jones Drinking Game
Pending an evening of the Indiana Jones trilogy and a shitload of drinks, I humbly plagiarise and present: To Prepare You’ll need the following: The Indiana Jones trilogy, preferably on Blu Ray: A movie playback device, and a humungous TV (surround sound system recommended) Bunch of friends who aren’t surly drunks A shitload of…
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John Spencer: 1946-2005
West Wing actor John Spencer died yesterday aged 58 after suffering a heart attack. He played Chief of Staff Leo McGarry in The West Wing, one of my favourite characters in the show. Apparently he had appeared in 7 of the first 14 episodes of Season 7 before he died. The show is in hiatus…
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Bob Cringley Discusses Oboe
Robert X. Cringely casts a critical eye at Oboe, the mp3tunes locker service, asks Michael Robertson (he of mp3.com and Linspire) how he thinks the business can be profitable, and looks at how Apple may be doing something similar. read more | digg story
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Interesting GUI Gallery
On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones. read more | digg story