2006-02-15 (Wednesday)

Links

1. BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme - Interview with Stephen Pound MP (Real Audio .ram file)

   I woke up this morning to hear an MP talking frankly about almost changing his mind over the smoking ban. Glorious, because he sounds like a human being. If only the cabinet sounded like this. (skip forward to 3:15)

2. Yahoo open up their UI libraries… (plasticbag.org)

   Links to all Yahoo’s shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.

3. Flickr: ludd’s photos tagged with barbican

   Old models of the Barbican, a map and a photo of what the Barbican replaced.

4. Compact

   The Compact’s weblog — see them wrestle with exactly what they’re allowed to buy new and giggle at the optimism: “if our movement grows we could take this country down”.

5. Thecompact : The Compact

   The Yahoo! Group for the Bay Area people who aren’t buying new stuff in 2006.

6. Bay Area / Out of the retail rat race / Consumer group doesn’t buy notion that new is better

   The Compact - 50 people who have committed to buy nothing new (“except food, health and safety items and underwear”) in 2006. (via Boing Boing)