2009-12-16 (Wednesday)
Links
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The Technium: 1,000 Years of Forgetting
I often think how even the most famous people alive today won’t be remembered in the distant future. But more importantly… A BRILLIANT video from the year 3000!
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Charlie Brooker: why I love video games | Technology | The Guardian
Not just interesting on why games are good, but on exactly how non-games-players get frustrated with them. Would be good to talk about that more.
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Visualizing empires decline on Vimeo
Lovely visualisation of the expansion and contraction of four empires over 200 years. (via Long Now)
Tweets
@tomtaylor Cream of the Xmas playlist proved shorter than expected and Spotify only had half of them.
It's that time of the afternoon when I usually seem to start what I actually meant to do today.
@spaceboy Doesn't feel very Christmassy to me... needs more sleighbells.
@megp Yes, I will somehow share whatever Christmasiness I can. (Hmm, S3FM.co.uk seems to be broken...)
I'll do a Spotify Xmas playlist or something this afternoon, but for now, the Twelve Girls Band are hard to beat: http://bit.ly/6vTG3i Awsm.
@blech Yes Low's 'Just Like Christmas' is one of my very favourite Xmas tracks! I have to force myself not to play it all year. Good choice.
@spaceboy Not MY Christmas playlist, which is full of esoteric seasonal joy.
@knackeredhack Thanks, but should have clarified... only really interested in pop, rock, rap, etc Christmas songs!
Finally cracking open the Christmas playlist. Always welcome suggestions for good Christmas tunes I haven't heard before...
Last night I dreamed I had better keyboard shortcuts for processing email. What a crazy dream world!
Apologies for @gowalla/Virgin spam. Bloody Gowalla "helpfully" remembers your "spam Twitter with my check-in" setting from last time.