Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

I find social-space mapping tools fascinating toys, and the link explorer model (like the Java component from Touchgraph) is one of the more interesting ways of exploring a social network in an easy-to-understand, and graphical, way. We've already graphed LJ - now it's time to do the same for Flickr...

Here's mine.

A lovely bit of Flash UI design that...

...PlayUSA seem to have sent out the new Studio Ghibli releases two weeks early. Nausicaa arrived today!

Rar!

Looks like there's a bit of a shake-up happening in the convoluted web of PR companies spun out of Text 100.

A conversation over lunch today (24 floors over the City of London) revealed that August One, main home of Microsoft's UK PR, is going to be split up, with the tech PR side of things (which is pretty much only Microsoft) being folded into Inferno, the company that was launched a year or so ago to pitch for Microsoft's CRM and ERP business. The remainder of August One will keep the name, and will stop handling technology PR...

Time to update the old address book, by the looks of things.

When surreal web comics become online games: All the President's Hair. I'm not at all good at it. The best I can get it 2/7.

(at Cat and Girl, where else?)

The Jersey Opera House is closing. It's the place where I discovered theatre, music (rock, folk and classical), stage humour (both dry and slapstick), and, yes, opera.

End of an era. It will be missed.

Motorola's E1060 has just been announced. It's got a scroll wheel, and is going to sync music - but Motorola are being cagey as to whether it's the much-rumoured iTunes phone. Still, there's plenty of time for Apple to put their oar in, as it won't be out until Q405.


Image via Engadget

A bit chunky looking for my tastes, but this looks like it's going to be a YPP^*...

^*Young Person's Phone

An urban art project in Spain is stencilling the Kodama tree spirits from Mononoke Hime across Malaga.



A dose teh cut3n3ss in the city.

(From coolhunting)

Pink chocolate.

(White chocolate with forest fruits...)