Links & notes for this month

• Reading my NNW feeds this morning, I was greeted by the marvellous headline from BBC News: "McCartneys toast new baby". Mmn, crispy. (It got changed later in the day - now that's lousy microcontent for you). |
• Useful article on Writing for the Web by Diana Lott; basics that you observer but might not consider, especially in public site production. |
• And with that... Tom had wireless ADSL. Happy bunny. |
• Wonderful article on the basics of type design, with beautiful hand-drawn examples. |
• Not just retro, but retro, stylish, and functional - and accurate right down to the 80s' cases of Nintendo Thumb it will give you: a beautiful, beautiful Retro PS2 joypad. Like when pads really were pads... remember NES controllers? Yeowch. |
• A wonderful entry on the recently discovered and rather good Memex that reminds me of the many reasons I too loved my time in Cambridge. I'm going back in three weeks time, and it's going to be wonderful - not just the people, but the place itself. |
• Poisoned is, from the looks of things, an utterly kick-ass piece of P2P software for OSX... it uses multiple networks and transparently merges them. Sweet. Now, where's my broadband... |
• Via Brooke, a remarkable picture of Saturn taken from the Hubble telescope. Awe-inspiring 222kb jpg; it's now my desktop wallpaper. |
• Just a quick reminder: the first Omnivore will be going live next Monday, so if you're interested in writing for this tasty new creative writing site, head on over there and drop us a line... |
• Bah. Panther, that's OS X.3 (or 10.3 to those of you still using numbers) is out at the end of the month. 10.2.6 is working fine over here for me, so I see no reason for the |