The Small Things That Make the Difference
by Iain on November 30, 2010
I’m visiting a mix on SoundCloud (this one if you care). The top of the page looks like this: Then I start playing the mix, and look what happens to my tab: Spot it? If not let me make it (…)
Teach Your Kids to Crush Pregnant Animals
by Iain on November 26, 2010
I saw this ad on telly today and was totally blown away. My first reaction was “wooooah, that looks awesome” (in the voice of my inner 6 year old). Then my inner Daily Mail reader kicked in and was all (…)
10 minutes with John Maeda
by Iain on November 20, 2010
John Maeda is the Fortune Cookie it says. I had no desire to snap him in half and extract his wisdom on a piece of roughly typed paper. But I did figure it’d be a chance to meet an interesting (…)
I love this burned-out iPad, it’s quite beautiful
by Iain on November 18, 2010
via cultofmac.com More Apple-centered destruction at: http://www.cultofmac.com/what-happens-when-you-shoot-an-ipad-and-other-pictur… Obligatory buttons:
Pulp Common People Comic
by Iain on November 17, 2010
via pulpwiki.net Sweet. This Jamie Hewlett comic was distributed with the Pulp single in France and it illustrates the lyrics of the song. You don’t get that kind of thing with a bloody MP3 download. Oh, unless you download The (…)
My Final NMA Column – why I’m pre-post-digital and proud
by Iain on November 17, 2010
I’ve been speaking to a few people recently and they didn’t know I had a column in New Media Age. Well now it’s too late, because I don’t any more. My final column is here: http://bit.ly/cEOM8f It’s a bit ranty, (…)
Continued Google StreetView Awesomeness
by Iain on November 17, 2010
via s3.amazonaws.com Ah, the defiant Englishman. In your face Googlecar. Another one from the incredible: http://9eyes.tumblr.com Obligatory buttons:
Incredible images from Google Streetview
by Iain on November 16, 2010
via 9eyes.tumblr.com Amazing Tumblr: http://9eyes.tumblr.com Some of the images are so mindblowing that I almost can’t believe that they’re real. I’d love it even more if there were links to the actual map references. Obligatory buttons:
A Tale of Accidental Distortion
by Iain on November 16, 2010
One day, at a local record store, virtually every record he tested on headphones had exactly the aspect he was looking for: Hard-edged drums, suggestively distorted. Back at home, though, everything flattened out into the clean, featureless world of contemporary (…)
What to do when you find that you can’t use ‘presenter view’ at a conference
by Iain on November 10, 2010
Just turned up at the CAT conference to find out that I can’t use ‘Presenter View’ in Keynote. This has happened before and I just winged it. But today I figured I could find a quick way to get everything onto (…)