Monthly Archives: January 2008

Internet Now in Handy Book Form

the internet now in handy book formWhile I’m on the subject of books, I’ve just remembered about David McCandless new book – The Internet Now in Handy Book Form.

David’s a regular freelance writer with us at Poke and a number of pokers contributed sections of the book, my girl friend Nicky even designed the cover. There’s an incredible amount of work gone into it, all your favourite sites spoofed. It’s much more of a read than I thought it was going to be, and very very funny. If you’re into the web, you should definitely pick up a copy.

Check out my Pipes

cookies pipes

Tags are back! This one is probably of no interest to anyone but me, but I’ve set up a Yahoo Pipe to aggregate just about everything on the web that is tagged with “cookie”, you can view the output of it here »

It’s dead easy to set up, I just cloned a pipe Nico made to aggregate design links within poke, you see that pipe here » its a surprisingly simple solution to suck in content from a whole variety of web services, all you’ve got to do is tag things with a relatively unique tag.

Kenya Holiday Video

No I haven’t just got back from Kenya sadly… This is an old video intro from February 2005, just working my way through past videos and getting them up.

This was quite a varied 3 week trip, my friend Daisy organised it, her parents live out there so we had use of their huge ex-safari Landrover to get about in which was amazing. First we climbed Mt. Kenya, then we spent a few day at daisy’s parents country pile, then we went on safari, then finally we had a week on the coast taking it easy. One of the best holiday’s I’ve ever been on, would thoroughly recommend it!

Incidentely does anyone know what the song I’ve used is? It was just a untitled track xx on my iTunes that seemed perfect, but don’t know who it’s by…

Philosophy of Facial Hair

picture of billy childish, he has a moustacheThis looks like an interesting talk at the ICA soon (even going to be a live barber demonstration).

“Moustaches, beards, sideburns, goatees – half the population has facial hair to trim, style or just shave off. The other half is mostly ignorant of all the historical, social and cultural intricacies related to the ownership of facial hair or simply witnesses the trends and variations in the male grooming habits.”

Speakers include Billy Childish, pictured. It’s on Tuesday 29 January 2008, 7:00 pm.

That’s what I call crash protection

car air bag that looks like a pair of boobs or possibly an ass

I wrote a while back about another life saving booby device, but this one is bigger and better! A frontal impact airbag that’s got a lot of cushion for the pushin’. Takata’s designers must of been thinking what’s nice to have you face shoved in? oh I know, a big pair of breasts! Or maybe it’s based on arse cheeks, I don’t know, whatever floats your boat. Cheers for the tip Charlie.

Via Boinkology.

Being creative is good

Beautiful thought from John Maeda:

“While watching my daughter’s viola lesson, and as she stood in front of the class, I realized that the moment when the bow touched the strings was not something to be taken for granted. It was the moment when she was to begin the process of expressing herself by creating music. To create is to potentially embarrass oneself in front of others. It is about the courage to be oneself and to be seen as oneself. Putting ink to a page, or pressing one’s fingers against clay, or typing a line of computer code, or blowing glass and realizing mistake. Or success. With everyone watching. But most importantly, you.”

Read the rest »

Cheers for the link Igor.