Robert Sharp

My del.icio.us links: 18th May to 29th May

• Until Logic Did Them Apart - Definitive Case Against Gay Marriage Critics - Chait: “these arguments rest upon simple tautologies. Expanding a right to a new group deprives the rest of us of our right to deny that right to others. … i.e., women’s suffrage makes voting less special for men.”
• Undercover - Recover a lost or stolen Mac or iPhone.
• Create iPhone ringtones using iTunes 8
• a little bit of future goes a long way - iPhone apps for using buses in London.
• A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges - Fascinating description of motorway/freeway interchanges. I didn’t know they all had names. The Maryland Braid is my favourite.
• Visible Tweets - Twitter Visualisations, perfect for events and venues, I should think.
• The Book of Sand - Borges story in a pazzle, hyperlinked format.

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My del.icio.us links: 8th May to 16th May

• A Teapot on Pluto by Julie Bertagna - Scottish Book Trust
• Shilling for Hitler - Eminent historians defended Holocaust denier David Irving in the name of free speech and scholarship. Deborah Lipstadt's account of her libel trial with Irving proves how colossally wrong they were.
• Your brain is an index - "We won’t become books, we’ll become their indexes and reference guides, permanently holding on to rather little deep knowledge, preferring instead to know what’s known, by ourselves and others, and where that knowledge is stored."
• Proposals by Dan Baum & Margaret Knox - "For the process enthusiast, these are some proposals we wrote that resulted in good assignments. They are not the last word on how to write proposals; all we know is that these worked."
• YooouuuTuuube - YooooooooooooooooooooooooooooTuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuube
• Mashup Awards - An interesting idea, probably discontinued due to the dominance of Twitter mash-ups
• The Official White House Photostream's Photostream - All creative commons licenced content, of course. These behind the scenes images will humanise the process of governing, and endear the President to his voters. Smart.

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My del.icio.us links: 3rd May to 8th May

• Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize 2009 - The 2009 Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize asks professional and young writers in 1000-1500 words to interpret the Franklin quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
• 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About - Including how to download YouTube videos, and how to make the video start in the middle of the video.
• The Failure of #amazonfail - Insighful mea culpa from Clay Shirky: “This isn’t because I am a generally stupid person; it was because I was, on Sunday, a specifically stupid person. When a lifetime of intellectual labor and study came up against a moment of emotional engagement, emotion won, in a rout.”
• Regarding The Jonas Brothers - Classical Geek Theatre: “But the Jonas Brothers are worse, a cultural sin of much greater, more significant magnitude. If ‘N Sync was a punk rocker’s Abu Ghraib then The Jonas Brothers are the punk rocker’s Auschwitz.”
• We Didn’t Start the Flame War - Amusing parody
• The unripened word - Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine predicts blogging by two centuries…

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My del.icio.us links: 23rd April to 2nd May

• Being Poor - John Scalzi: "Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter."
• Tactical Technology Collective - An international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. 'NGO in a box' and 'Security in a Box'
• Advocacy Online - Perhaps some useful resources
• Embassy World - Absolutely All Of The World's Embassies In A Searchable Database
• Faith Fighter, Fighting Game - a fighting game with seven characters, all of them major religious figures: Jesus, God, Mohammad, Ganesha, Buddha, and the Laughing Buddha, and one secret character. FSM? Or L Ron Hubbard?
• What We Know So Far: A Torture Timeline - Daily Kos primer
• The "I Can Read Movies" Series - Flickr set of movies re-imagined as book covers.

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My del.icio.us links: 4th April to 17th April

• Abuse of Power: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos - On April 16, 2009, the Department of Justice released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture.
• Anti-terror billboard generator - Timely
• The Long-Term Marriage - by Spencer Reece "… and thistles overrun their last garden. The dash between their dates is nearly done."
• Mark Titchner's top 10 songs about liberty - From Crass to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, artist Mark Titchner selects a soundtrack to state control, corruption and the struggle for freedom
• BallDroppings - Preposterously simple and infuriatingly addictive ball/music sandbox game. I'm not even going to engage with it for fear of losing the rest of the day.
• Waiting for night to come - Sandra Magnus blog's from space.
• URL shorteners - Joshua Schachter says that URL shortening sites like TinyURY and bt.ly are doing us all a disservice. I tend to agree.

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My del.icio.us links: 16th March to 2nd April

• The Gorgeous Motion Graphics of Stranger Than Fiction -
• REMIX at Computer History Museum - Lawrence Lessig on the need to reform Copyright laws. When you are crimminalising your children's playtime, then you know something is wrong with the system.
• THRU YOU - Kutiman mixes YouTube - ~A mashup of other YouTube clips to create something special.
• Naked Wines - Wine 2.0 - Lovely user interface and some good discounts.
• Psiphon - Human Rights Software project allowing citizens in one country to provide unfetter access to the internet for citizens in another.
• “Democrat Party" - Interesting dissection of Republican semantic tactics: "You won’t agree to my name. I am supposed to take anything you say seriously?"
• Travian - Settlers type multiplayer browser strategy game

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My del.icio.us links: 4th March to 16th March

• youshouldhaveseenthis.com - Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
• FeedSweep - Useful javascript solution to the increasing need to pull RSS feeds from elswhere onto websites.
• Foursquare - The New York Observer: Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids
• World Builder - A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit.
• The case of the 500-mile email - Trey Harris
• Ground Zero by Carlos Labs - Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome.
  And it does not look good.
• cityofsound: The street as platform - Twenty metres below the ground, a tube train scurries under the crossroads, outrunning its halo of data that details its location and speed from the engine control systems, while CCTV conveys images of the carriage directly underneath.

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My del.icio.us links: 23rd February to 2nd March

• QR Code Generator - From ZXing
• Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books - Zadie Smith at New York Public Library
• The Demon-Haunted World - Matt Jones on "city magic"
• Archigram - Interesting group of artists, architects, writers, founded in 1950s
• ATC-SIM - a web-based air traffic control simulator
• Terence Blacker: We can’t ignore Cuba’s dark side - Tony Benn, a great champion of the Castro revolution, once said that “socialism has always been about democracy, human rights and internationalism”. For Cuba, one out of three is no longer enough.
• Switch to Theora video - Jon Grant on open source video formats

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My del.icio.us links: 24th January to 22nd February

• Darwin Posters - … in the Obama style
• American Girl - Ta-Nehisi Coates on Michelle Obama
• Mindfuck Movies - The Morning News
• How long was Phil in Groundhog Day? - A fascinating blog - Blous Groundhogus - by the writer of said film, discussing the philosophies behind the film and what we can learn from it.
• Edgar Allan Poe on "blogging" - "authors will perceive the immense advantage of giving their own manuscripts directly to the public without the expensive interference of the type-setter, and the often ruinous intervention of the publisher. " via the Daily Dish
• Bruce Schneier on terrorism and the web - "Society survives because the good uses of infrastructure far outweigh the bad uses, even though the good uses are - by and large - small and pedestrian and the bad uses are rare and spectacular."
• Standard sizes for web banners - A useful aide memoir…

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My del.icio.us links: 14th January to 23rd January

• Google Earth Easter Egg: Flight Simulator - All about activating the Flight Sim in Google Earth. Hilariously, Lasham near Alton is one of the default airfields. I've been guilding there once.
• 'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' -
• The country's new robots.txt file - Openness at the heart of the American Government
• Full text: Obama inauguration speech -
• And it’s easy to ignore till they’re knocking on the door of your homes - So, who’ll be the first to be killed, do you think? A bailiff kitchen-knifed in self-defence or a householder strangled on his or her lounge carpet?
• The Design Disease - Ben Terret on how irritating it can be, to be a designer. His collection of snap-shots reminds me of Alan Fletcher's 'The Art of Looking Sideways'
• How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing - The story of Adolf Merckle and Porsche

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