Crouching Badger

Are you right there, Father Karadzic? (from someone at b3ta.com)

» Charlie Brooker's CCTV Bumhole

“This place is a joke. Each day I move around carrying a mobile phone (traceable) and an Oyster card (trackable), monitored, on average, by 10 times as many CCTV cameras as there are in the Big Brother house. Wherever I go, a gigantic compound eye peers at the back of my neck. I’m another bustling dot in the ant farm.”

I nearly wet myself when I first saw this at university in about 1992. It looked like nothing else I’d ever seen on my Amiga and used about every rave music stab sample there was.

I particularly like the addendum right at the end by hacker ground Skid Row: “Debugged by Skid Row - How could this demo have won: lame programming and useless trackloader.” Because the trackloader’s the important part, right?

» The Birth of the Pipe Network

This is how your internets get born.

Walter Wanderley in the flesh. This is so ace I barely have words. Check out the sound of the Leslie speaker.

Also: The drummer looks a bit like an old teacher of mine.

“santa’s going to kokomo made me do a little bit of sick in my mouth - scott, london bazalgette”

Lifestyle help

from:	Clara Hoskins
reply-to:	extensive@fountainsplusmore.com
to:	xxxxcrouchingbadger.com
date:	22 May 2008 18:34
subject:	best

 your life is crap

Spam seems to be getting more personal these days

Human API Negotiation

I was working on the start of a data reconciliation problem yesterday, wandering around the office talking to various people who know the data and where it comes from, how up-to-date it is and who updates it.

Whilst my colleagues were talking I had an out-of-office experience and watched while they negotiated an agreement about the edges of the problem. As they were disussing the interfaces between one company’s process and another, it seemed like trying to spec an API. It made me wonder if there’s some kind of interprocess negotiation protocol that could be developed, or perhaps already exists.

I meet this problem again and again, and rather than fix it each time I end up trying to analyse the patterns. Perhaps I should just get on with it.

Bukkake Fortress

S: the big re-install of May 2008 = 100% WIN. A cavernous stadium of emptyness waiting to be filled with the roar of bukkake.
Ben: Bukkake Fortress FTW!

Where 2.0 Business Strategy

1) Collect/Generate/Crowdsource a store of geodata

2) Publish it on the web using standard interfaces such as GeoRSS, KML, WMS, Shapefile

3) ???????

4) Profit