Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2007-06-20

• Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
  Ooooh
  (tags: django framework python development webdev hacking language server simonwillison)
• Boing Boing: Video games hidden in the grooves of LPs
  … and you thought ARGs were new…
  (tags: gaming videogame steganography via:boingboing thomsontwins)
• Mr. Lee CatCam
  Mr Lee is a cat who wears a camera…
  (tags: catcam via:robyn mrlee geek camera cat)
• Broadcastnow.co.uk - Ofcom dtv to pay for spectrum usage
  Hm. Market pricing of spectrum. Or, y’know, we could just open up the entire shebang.
  (tags: ofcom broadcast spectrum pricing pay)
• Channel 4 to launch remit review | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk
  Hm.
  (tags: channel4 remit publicservice broadcasting review via:mediaguardian)
• News - Earth No More unveiled // None /// Eurogamer
  Earth No More sounds like it could be promising… another Half-Life, maybe?
  (tags: earthnomore gaming pc xbox360 ps3 fps story 3drealms via:eurogamer)
• Blowing air into salad greens keeps them fresh — megnut.com
  Nitrogen would work better - keep them in a non-reactive atmosphere.
  (tags: food hacks via:megnut salad greens nitrogen gas carbondioxide)
• Geeks Bust Out Brollies as Rain Falls Indoors at Hack Day London
  Mind Candy dev Mike Jewell gets cited in Wired’s Hack Day London article - but no Coates?
  (tags: hackdaylondon hackday mikejewell wired boxr mindcandy chaddickerson coates bbc yahoo)
• University of Washington Emerging Technology » Apple WWDC iPhone Development
  (tags: iphone apple macosx safari webkit webdev mobile xhtml css edge wifi optimisation)
• University of Washington Emerging Technology » Apple WWDC IT State of the Union
  (tags: udub apple leopard server 10.5 macosx sotu)
• University of Washington Emerging Technology » Apple WWDC Mac OS X State of the Union
  Client is getting much more work than server, it seems, and it’s quite hard to get good interoperability on server. Lots of good individual technologies are being integrated (ical server, wikiserver, etc) but they’re not tied in as much as they could be
  (tags: udub apple macosx leopard server sotu 10.5)
• TVonics.com - Products
  Look to be good DVB STBs and Freeview Playback STBs
  (tags: tvonics freeview dvb stb dvr tv)
• Retaining Younger Workers in the Workplace - Gen X - Millenial - Baby Boomer
  How to retain people who were born after 1979
  (tags: business entrepreneurship worklifebalance genx millenials hr)
• Games time forgot: Evidence, The Last Ritual :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog
  Picked up a copy of this in Target, it’s sitting in the office library
  (tags: destructoid evidencethelastritual arg gaming pc dvdrom)
• Raph’s Website » My Vision Doc outline
  (tags: gamedesign gaming games documentation onesheet vision concept)