Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2008-01-13

RubyForge: Starling: Project Info
Blaine’s Twitter queue server
(tags: memcache ruby rails gem scaling twitter messaging queue server development memcached)

Steve Burg
(tags: sketch art sf drawing blog steveburg)

TED | Talks | J.J. Abrams: The mystery box (video)
(tags: creativity ted mysterybox jjabrams storytelling)

Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV Series | Television Without Pity
(tags: twop recap sarahconnor terminator tvshow sarahconnorchronicles)

Sci-fashion: […]

links for 2008-01-11

Wildtoy’s Major Matt Mason Home Page
Official mascot of Six to Start. All accessories based on NASA concept drawings!
(tags: mattmason toy astronaut omg figure)

BDH | Our Work
Seven Ages of Rock (Titles)
(tags: bafta craft 2008 tv motiongraphics titles bdh sevenagesofrock bbc vh1)

BDH | Our Work
BBC Snooker (Titles)
(tags: bafta craft 2008 tv motiongraphics titles bdh snooker bbc vh1)

BDH […]

links for 2008-01-10

Dopplr Posin’, Six To Start edition on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Hello, I’m Confident Matt
(tags: dopplrposin dopplr sixtostart danhon benburry flickr photo confident nervous)

MTV Rhythm Game Track Finder
Would be nice if it was worldwide. Good start. Bizarre that it doesn’t look more ‘MTV’.
(tags: via:jbolton bemani gaming games mtv discovery reference resource web rhythm ddr rockband guitarhero)

Rogue […]

links for 2008-01-09

Why we switched to Jetty
(tags: zimbra jetty comet bayeuxprotocol bayeux server push scaling performance webdev development via:simonwillison)

Obviously: Help Wanted: Office/Operations/Executive Assistant/Master of Miscellaneous Domains
Cute, honest.
(tags: recrutiment hr job posting description obvious via:mattb)

cowbite.org
(tags: hilaryperkins channel4 newmedia factual blog)

links for 2008-01-08

BT Vision targets Xbox gamers for growth | The Register
Oh. It doesn’t get a Freeview tuner. That would’ve been interesting. Need a bigger than 120GB disk, though.
(tags: xbox360 btvision iptv stb)

YouTube - Nickelback - Rockstar (Official Video)
1:00 in. Not me.
(tags: hironakamura)

GrabFS: The Screenshot File System
Absolutely mental
(tags: grabfs fuse macfuse unionfs fs geek mount osx amitsingh)

links for 2008-01-07

Lucumr Cogitations » Blog Archive » Django’s Problems and Why 2.0 is a Bad Idea
(tags: comparison django rails ruby webdev python orm curse fork development)

Leah Culver » Portable Social Networks for Django
(tags: pownce django sns app)

Helen Smith
(tags: helensmith writer children screenplays plays)

Amazon.co.uk: Alison Wonderland: Books: Helen Smith
(tags: alisonwonderland helensmith chicklit detective novel)

What Powers Curse | […]

links for 2008-01-05

Punkadyne Labs - My dystopian fear of flying
This isn’t funny at all. It’s depressing.
(tags: airport flying transport terrorism prediction fiction shortfiction lj humor shortstory)

links for 2008-01-04

Coolest Girl in School
Mobile casual game for girls.
(tags: casual gaming gamedesign australia mobile)

Nowheremen
ARGish game running on Ning

(tags: arg teen ning socialsoftware)

links for 2008-01-03

Mark Iddon - A Multiplatform Monkey
(tags: bbc multiplatform producer development tv 360 commissioning)

Mark Iddon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: markiddon multiplatform bbc commissioning)