http://www.aquarionics.com en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:27:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/10/01/DRuMs_of_war. A quote from Daniel James of Three Rings DRM takes a big poo on your best customers—the ones who’ve given you money—whilst doing nothing practical to prevent others from ‘stealing’ your precious content juices. Worse, it makes these renegades feel nice and righteous about sticking it to ‘the man’. Stop trying to persuade people to love you more by... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/09/10/Genius_Trial So, Starting with the first track to come up in a random shuffle of my iTunes library, I generated one of the "Genius" playlists from the new iTunes. The dividing line between genius and insanity has never been so close. The results. These are the tunes that iTunes thinks belong together: Here Comes The Flood — The Divine Comedy Right Said Fred — Bernard Cribbins Pretty... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/08/29/Branded_Coffee http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/08/23/The_Next_Wing SAN DIEGO—On day two of the 2008 San Diego SorCon, the biggest Aaron Sorkin convention in the world, screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin revealed plans for his next project, an animated continuation of his most popular franchise, The West Wing. More details http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/08/21/Leaving_Windows_Open Leaving windows open always gets me into trouble, one way or the other. I overheat easily, and so I tend to leave the windows of my flat open wherever possible. This is good, but it does mean I occasionally suffer from bugs coming in overnight and biting me in the arse. Somehow – and for the first time in my life – I’m having problems with mosquito bites, after leaving a... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/08/02/Science_in_rap_form This is a rap about particle physics and CERN's Large Hadron Collider and what it's for. CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/07/26/Pulp_Connections This is a short film about two people discussing the meta-connections between all the films of Quentin Tarrentino. It’s called Tarrentino|s Mind http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/07/18/Muppetry Things that have amused me today: Follow the profile. It appears that Disney/Muppet Studios are publishing a series of new muppet sketches via YouTube. Trials for a new Muppets series? I'd hope that Disney are able to let them make it fun. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/07/17/An_Update Most of what I’m doing right now is working, and due to the nature of my working, it’s dull. I’m mostly writing unit tests. And because it’s work, it’s occasionally awesome and fun, challanging and occasionally frustrating. We are, however, looking for PHP dev to work in our Kings Cross office, so if you know any PHP devs looking for a new job, fire an email at... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/07/16/Pareidol_Returns Long term readers of Aquarionics will remember my various abortive attempts to publish anything with any regularity at all. Actually, so will short term readers, thinking about it. But I’m not refering to this “journal” thing, as much as LoneCat and my “NSD” thing from a while back, the various short stories and, most recently, Pareidol, a webcomic-type-thing...