Linkspam

Phun. A 2D physics sandbox to play with. Free download here. Via swissmiss

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

Beautiful visualsation of a song, including the lyrics. This is proper 'turn of all the lights, turn up the volume, lean back, and enjoy' stuff. I think originally via Neil Gaiman, but I'm not sure. Scores extra points for the fact that the full screen mode actually works on Opera.

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Steampunk Taxidermy. I think my favourite is the fawn. Via the interesting new Metro Ridiculant Blog (on the same feed as Metro Weird.

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The MacBook Air? It's not a MacBook Pro, and that's kinda the idea. The review rather mirrors my thoughts on the thing;

Ok, fine, there are some people who want, like, an extra battery Pack. But let's admit amongst ourselves that the overwhelming majority of people out there have never pulled the battery out of their existing laptops, and didn't even know or care that it comes out.

And there are people out there who do video editing on their MacBooks and want FireWire. Great! I respect your choice! You should buy a MacBook! It's an awesome machine! If you want to do that! Which I don't!

If I needed a Mac Laptop, I'd be damn tempted by it. While a large amount of what I use my laptop for at the moment is playing games on painfully long train rides, meaning that a Mac is less suitable given the still low availability of games for it, the size and weight make it very nice for the actual transporting of it. As an example, there's no way I'll be taking my laptop on the train to Maelstrom, as it's far too much extra weight. With a Macbook Air I'd be much more tempted to do so. If I was regularly traveling on graphic design related business and wanting to work on the train? Yes please.

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ChannelFlip (an online TV show I reviewed a few days ago) has a new show. Like this post, it's about links. The show is Killing Time. The link in question is pretty cool, it's The Rasterbator - something for making pdfs so you can make a large poster from a4 sheets stuck together. Unfortunately, the pair presenting it are rather flat, and they take far to long over it - it's a two minute show about just the one thing. Unless it's going to be coming out very frequently, that's not enough for a link based show - either it'll need to be daily, or they need to stick more into their show. Personally I'd say that they could've reduced that review down to 30-45 seconds, and then had another 2-3 more links in the show.

So, good idea, bad execution.

Urgh

Still ill. No more throwing up (though I've felt close a couple of times), which is good for me and better for others as it suggests I likely didn't have Noro or the other thing. Still feeling somewhat nauseated, and feeling like my brain is packed in cotton wool at times. I'm too used to just ignoring any feelings of illness, so this is rather annoying.

In other news, I've gotten sufficiently tired of my phone that I'm going to look into getting a new one, though likely more seriously doing so when I'm not ill. I currently have one of these, but I've found the PDA aspects of it insufficiently useful and switched back to using a Palm TX instead for that. And once that's gone, it's not good enough as a phone - the battery life seems fairly awful, and when I try and answer it, frequently it refuses the call.

So, while I'm tempted to go back to a 'just a phone, bugger all this complicated crap' model, but I'm also considering getting some kind of camera phone instead. I've got a DSLR for when I can carry a big camera around, but I'd like a camera I can carry around with me all the time. I can just get a small camera for that, but it could make things simpler and make me have it with me more if I instead get a cameraphone.

Can anyone reccommend one? Vaguely looking at hawklord2112, but all reccomendations are welcome.

What I'm after is:

• Simple, reliable phone side of things


• Compatible with my current Virgin simm card


• Good quality camera, preferably with flash - I won't be using it for "I really need to get a great picture of this", but I want to be able to take decent quality photos of the random things I see and wish to photo.


• Decent battery life


• Easy to transfer photos on and off it, both via mac and PC. An SD card slot would be nice


If what's available ain't that great, I may well just go for getting a small, not too expensive digital camera instead.