I have a soft spot for "end of the world" stories and one of my most recent favorites is When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by the one and only Cory Doctorow. The podcast is excellent.
MIT has a great podacast up from a Scott McCloud talk promoting his book Making Comics
MIT has a great podacast up from a Scott McCloud talk promoting his book Making Comics. Coming in at a hefty 2h and 16mins (just my style) the presentation does loose a lot with out the slides but there is still plenty of info to gleam. I'm so sad I missed this presentation!
Round 2 of voting for SXSW panels
Round 2 of voting for SXSW panels. go get your vote on.
Kevin Airgid’s book Web Designers Success Guide is now a free PDF
Kevin Airgid's book Web Designers Success Guide is now a free PDF. Download this while you still can for some of the best practical advice on going freelance without falling on your face. Not an ebook fan? You can still buy the book from Lulu for only $25. I did and I was not sorry. cheers.
An amazing article about the 2004 elections
An amazing article about the 2004 elections and how it did not match up with the exit polls which were the most scientific poll in history. ''virtually irrefutable evidence of vote miscount.'' The discrepancies, the experts add, ''are consistent with the hypothesis that Kerry would have won Ohio's electoral votes if Ohio's official vote counts had accurately reflected voter intent.''