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Tweeked. Weekly thoughts and links from Zerofee 2010-08-29

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  • iOS mul­ti­task­ing. Any tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit, or do oth­ers share the same impaired expe­ri­ence? Feels oblig­a­tory, not use­ful, in most cases. #
  • Is it true that Dragon’s Den is/was filmed in Stoke New­ing­ton (the ‘cas­tle’ climb­ing place)? Am actu­ally indif­fer­ent, but bored at the mo. #
  • .@StokeyL­it­Fest Ah, too kind. (For lit­er­ary, knit­ting and infes­ta­tion tweets, #FF StokeyL­it­Fest!) #
  • If the last tweet sounds pompous, I’m sorry. It’s nowhere near as time con­sum­ing for you to find a name as it is for us to read and respond. #
  • New (over­due) pol­icy. We’re busy, so any CVs / enquiries that include ‘Dear Sir/Madam’ will join the other generic 0’s and 1’s in the Trash. #
  • Wow. It’s like @Upstart76 has hijacked YouTube. http://myze.ro/_lfg9 #
  • Helio­cen­tric. Mes­meris­ing video work by Semi­con­duc­tor. http://myze.ro/_jps #
  • Guardian selects the ‘best posters of the Fringe’. Would hate to see a piece about the worst. http://bit.ly/aQ79Xv #
  • Rolling Shut­ter Flickr group – acci­den­tal pho­to­graphic effects. http://bit.ly/bXtp56 via @akosma #
  • Bet­ter­Touch­Tool – an alter­na­tive to the stress-relieving Mag­icprefs – http://myze.ro/qre1d via @Amper­sander­son #
  • Visual iden­tity can’t sal­vage an organ­i­sa­tion from fear and hate fueled con­fu­sion. http://myze.ro/i2 via @ChangeOb­server #
  • Out­sider art. Fas­ci­nat­ing to see what hap­pens when we come off the rails of soci­ety, fash­ion and per­cep­tion http://myze.ro/qm4 #
  • Thanks to @H_FJ for the http://magicprefs.com tip – a coin­ci­den­tal answer to an ear­lier Twit­ter prayer. Life in Illus­tra­tor now = bear­able. #
  • Pre-Emptive Prod­uct Place­ment. Asso­ci­at­ing competitor’s brand with an unde­sir­able http://myze.ro/nu578 > @ste­fan­liute @gridinoc @meme­hack­ing #
  • Typo­graphic signage/wayfinding illu­sions. Ben­e­fi­cial, or totally dis­ori­en­tat­ing in prac­tice? http://myze.ro/uknj4 #
  • Eat­ing or drink­ing any­thing today? You might like to choose some­thing not pro­duced by these preda­tors http://myze.ro/lri5b #
  • Can’t bank with Coop any more, ethics or no. The new inter­net bank­ing is dread­ful. Any other real­is­tic eth­i­cal busi­ness options please? #
  • ‘Pet­ti­fog­ger’ – now there’s a word that sum­marises a few peo­ple I’ve known. http://t.co/A4Oxp5D via @OUP­blo­gUSA @paw115 #
  • “Nestlé sued (x5) Frye­burg – a clear attempt to lit­i­gate a tiny town into insol­vency, win­ning the right to tap the local aquifer by default” #
  • Scroll­bar tsunami! http://myze.ro/0ln4d via @Aen #
  • Peri­odic table-style pre­sen­ta­tion of HTML5 ele­ments, with site inspec­tor http://myze.ro/yqz7 #
  • Susan should per­form ‘My Lovely Horse’ for the pope. Can’t you pull some strings, @Glin­ner? http://myze.ro/6d #
  • I’m con­di­tioned to find ‘back to school’ mar­ket­ing depress­ing. Last rites for the sum­mer. #
  • Fan­tas­tic, on sev­eral lev­els. US vot­ing machine hacked to run Pac-Man, with­out even break­ing the tam­per seals. http://myze.ro/11yp #
  • Coca Cola’s real-world Face­book. A vol­un­tary, sug­ary 1984 for stu­pid peo­ple. http://myze.ro/p via @greenor­mal #
  • Celebri­ties wear­ing ‘£20 Power Bal­ance bands, which are meant to enhance the body’s pos­i­tive fre­quen­cies’ *facepalm* http://myze.ro/n67s #
  • Won­der if wheelie bin cat lady will get a pet to keep her com­pany in the Outer Hebrides? #
  • Noth­ing says qual­ity blog like a stack of ads for Qual­i­tyPro­gram­mers, Peo­plePer­Hour and 99Designs stuffed in ahead of the con­tent. #
  • Shoulda bought a DeLorean http://myze.ro/y7l #
  • Reminded that I have one of these in the cel­lar. Some ass drilled a hole in the side and fit­ted a switch, though. http://flic.kr/p/8u4ACq #
  • If you crip­ple my brows­ing and, worse still, work in progress with your @!$*& Flash ads, I will stu­diously avoid your prod­uct or ser­vice. #
  • Top 10 brands by social media men­tions – http://myze.ro/9x – inter­est­ing, but an insight dead-end. Doubt GE enjoy same sen­ti­ment as Apple. #
  • Sev­eral days in Illus­tra­tor ahead. Just load­ing it has pro­voked a beach­ball which, despite the imagery, is no fun. #
  • Atari 2600 code visu­alised in poster form. How many rooms could you wall­pa­per with today’s game code? http://myze.ro/0m via @TonyAl­brecht #
  • Edge cov­ers @epicwinapp. Van­quish the hoover­ing! http://myze.ro/gmp #
  • In response to this won­der­ful August we’re enjoy­ing (endur­ing?), here’s a very manly umbrella. http://myze.ro/mpe #
  • Helps put a dif­fi­cult Mon­day firmly into proper per­spec­tive – http://tinyurl.com/2c85x65 via @dav­em­c­court #
  • It shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t. Blue­grass Guns n Roses trib­ute – http://bit.ly/a73cn2 #
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