things that only i could care about

an ‘M’ book with no Culture ?

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Lonely planets: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1290570,00.html
Nice Einsteinian physics in the excerpt, but it makes me uneasy as it has a bit too much of a heavy handed ‘modern parable’ feel to it. Mind you, I’m very likely to get it at some point

Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion

Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion: http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html
Very helpful.

monkey see, monkey do

It’s time to get technical, so I’ve finally got around to adding SPF to one of my domains. Being the cautious type that I am, it’s not actually a heavily used domain (in fact, due to the large numbers of Italian messages received in the past it currently only accepts three incoming addresses) but [...]

bye bye FP4 ?

PhotographyBLOG -:- Ilford Goes Into Administration http://www.photographyblog.com/weblog.php?id=P3504

reality gets another dose of star trek

PhysicsWeb – Glass breakthrough: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/8/9
Ok, so no whales this time, just transparent aluminium/aluminum… I’m impressed, but just want replicators !

making an unabridged audio album from a dvd in mac os x

I’m pretty sure this is covered by most ‘fair use’ clauses (do check your own laws: IANAL) but is intended for people with a DVD and a DVD-ROM drive who want the soundtrack to the film but don’t feel the need to pay twice for the same material on different media…
Pretty much all you need [...]

they’re getting there…

Macworld UK – Online music ‘rewriting the rules’: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9443
Yup, parts of the music industry are finally starting to get there, but it’s just so painful to watch… Is this just due to (unreasonably) expecting RL companies to move in Internet Time, or has a big ClueStick been applied at last ?
Mind you, it could [...]