A three-dimensional image viewer

Mapping out history's greatest journeys, from Magellan to Lindbergh

An old article—and no doubt familiar if you read the Onion back in the dotcom years—but one worth reading again now that we're in the final few months of the Bush administration. Uncannily prescient satire from back in January 2001.

Interesting article and thread on the idea of web agencies using their skills and downtime to build small-scale sites and web-apps. It's certainly a better way to use downtime than playing World of Warcraft, if you ask me

A Flash-based timeline depicting the migrations from Africa that led to humankind's propagation. A low point was the aftermath of Mount Toba's eruption in 74,000 BC during which the human population dropped to around 10,000

Web analytics and behavioural targetting. Let MC Hammer show you it.

Review of the Museum of Jurassic Technology – a kind of modern-day Cabinet of Curiosities – in Los Angeles

The National Science Foundation's interactive quasi-timeline on the birth of the internet, from the development of ARPANET in the 1960s, the first email sent in the 1970s ("LOLZORZ", it said) and right up to the "web 2.0" of today. …No mention of Goatse

An experimental site which tries to visualise debates as colour coded 'maps' with several layers of recursion. Topics include, "can computers think?", "Iranian nuclear programme" and a map of Hamlet's existential dilemma, "to be or not to be?"

Is the convention for left hand navigation on its way out? Flow Interactive thinks it might be.

Roughly a decade too late, the BBC is now experimenting with in-line links to external sources in its news articles. This adoption of one of the most basic features of hypertext is sadly flawed, however, relying mainly on popups and overlays

BT has published some research, looking at shoppers who use mobile internet to make purchase decisions while out and about. But this article is basically a rewritten press release – where's the source?

Fans of The Day Today and Brass Eye will enjoy this baffling article about "digital drugs", the new scourge for the 21st century.

Republican presidential candidate McCain should read up on recent history, with a specific focus on the nation he's looking to lead.

Brad Templeton on why robot cars will be good

Some forecasting scenarios that informed the Adaptive Path/Mozilla Labs "Aurora" concept

The Aurora browser prototype featured a hidden easter egg, namely the agent from Apple's "Knowledge Navigator", a 1987 concept piece partly anticipating future developments in human-computer interaction

A list of reasons why businesses sometimes fail when trying to make use of Twitter as a communications tool

Kumi Akiyoshi of Adaptive Path writes about the visual design work that went into the Aurora user experience concept video

A collection of links to piano & keyboard applications – handy for trying to write melodies when the boss isn't looking.

Gmail's outage on Monday caused me to spend quite a while looking at its "sorry" page. This got me thinking, what are the best examples of "sorry" pages? Well, here are a few examples (it's an old link though so no Twitter "fail whale"!)

An application for Macs that shuts down all network connections for a user-specified period of time, allowing you to focus on work without the distractions of the interwebs.

Really handy Firefox plugin, allowing you to take screenshots from your browser, crop them, upload them and specify style attributes literally within minutes

As part of my ongoing absorption into the world of Twitter, I'm seeing if I can use it as a time management tool by incorporating it with Remember The Milk, a web based task management service.

Graphic visualisation (plus audio) of Ligeti's "Artikulation" from 1958. Shapes and colours are used instead of traditional musical notation.

Mozilla Labs post about their Snowl project, an experimental Firefox extension integrating messaging into the web browser. Intended to combine all inbound messages – email, Twitter, RSS feeds, online forums – into one single view.