iPod engraving at Apple Store UK

Not a surprise to some people, I'm sure. But Nikki pointed me to the Apple Store UK site yesterday where you are able to engrave your iPod before ordering. Lovely idea. Just means you spend half an hour deliberating what to put on there. Then realise that no ones going to see it anyway.

Bit like ring tones in that respect surely? Spend ages choosing a 'unique' ring tone that really reflects your personality - only to find that it just bugs the pittabread out of everyone.

New TED site

There's a new TED site going live later today. You can register and become a small part of the TED community for free.

One of the things I like about the new site is the inclusion of embed code for talks (though they it's certainly a clipboard full). So I am able to publish the following video of Richard St John's excellent Success talk on my site.

You can view my profile (I think) at http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/2535

Look forward to exploring this site some more. Plenty of great stuff there.



Update- probably worth noting that I had add a closing 'embed' tag so that Blogger would publish the post. Not the first time I've had this issue. Whose fault is that? Blogger or TED?

Link dump - 2007 03 29

Daily Fit Tip: Don't quit coffee

FitBeauty: Pamper your piggies - for Nikki

Ineeka has cool tea bags

Starbucks Gossip: Starbucks barista: We're not your friends (but your tips are appreciated) - liked the comments on this post.

Whisky School Cruises To Islay - for the giftlist!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Dell gives the go-ahead for Linux

Next-generation Skype Trojan hits web

Cinematical - Bondcast

Get rich quick! (In, say, 1 or 2 generations)

One of the things that fascinates me about Motely Fool's recent article The Secrets of Nine-Figure Fortunes is just the sheer patience of the investors. Most of the original investors of the now nine figure legacies never even got to see the 9th digit. Though alot were privy to the 8th - which is no mean feat when they'd only invested around $20,000. I know that's alot of money back in 1957 and probably alot of those investors were fairly wealthy to start with. But in this day of Get-Rich/Loose-Weight/Establish-a-meaningful-relationship Quick advice that we seem to thrive on it's interesting to reflect that most 'rich' families got there through the hard work and patience of a ancestor. Most of the time with the original patriarch thinking more about the welfare of future generations that their own. A trait that we don't venerate enough.

Invites are like drinks

My brother sent me an invite to Joost today.

I am pretty easy when it comes to signing up for a new web app (slap a jazzy interface on it and I'm anyone's). But personal recomendations and invites are always something I enjoy. After all that's how I started with Gmail! But I found myself in an almost jovial mood as I tried out Joost - such as I might if someone bought me a drink unexpectedly.

Maybe I'm just saying this because I went to the pub at lunchtime (I only had a coke!).

Digital Ethnography Video

This is just a beautiful video that my brother, Antony, linked to on his blog open.typepad.com (indeed, widely linked to elsewhere).



Further Links:
Interview with the creator, Micheal Wesch (Hat tip to Jackie Danicki) as conducted by John Battelle (whose office I love!).
Digital Ethnography Blog.

More comments from me to come.

Webcrawl: Cool hunter

BBC7 ListenAgain has William Gibson's Pattern Recognition for you to listen to. Do so before Monday to catch the first episode.

Following a suggestion in the text to "Google 'Cool Hunter'" I came across TheCoolHunter.net, a style-orientated Cool Hunting blog. From there you can pop over to Face Hunter, a curiously interesting blog of some bloke taking pictures of stylish (or not-so) persons-about-Paris. My S-I-L, Anni, would no doubt find this of interest. Can't wait to see her on it.