renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll counter-culture | life | design | geek stuff | otaku | social engineering | marketing

Links of the day

BBC NEWS | Nintendo Wii sales hit 50 million – fastest selling games console in history

Made in design – cool contemporary design stuff

Smartphone Sales to Keep Growing

The Sorry State of the Newspaper Industry: Advertising Income Fell 16.6% in 2008 – ReadWriteWeb

Skynet search – really nice search hack by university students

Qaiku – Twitter like service

Want to Save Money? Carry Around $100 Bills – TIME

Malaysia’s big turn off | Market-interactive.com – interesting Malaysian take on the Earth Hour phenomena

Openrice – Hong Kong Restaurants Guide – Most of the reviews are in Chinese

middledigit.net | jonathan hopkins » Digital meets analogue, online meets offline – Jonathan on the web of no web, how the matrix is bleeding into real life and vice versa

Akamai Data: Internet, Broadband Still Going & Growing

Clinique, Sony Star in Web Sitcom – WSJ.com

Hunch – sign up without delay

Public timeline – MicroPlaza

Google Updates Blog Search Algorithm | WebProNews

Earnings: 3 Group Narrows Losses As Mobile Broadband Surges | mocoNews

EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers | TorrentFreak

Prepaid subscribers continue to flourish in Europe – Rethink Wireless




Back to Home

renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll - Created by Ged and offered to surfers (or whatever folks do on the 'web now) under a BSD licence. From a technology perspective this site like so many others is powered by WordPress and supercharged with caffiene. It looks minimalist, yet aesthetically pleasing thanks to a slightly tweaked version of DePo Skinny Theme designed by the talented Mr Powazek. The site is hosted on a grid service by the clever people at Media Temple (mt).