Hi, I’m Tom. I make things for the web and work at 383project. I also run a music tumblr called +pluggedTumblr (3.0; @deplorableword)http://thedeplorableword.net/“a lot of the time in software it is easy to get lost in the weeds solving hard technical problems that are due to complexity we’ve imposed on ourselves due to some well meaning design decision instead of actually solving customer problems.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2010/08/27/LessonsFromGoogleWaveAndRESTVsSOAPFightingComplexityOfOurOwnChoosing.aspx">Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Lessons from Google Wave and REST vs. SOAP: Fighting Complexity of our own Choosing</a> (via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</em>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1030355103http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1030355103Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:11:32 +0100<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R1v0uFms68U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R1v0uFms68U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-walking-dead-trailer/">The Walking Dead trailer</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1009168123http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1009168123Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:08:32 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7o541E8HU1qz4ekko1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>“In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city”</p> <p><a href="http://www.urbagram.net/archipelago/">Archipelago | URBAGRAM</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1004418709http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1004418709Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:09:37 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7nql2s6S61qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://butdoesitfloat.com/552290/There-is-strong-shadow-where-there-is-much-light?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ButDoesItFloat+%28but+does+it+float%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">There is strong shadow where there is much light</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1003332286http://thedeplorableword.net/post/1003332286Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:55:50 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7m4ufIuIc1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s me, at my new job, in green, looking oddly scared.</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/998565198http://thedeplorableword.net/post/998565198Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:08:37 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7gdk4Kgxs1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My iMac has been overshadowed by a new office arrival</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/982373263http://thedeplorableword.net/post/982373263Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:30:12 +0100“‘Imagine you’re with 400 of your best friends,’ he said, almost convincing me that I had 400 best friends. ‘You go to Richmond Park International. At 11 o’clock on Thursday you get on board the SkyCat200. There are hundreds of staterooms on it and you dinner dance your way across the Atlantic. At two o’clock on Friday afternoon you’re getting off at the East River in New York. You’ve travelled 3,000 miles overnight and there’s no jet lag.’”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7918762/Airships-a-second-age.html">Airships: a second age - Telegraph</a> (via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</em>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/981394644http://thedeplorableword.net/post/981394644Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:25:33 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7ap68GJ5c1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/4856253668/">Hierarchy of Robot Needs</a> (by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath">Tobias Lunchbreath</a>)</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/966859063http://thedeplorableword.net/post/966859063Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:56:32 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6y8tgTuWL1qz4ekko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>More Visualisations like <a href="http://weeplaces.com">this</a> please Internet,  </p> <p>Thanks</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/932921708http://thedeplorableword.net/post/932921708Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:32:04 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6y7jq4DgG1qz4ekko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple:”</p> <p><a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/">Don’t Be Ugly By Accident!</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/932817674http://thedeplorableword.net/post/932817674Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:04:37 +0100<a href="http://blog.unixy.net/2010/07/how-to-build-your-own-cdn-using-bind-geoip-nginx-and-varnish/">How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, Varnish | UNIXy</a>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/926207224http://thedeplorableword.net/post/926207224Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:16:09 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6vl9aamYq1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lucy.beat13.co.uk/2010/07/28/anything-is-possible/">Anything is Possible</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/926184851http://thedeplorableword.net/post/926184851Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:07:57 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6s80aV7Av1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Going for gold!</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/917467735http://thedeplorableword.net/post/917467735Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:28:58 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6qd3zgQWW1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lunchtime breakfast smash</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/912469920http://thedeplorableword.net/post/912469920Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:23:59 +0100“The person responsible for something must have control over it.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=409881258919">Scaling Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond</a></em>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/894941032http://thedeplorableword.net/post/894941032Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:08:57 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6h7jhO5jk1qz4ekko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.elasticspace.com/2010/07/the-longest-photographic-exposures">The Longest Photographic Exposures</a></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/888691725http://thedeplorableword.net/post/888691725Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:45:16 +0100<a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1498">The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute -- Lim et al. 331 (7531): 1498 -- BMJ</a>: <p><span> <p><strong>Objectives</strong> To determine the overall rate of loss of workplaceteaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlatedwith the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom.</p> </span></p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/879316458http://thedeplorableword.net/post/879316458Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:13:33 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l60gjdfWyH1qz4ekko1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Glastonbury, one month on </p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/849393737http://thedeplorableword.net/post/849393737Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:40:25 +0100<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9916119&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9916119&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9916119&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Papa Sangre is a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device. Which was BLOODY HARD.</p>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/844860239http://thedeplorableword.net/post/844860239Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:46:57 +0100“When an AT&T representative suggested to one of Jobs’ deputies that the Apple CEO wear a suit to meet with AT&T’s board of directors, he was told, “We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1">Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown</a></em>http://thedeplorableword.net/post/833723761http://thedeplorableword.net/post/833723761Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:37:47 +0100