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Technology: The true fathers of computing | The Observer
"Dyson's account of how the Von Neumann machine was conceived and built is a beautiful example of technological storytelling." "Having finished it, I emailed George Dyson to explore some of the ideas in it that had intrigued me. Here is an edited transcript of our online conversation." John Naughton interview on the eve of the release of Turing's Cathedral.
computing  history  vonneumann  alanturing  georgedyson  princeton  ias  interview  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
An interview with Amber Case | The Setup
via blaine: "Amber Case (@caseorganic)'s interview over at The Setup is awesome. [Sod] Jetpacks, Amber's world is amazing."
interview  ambercase  via:@blaine  via:@waferbaby  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Saci Lloyd: 'It's not squids in outer space' | guardian.co.uk
Get past the slightly annoying headline and this looks to be well worth a read. "Her current novel, Momentum, is a fast-paced thriller set in a post-oil age of energy crises and police crackdowns on freedom. It follows two novels, The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017, which tackle carbon rationing and environmental meltdown through the eyes of a teenage girl and her family."
guardian  books  interview  peakoil  sciencefiction  novel  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
A life in writing: China Miéville | The Guardian
An interview with China Miéville in the Guardian, talking about genre fiction, London, politics, and all sorts of other things.
guardian  interview  books  sciencefiction  london  politics  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Scott Pilgrim vs the World | The Art of the Title Sequence
I think it was only at the third time I watched this that I realised how nicely each of the film-scratch sketches map out the characters. It's a really good sequence (and, with a lot of the other things in the movie, surprisingly subtle).
movies  animation  design  interview  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Our peculiar relationship with service stations | Motortorque
"We can all expect to have to pull into a motorway service station from time-to-time." An interview with the author of Food on the Move.
uk  motorway  architecture  food  culture  modernism  1960s  book  interview  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
"Funny Games" Poster Designer Akiko Stehrenberger | MUBI
"I was thrilled to get an email this week from Akiko Stehrenberger, the designer of my favorite movie poster of the last decade. She had been told by friends about her chart-topping appearance and agreed to do an interview for this column." There's some good bits in here about fighting back against "more is less" thinking in poster design.
design  film  poster  interview  from instapaper
december 2010 by blech
Digital cartographer Eric Fischer maps race, crime | SFGate
"Eric Fischer, an Oakland amateur digital cartographer, mines data found online to examine the information that people leave in their wake - anonymously, on sites like Flickr.com, Cabspotting.org and a NextBus.com - to reveal the patterns of a city."
sanfrancisco  geography  interview  maps  sfgate  via:migurski  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
On location at Euston Station | Verso Books
'The Modernist station, built in the 1960s, replaced the original station of the early 19th century, demolished along with the iconic Euston Arch. Whilst Stamp laments the “gratuitous destruction” of the old Doric gateway, Hatherley thinks that the new complex is “unspectacular but reasonably decent.”'
london  euston  architecture  radio  interview  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Instapaper's Creation & Plan to Add Social Features | ReadWriteWeb
Speaking of Instapaper, here's an interview with Marco Arment. The meat is towards the end (annoyingly, split over onto a second page, so Instapaper users have to use print page hacks), where he talks about adding a full API and social features.
instapaper  marcoarment  interview  development  iphone  mobile  api  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Does this man have the power to save the Tube? | This Is London
Obviously, the Evening Standard has to headline this "London's ailing Tube", which I've shortened, but nonetheless this is an interesting interview with Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground.
london  eveningstandard  tube  tfl  lul  interview  politics  victorialine  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Anonymous Facebook Employee | The Rumpus.net
An interesting interview (assuming it's true) on Facebook, privacy, administration tools ("You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use."), statistics and user analysis, and an upcoming compiled PHP. As an aside, it seems Facebook now has a London data centre.
facebook  privacy  development  technology  interview  php  via:zimpenfish  via:simonwillison 
january 2010 by blech
POV - City of Cranes . Interview | PBS
An interview with Eva Weber, the director of both City of Cranes and the Solitary Life of Cranes. "What I didn't realize was that making this film might actually take longer than it would for the crane drivers to put up a 50-storey building."
london  crane  television  documentary  interview  craneporn  pbs 
december 2009 by blech
The Impossible Project: Bringing back Polaroid | Wired UK
Wired's interesting article on Polaroid, although a bit more technical detail would have been nice (I should read up on the process; why were negatives so tricky?)
wired  camera  photography  polaroid  article  interview 
november 2009 by blech
The Books Interview: Iain Banks | New Statesman
Ken Livingstone interviews Iain Banks, although really it's his science-fiction writing M persona that takes up the lion's share. Of course, politics gets a mention too.
iainbanks  interview  newstatesman  kenlivingstone  sciencefiction  books  politics  via:yoz 
september 2009 by blech
Noel Sharkey: AI is a dangerous dream | New Scientist
"'You believe that there are dangers if we fool ourselves into believing the AI myth?' 'It is likely to accelerate our progress towards a dystopian world in which wars, policing and care of the vulnerable are carried out by technological artefacts that have no possibility of empathy, compassion or understanding.'"
newscientist  interview  computing  ai  future  chess 
august 2009 by blech
Frank Serafine Interview | Tron Wiki
An interview with the sound designer for Tron (amongst many other things).
tron  music  sound  film  interview  wiki 
july 2009 by blech
JG Ballard on what's wrong with London | Architects Journal
"London is a low-rise city of of vast area rather like Los Angeles - it’s about the same size. LA built the freeway system, and that’s what we need - a freeway system all over London - roads up in the air, carrying people free of the ground so that the ground is left for local traffic" He's also amusingly scathing about London's housing stock.
london  losangeles  planning  architecture  motoring  interview  jgballard 
july 2009 by blech
'The high priest of gothic miserablism' | Guardian
"His latest book is set 6.4m years in the future, he admits to stealing other writers' ideas - and he's just secured a £1m book deal. Stuart Jeffries enters the fantastic world of Alastair Reynolds" (I've mangled the headline a bit.)
guardian  books  interview  sciencefiction  reynolds 
july 2009 by blech
John Harris interviews Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter | The Guardian
'What he says next is probably not intended as his verdict on Twitter - a Kraftwerkian development, if ever there was one - but it may as well be. "Everybody is becoming like ... " - he pauses - "a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."'
guardian  interview  music  kraftwerk  quote  twitter 
june 2009 by blech
Nolan Bushnell | The Guardian
Subtitled "meet the Bafta-winning father of the videogames industry", this is an interesting look back at a career that only has its bookends in the subject at hand. No less worth reading for that, mind you.
interview  games  history  computing  atari  apple  guardian 
march 2009 by blech
Ricoh looks to increase dynamic range with CX1 | DPReview
A new Ricoh compact camera, with a CMOS (not CCD) sensor, and built-in HDR compositing. "However, Hongoh stresses that its feature isn't trying to produce the fashionable, heavily-processed 'HDR-look.' 'it aims to portray the scene in as natural a way as possible,' he says."
ricoh  camera  photography  hdr  dpreview  interview 
february 2009 by blech
Bob Stanley On London | The Quietus
The full title was far too long for a link, so here it is: Things I Have Learned - Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley On The Architecture Of London. "London is unique because of that. Cities like Paris and Barcelona have been completely rebuilt at some point. We've got Rosebury Avenue, Shaftesbury Avenue, which are quite Parisian, but they were just cutting through slums."
london  architecture  interview  saintetienne 
february 2009 by blech
Nicholas Felton: Curating Personal Behavior | S V A
"I was very excited, for example, to realize I could easily calculate an average speed for the year once I had calculated how many miles I had traveled."
design  visualisation  interview  feltron 
february 2009 by blech
For those in peril on the sea | EADT
" 'Where's Zeb Soanes?' And I said, “That's me.' And she said, 'No it's not.' “I said, 'I'm sorry?' And she said, 'You have a beard.' And I said, 'I'm sorry?' And she said, 'In my head you have a beard.'" He doesn't have a beard in my head, but I am surprised at how young he is.
radio4  shippingforecast  announcer  interview  suffolk 
february 2009 by blech
Start the Week, 19 January 2009 | BBC Radio 4
" The scientist Graham Farmelo argues that Dirac has been overlooked due to his extreme distaste for publicity, which may have been a manifestation of his autism." A day left to download. Also that week, Ben Goldacre.
pauldirac  science  physics  quantumphysics  radio  radio4  interview  speechification 
january 2009 by blech
Internet sites could be given 'age ratings' | Telegraph
"When asked directly whether age ratings could be introduced, Mr Burnham replies: “Yes, that would be an option. This is an area that is really now coming into full focus.” ISPs, such as BT, Tiscali, AOL or Sky could also be forced to offer internet services where the only websites accessible are those deemed suitable for children."
internet  censorship  telegraph  interview  politics  uk  via:fraserspeirs 
december 2008 by blech
Tristan Ferne, and his 'startup' team | Guardian
"[The BBC] still sometimes treats the web as a supporting medium for broadcast programmes when it can be so much more than that." An interesting read from one of the members of the team at the Future Media and Technology group.
bbc  fmt  guardian  interview  radio 
december 2008 by blech
5 Questions for Gustavo | code.flickr.com
"Cache, cache, cache." Interesting stuff on large-scale data analysis on Flickr, including recommendation systems based on favourites.
flickr  code  developer  development  interview 
november 2008 by blech
Saint Etienne | Monocle
"St Etienne have mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic architecture." A video interview on Monocle.
video  saintetienne  interview  monocle  london  music 
october 2008 by blech
Philip Oltermann asks about guilty pleasures | guardian.co.uk
Richard Dawkins: "Isn't programming useful? In the right hands, yes. But my projects ... could all be done better (and were) by professionals. It was a classic addiction: prolonged frustration, occasionally rewarded by a briefly glowing fix of achievement."
guardian  article  comment  interview  computing  development  programming  culture  dawkins 
october 2008 by blech
5 Questions for Maciej Dakowicz | Flickr Blog
I wonder how someone like Maciej Dakowicz - one of Flickr's "names", as evidenced by this Flickr Blog interview - feels about the fine for taking a photo while someone's out drinking. See also: "davepuking", a winner of Tate Britain's "How We Are Now" competition last year.
photography  flickr  interview  counterpoint 
october 2008 by blech
He's the King of the Worlds | Wired
Neal Stephenson interview/promo piece in Wired this month, on the occasion of the release of Anathem, a (shock!) actual science fiction novel. It's as big as you'd expect (900 pages) and I still don't trust him to finish a story, or indeed have had any editing, but I'll get the hardback anyway.
wired  sciencefiction  nealstephenson  interview  books 
august 2008 by blech
Email Q&A July 2008 | Iain Banks
A series of questions and answers for Iain Banks. The one I particularly like is the "how do we get to be the Culture" one; I'd always thought AI but maybe GM is better. Of course, we'd have to figure out far more about the brain first...
iainbanks  interview  theculture  sciencefiction  via:malaclyps 
july 2008 by blech
Interview: Iain M. Banks | io9.com
A short interview (with a long title, which I've excised) to go with their review of Matter. Not much new, and I'm almost a little sad that Banks won't write the "Culture Hampstead" novel, even if he's right that it'd be dull.
iainbanks  books  interview  sciencefiction 
february 2008 by blech
Bjarne Tveskov, Lego Designer | Boing Boing Gadgets
A designer of some of the best Lego Space sets ever, including what looks like most of the Futuron and Blacktron ranges. I'd have loved the pictured sets in 1987; hell, I still would. Some great designs there (6848 particularly is a little gem).
lego  design  interview  via:infovore 
february 2008 by blech
Changing society, imagining the future | Socialist Review
An Iain Banks interview, touching on his passport (he's got one again), the socialism of the Culture, and whether Iraq influenced Matter, amongst other things.
iainbanks  literature  interview  politics  sciencefiction  via:g 
february 2008 by blech
Reach From The Sky | FUJIFILM UK Motion Picture
On the filming of the Catherine Yass art piece, Descent, at Canary Wharf.
london  art  video  interview  architecture  craneporn 
january 2008 by blech
Ken MacLeod on the near future | io9.com
I've liked MacLeod since The Star Fraction (the socialist remnants of a British republic fighting back; how could I not?) and I'm looking forward to the Execution Channel, albeit in paperback.
io9  sciencefiction  interview  science  politics 
january 2008 by blech
A Sherlockian At The Science Museum | More Intelligent Life
"Chris Rapley, the newly appointed director of London's Science Museum, talks to Robert Butler about Sherlock Holmes, climate change, and shifting the museum's focus from the past to the future"
economist  magazine  science  museum  sciencemuseum  london  interview  profile 
january 2008 by blech
The Zeugma: Interviews: Brian Griffin
An even older interview, from 1992, when Griffin stopped work with still images. I wonder what drew him back?
photography  interview  article 
november 2007 by blech
His dad’s pigs - The Reykjavík Grapevine Online
A Brian Griffin interview dating back to his retrospective at the Reykjavík Art Museum, which candace and I saw during our honeymoon.
photography  iceland  interview 
november 2007 by blech
Interview with Brian Griffin
MP3 unfortunately, so I haven't listened to it. Also has details of his exhibition at the German Gymnasium, near St Pancras itself.
london  photography  interview  audio 
november 2007 by blech
Sustainability and cradle to cradle design
Transcript of a Nightwaves show from Radio 3 earlier this year. I haven't read it yet, but I'm linking to it partly because I never run across randomness any more, and nobody else seems to have bookmarked it.
environment  radio  interview  transcript 
september 2007 by blech
Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica | Guardian Unlimited
Finally, London dates (at the ICA in September). There's also an exhibition at the Design Museum in London, which curiously didn't seem to be mentioned.
design  film  typography  guardian  interview  london  todo/gone 
july 2007 by blech
O'Reilly Network - Indie Mac Development in the UK
On exchange rates, Apple support, conferences and more. A good read.
apple  development  work  interview  via:gilest 
may 2007 by blech
Daring Fireball: Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates
Gruber's fighting talk after a comment about Mac vs Windows security in a Vista release interview, "It’s either an angry, slanderous lie, or Bill Gates is an uninformed jackass". More good stuff further therein.
daringfireball  windows  usability  innovation  interview  macos 
february 2007 by blech
Commercial Dispatch - MSU prof from Britain offers a lesson in diversity, in and out of classroom
Rob Harland wound up in Starkville - a town along from candace's home town - from Birmingham. It's an interesting interview.
starkville  mississippi  us  politics  music  interview  msu 
january 2007 by blech
Caterina Fake - .net magazine
"on those sites there was no such thing as a public photograph" I still think that's one of Flickr's great innovations. (Maybe working on CiG at the time skews me though.)
flickr  interview  design  toread 
november 2006 by blech
Daily Ink: Interview: Antonio Rodriguez
"Antonio Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Massachusetts based tabblo", an interesting presentation web app for photos
interview  flickr  photography  tabblo 
september 2006 by blech
Guardian Unlimited Arts | Bottom line
"As a new documentary lambasts the US movie censors, Xan Brooks meets their UK counterparts, who decide when pornography becomes art" The BBFC has become more a figure of fun than of scorn: "contains mild peril" advice, for example
guardian  interview  film  censorship 
september 2006 by blech
Independent Online Edition > Media > Ashley Highfield
What a... well, I don't want to swear. How about you insert your favourite rude word here and save me doing it? He's certainly not a geek, though. Management conslutant for PWC is more like it, rather than a BBC Model B tinkerer.
independent  interview  bbc 
august 2006 by blech
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Happiness is always a delusion
Railing against the happiness books
guardian  books  review  comment  interview  happiness  psychology  via:antimega 
july 2006 by blech
: clayton james cubitt :: Metropop Denim, With Tom Carden
Interesting photographs referred to at Ask Later; it looks like the art is overlaid on the photo but actually it was the other way around.
photography  software  design  art  article  interview 
july 2006 by blech
The Morning News - David Mitchell, by Robert Birnbaum
"All novels are collections of short stories" or somesuch. Hmm.
literature  interview  toread  via:rodcorp 
may 2006 by blech
New Scientist Premium- Interview: Designing a wish - Talking Point
Cameron Sinclair interview in this week's New Scientist. Annoyingly behind their paywall, but sounds interesting (if a bit boingboing-button-pleasing).
newscientist  architecture  interview 
march 2006 by blech
The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse
Short story by Susanna Clark
interview  book  fantasy  reading 
october 2005 by blech
JonathanStrange.com - interview
with Susanna Clarke
interview  book  fantasy  reading 
october 2005 by blech
Bookslut | An Interview with Susanna Clarke
I'm enjoying Strange and Norell, so here are the obvious interviews
interview  book  fantasy  reading 
october 2005 by blech
Rands In Repose: A Del.icio.us Interview
Interesting look behind the scenes of, er, del.icio.us.
delicious  development  interview 
december 2004 by blech

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