Links for 24-11-08

First, on the energy monitoring front clever people have started to build things - here's a prototype desktop app to parse data from your Current Cost electricity monitor and then share it on the web. I'm going to try this out soon but I've been oscillating between using something like this (or the code libraries out there) or making my own. By the way, if you want a Current Cost, buy one from their EBay shop, all the latest models and cables. And in the last missive from Bruce Sterling's Viridian movement he suggests getting rid of all that junk you've got but keeping the good ones - "The items that you use incessantly, the items you employ every day, the normal, boring goods that don't seem luxurious or romantic: these are the critical ones. They are truly central. The everyday object is the monarch of all objects"

I've been thinking a bit about activity streams on the web and how to mark them up, there's a bit here on Adding richness to activity streams and there's a big table of activity streams around the web on this wiki.

In Icelandic news; Iceland is Out of Orbit - I have no idea what this infographic is trying to show, but it's some kind of representation of Iceland and its financial situation in the form of orbiting planets. And Fiona Sims discovers the new culinary movement in Reykjavik in the Guardian - "'After next month you won't see any more foie gras on the menu in Iceland - it's all about sourcing as locally as possible now,' says Ulfar Finnbjornsson, food critic for Gestgjafinn, the country's top (and only) gourmet food magazine, and my foodie guide to the city."

And finally The Bad Plus check out Google's Life photographic archive for jazz dudes - "Holy shit, check out Coltrane's shades!"

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