http://www.benhanbury.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 03 May 2008 09:28:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't understand how this could of happened? A right-wing, upper-class, Eton prefect who only got into politics because his dad was already an elected tory MP becomes Major of London! (Does he even live in London - wasn't he previously the MP for Henley?) Oh well apparently he's a keen ... http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/05/03/noooooooo/ The mixtape for this month is "Music for Montages": whether you're workin up to that big fight, practicing your dance routine or just want to be the best of the best - to turn that 3 months of training into 3 minutes you're gonna need a good montage with a ... http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/05/02/may-mixtape-music-for-montages/ Time to vote for who's gonna be the big boss round London. Why anyone would vote for this man is beyond my understanding?!: http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/05/01/london-mayoral-elections/ Big iPlayer news today - the service has had it's first launch onto a TV platform, starting off with the Virgin Media set top boxes with other services to follow. More info on the BBC internet blog http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/30/iplayer-on-tv/ Wow I think Smashing Magazine definitely gets the favourite blog of the month award - a great post here all about retro and vintage design (I particularly love James White's "retro cosmic" stuff!) http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/22/vintage-and-retro-design/ Stumbled upon this in Make Magazine, it's pretty random - there's something I really like about it though? (Reminds me of something you'd see in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil?) Check out this clip of it in action http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/21/rumbletv/ I had a quick flick through the Apple Quicktime site to see if there was any cool trailers for upcoming films over the summer. Unfortunately it seems that yet again Hollywood seems to be churning out film adaptations of comic-book superheroes?! I understand that by doing so they tap into ... http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/21/superhero-movies-always-bad-films/ I really enjoyed the Future of Web Design conference today, most of the talks were really interesting. I particularly enjoyed Andy Budd (Clearleft) talking about the 'user experience design curve', Paul Farnell (Litmus) talking about unconventional ways of promoting sites, Daniel Burka (Digg) on iterative and adaptive design and a ... http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/17/future-of-web-design-conference-2/ I watched this the other week - the Family Guy episode "Blue Harvest" which is essentially a big parody of the original Star Wars film. However this is easily my favourite clip - who knew that the whole story kicked off because of bad user interface design?! Watch on YouTube http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/15/family-guy-on-bad-interaction-design/ Thought it was time to get the podcasts up and happening again, I think (like blogging) it's a case of little and often, so here's a little mix to celebrate that it's now still sunny when you finish work - hooray! Download file: (Right click the link below and select "Save ... http://www.benhanbury.com/2008/04/12/new-podcast-daylight-savings-mix/