God, so much work and other stuff going on in my life. Here’s a round of some bits and peices.

The ecommerce project I have been working on all summer has finally launched. Baby Star are a New Zealand company that have two shops selling baby clothing and accessories. My partner on this project, designer James Morse, and me have been turning the ugly OSCommerce product into something that’s actually quite lovely. And we’ve stripped out the tables and made it all with CSS positioning. No mean feat when it’s your first experience with ecommerce.

I’ve also been working on a much smaller website for Waters Hair Stylists in Brighton, a local hair salon. I created a simple, clean design, creating a professional and relaxing feel. Also we have plans to add many more pages, such as products and tanning solutions, so I have built this flexibility into the site. Using CSS for all styles and positioning speeds up any future site development.

Also:

Charlie Brooker feels the same as me about spiders. I’m glad they’ve nearly all gone now.

The last day of shootong on The Wire. This is a spoiler free article from The Washington Post about feelings during the final day’s shoot on ‘the best TV series ever’.

The 20 most bizarre experiments of all time.

John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein. Video discussing her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

Hexiom. The game. I’m stuck on level 28.

I must draw your attention to some amazing free-to-download mixes by Brighton DJ Matt Pond. Matt has been spinning tunes locally for many years now and has kept his distinctive deep underground house sets up to date when many others have fallen back to the more commercial sound of lounge house.

Matt records a fortnightly mix for Fear Of Radio under his Deep Systems moniker featuring the latest deep underground house cuts from around the globe. You can stream these live from the site but I’d recommend downloading some of his archived mixes available from the site. Matt’s mixes are the fourth lot down on the page.

My two favourite from that list are his 20-07-07 show featuring some more experimental african beats from Jenifa Mayanja, Blaze and Trinidadian Deep and his 14-09-07 mix filled with a number of Charles Webster remixes ending with a haunting Radiohead edit by Afefe Iku. Tracklistings are available at his MySpace Blog.

Also, while you’re at Fear Of Music there are a whole host of other DJ radio shows to download such as the Hedonizm, Covert and Askew shows. All are free and perfect for your mp3 player of choice.