Archives for November 2006
When iPods take over the Earth... (November 28, 2006) This is a bit of a frivolous post, but what the hell. It's better than nothing. Highly entertaining images from the latest episode of the Simpsons. Firstly Ralph being a unitard: But my particular favourites, which I'm sure I'll have...
Links for 2006-11-28 (November 28, 2006) Apparently thinking of three good things that happened to you or you did before going to bed improves general happiness This is an AP story, heavily syndicated all over the internets. I wonder about things like the AP. It...
Links for 2006-11-25 (November 25, 2006) It looks like we might actually hit a point relatively soon where you can get two $US for the £ Everything in America is free....
To live in interesting times... (November 24, 2006) I just thought I should probably post something to say that I'm not dead, that instead I've just managed to hit tax season, tight deadlines, a few small speaking engagements in a row (more on those later) and one pretty...
Links for 2006-11-22 (November 22, 2006) Duncan Wilson and Sirrka Hammer's awesome wall of beautiful pixel post-its Really like this - the wall is painted red and then four layers of grey post-its, each a slightly lighter shade the one before are placed on top....
Links for 2006-11-20 (November 20, 2006) Richard Dawkins has written another essay about Atheism which I suppose is worth a read It's not the best essay, by any means, but it's vaguely interesting and of course I'm there with the sentiment. I wonder what draws...
Links for 2006-11-18 (November 18, 2006) New Popular Edition Maps is using 1940s public domain maps as a foundation to build a free UK Postcode database All you have to do is go to the site, find the place you grew up in or your...
Links for 2006-11-17 (November 17, 2006) A team of experts has drawn up five "grand challenges" in order to evaluate the safety of nanotechnology... This seems mostly concerned with the creation of new particulates rather than with any of the so-far science-fiction grey-goo assemblers that...
Thoughts around "Social by Design"... (November 15, 2006) No doubt tomorrow when they've sobered up there'll be a good bit of reportage from the Techcrunch UK guys about the Beers and Innovation: Social by Design event that I got back from a couple of hours ago, but since...
Links for 2006-11-15 (November 15, 2006) How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in OSX This is sort of a niche thing to care about, but care about it I do. I keep wondering if I should put up any of my old abandoned doctoral...
Some links that del.icio.us missed... (November 14, 2006) I normally manage all my links through del.icio.us but for some reason the other day my normal publishing routine failed to work just as I'd linked to a hundred thousand things. So here is what that post would have looked...
Links for 2006-11-14 (November 14, 2006) Ms. Dewey So it went around a month ago but I stumbled upon it today for some reason and you have to ask yourself, what the fuck is in the water at Microsoft if they think this is a...
There's something (crappy) about Borat... (November 12, 2006) A few weeks ago Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat film was released to the world and pretty much everyone loved it. Metacritic collated all the reviews and came to the conclusion that the whole enterprise deserved 89/100 and described this as...
On Wattson and Electrisave... (November 12, 2006) Thanks to a fascinating conversation on haddock the other day, I'm now completely obsessed with a brand new class of personal lifestyle gizmos - a class that is very much in sync with the emergent energy puritanism that I find...
Links for 2006-11-12 (November 12, 2006) 'Brilliant' Bond seduces critics I'm surprisingly excited about the new Bond film, and am delighted to hear that it's getting generally good reviews, although after my Borat experience I'm not sure whether to trust them... Check out Flickr's new...
Links for 2006-11-08 (November 8, 2006) National Geographic reports on the dolphin that's been discovered with four fins The rear limbs may be an atavistic throwback to a time where dolphin ancestors had limbs and walked on land. Unless you're against evolution, of course. In...
Links for 2006-11-06 (November 6, 2006) The Men of Flickr And a studly bunch of 5' 10" ers they are too....
Links for 2006-11-03 (November 3, 2006) The BBC reports on a think tank that reports the obvious - that you should legally be allowed to copy your CDs for personal use It's absolutely fascinating to me that copyright law in the UK is so massively...
Links for 2006-11-01 (November 1, 2006) Interesting Technology Review article on a new cheap Motorola phone with interesting display technology Back to basics phones that only do a couple of things effectively without any of the frills. I can see the appeal, even as I...
