Saturday, December 17, 2005
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
The Clock of the Long Now
See also The 10,000 Year Clock:
"It's as if the future has been shrinking one year, per year, for my entire life."
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Boing Boing: Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
Brilliant. Why validation of data must happen at the server and the browser...
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Places & Spaces > You are not here
Just in case you thought the world was a rich place, point to where you live...
Monday, July 18, 2005
Something Awful: The Mars Volta
"Some people think it’s dull, overwrought, pretentious crap, but some people think it’s a work of prog-rock genius. I would contend that there’s no difference between the two."
And about covers:
"In the hierarchy of artistic credibility, the Ironic Punk Cover falls somewhere just below erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction and just above Anne Geddes photography."
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Sprol.com » Gunns, Ltd Woodchipping Old Growth Forests
Images from Google Earth show very clearly what clear-felling looks like.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet
"..by switching to a local diet you would save almost an entire planet's worth of resources (though you'd still be gobbling up seven earths)."See also: Bye, Bye Bok Choy, a programme on the development of farm lands within the urban areas of Sydney.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
The millinery obsession of HG Wells
From The War of the Worlds (my emphasis):
He met a waggoner and tried to make him understand, but the tale he told and his appearance were so wild—his hat had fallen off in the pit—that the man simply drove on.
Sparks and burning twigs began to fall into the road, and single leaves like puffs of flame. Hats and dresses caught fire.
My terror had fallen from me like a garment. My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener.
I went down, unfastened the door, and let him in, and locked the door again. I could not see his face. He was hatless, and his coat was unbuttoned.
Then round the corner of the lane, from between the villas that guarded it at its confluence with the high road, came a little cart drawn by a sweating black pony and driven by a sallow youth in a bowler hat, grey with dust.
I had found oil and rags for my burns, and I also took a hat and a flannel shirt that I found in one of the bedrooms.
There was a little two-wheeled cart inscribed with the name of Thomas Lobb, Greengrocer, New Malden, with a smashed wheel and an abandoned tin trunk; there was a straw hat trampled into the now hardened mud, and at the top of West Hill a lot of blood-stained glass about the overturned water trough.
Monday, July 04, 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
"5. In the future, most robots will look pretty much like the robots of the future have looked since at least the 1970's. About the only difference is that any antennae attached to a 1970's future robot were spiral shaped and had a tiny ball on the tip. The current thinking is that future robots will have straight antennae with no ball, and maybe a plastic coating instead of just bare wire."
Monday, June 27, 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Monday, June 20, 2005
A Technical Guide for Editing Gonzo
Hunter S. Thompson from the other end of the Mojo Wire By Robert Love
Friday, June 17, 2005
HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING
If I ran the world, these guys would be a key government department!
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Monday, June 13, 2005
Friday, June 10, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Monday, June 06, 2005
Sunday, June 05, 2005
The Credit Card Prank
"Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks."And: The Credit Card Prank II
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Pegasus Bridge
This is the blog of the Pegasus Team in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. How we are going beat the big guys and win the race and On being innovative pt 1 (with an interesting note on their choice of Python as a development language and a reference to Paul Graham.)
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Monday, May 23, 2005
deviantART: powerdraw by ~Diamonster
An amazing image created in MS Paint that proves that the artist really should have looked around to make sure there isn't a better way to do it...
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Friday, May 20, 2005
Brian Provinciano's Grand Theftendo!
This is excellent. A home-made version of Grand Theft Auto for the original Nintendo. Move over Donkey Kong!
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Wired News: The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth
"The greatest irony here is that it takes a publicly-funded broadcaster from a cozy liberal democracy to teach America's lumbering, anti-competitive Hollywood dinosaurs what a real, competitive offering looks like."
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
The History of Sampling
A cool java applet to show links between songs -- who sampled who (built with processing too.)
Monday, May 09, 2005
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Friday, May 06, 2005
KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli
"The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way ... This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that 'cuts' the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie."Nifty.
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Occult Investigator: Aleister Crowley, the Goetic Demons and the Pharmaceutical Industry
"The sounds of [the names of Goetic demons and prescription drugs] are virtually the same. Interesting, right? Also interesting to compare and contrast what these drugs do: assert control over certain portions of the brain (and body) for some specific ends. And just like traditional demons, these drugs have nasty side effects, like addiction (possession) and stuff like blood in your stool or depression, or you name it."
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Transition Rig
A brilliant new sail design. article, profile and photos of it in action on a windsurfer.
Friday, April 29, 2005
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Heaneyland!: I predict a riot
"The first such warning I remember seeing was on the back of Elvis Costello's 'The Delivery Man'. Elvis clearly wasn't pleased about it being there, adding this disclaimer above it: 'This artist does not endorse the following warning. The FBI doesn't have his home phone number and he hopes that they don't have yours.'
Monday, April 25, 2005
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Webjay - "Getting high on words" by bricolage
Some great audio files on this list. In particular, the following two are required listening: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman on the nature of vision.
Friday, April 15, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
National Day of Reason
On the 5th May, as a counter-point to the National Day of Prayer, which is funded by the US government!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Monday, April 11, 2005
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Postal Experiments
Some guidelines on what can and can't be posted. Discovered empirically of course.
Corporate Fallout Detector
A barcode scanner that converts information on corporate responsibility, actions and ownership into "Geiger counter"-clicks.
Friday, April 08, 2005
The vOICe Learning Edition - Synthetic Vision Software for the Blind
This is pretty neat, a nice story about it here too: Quirks & Quarks
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Wired News: What a Little Moon Dust Can Do
"Moon dust is much more jagged than dust on Earth because there's no water or wind on the moon to toss it around and grind down its edges."
Wired News: Windmills in the Sky
"Wind energy in the jet stream can reach 100 times the average amount of solar energy on the surface of the Earth per unit area."
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Monday, April 04, 2005
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor (washingtonpost.com)
Breaking encryption by guessing passwords from other data on your computer...
Monday, March 28, 2005
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Friday, March 18, 2005
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Star Wars Galaxies WarCry
"The Emperor has been told of your loyalty," Vader said. "And he will be watching."
Monday, March 14, 2005
BATMAN: NEW TIMES
Another Batman link, this time a short film with a Lego theme and voices by Adam West and Mark Hamill.
Sunday, March 13, 2005
America’s Other Drug Problem
"[Blockbuster drugs] have one thing in common besides their high sales: they are usually treatments for very common lifelong conditions.
"The conditions are not so serious that they are lethal, but they do not go away either. Sometimes they are little more than annoyances, like hay fever.
"Consequently, large numbers of people may take drugs for these conditions for years, and that is why the markets are so large."
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005
Markl's Thoughts: Shipping Software
"If you want to use .NET, you need to ship Microsoft's software for them."
"You are the one that has to ship their software the last mile, install it on end user machines, ensure their machines still work after you perform this platform level surgery."
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
What Is Software Design?
"It seems obvious to most people that software designs do not go through the same rigorous engineering as hardware designs. However, if we consider source code as design, we see that software designers actually do a considerable amount of validating and refining their designs. Software designers do not call it engineering, however, we call it testing and debugging. Most people do not consider testing and debugging as real "engineering"; certainly not in the software business. The reason has more to do with the refusal of the software industry to accept code as design than with any real engineering difference."
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
www.number27.org
weapons.jpg (JPEG Image, 1224x790 pixels), transportation.jpg (JPEG Image, 1225x790 pixels).
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
dirtSimple.org: Mind Over (Things That) Matter
"Fritz writes that primary choice is choosing what matters to you. He adds, 'nothing has to matter.' Of course nothing has to matter, because if it did, it wouldn't be a choice, would it?"
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Why is it so? - The Lab - ABC
Some pretty cool videos from Julius Sumner Miller's "Why is it so?" program many years ago.
"Watch, watch it now... watch!"
The Guardian - A genius explains
"He lives on the Kent coast, but never goes near the beach - there are too many pebbles to count."
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Improv Everywhere Mission: The Mp3 Experiment
See also: The Parking Lot experiments by The Flaming Lips.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
The Gates, Central Park
A great satellite photo of "The Gates", an interesting public art project in New York. Wired had a story on it a few weeks back: It's been planned for 26 years and cost more than $20 million of the artists own money.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Saturday, February 12, 2005
New Scientist - Multi-player PacMan jumps between devices
"When a ghost leaves one side of the player's screen ... it instantly leaps to the nearest person's console. To continue, the player must look over that person's shoulder at his or her computer screen."
Friday, February 11, 2005
New Scientist - Time in the future seems to go further
"people consistently over-commit because they expect to have more time in the future than they do right now."
"He would like to study how people can be taught to realise they will be just as busy in the future as they are today."
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Wired News: Photographer Seeks Resolution
Another story about an amazingly high resolution camera. A sample gallery of it's photos.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Wired News: What Exactly Is Under the Sea?
"The nuclear-powered submarine USS San Francisco was heading toward Australia on Jan. 8 when it hit an underwater mountain not marked on naval charts."
"'Most of the world's oceans are imprecisely mapped, and depths from Captain Cook using lead lines are still used on some charts'"
Sunday, February 06, 2005
The dullest blog in the world
Can't help but link to this, it's like a post-modern car crash (with zillions of comments!)
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
New Scientist: 'Zero intelligence' trading
"A model that assumes stock market traders have zero intelligence has been found to mimic the behaviour of the London Stock Exchange very closely."
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?
"Achtung: Das machine ist nicht fer gerfingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist easy snappen der springenwerk blowenfusen, und corkenpoppin mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fer gewerken by das [dumpfoken]. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights"
Monday, January 31, 2005
Usability of Websites for Teenagers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
This study found some interesting results. Interesting in that they are counter-intuitive, though perfectly sensible if you'd thought about the issue.
Teens' poor performance is caused by three factors: insufficient reading skills, less sophisticated research strategies, and a dramatically lower patience level.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column: "The New Mac Mini is All About Movies"
Wired News: My IPod, My Self
" 'Shuffle mode used to be a gimmick. Now it is the most viable strategy to access information that would otherwise be lost,' he said. 'It reduces the complexity of consumption. It's a cyborg consumption strategy.' "
Podcasting as a business tool
"A Zero Configuration, All-In-One Podcasting Device For About $25 That My Mom Could Use"
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Monday, January 24, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
Thursday, January 20, 2005
The New York Times > A Question of Numbers
A (long) article about the Social Security system in the US and the so-called "crisis" that will occur when the population ages.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Sid Meier's Pirates!
A pretty good review of the remake of one of my favourite old games. The graphics now look like how I remember them!
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