The Great Global Warming Swindle
Fascinating documentary, including why CO2 levels rise after global warming, not before....
March 8, 2007
February 24, 2007
Net neutrality awareness
It's important stuff. Save the Internet | Rock the Vote...
June 7, 2006
Benjie Goodhart on the World Cup
If you're worried about being able to hold your own in the pub over the next few weeks, you might want to have a look at my friend Benjie's world cup review. You'll find out useful things like the fact...
March 23, 2006
Sharing has its risks
Chevy are running an interesting "create your own advert" campaign. It's open, it's sharing, and it's connected. I'm biased, but Jeremy Edwards would get my vote....
January 18, 2006
iGod
Continuing on the religious tip, you can now Chat with God at iGod...
January 13, 2006
The truth "out there" is different
A couple of curiosities have come up recently concerning national identity and how it distorts (rightly or wrongly) one's view of things. First was a map of national stereotypes based on Google searches for e.g. "what the English are known...
September 16, 2005
The awkward squad
A little angst-ridden tale of how homebrew book-classification goes wrong. (from the GuardianOn the table at which I am writing there's a pile of disconsolate books. They are homeless. At the end of a long and weary process of rearranging...
September 14, 2005
Never stopping learning
This man is rapidly becoming my idol.Kenya's oldest school pupil, 85-year-old Kimani Nganga Maruge, has boarded a plane for the first time in his life - to visit the United States. He is going to address a United Nations Millennium...
September 1, 2005
Photos with Flash
A New York paper is running a story on Thao Nguyen's transformation " from quiet Web developer to feisty crimefighter". [thanks Matt for the pointer] Allegedly (and while I've every sympathy with her if it did happen, it looks like...
August 25, 2005
Signs of the times
I love this! A recent article from Wired called Roads Gone Wild talks about a Dutch gent called Monderman. Worth reading the article in full but some selected quotes: "The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there's a problem...
August 23, 2005
Where there's muck there's brass
Lordy lordy. Crap goes stylish. [thanks to Robin for the laugh]...
August 21, 2005
The Self Help Misnomer
Had it pointed out to me recently that "self help" books are a little disingenuous. The self bit is redundant - there is an author after all. Perhaps "help" books would be better. Perhaps it's a tiny nit-picking point....
June 10, 2005
Praying for Aussie burnout
OK. So they don't really play Twenty20 , but the Aussies still make it look easy."Matthew Hayden has some ominous news for English cricket supporters, Australia are starting to get the hang of twenty20 cricket. The Australia opener proved once...
June 3, 2005
Doubt and Toilet Soap
[via Chris]Spiked have just done a science survey to celebrate Einstein Year, asking a range of renowned scientists what one thing above all they would teach the world about science. There were two gems. From Frances M Ashcroft:Science is the...
May 20, 2005
Autoblogger
Autoblogger made me snicker. (Thanks to Eszter over at Crooked Timber). The byline is: "You have a life. AutoBlogger helps you live it". From the site's FAQ1. What is AutoBlogger? AutoBlogger is a powerful content-authoring software tool designed for online...
May 4, 2005
A history of authority
Author and authority have the same root word. It's a small point but thought the etymology was interesting. 1230, "Authority" --- autorite "book or quotation that settles an argument," from O.Fr. auctorite, from L. auctoritatem (nom. auctoritas) "invention, advice, opinion,...
April 22, 2005
Mashed Up
On Aleatoric Sugar
April 20, 2005
Amazon Customer Service
At last, the UK Amazon Customer Service numbers
April 4, 2005
Outgrowing the Organisation
Seems to me that individuals are increasingly outgrowing the organisation. Expectations are aimed at fuller, richer lives, at travel, at the pursuit of interests, and at freedom of routine. And we expect organisations somehow to support us in this. Put...
Parliament, Councils and Online Communities
On a recent debate in Parliament about online communities, support, and vested interests.
February 28, 2005
Protecting Bloggers and a Principle of the Internet
In aid of some bloggers, but hopefully with at least half an eye open.
February 23, 2005
Go Ogle Moonface
Three cheers for incorporated subversion's James Farmer and his theory about the naming of Google.You see the real source for the name [Google] is Enid Blyton, in particular from The Magic Faraway Tree series where Silky and Moon Face are...
February 11, 2005
London of Lloyds
Lloyd Davis podwalks London as it is
January 25, 2005
My first sensible leap of faith
Do something worthwhile with your computers - please.
January 20, 2005
iShopffle
When shops play music, why don't they do it along the same lines as LastFM?
January 18, 2005
Comic Timing & Communication
Here's a question: what, apart from laughs, do we lose when we communicate through medium that doesn't allow for comic timing? Answers on a postcard, please....
January 7, 2005
Lost child found - a week ago
Tsunami Boy found already
January 6, 2005
Lost child - please help
Do you know this child?
December 15, 2004
I'm Jesus Christ ... Get Me Out of Here!
On Madame Tussaud's celebrity-filled nativity scene and the pagans responsible.
December 9, 2004
Grid thinking (2)
Grid thinking = open source perhaps
December 8, 2004
Diseases and Cures
Probably a silly question
October 14, 2004
Google Desktop
On Google's beta release for desktop capabilities
October 13, 2004
NASA nosiness
On some NASA software that gives you an alien-eye view of where you live.
October 5, 2004
Etymology of Serendipity
On Serendipity, Serendip, and Sri Lanka
Reorganisation Deferred Frustrating
On a strange cluster of common words
October 4, 2004
Thalidomide! A Musical
On song and dance and a horrific drug.
September 21, 2004
Next generation Social Tools
On Siemens and minty freshness
August 19, 2004
Innocence & The Wisdom of Crowds
On the pains involved in being an aggregated part of the process
August 16, 2004
Actions and deeds
On my love for jargon.
June 11, 2004
Bikes & things
On a picturesque but possibly flawed cycling trip.
May 27, 2004
Abundance and the Wish to be Spoon-Fed
On yearning to be spoonfed, despite the little grey cells still working.
May 26, 2004
On primacy of ideas
On why most visible isn't first, and why saying it is riles.
Innit
On pointless promotion of my grammatical skills
March 19, 2004
The Robot & Beethoven's 5th
On a picture of Andre Previn's nemesis
March 6, 2004
New Tools, Same Crimes
On how the technology may be new, but the rest is business as usual
February 26, 2004
Writing across the lines
On a grandmother's advice to a conventional child
February 25, 2004
Audioblogs
On audioblogs, and a starter for ten
February 14, 2004
Lost in States
On where have they put Saddam?
February 7, 2004
London Bloggers
Nice find by John Moore (or his friend). Either way London Bloggers seems like a neat resource, allowing you to find which bloggers are based at tube stations near you. John found fifteen other bloggers near him. I found one...
February 3, 2004
If you ain't got that swing ...
On the "anthroscope" - a tool to help you transmit your mood
February 2, 2004
Keirsey Temperament
On my being ripe for Field Marshaldom ... erm ...
January 6, 2004
Classified: Gulliver's Travels
On why you can't always tell what someone likes by looking at what they like.
January 5, 2004
Knowledge Management Methodology
On my latest project - researching a knowledge management methodology
December 8, 2003
The Exception Proves the Rule
On the meaning of "the exception proves the rule".
December 7, 2003
Harvard Moral Sense Test
There's an interesting piece of research being done at Harvard's Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Basically, they have developed a test which they think will help them work out what moral intuitions are cross-cultural, evolved etc. And anyone can do it....
December 1, 2003
The EGG Algorithm
On an ALife algorithm that uses groups rather than genes as its metaphor.
Moveable Type Spam Notice
Notice of MT spam vulnerability
November 27, 2003
Real Live Memes
Link to some homebrew research on meme propagation.