Fascinating documentary, including why CO2 levels rise after global warming, not before.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's important stuff. Save the Internet | Rock the Vote... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Continuing on the religious tip, you can now Chat with God at iGod... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Lordy lordy. Crap goes stylish. [thanks to Robin for the laugh]... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
[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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Aleatoric Sugar $MTEntryExcerpt$>
At last, the UK Amazon Customer Service numbers $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a recent debate in Parliament about online communities, support, and vested interests. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In aid of some bloggers, but hopefully with at least half an eye open. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Lloyd Davis podwalks London as it is $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Do something worthwhile with your computers - please. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
When shops play music, why don't they do it along the same lines as LastFM? $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tsunami Boy found already $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Do you know this child? $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Madame Tussaud's celebrity-filled nativity scene and the pagans responsible. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Grid thinking = open source perhaps $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Probably a silly question $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Google's beta release for desktop capabilities $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On some NASA software that gives you an alien-eye view of where you live. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Serendipity, Serendip, and Sri Lanka $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a strange cluster of common words $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On song and dance and a horrific drug. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Siemens and minty freshness $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On the pains involved in being an aggregated part of the process $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On my love for jargon. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a picturesque but possibly flawed cycling trip. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On yearning to be spoonfed, despite the little grey cells still working. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On why most visible isn't first, and why saying it is riles. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On pointless promotion of my grammatical skills $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a picture of Andre Previn's nemesis $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On how the technology may be new, but the rest is business as usual $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a grandmother's advice to a conventional child $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On audioblogs, and a starter for ten $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On where have they put Saddam? $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On the "anthroscope" - a tool to help you transmit your mood $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On my being ripe for Field Marshaldom ... erm ... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On why you can't always tell what someone likes by looking at what they like. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On my latest project - researching a knowledge management methodology $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On the meaning of "the exception proves the rule". $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On an ALife algorithm that uses groups rather than genes as its metaphor. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Notice of MT spam vulnerability $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Link to some homebrew research on meme propagation. $MTEntryExcerpt$>