- Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet? – Very handy.
- Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld – Shoe Circus Commercial – This Vista video is a lot like Vista itself. Microsoft clearly spent a lot of money on it but there’s no real point to it.
- How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America – “No country in the West democratized education earlier, but no country has been more suspicious of too much education. We’ve always thought of education as good if it gets you a better job, but bad if it makes you think too much.” This article is about the US but it’s not dramatically different here.
Tag: Links
- Corsica, France’s Isle of Beauty – Seems that the NYT loved Corsica as much as I did.
- Comedy producer dies in accident – Very sad. “Geoffrey Perkins … created the game Mornington Crescent in I’m Sorry Haven’t a Clue. He also produced the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the most successful radio shows ever made.”
- Announcing Yummy for iPhone 1.0 – I finally announce what my iPhone application, Yummy, does.
- Ofcom considers termination charges – Does anyone consider it a problem that we don’t get charged to receive calls on a mobile phone in the UK? Thought not.
- Man’s ‘pants’ password is changed – Not sure what to conclude from this other than it’s funny. Banks have no sense of humour? Don’t bank with Lloyds?
- US made to wait for Quantum of Solace – I would like to see the release of QoS pushed out by six months in the US as revenge for making us wait that long for Ratatouille last year. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
- US made to wait for Quantum of Solace – I would like to see the release of QoS pushed out by six months in the US as revenge for making us wait that long for Ratatouille last year. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
- How Sick Are Patients? – How the US is patenting DNA and licencing it back to the third world countries who discovered it.
- Dave Packard’s 11 simple rules – Interesting insight into the original principles of management at HP. Now it all seems to be redundancies and “cheapest is best.” And don’t get me started on my work laptop…
- Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn – I would have loved to have learned more of the language when I was there. The natives fluency in English really didn’t help!
- Did we say you can read that? – “What the Police appear to be saying is that you can be given the all-clear as a bona fide researcher of terror material in the morning – then re-arrested the same evening for the same offence.” And not only that, but you need to prove your own innocence. This is wrong on so many levels.
- Eight ways the iMac changed computing – I never owned one of the original iMacs (indeed, before OS X I was never likely to buy a Mac) but this was the beginning of the new Apple, one that resulted in me buying three Macs and various other Apple products. My bank account would probably have been more healthy without it!
- Georgia, 1999 – When I went to Georgia in late 1999, we had to change the itinerary because the Russians had “accidentally” fired mortars somewhere near where we were supposed to be walking. Some things never change. It’s a shame because it’s a really beautiful country.
- Facebook Claims Right to Create Derivative Works from Members’ Photos – This is exactly why I don’t post my pictures on Flickr and am not a member of Facebook.
- Atheist Finds Nothing in His Toast – Grin.
- ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes – “In the tests, a computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.” I feel safer already.
- Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don’t want to hear – Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. The more contrary evidence mounts up, the harder they’ll ignore it.
- Over-driven: why our cars guzzle gas, what to do about it – Interesting article explaining why American cars use so much petrol (gas) and their plans to reach an average of 35mpg by 2030. In the UK average fuel consumption was 38mpg a couple of years ago…
- Polly Toynbee and David Walker: an extract from their new book on the widening gap between rich and poor | Money | The Guardian – “Most dismaying was their lack of empathy and their unwillingness to contemplate other, less luxurious lives. They could not see that the pleasure they derived from possessions, prospects and doing well by their children is universal and that others deserve a share of that, too.”
- Hands on: Delicious 2 cleans up social bookmarking – In case you were wondering why a lot of my old posts suddenly reappeared in the RSS feed… First impression: looks nice.
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit – New film from the people that brought you the documentary “Helvetica.” Looks intriguing.
- NASA: 50 Years of Towering Achievement – The title pretty much says it all.
- The Process – What if a large corporation tried to design a simple Stop sign? (via kottke.org)
- July 24, 1911: Hiram Bingham ‘Discovers’ Machu Picchu – On my list of places to visit. I read that, despite the influx of tourists, that it’s still an amazing site.
- WordPress for iPhone – It turns out that my recent review of WordPress for iPhone was the four-hundredth post on ZX81.org.uk. Time for a small celebration!
- Font Conference – Typeface adventures…
- Simon Pegg’s Geek Roots Show in Spaced – I’m no longer a twenty-something, but I still love Spaced. Now available in the US.