Wow. Post frenzy this Monday night. AWESOME comment over on MetaFilter. Love those guys. (Aside: originally I typed MetaFiler. A new trademark for NetApp? A new market for MeFe outside of recumbent bicycles, scanned cats and snark? You decide). Consider this: Whenever the IDers, or Creationists, or whatever the anti-evolution… Read More
I must apologise to you all for not writing more frequently. I often berate myself for not spending more time typing just the odd, short entry – really, it doesn’t take that long – but I still fail. However, I can plead a particular excuse this time. I would love… Read More
I saw tonight, in my perusing of my favourite debating ground MetaFilter, that someone was making a reasonable case against the Intelligent Design (hah! a misnomer if there ever was one), but they also levelled a charge of ‘using copyrighted materials without permission’. To that I say: do not give… Read More
This link is all the proof I need to simultaneously confirm two things that I have long believed would come to pass: I would live in the future. The fiction of Cyberpunk/Shadowrun role playing games would become reality. I have long felt that I live in the future. Every day… Read More
Wired has an interesting article about the way Apple is run by Steve Jobs. They assert that Apple ‘got everything right by doing everything wrong’. They discuss how Apple is doing very well commercially, even though the company is run in a way that is counter to a lot of… Read More
Joel Spolsky has written today about web standards, and how standards are wonderful things because there are so many to choose from. It’s a long article, and in it he mentions Jon Postel and the Robustness Principle, and his is a different interpretation of the idea from mine. The Robustness… Read More
Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor. He makes sculptures that use the power of the wind to move. More specifically, he makes mechanistic animalistic creatures that walk when the wind blows. They are awesome. You must see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqftVhOuTw Read More
XKCD wins teh Internets. Via MetaFilter (I really should give Matt $5 and unlurk): XKCD has managed to meta-internet in a new and incredibly awesome way. If you don’t get it, you fail the Internet. XKCD has now transcended awesome, and has become meta-awesome. Someone should create www.metaxkcd.com. Oooh! It’s… Read More
Wow. Simply amazing stuff. The scenery is spectacular. It is just so remote, alien, and harsh. I really must take my hat off to the entire cast and crew to have endured such trying, and dangerous, conditions in order to bring us a fluffy piece of televisual entertainment. They didn’t… Read More
I’m watching an episode of Top Gear. It’s their Polar Special. Two things come to mind: MythTV, and PVRs in general, are awesome. The guys on Top Gear and MythBusters have dream jobs. Now, I’m sure these jobs contain a lot of drudgery. Plenty of grind work that isn’t much… Read More
