New Digs

I made the big move this weekend. I’m now living in sin with my gorgeous other half out in the scary suburbs. The fool! Muahahaha! Now I have a 25-30km ride in to work each day, instead of 7km. I’ll be really fit in no time, no doubt. It was… Read More

The Wisdom of Ages Past

Last post for tonight. Really. I have to work tomorrow. So last night I was reading Plato. No really. It’s a book I borrowed from my gorgeous other half, A. It’s called The Final Days of Socrates and is apparently a collection of Plato’s writings about his teacher, Socrates, and… Read More

Evolution vs Physics

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

Don’t Give Them Ammo

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

I Live In The Future

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

The Robustness Principle

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

Amazing Kinetic Sculptures

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

MetaMeme

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

More on Top Gear Polar Special

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