George Carlin’s eulogy on Kuro5hin

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin - who would undoubtedly have loved it. Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but ...

Firefox 3 RC1 Extensions

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Now that Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out, I've decided to give it a proper trial. I had tried running Firefox 2 and 3 in parallel on my macbook, but found that 3 would always try and become the default browser, which annoyed me enough to get rid of it. ...

Is Link Journalism any different to the majority of reporting?

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day's news agenda - it's not a coincidence that most journalists' bosses are ...

The Real Threat

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Along the lines of my recent post about car-related deaths versus terrorism-related deaths, see this graph representing the amounts of deaths related to different issues. I may have to steal the 'Saint Pete for Peace' moniker.

Microsoft Silverlight vs Adobe Flash and Windows Media Player vs Adobe Media Player

Monday, April 16th, 2007

For years now I've heard tell of 'Sparkle', Microsoft's supposed alternative to the Flash player / platform. At the time of this writing you can find search results on mcrosoft.com about sparkle, but few of those pages exist, and none of the actual product links. I'm guessing, but I ...

Breakdancing lessons in London

Monday, April 16th, 2007

If you're interested in taking a breakdance course in London you might want to check out the following dance schools: Basement Dance Studio - York Way PS2 Breakstation - Kingsland Road Pineapple Dance Studios - Covent Garden Most of these studios offer courses for adults and younger learners and other related courses as well, ...

A PC User, A Mac User and a Linux User walk into a bar …

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I laughed. I know, I'm a geek.

Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Engadget reports on DARPA developing peril sensitive sunglasses. Oh wait, I mean threat sensitive binoculars. Sorry, my other head is really hungover from a few too many pan galactic gargle blasters.

Beefy Font

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

This looks like it might have passed it's sell by date, but it sure is a beefy font from Robert Bolesta.

WorldMapper

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

These cartograms of the world give a fantastic perspective on global trends such as military spending, toy imports and hiv infection.