by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Reading
The Clock in the Mountain is not the title of a Bones episode. It is, rather, a truly wonderful and beautiful idea. Design and build a clock that can work for 10,000 years, whether or not any human is there to wind it or see it. More such projects, please.
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Business, Reading
I’m not sure I needed the human colour of highly-paid executives weeping at injustice, but there are some interesting ideas in Behind corporate walls, the masters of the universe weep. We as workers can shift what work is for us. The suggested themes are good:...
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Hong Kong – Greatest Cities of the World. Thanks to Rosie for the link. Griff Rhys Jones takes a fascinating and accurate (IMHO) look at HK (a few years ago now; they were still building the ICC).
by Tom | Jun 15, 2011 | IT
Font & ScreenSaver hacks for Kindles has some very easy to follow hacks to allow you to put your own pictures onto your Kindle as screensavers (the screen that goes on when you toggle the power button) and change the fonts for reading. In other news, this means...
by Tom | Jun 15, 2011 | Reading, Science
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal FTW.