by Tom | May 26, 2011 | Reading
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/8723/accident/ Brilliant.
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Personal, View
Funny watching Obama tour the palace of Westminster. I was privileged enough to tour it several times a year for four years, and it never got stale. Yes, it’s an absurd gothic pile, but the history it represents is just gobsmacking. And standing under beams from...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Personal, Tech
xkcd: Extended Mind is spot on. I was called Wikipedia boy on a big group holiday in Scotland in 2004 or before. Such a shame that all my favourite gadgets have gone to the wolves (thinking of Psion and Palm specifically). Individual augmentation rocks.
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
America is misunderstanding China in fundamental and potentially damaging ways. One example: China sees its economic prosperity as regaining a position it had as late as the early 19th century (an estimated 30% of world GDP then, not even 10% now), not as a developing...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Science
El Reg pretty much gets this one right: Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness. The lobes are one million light years long. That means light, travelling at 300,000 meters per second will take a million years to get from the central galaxy to the end of...
