IgNobels

As usual, the IgNobel prizes are excellent. I very much enjoyed whale snot, curing asthma with roller coaster rides, wearing socks outside your shoes on ice. I absolutely loved the mathematical demonstration that random promotion of staff would lead to greater...

Lab Rats for free

Lab Rats – Ep. 3: A Protest was my favourite of Mr Addison’s daft sitcom. The seven-nighter is pretty well entirely a build up for a cracking last gag, too.

Can social media drive revolutions?

Gladwell argues that social revolutions can only happen in real life, not through social networks in Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. I’m not convinced one can compare the relatively small number of revolutions in the noughties with pre-social networking,...

Rebranding is never fun

I was proud of how I left ITWs branding. I’m not so sure on pwcs. http://goingconcern.com/2010/09/breaking-at-least-one-pwc-employee-isnt-sold-on-the-rebranding/

Mark this date: Arsenal

I’ve found a Google Calendar importable calendar that allows me to see the Arsenal FC Match Schedule 2010 – 2011 on my mobile as well as desktop calendars. Hurrah, fewer queues on the weekend. Plenty more calendars there if you are interested.