Trebuchet at Warwick Castle

Great news – they’re building a giant trebuchet with a 300m range to operate daily in Warwick Castle. Time to plan a visit, I think.

Tax freedom day

It’s tax freedom day. We’re now working for ourselves, not Gordon. Hurrah!

Knowledge vs best practice

An interesting matrix relating tacit vs explicit knowlege to individual or group production of such.Knowledge matrixThe chart comes from a 1999 talk that is available online (how’s that for no link rot!)

Words not in the dictionary

A frankly disappoinging look at words that aren’t in Merriam-Webster Online. Woot is the only one that I have seen in common use (among geeks).

Crashed rocket anyone?

An astonishing photo essay showing boosters crashing in Kazakhstan. And the people collecting them.Kazakh rocket booster

In Defense of PowerPoint

Don Norman steps out In Defense of PowerPoint. He makes the valid point: PowerPoint is a tool, not the reason for things happening. So PowerPoint didn’t destroy the shuttle – humans did that. However, I like the idea of more creatively using PowerPoint as...