Two glorious video mashups

The Golden Age of Video is a) a great tune and b) some of the best video editing I’ve seen in ages. Just fantastic. The comments have all the details of the films I couldn’t recognise. Lots of classics in there with a particularly British sensibility...
Space-time-travel data from mobiles

Space-time-travel data from mobiles

Interesting thought: how would the phone companies replay to you the analytics from the vast amount of spatiotemporal information they gather every day on you? Fascinating thought if you could see that they implicitly know your home, work, friends, favourite...
Free Rice / words you don’t know

Free Rice / words you don’t know

Lots of frenchified stuff in there, but still fun and for a good purpose. That said, my first run through was still my best – I can’t recreate the belief that I’d know everything and that even my guesses would be correct.
Readability bookmarklet

Readability bookmarklet

Nice bookmarklet creator that will resize and reflow web pages to make them more readable. I like it for some of the longer Wired articles. Let’s see if I keep using it.
Secdef and “shocking” ideas

Secdef and “shocking” ideas

Not as pretty as POTUS, but an enlightening discussion on decision making and responsibility in the US DOD. Not a job anyone would take lightly. No wonder Bob Ainsworth is having a difficult time.Separately, is it just me or do the 12 shocking ideas all seem pretty...

Scenes from the ISS

You have to love shots from above. I wasn’t sure whether I preferred the pyroclastic flows or the gibbous moon (yes, it is that way around).