The Hacker’s Diet

The Hacker’s Diet looks like a long-winded, but sensible exposition of how to lose weight. Onwards!

Cone of silence

Babble uses sound cancellation-like technology to cancel out voices in its range. The core application is for noisy offices / private phone calls. I wonder how far we can go with digital real-time processing of our environments (think Bond’s invisible Aston...

600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island

600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island tells the hopefully true story of a massive treasure hoard. Brilliant that this sort of thing is still possible. Let’s hope there are some more undiscovered cities in South America as well as some undersea ones off the...

Predicting from Darwin

Nice to see that mainstream journalists report on predicting from Darwin. There’s a question in my mind as to whether we can really lay this prediction at Darwin’s door, but nevertheless, it’s useful to have ammunition.