by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Business
Good reminder that innovation doesn’t have to be ground-breaking: the Japanese Kit Kat regional specialities is genius.
by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Philosophy at its best. Matrix: spot on?In summary: at least one of the following arguments must be true.Almost all civilisations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature.The fraction of technologically mature civilisations...
by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Tech
Lovely quote among many:And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds
by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Personal
Genius. I say again, genius. Now that’s what I call having time on one’s hands. BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Business, Personal
While I’m delighted that 6Music has been saved, the Mash nails it as ever: But the closure was abandoned after a high-profile campaign by fans of theoretical broadcasting claimed 6 Music was the world’s first quantum radio station.
by Tom | Jul 8, 2010 | Government, Tech
Lots to digest in this summary of evidence on the effects on children of increased home computer availability. Two key points:Mathematics and reading test scores drop a little with the growing use of home computersIntroduction of broadband internet widens racial and...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Business, Government, Tech
Tableau public feels like crosstabs on steroids. Should be brilliant for open data visualisation and analysis.
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Science
The Paradox of Parenting links to a number of articles about happiness and parenting. I’m never particularly happy about subjective measures, so there’s something fishy in there from the start. That said, I like it when people broach difficult to raise...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Reading, Science
I’m not sure the (paraphrased) “movement to exclude anyone who thinks that science and religion are incompatible” is more than a straw man, but there are some good points in the article. We certainly need to promulgate a regular non-religious way of...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Business, Government, Personal
I very much agree with Bagehot. While the BBC does cause some interesting competitive issues, it is so much better than what the competition in the UK is providing and astonishingly much better than the output in most other countries. I’m willing to pay my £150...
