by Tom | Mar 18, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Slightly uncomfortable to watch, but amazing to see singing actually taking place. Remarkable also how little difference there is between singing and not singing is. I’d like to see a side-by-side of someone who can and someone who can’t sing.
by Tom | Mar 17, 2010 | Reading
Now it all suddenly becomes clear. Genius. Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv #1
by Tom | Mar 17, 2010 | Reading
Very cleverly crafted video. I wonder whether this structure might take off: looking at multiple sides of an argument using similar or identical words.
by Tom | Mar 17, 2010 | Reading, Science
George Monbiot writes a depressing article based on evidence that exposing opposed groups of people to scientific evidence that answers their disagreement is likely to polarise them even further. My paraphrase: “Yes, whatever you say, but that’s what does...
by Tom | Mar 17, 2010 | Reading, Science
While innovation might look like step change development from the outside, it is often driven by incremental improvements in the fields concerned. Is it possible to filter out / focus on the areas where step change innovations could be designed and thus bypass the...
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Reading
The Mash nails it again…In related news, I had to laugh at a BBC headline “Balls criticises Bulger” was all you could see yesterday (and still is on the search slug) . Yes, I know I am bad for doing so, I know, I know)
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Science
Experimental demonstration of Pauli’s exclusion principle: bosons hang together, fermions don’t and because of that we are not all one big ball of stuff.
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Science
As a race, we don’t quite understand the Sun (how it works, how prominences and spots form), but we are getting there. Stunning image created during a 2008 eclipse.
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | IT
Visual Basic (well, JavaScript) for Google Apps. Neat. Allows you to automate repetitive stuff in Google Apps and to create custom functions. Groupbills, here we come.
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Business
More useful thinking on how to reward staff in such a way that we can be open about disclosing wages. I wonder how much of the stigma is that we all know how literally lucky we are to be earning them. I mean that some of our earning capacity is down to hard work and...
