by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Science
I wonder if the call for new statistics for science will help avoid the scaremongering issue? If we can truly find a way of avoiding the false positive problem (we do so many tests on our data we see patterns that could be chance rather than actual) we should be able...
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Business, Personal, Tech
Interesting experiment to find the first posts of eighty blogs using different outsourced options. It’s a lot cheaper than I could do it myself, and pretty quick (the experiment if run once would have cost $50-60 and taken two hours with fact checking built in)....
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | IT, Personal
Apparently tabs (so filing cabinet, dahlink) will overtake the left nav (so noughties, dahlink) as the navigation structure de nos jours. The BBC is normally pretty prescient about this (their December 1997 website looks scarily similar to the one we had at...
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Reading, Tech
I hope Gelernter is right and we are in a relatively short phase of the developing internet where we care most about the now and less about the accretion of knowledge in our and others’ past. So in the future we might look at the stream of things that people...
by Tom | Mar 5, 2010 | Personal
In somewhat dubious taste, I guess, but they made me chuckle.
by Tom | Mar 5, 2010 | Reading
Crazy but fun-looking festivals in Lerwick and Spain. Never heard of either of them.
by Tom | Mar 5, 2010 | Business
The hierarchical organisation doesn’t need to be that way. Some thinking on the issue from Disney, Schwartz and Husband.Bonus link: pictures of people at work. I liked the jellyfish census.
by Tom | Mar 4, 2010 | Reading
This looks like another good revamp of an important part of central London. I am a big fan of the “get rid of street furniture” movement.
by Tom | Mar 4, 2010 | Reading
Maddening, but you kind of want to beat it. Oh, sorry, no pun intended. And you can cheat, of course.In many ways, this retro room is better (although not particularly work safe).
by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | General, Government
There’s a valid point made in this article regarding the benefits H&S has given us. The difficulty for me is that the tolerated levels of risk seem far too low as currently practised.
