by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Funny seeing Ciudad Juarez in the news so much: it is the basis for Santa Teresa in 2666. I hadn’t seen pictures of the US border fence before. Just shocking that we have to come to this (or the equivalent in Palestine). Haven’t we learned anything since...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Can we all start making our own gadgets? Interesting to see where this fits in with the fab-your-own movement.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
As Dave says, doesn’t it seem likely that Amazon will extend into the social networking business and / or buy Facebook. Scoble has the rationale.[Update: Twitter will do for-pay business services later in the year]
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Pay the Amazon Mechanical Turk six cents a person to 2,000 people to make the notes you need for your song and bingo you have a $125 song that you then own. Will they build this into GarageBand?
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Epiphenominal crowd sourcing. Lovely.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Some more interesting attempts to display the Bible stories to add to my collection.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Personal
This has to be the way forward for online clothing retail. Brilliant. If you could select your own axes of similarity (imagine: worn by aliens to worn by your grandmother) it would be staggering. Visit Modista direct.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Street View is, in my opinion, great. I don’t feel it impinges on privacy, and where they have inadvertent pictures of people, you can ask them to take them down. So here is our local neighbourhood Banksy (I hadn’t realised that it was Charles Manson...
by Tom | Mar 24, 2009 | Science
Lots of excellent time lapse videos. I particularly liked the northern lights, it redoubles my desire to see them at some stage, having not had any to speak of when we were in northern Finland.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2009 | Science
Dennett will be delighted. So it is an asterism, but it does look like you can hang your coat, no?
