by Tom | Jun 23, 2008 | Reading
Funny that we don’t seem to care about civil liberties. I think this is the flip side of my “treat us like honest citizens” argument. Most of us are honest (mostly) law-abiding citizens. So we don’t notice CCTV and other tracking, because it...
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Reading
I’ve seen this guy in Green Park!
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Reading
Well constructed article on how to create a good article for the web. Love the title.
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Science
Lovely side-on view of a galaxy and its associated star streams.
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Reading
How to make networking work for you. The people kind, not the computer kind.
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Reading
Lovely rant from a Cantab in El Reg (Oxford came top). I wonder why this years’ result is important? Surely you only have bragging rights if your university was the best the year you graduated? Sadly, the table has only been going for 15 years, so I can’t...
by Tom | Jun 19, 2008 | Reading
Stephen Fry talks movingly about why the BBC is important. He could well be right. I particularly enjoyed this line:Radio 4 in particular is radically reinvented every five years or so, fortunately with no result whatever.
by Tom | Jun 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Very interesting musings on whether the new 15-second attention span of the web is removing an important part of our psyche. Who has the time for quiet reflection caused by a book?
by Tom | Jun 18, 2008 | Reading
I have used so many of these at work. Time to stop, maybe?
by Tom | Jun 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
I´m sure it isn´t cheap, but this looks like a useful and fun bolt hole if you are stranded near Trafalgar Square. The related Rockwell bar is a good american bar below.