by Tom | May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Now that´s a name and shame: put all the tax records of a country online to show how much people earned and how much tax they had or hadn´t paid. Funnily enough, they took it down soon afterwards.
by Tom | May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you (a good hacker) have hacked into a network of computers which are used to spam and worse by bad hackers, should you cleanse the affected PCs? Very interesting thinking: what should a government do? What should the hackers do? Personally, I would accidentally...
by Tom | May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Now this will make a difference (and spawn a new razor blade business): printer paper that fades after a day and can be reused up to 100 times. But then wouldn´t e-Ink e-paper do the same? And you wouldn´t be able to write on the reusable paper (unless you...
by Tom | May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Laura reminded me of an extraordinary article on the news last night: a man who had severed his fingertip had grown back a new finger (not sewn on the old one) thanks to the use of extracellular matrix powder (derived from pig bladders). The ITV / BBC team...
by Tom | May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
I can´t stand The Apprentice – I´ve never seen any one on it that I would willingly employ. But I guess that´s not the point. Despite that, watching it through someone else´s eyes is great fun.
by Tom | May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting coverage of a conference we attended on Tuesday, and of an agenda that we´ve been working on for the last few months. Very exciting times – asking some really chunky questions about what purpose government should look to achieve using...
by Tom | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Finally, a blogging client for the phone. Yes, I know I can do it by email, but that isn`t the same at all. – Posted by MobiBlogr from mobile phone.
by Tom | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting idea to simplify reading drug prescriptions: representing the condition and the treatment graphically, to avoid "Doctor´s writing" syndrome.
by Tom | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting Jared Diamond piece on how scores were settled before lawyers and how that shapes our current thinking.
by Tom | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
A rare experimental example of training the brain on one task having an effect on an other. You´d expect this to be the case (why else do non-vocational education) but it is good to see real experiments digging in to how to maximise the effect.
