by Tom | Apr 12, 2008 | Reading
Venice under water – The Big Picture has some lovely pictures. I enjoyed #2 and #24 with enterprising wake boarders.
by Tom | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Can´t believe Jonza tweeted this. Utter BS, IMNHO. The be first into the library stuff is just ludicrous – I hardly went near a library, but did read as much as possible of the reading lists we were given. You made friends with people to ensure you could...
by Tom | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Zamzar is a nice idea – upload a file and choose the format you want it to pop out in. I guess it will make money from corporates / large file junkies / transcoders.
by Tom | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Because we should, given how we are so readily suckered by the Monty Hall problem.
by Tom | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
A nice summary of some bad habits from David Maister. I don´t think these are good options for a job interview, though. Procrastination (leaving everything to the last minute) Failing to show as much interest in other people as I should (it´s not bad...
by Tom | Apr 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Choice experiments have widely been seen as a corner-stone of experimental economics. Now it seems that our bizarre inability to choose sensibly means that many of these experiments may have dropped irrational-seeming people for the wrong reasons.
by Tom | Apr 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Very interesting portrait of the year I was born.
by Tom | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
RepRap is a 3D printer that can create copies of itself. I guess it still needs a human to assemble it, but this way, I can give them to my unbeliever friends and family.
by Tom | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Transition towns is a grass roots initiative to help build resilience against climate change and Peak Oil. Interesting approach which gets a small core group to build a larger initiative, and then disbands the initiating group. Neat. Brixton is one. I´m...
by Tom | Apr 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
I´m not sure I necessarily go with the judges – Ewan Kerr was always a cracker. And I couldn´t in good faith call a child Peter Raggett, and there is a clutch of Noah´s at present which could prove tricky. Of the list, I particularly liked...
