What´s underneath the change in benefits

Interesting summary of the benefits changes announced this week: Neither party can claim originality (the ideas came from the US) and both have supported them The move from spending AME on DEL targets is a big one – it suggests that the government wants to cut...

Another beetroot salad

Having raved about a beetroot, red cabbage and red onion salad earlier in the year, here´s a brilliant addition to my grated carrot salad: beetroot. Surely we´d have thought of that in the end?

Don´t always target the top of the network

Some interesting research on connections in networks – that getting to the "most connected" person does not always guarantee the most influence on the system. We should use some of this thinking in our new online presence.

1KTF

Can an artist make a living on the web with just 1,000 "True Fans"?

How to be a real blogger

If you are blogging for a purpose (rather than flinging random thoughts on a piece of paper and filing it somewhere searchable) you need to plan.

Shibboleth

I hadn´t thought to check the net, but it looks like the answer is in: the crack was inserted into a large trench in the floor of the Tate Modern. I quite liked it, but I´m not sure it made me think about cultural separation, merely engineering. [Apologies...

Encyclopedia of life

Nice scientific collection of everything we know about living things (or at least it will be). Try the polar bear pictures.

Makes me laugh

For some reason, this world chart made me laugh. The others in the set are also worth a view, although I can´t work out which songs many of them are.