by Tom | Sep 7, 2012 | View
At least some US newspapers are featuring the paralympics. Pictures from The Atlantic and from the Boston Globe. All extraordinary and worth a second look. Factoid (with no commentary intended): there are fewer people competing at the paralympics than there were at...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2012 | Personal
Finally got some OK streaming from C4 and enjoyed all that we saw this evening. Very proud that the games are nearly full in London: great work visitors and those in the UK. Team GB doing brilliantly helps, too. Loved the wheelchair rugby as well as the ladies...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2012 | Reading
Fabulous. One of the great interviews. I liked both of them by the end. (flagged as malware: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/features/302787-david_hasselhoff_do_you_guys_still_like_runrig)
by Tom | Sep 6, 2012 | Google+
Good reasons for brands to tolerate knock offs. Lots of people buy the real brand after buying the knock off. This was Microsoft's China strategy: so 95% is pirated? At least they are buying our stuff. #totrblog Why Knockoffs Can Help a Strong Brand Here is an...
by Tom | Sep 6, 2012 | Government, Reading, Science
Feynman nails it, as always. Can we say this to the reshuffleshambles lot? The rest of the article is a great selection of his thinking too. … as I’d like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with a great deal of shame. If we look away from the...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Reading, Science
Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth. A nice representation of all of the recorded typhoons / hurricanes since 1851. Fascinating.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Business, Tech
Twitter Certified Products Program – Open for Businessplus the gradual crack down on any third party clients is a clear sign that Twitter is now about monetizing eyeballs rather than the users. Sad.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Science, View
Two astonishing shots of other worlds. I’d not seen the Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama before, and the high-resolution panorama from Curiosity on Mars is clearly new. For reference, Mount Sharp in the Curiosity shot rises 5.5km above the crater floor.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Reading
Unsettling reading pointing to the real difficulty we will have feeding 9bn people (PDF) using modern agricultural and rearing methods. Technology (“ink-jet” printed meat, for example) could get us there, but I am aware of few obvious candidates even in...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Government
So the new NHS secretary is a supporter of homeopathy and the new transport secretary is afraid of flying. It’s the ironic Peter Principle. Unbelievable and sad build up for the new series of TTOI.
