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Wednesday June 22, 2011
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Thursday June 16, 2011
"I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write."
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Sunday March 13, 2011
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Thursday January 27, 2011
"Swords to ploughshares is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications."
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"ostly it takes a while for me to reach flow state, that mode what you're immersed and there could be a brass band in the same room and you wouldn't notice. It sometimes happens after a couple hours coding. It takes about 20 minutes reading, and about 5 minutes to get into it when dancing (if the music's right). But the UFO on Tape and the game Dance Central both get me into flow in seconds, like snapping your fingers and bam I'm under"
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Tuesday December 21, 2010
Yesterday I had a brief conversation on Twitter with Elizabeth Varley of Tech Hub about their claims...
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Saturday November 6, 2010
A list of the Oyster error codes, which flash up up gates when you swipe. I Including "Zig zag through gates", "Illogical use of ticket" and "Illogical interchange through gates"
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Sunday October 10, 2010
The number of books I buy while sober is, I have noticed, inversely proportional to the number I buy while drunk. It's a zero-sum game, as Proust once observed of wet dreams: when all the resources are consumed in the night, none are left for waking life.
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Monday September 20, 2010
A first hand account of the accessibility of the iPhone, from a visually impaired user. It's a much much better experience than I was expecting.
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Wednesday September 1, 2010
"Privacy in a broad sense is under attack these days on a range of fronts: electronic surveillance, terrorism laws, growing police powers, business practices associated with information mining and marketing, and new technologies."
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Thursday August 26, 2010
For more than two decades James Williamson worked at high-level jobs at places like Sony. Then his old boss Iggy Pop called again.
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Friday May 7, 2010
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Design It, Build It conference in Newcastle, where I...
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Sunday December 6, 2009
A couple of weeks I made a trip to Music Hackday Boston. The 4th in a series of music hackdays,...
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Monday September 28, 2009
The next generation of USB/Firewire data transfer, expected throughput of 10Gbps. Optical rather than copper, and intended to handle multiple protocols - imagine all external connections (data, HDDs, video) through one tiny cable.
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Friday September 18, 2009
A chopping board with a built in scale and e-ink display, absolutely the fucking future.
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Friday July 3, 2009
A really in depth article about the "wonky" genre/theme. It's something i'd not really encountered before, but makes for an interesting read.
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Monday June 1, 2009
A brief history of Id, John Carmack and the game design that lead up to doom - particularly the clever hacks used for generating 2D/3D on early PCs.
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Friday April 17, 2009
"...the cost of running YouTube for one year exceeds $700 million. But the company makes only a fraction of that back in advertising—about $240 million in revenues for 200..." Web 2.0, the unprofitable revolution.