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Thought for the day
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn ( Read more... ) -
Concerning the Royal Mail
I found this item on the LRB blog, giving the postal workers view on this strike.
Personally I think they'll do to them what they did to the miners. -
Past and future
We've just finished watching 'Electric Dreams' - a reality TV series where they regressed a household to 1970s style and technology then reintroduced gadgets at the rate of a year a day. Fascinating stuff - I remembered most of the gadgets, while Halcyonpoodle muttered "We didn't have those - we were poor!". The kids were quite shocked at having ( Read more... ) -
Spotted today while rambling through Bexleyheath
In WH Smiths, under mens interests - Model Tractor magazine
In Sainsburys - Space Hoppers! -
How central heating changed our lives
There's an interesting item on this theme on the BBC site. When I was young, my parents had central heating to impress the neighbours, but they rarely switched it on (or maybe, given some of my father's attempts at plumbing, they were just covering up that it didn't work). As the article said, one consequence is that only one or two rooms would ( Read more... ) -
The future that wasn't
Do you remember the predictions in the 70's that thanks to automation we'd all be working part-time in future, if at all, and the main problem would be what to do with all the leisure? Oddly, it is the coke crazed gamblers in the financial services rather than the scientists who brought this about for me, but that's another matter. For some more ( Read more... ) -
Something for February
The 2009 Kinetica fair was extremely good. More fun and less pretentious than it sounds (though there probably will be a lot of thin people in black polo neck jumpers and berets). They're also doing workshops in Spitalfields Market on Tuesday if anyone is down that way ( Read more... ) -
A very interesting piece on convergance
I don't usually do public education, but there's a very interesting link posted on Grinding.be on the subject of convergance.
One of the predictions is that most access to the Internet will be by mobile devices by 2020. I'd guess earlier than that - while the film concentrates on the USA, Netbook and Smartphone sales are rocketing in Asia. Most ( Read more... )
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