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George Pringle
This lady does rather angst ridden electropop. You can listen to some of her stuff on MySpace. -
Review: Bar code reader
Barcode reader: Here's a neat little trick. There's a particular size storage box that I'm after. Googling proved difficult. Scanned the bar code with my camera. Bingo! 3 online suppliers found with prices half or less what I'd bought the original item for. -
Review : BookMobile
This free application for Android phones is supposed to save you the situation where you see an interesting book in shop, buy it and when you get home realise that you have the same book, but perhaps with a different cover. You scan the barcode with your camera and it will tell you whether it's already in your library. If not, you can get reviews ( Read more... ) -
Steampunk design competition
I thought there was some excellent stuff -
Joys of foreign travel
Those of us who find foreign travel rather stressfull nowadays might reflect on the problems facing Victorian travellers. -
Climate and culture
As we go into a heat wave red alert, the temperatures climb to those that HalcyonPoodle considers pleasantly Mediterranean and would have a Brazilian considering removing his jumper. I wonder how long it will take the English to start building in a way that works in the summer. Being used to a temperate climate we generally build structures that are ( Read more... ) -
More retro future stuff
Monsanto's 1957 house of the future from Disneyland from Wired (now available in dead tree format in the UK).
The note about the microwave oven is interesting. My father wouldn't have them in the house until the 90s, because of the hideous radio burns that he'd seen in the course of his work. Admittedly, when I noticed that our old microwave was ( Read more... ) -
Steaming
halcyonpoodle, fractalgeek, the Beast of Caterham (non-LJ) and I went to the Crossness Engines to watch the huge beam engine there being run. It took 18 years to restore the one machine, all done by volunteers. It set us to talking about what we might do when we retire or otherwise permanently leave the world of employment....