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70s lifestyle to save the planet?
This was a news item on the BBC website. I remember the 70's rather better than I ought to be able to given the amount of cider I consumed during the latter half of that decade ( Read more... ) -
Social networking
I was discussing Twitter with one of the younger nerds at work and we concluded that although we hear about it a lot we don't know anybody who actually uses it. I gather that celebs and politicians now employ professional twitters to show what interesting and worthwhile lives their patrons have, but do any of you use it and what for ( Read more... ) -
Stuff you never knew about poppadums...
It really is a heart warming tale
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Another questionaire
Anybody out there with synaesthesia?
Apparently hearing in colour or seeing sounds is probably more common than believed. -
An engineers guide to cats
I found this on Laughing Squid -
Consumer scandals of the future
Courtesy of IO9
The neurological interfaces in particular worry me since reading the Hyperion series where an AI starts using the 'unused' bits of the human brain for additional processing and storage capacity. -
Neovictoriana lifted from the net
Drat! I tried posting an image from the cartoon archives at marriedtothesea.com, but it wouldn't display properly. Check it out, it's amusing.
Or give your sanity a workout with the newly discovered erotic works of H.P. Lovecraft? -
Reflections on mortality
I was visiting some university friends at the weekend, two of them approaching 50 and myself the wrong side of that dread threshold. We reflected a bit on the topic of middle age.- Comedy nowadays isn't as good as it used to be. But then again, there's League of Gentlemen, Coupling, Spaced, Green Wing, Black Books, Ugly Betty... "Yeah, and I ( Read more... )
