Archive for 2009

What are the cheapest, best places to live in the world? If you want to be somewhere that has a cool nightlife and local amenities, and is probably close to another great city, where would you go? For example, what are the best cheap places in North America, UK, or Japan? Can you live...
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The Lego Digital Camera looks pretty neat until you realise that: It’s only 3 Megapixels, so for £70 (or £60 on Amazon), it’s an expensive kids toy. The “Buildable but not breakable!” is a bit mis-leading. You can’t pull it apart and re-configure the blocks (like you might expect with Lego). The top and...
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Blue Red Sky Thinking: brainstorming ideas to solve the potential apocalyptic end to human life caused by climate change. Thinking Outside Inside The Box: discussing creative solutions to a problem by placing fixed parameters on the solution or by focusing on the limitations. The best solutions are often those that are found once the...
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Link: Museum In A Day Because I felt like the thousand projects I already had-on wasn’t enough, Mike Ellis and I have started a new project called Museum In A Day, where we’ll be building an entire museum website in a day (probably with WordPress, or something similar). Some might think this is in...
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I adore music. I haven’t written or recorded much lately, but I intend to rectify that. Here are a few tracks (more to come in a later post) that I’ve recorded at some point in my life. I recently realised that they’re all fairly negative; I think I’m kind-of going for a ‘catchy depressed...
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Link: Zombie Virus Fund I blame the jet-lag from the recent NYC trip, but tonight I made this Zombie Virus Fund thing. For no good reason, really.
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A big group of us who still value (but don’t fawn over) objects and less-physical things from the past have set up a new blog dedicated to that very same topic. It’s called The Januarist, so pop on over (assuming the DNS has finally propagated) and let us know what you think.
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This week I’m writing a series of guest posts over at Lloyd Morgan’s excellent Lone Gunman blog. See you there!
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Tired of poor service? Try this (as yet, untested) hack. Create a review sheet like this one, but with the real logo of a respected, well-known review organisation. Print a few copies onto good quality, heavy stock paper or card. Guillotine into individual pieces, and put them just slightly poking out of your inside...
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“But what was normal in the evening by the morning seems insane”Lua, Bright Eyes The night is a strange time. We tend to feel more emotional, we argue more, say things – to lovers or enemies – that we may not normally say, and in general act less logically. I’m surprised we don’t have a...
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