RSS feedIn case you didn’t know, here’s a rough introduction to how to manage smart people.
OK, so this guy names his new baby boy 2.0.
The IT Industry depending on your perspective.
A Mazda RX8 turns into a Transformer. This is for you Sean.
Here’s Lessig talking about American theft of intellectual property up until the 20th century, and a possible solution to the problem of intellectual piracy. (Yeah, that includes MP3s you dumb arse)
Here is an article on the world’s first high speed maglev train. While you may marvel at the 430 KPH, or the 0-430 KPH in 2 minutes, or the fact that it is in China, the coolest part is that it explains how to make a maglev in your own home. Don’t bother emailing me over the weekend, I’ll be a little busy clearing our hallway.
I love this site. It gives a paragraph of English text, spoken in almost a hundred different accents. Only one from Australia though, which is a shame. Speech accent archive
Well, I’ve finally upgraded my blog to RSS 2.0, and added a few other improvements. Those textual, unformatted and timezone restrictive RFC822 dates are so much better than a universal standard such as ISO 8601.
I was standing in line at the local newsagent today, and found myself checkin’ out what the six people in front of me were purchasing. Pens, paper, magazines, cards? No. Lotto. People from all walks of life giving away their hard earned cash each week, for what? Do your local a favour, and this week mark your numbers into the shape of a big floppy penis, drips and all. Cross them little boxes out, and give the local newsagent an extra thrill, because like every single number you’ve ever chosen, a penis aint gonna win you Lotto, right? And if it did, I figure you’re probably in the wrong game anyway. Lotto is a business built around two premises: make people think they’ll win, but don’t actually let them win. So, as I got to the head of the line, and the guy winked and handed me my weekly Go Lucky Super-Pick, I figured that this nation just doesn’t dream anymore. Why else would so much of our populous bet each week on a dream which will never come true? It is sad to think that on this wonderful planet, and on this fantastic island we call home, we haven’t already got everything we’ve ever wanted, and if we don’t, then we have little else but an eternity of inevitably unfulfilled dreams of having cash in our pockets. Perhaps if we took away the gambling, people would begin to dream again. Governments take notice.
This is great, Brazil embraces diplomatic reciprocity, so that Americans entering Brazil must now be photographed and fingerprinted, just as the reverse is now also the case. Indeed, this American Airlines pilot wasn’t too happy about it, and unknowingly responded the same way as the several hundred thousand non-American citizens who try to enter the U.S. each year.