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Predictably Irrational - The hidden forces that shape our decisions

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:42:23 +0000

Predictably Irrational - The hidden forces that shape our decisions: Quite a long read, but there are a whole bunch of interesting factoids here about the strange ways our brains are wired.

Video

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:53:00 +0000

the hug me pillow

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:42:26 +0100

the hug me pillow: not at all creepy and strange, honestly…

Shiny Mud Balls | Science and Education | Trends in Japan | Web Japan

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:23:57 +0100

Shiny Mud Balls | Science and Education | Trends in Japan | Web Japan: At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. Behind this boom is Professor Fumio Kayo of the…

Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:04:45 +0000

Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments: Funny collection of pictures from school science fairs. I think this must be an american thing because I don’t think I can remember us having science fairs at school here.

Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:45:49 +0000

Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly: Interesting article looking at the reasons people are willing to pay for stuff on the internet, rather than obtaining it for free.

200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:40:08 +0000

200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb: maybe ‘to learn anything’ is stretching it a bit, but certainly a fair number of things.

We Feel Fine / Movements

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:01:52 +0000

We Feel Fine / Movements: Nice little applet that displays real time feeling information culled from blogs all round the world. There’s quite a few different visualizations, so it’s worth having a bit of a play.

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:42:47 +0000

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Trip to Heaton Park

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:25:16 +0000

Trip to Heaton Park

New season of Futurama commissioned!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:37:00 +0000

New season of Futurama commissioned!

Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:41:02 +0000

Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird: Only had a brief play, but am already really liking this add-on which provides bidirectional integration between your Google Calendar and your local calendar in Thunderbird (to use you must have the latest version of Lightning installed - which provides the Thunderbird calendar component)

raising babies

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:45:21 +0100

We’ve been watching the daft, bringing up baby on Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/B/bringing_up_baby/index.html).

Now if I was feeling curmudgeonly, I’d call it the worst type of pseudo scientific program, spuriously stating factoids based on the three or four families featured. However it was mildly entertaining, and apart from the fact that all of the three expert mentors shown on the program were apparently barking mad, the message that I ended up taking from the show was how astonishingly resilient babies are in coping with their parents’ neuroses.

Heh, on that note, well done Martin and Lisa, and can’t wait to meet Robin.

"by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent..."

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:21:33 +0100

“by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing.”

- little excerpt from Facebook’s terms and conditions

Everything you could possibly need to know about shoelaces and knots

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:07:22 +0100

Everything you could possibly need to know about shoelaces and knots: Sounds stupid, but even Taz was sneakily interested in learning ‘the fastest shoelace knot in the world!’

Free software to capture Last.fm streams to mp3s (via lifehacker)

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:16:37 +0100

Free software to capture Last.fm streams to mp3s (via lifehacker): TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3’s, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v1 tags and organizing you music after Artist/Album/Track. TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account.

Lloyds building, London: Random photo - just experimenting with...

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:56:27 +0100

Lloyds building, London: Random photo - just experimenting with location info for pictures. (via Photos from sma)

"can you shut these windscreen wipers off - they’re really stressing me out"

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:07:41 +0100

“can you shut these windscreen wipers off - they’re really stressing me out”

- taz

un disco verable » Color picker applet

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:48:08 +0100

un disco verable » Color picker applet: Neat little applet that provides basic colour picking fun on Gnome. Needs to be compiled and installed manually, but this is pretty straightforward provided you have installed both python-gtk2 and python-gtk2-dev.

Goth vs. Emo

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:14:02 +0100

Goth vs. Emo