October 2007
50 posts
Woman Finds Million-Dollar Painting in Trash →
New Spray Can Cure Fears →
And the Oscar Goes to… a Robot: Scientific... →
A New Kind of Science Author Pays Brainy Undergrad... →
Is the word 'data' singular or plural? →
Cognitive Daily: Why do some babies talk sooner... →
“I’m sick and tired of this debate of “do you believe in...”
– The Daily Transcript: My Two Cents on the Evolution Debate
Daylight Savings Time worse than previously... →
Hottest Chile Pepper Shatters Record - Yahoo! News →
Am I the only one thinking of Scooby Doo and Shaggy?
“Since you are not welcome in our house, and I cannot expect my employees to...”
– a hotelier with courage, publicly, to some prominent neo-nazis. The full open letter, and some discussion, is here.
No More Forbidden Foods: Eat What You Want to Stay... →
Actually, the headline is wrong: if you read the actual story, it should be ‘think/talk about the foods you want.”
Case proceeds against mom who drank so much her... →
Agile barcamp Wellington.
So, I’ve read about these barcamp things.
“Sounds cool”, thinks I. “Probably never happen here, though”.
And now, here one comes, and on a topic of great interest to me:
http://barcamp.org/BarCampAgileWellington
See you there!
Dying Boy Crowned Homecoming King →
Self-sacrifice is the true mark of nobility.
Patients pull own teeth as dental contract falters →
Born on the same day to the same mother - but... →
Architect's threat: If you won't approve my plans,... →
‘cause, you know, threatening the council and the neighbours is bound to be a good policy, right?
Airline: Conjoined QC infants count as 2... →
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where... →
Beyond MySpace: Social Networking for Good →
Acai: The Cancer-Killing Superfruit →
Scientists Discover Giant Underwater Forests →
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2:... →
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1:... →
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 0:... →
I’ll link to each in this series in turn - so far I have learned noticably from part 1.
WatchAardvark’d - 12 weeks with geeks.
Wrongly accused held for 70 years →
This almost made me cry.
“In Rainbows effectively runs a highlighter over the writing on the RIAA’s wall.”
– Download direct from Radiohead and pay whatever you want for their new album.
The Bygone Bureau » “Rainbows” Reveals a Brighter Tomorrow
A Muslim Astronaut's Dilemma: How to Face Mecca... →
Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner... →
"the one ill building" →
Intercapping, and why you should care.
(A previous contribution of mine to this can also be found at the end of bug #6 in Bruce Tognazzini’s Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs)
September 2007
34 posts
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have...”
– Annie Dillard