February 2010
30 posts
WatchWho has seen the Zombie flick I Am Legend with Will Smith? Remember all those growing hints that the zombies are actually organised and intelligent, which are then completely ignored at the end of the movie?
Well, this is the proper ending… suddenly the movie actually makes sense!
from I Am Legend **Alternative Ending HQ
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health... →
"Top 10 Weirdest Side Effects of Prescription... →
The Chess Master and the Computer →
Gary Kasparov on computing vs. thinking in relation to chess and other games (in a book review).
The Mariana Trench To Scale →
The deepest part of the ocean is very deep.
How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a... →
No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The... →
When Will the Demon Strike?
Here is a rather dark poem that I wrote. About what? Well, it could be about anything from A to Z… Alcoholism, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Zombies. As to what it is really about, well, perhaps only those closest to me will ever know.
When Will the Demon Strike?
Some days are bleak, some days are bright But I have come to this insight: Even when I’m in the light A part of me still...
WatchTop Gear - V8 Powered Blender
An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and... →
Yes, it’s another iPad post. Done as a conversation with someone and their 1980 self.
northtemple - On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing →
Another one who gets it.
(Don’t worry, the iPad posts will reduce and I’ll return to posting pictures of cute spiders and interesting furniture eventually.)
prediction from Jan 22nd: "The Apple Tablet... →
This guy gets what I’m talking about in my earlier post - in fact, he got it a week before the iPad was announced!
Interactive TV is here at last
Remember all the hype in the 90s about the idea of interactive TV? Well, check out the baseball-watching app that was demoed an hour or so into the iPad launch. Looks like interactive TV to me!
January 2010
30 posts
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The iPad is an Information Appliance
I rarely write an actual essay on this blog, because whatever I want to say, I usually find that someone has already written and published it, and done a far better job than I could. But here’s something I haven’t read yet, in all the many things I have read about the iPad.
The iPad is the information Appliance that Jef Raskin was talking about back in 1979
Jef Raskin was Apple employee number...
