July 2008
20 posts
Little Brother →
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Jul 30th
Londonist Live: Rogue's Gallery →
L-R: Ed Harcourt, Baby Gramps, Sandy Dillon, Gavin Friday When Hal Willner takes the stage dressed as a pirate to introduce wily mountain man Baby Gramps, the show ahead is guaranteed to be…
Jul 29th
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts... →
Book — £12.50
Jul 26th
Clifford Stoll on ... everything | Video on... →
Jul 26th
The Quiet War (Gollancz S.F.) →
Book — £8.57
Jul 26th
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of... →
Book — £9.99
Jul 26th
Jul 26th
scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak. →
Jul 26th
Jul 26th
Sentinel AVE: Fuse live streaming videos to the 3D... →
Back in April 2006, Ogle Earth flagged GeoDec, a research project by grad students at the University of Southern California that allowed you to project live video streams onto a 3D landscape. The…
Jul 24th
American Nerd: The Story of My People →
Book — £5.89
Jul 23rd
Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine: 0... →
Book — £7.25
Jul 23rd
ANDI PETERS →
Jul 23rd
● Lego Stephen Hawking →
More at Brickshelf.
Jul 22nd
Kai-Fu Lee keynote at SIGIR →
Googler Kai-Fu Lee gave a keynote talk yesterday at SIGIR 2008 on “The Google China Experience”. The Google China experience has been fraught with difficulties. As Kai-Fu said, Google was…
Jul 22nd
surprise packages, benevolent dictatorships →
I got two surprise packages today. One turned was a pile of Jazz disks and semi-ancient copies of Analog from my past, which my old flatmate Gavin was relaying back through time to me. The other was…
Jul 22nd
The Funniest Thing You Will Read Today: →
Asimov’s 30 Laws of Robotics For example: 6. A robot may not roll down the window shout out the surprise endings of movies while driving past a theater line. 11. A robot, specifically a big,…
Jul 16th
Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House:... →
Book — £10.49 Home Comforts is a comprehensive reference book that should serve homemakers well and induce a greater appreciation for the effort and specialised knowledge that go into keeping…
Jul 15th
How long will we be trapped in this mobile hell... →
Now and again I just can’t take it. Now and again I do the mental equivalent of pressing pause and sit and examine myself. This phrase — or words to the effect — run through my mind at these points…
Jul 7th
You've likely seen this by now but I've got to... →
You’ve likely seen this by now but I’ve got to link it up anyway because whenever I think about it, it makes me LOLL (laugh out loud, literally). The American Family Association automatically…
Jul 3rd