Saw the new Denzil Washington film Deja Vu last night, which was good fun. Had my own predictive coincidence, noting a car with a big ribbon motif in the car park on the way in; which reoccurred in the film with the yellow ribbon; I’d noticed that ribbon after putting up the pink breast cancer [...]
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Crafty Geometry
I saw an advert for a knitting magazine on TV last night and started laughing - but the joke’s on me; then again Andrew was joking about using math theory to sort out the Xmas lights, and when I checked the problem relates (er, kinda) to super-string theory!
18.01. Crafty Geometry - Mathematicians Are Knitting And [...]
Small penis? Big condom!
“A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men,” concluded a BBC report in early December. Well. It’s not a laughing matter. It’s not the size that counts, its ‘fit’.
Responses to Jaron Lanier’s essay
Thanks to the Edge - Responses to Lanier’s digital maoism essay from Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold..
Responses to Jaron Lanier’s essay
Thanks to the Edge - Responses to Lanier’s digital maoism essay from Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold..
And there are words..
Funny how out of nowhere you can suddenly click on the origin of very commonplace words. Like ‘process’ being part of the word ‘procession’. Or ‘emergence’ part of the word ‘emergency’. Or ‘par for the course’ deriving from the world of golf. Not to be under-estimated, the power of words.
Happy cheesy xmas
Off to the bLack fOrest for Xmas!
Beyonce - again
So first Beyonce’s album ‘b’day’ launches the same day I start my new job, 4 September. Then she bumps into my boss Adam in our new offices just off Times Square NY on her way to the MTV photo shoot. Is she psychically communicating with me (or am I just plain imaging this all)?!
Works Xmas party
It’s the works Xmas party tonight!
Thanks to Lochie, Angus and Jessie for supplying the illustration.
C2C revert to old timetable
Well this doesn’t happen every day - a company listening to its customers and acting on it - way2go!:
“Following evaluation and feedback on the new weekday schedules introduced on c2c routes from Monday 11 December it has been decided that the previous timetable will be restored as soon as possible in January 2007.
“c2c Managing [...]