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Don’t Screw it Up

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:28:56 +0100

Don’t Screw it Up

minimalmac: To wit, too many of the apps I see these days are...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:13:32 +0100

To wit, too many of the apps I see these days are things I have been using plain text files for for years. That is what your app is competing against in my mind. What makes your todo/list/notes/writing/etc. app better then what I can already do using plain text?

I must dig out the piece I wrote about this in two thousand and freeking five! Albeit I was coming from a sustainability angle - keeping computers in use longer - the aesthetic benefits became quickly evident.

Ok that’s it, I can’t do any more of these. Must get...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:41:00 +0100

Ok that’s it, I can’t do any more of these. Must get on with some work…

This is great fun - like playing with lego. It is quite...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:23:00 +0100

This is great fun - like playing with lego. It is quite addictive really. Made with a small program called Hexel.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 23:37:00 +0100

Welcome to the Future Nauseous

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:22:37 +0100

Welcome to the Future Nauseous:

Both science fiction and futurism seem to miss an important piece of how the future actually turns into the present. They fail to capture the way we don’t seem to notice when the future actually arrives. May 13, 2013 at 04:57PM

My new fridge: I dont really need the capacity of an electric...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:11:00 +0100

My new fridge: I dont really need the capacity of an electric fridge - just cool milk for coffees and the odd bag of salad. So far I’m getting about 10 deg C inside with an outside temperature of 14. I’m going to work out what benefit the small fan has in aiding evaporation (the means by which the cooling occurs). If the fan is significant I’ll develop a small arduino based temperature controller.

Variable resistor: This is part of a project I’m working...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:12:00 +0100

Variable resistor: This is part of a project I’m working on to make an RGB LED lamp. Light output will be determined by sticks…

Millennium Bridge Envelope.

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:58:00 +0100

Millennium Bridge Envelope.

Messing about with conductive ink

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:47:53 +0100

Messing about with conductive ink

Me showing James Watson how a 3D Printer works…

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:46:00 +0100

Me showing James Watson how a 3D Printer works…

I fancied a BIG shower head ‘like what rich people...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:58:00 +0100

I fancied a BIG shower head ‘like what rich people have’. Will print this out tomorrow and try it :)

(5 piece - 200mm diameter - will replace existing 45mm diameter unit - design time > 1 hour)

kateoplis: We Are Traffic Love the pride here.

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:57:08 +0100

kateoplis:

We Are Traffic

Love the pride here.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 23:55:31 +0100

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Fri, 10 May 2013 23:55:12 +0100

jamesreads: Make magic wherever you go, the grass will grow and...

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:45:04 +0100

jamesreads:

Make magic wherever you go, the grass will grow and flowers will show.

For my niece Ariane :)

thenewinquiry: Global Risks 2013 explores catastrophes that are...

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:39:47 +0100

thenewinquiry:

Global Risks 2013 explores catastrophes that are too big and unknown to hedge, even if many of them are already coming to pass. Its portfolio is fifty risk factors thick, with water shortages, liquidity crises and orbital debris, each precisely weighted by likelihood and potential impact and charted like commodities. Backlash against globalization is up. Extreme weather is up. Nothing is down. It’s never been clear exactly whose nightmares these risks are, and the lack of attribution is part of the point. They are supposed to rise up out of the data, objective and urgent, the voice of the planet demanding to be heard.

The data visualizations in Global Risks 2013, network charts and scatter plots of drifting risk points, look like graphic notation from the avant-garde wing of jazz. Simultaneously abstracting and reconstituting survey data into swarms of color, the graphics go for impact over legibility, sketching impressions of an intricate score that, if played as music, would carry a clear, smooth, rising melody.

-“The Slopes of Davos” by T. Paul Cox

This is a great piece, and I feel really shallow for doing thing but… That image! I want giant poster of this. It is already on my ipad home screen.

Reading: The Silence of Animals - John Gray

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:08:00 +0100

Reading: The Silence of Animals - John Gray

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Sat, 04 May 2013 23:55:00 +0100

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Sat, 04 May 2013 23:52:41 +0100