SO Google has amalgamated 70 privacy policies for various free tools online into one policy. that makes things much easier right? Been thinking about privacy, about how much info we want anywhere about us. As i was thinking about this, the UK government announced plans to be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and [...]
Recently I have enjoying listening to podcasts and ItunesU (itunes University). It makes a break form music while driving and can be informative and fun! the two top areas i have been looking at are sports and Music podcasts Music 1 npr – live concerts podcast i couldn’t live without this podcast. really. it is [...]
Just added a new plugin to my blog. the WordPress to Facebook plugin allows you to create an app in Facebook and import and export your blog posts and comments to Facebook for Facebook comments to your blog. The previous idea of pulling in the blog posts as notes wasn’t working as Facebook seems to [...]
Laconic Hegemony, vol 6 is available for download from Soundcloud or for listening to live here using the embed below. Vol.6 is a collection of my favourite songs from 2011, (The critera, to remind you, is any music I have heard for the first time in 2011. So the album may not have been released [...]
can virtual meetings replace physical meetings?
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?
Filed in technology, theology, thinking, webstuff, wonderingreat question. The World Questions Centre made this their questions of 2011 James Flynn has defined “shorthand abstractions” (or “SHA’s”) as concepts drawn from science that have become part of the language and make people smarter by providing widely applicable templates (“market”, “placebo”, “random sample,” “naturalistic fallacy,” are a few of his examples). His idea [...]
Mark Goody, (@marramgrass on twitter) linked to these images of snowflakes under a microscope. look weird but cool. original site ::[[click here]]::
interesting wee article in the financial times about the Pop Music by Peter Aspden. (inspired by the video above.) watch the video and have a read of the article. I think it asks some interesting questions.
After chatting with my wife, we decided to see if we could get sky HD tv to our house. The man came and tried to give us Sky HD tv. (He really tried, if he cancels he doesn’t get paid for the time he was with us!) but eventually the trees beat us. Our trees [...]
