unfocused & unshaven

Stuart Candy at Long Now London

2009-03-16T21:48:19Z

Stuart Candy, of the Hawaii Center for Future Studies and Fellow of Long Now Foundation was speaking this evening at a Long Now London meetup. The Clock of the Long Now is not so much about building a clock as building a culture around the clock....

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Dickens 1, Nostradamus 0

2008-12-23T21:50:06Z

Classy piece of journalism a few days ago from the mighty Music Week Friday December 19, 2008 By Alan Jones It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...little did Charles Dickens know when he penned the opening line of his classic Tale ...

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Favourite actresses

2008-12-12T22:34:40Z

Because Andy was too polite to tag anyone. Because it's Friday evening. Because I'm on my second large whisky. And because I'd never given much thought to my favourite actresses before, here is a list of them: Gloria Grahame Veronica Lake Holly ...

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Carbon comparisons

2008-10-24T22:49:59Z

The carbon footprint of Facebook is half that of New York City (per capita) -- source The carbon footprint of a Second Life avatar is the same as that of an average Brazilian -- source: Ian Mulvany (or a Mexican, according to Paul Sanders) The c...

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Earth from Above

2008-10-07T08:56:51Z

Incredible set of photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, courtesy of The Boston Globe/Boston.com. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the...

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A sense of achievement

2008-09-20T18:09:52Z

I made myself my usual Saturday morning double espresso today, got my pencil and prepared to get stuck into David Allen's Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity , making notes as I went. I got waylaid on my way to the kitche...

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Reading list

2008-08-26T18:56:27Z

Here's a bunch of books I have bought in the last few weeks: Bill Drummond -- The 17 Murray Bookchin -- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Tim Etchells -- The Broken World Dan & Chip Heath -- Made to Stick: Why Som...

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Music can stop warmongers and torturers after all

2008-07-09T14:05:41Z

...at least if the royalties they charge for use of their material are high enough to make torture uneconomic.

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Notes on Cider

2008-06-18T14:21:11Z

Lucy and I had a holiday in the Cornwall and Devon at the end of last month and beginning of this one (photos). In the Truro Sainsbury's on the way down I opted to eschew the usual selection of bitter for what seemed like a good range of ciders. T...

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Denied an opportunity to moan

2008-06-18T11:59:53Z

So, I've been with with Vodafone for nine and a half years, and increasingly pissed off with how the deals they advertise to new customers are so much better than those available to loyal customers. The occasion of leaving them, then, offers an op...

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