Reading time: < 1 min I’m pretty sure I’ve featured this before (MUST implement a search facility for this site…) but they are worthy of repeat mention. Be warned: You WILL lose large portions of your day here. (Even if you just spend 10 mins activating the lovely smooth mouseovers on the main page like me…). Have fun at Orisinal.
Reading time: 2 mins No it’s not. And David Blaine doesn’t claim otherwise. However the amount of attention that has been lavished on him for this stunt is slightly baffling. Similar stunts were popular in the 20s, and the saint San Simeon’s time living on a pillar, is well documented. But why the hype now? Are we really that…
Reading time: < 1 min O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference All hail the “the Distributed Republic of Blogistan”: “A main theme was quick to emerge… the sudden realisation that each of us.. were all heading in the same philosophical direction: that developers now see the internet as a platform to run applications on, rather than something to connect to”. A rich…
Reading time: < 1 min Isn’t it funny how memories can become distorted. I won’t be watching this weekends Eurovision Song Contest, mainly because I don’t enjoy the music and let’s face facts; it’s never really been the same since “Save your kisses for me”. However, I had forgotten what it used to be like.
Reading time: < 1 min VWvortex Volkswagen Audi “Volkswagen presents the world’s first 1-liter car” “”It really is a fascinating experience to drive through the night at 100 km/h with the fuel consumption indicator showing just 1.0 ltr./100 km, and nothing but the stars above your head.”” Very clever, and looks like something from a film by Luc Besson.