December 2010
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2011: Kinect and the year of the holodeck
The Holodeck is coming in 2011. Kinect hacks combined with VR glasses will make the early stages of that immersive environment possible in cheap and consumer-friendly ways that we’ve just idly speculated about in science fiction. The big missing element right now is truly effective haptic feedback but with gloves or even full body suits. But within the first six months of 2011 someone...
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Wikileaks: it's the personalities, stupid
A tweet by @buddhamagnet got me thinking yesterday. He said: “The Wikileaks situation is now firmly centred in personalities rather than issues like everything else in our inch-deep culture.” I know where he’s coming from but that tweet itself is indicative of a lazy, soundbite culture that’s encouraged by our amphetamine-brain Internet culture that’s desperately...
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Great quote on writing by the ever-quotable Merlin...
“Paragraphs are the molecular unit of writing…” – Merlin Mann on Mac Power User Episode 23
Lippy Kids - Elbow I believe Guy Garvey has a...
Legendary Rolling Stone editor/writer Ben... →
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On anger, hurt feelings and finding a way to the...
When I feel angry, I am irrational. It is a churning feel in the pit of my stomach and Sorkinesque put-downs in my head. The urge to punch back with words is so fucking strong. I don’t like fights, don’t like getting into them at all but once I’m in one, I want to win. I want to inflict the most damage, the most pain I can. When I’m possessed by the demons I just want to...
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Law and the Multiverse | Superheroes,... →
Merry Christmas. Blue Christmas by A Fine Frenzy...
WatcheCloud: virtual representation of real weather
Legendary Rolling Stone editor/writer Ben... →
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's "before you... →
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A pre-flight checklist before you hit the “Tweet” button.
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Frankie Boyle is Bernard Manning in a suit made of...
I am not Disgusted Of Tumbridge Wells. When something on TV offends me (and that is a rare occurence usually involving the presence of Fearne Cotton), I change the channel. But in my role as a TV reviewer I had to watch Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights. It is by far the most vile bit of television I have ever seen and I once watched 5 hours of Richard And Judy repeats. Throughout his show,...
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Tech journalists, delusions and the hedonic...
For a few years I was a tech journalist and nothing else. These days I have the luxury of writing about technology and music and pop culture and more complex stuff like state-sponsored cyber-terror.
My work is pretty eclectic now and I love that but I can’t say I wasn’t enthralled with being a pure gadget journalist when that was my job. But now I write tech news for Electricpig for...
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Tech journalists, delusions and the hedonic...
For a few years I was a tech journalist and nothing else. These days I have the luxury of writing about technology and music and pop culture and more complex stuff like state-sponsored cyber-terror.
My work is pretty eclectic now and I love that but I can’t say I wasn’t enthralled with being a pure gadget journalist when that was my job. But now I write tech news for Electricpig for...
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Hunter S Thompson on Wikileaks (well, kinda…)
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
Dolph Lungren is very wise:
“The memory of you is all that’s left of you when you die, so I’d like to be remembered as a generous, loving human being when my time comes.” (via The Guardian)
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The difference between Gizmodo and Engadget...
In short, Gizmodo is now US Weekly to Engadget’s Economist. The Economist has better writing and better serves its readers but US Weekly sells more because it just goes for the low-hanging fruit.
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WatchMy #demo2010 video. Filmed and edited on iPhone and very much a first attempt.
One thing that hasn't #madesmesmile so much
The Vodafone #mademesmile tweet fail made me laugh. Of course it did. It was yet another example of a big company resolutely buggering up a social media campaign by letting tweets fall unchecked onto its homepage. The Conservatives got themselves in the same trouble with their #cashgordon stunt. It seems organisations have short memories when it comes to the fast moving stream of social media...
More common sense from @suzannemoore197. →
If university wants to rip you off, form your own:...
If education is being made into a market, if your university is going to charge you ridiculous fees why not create a new university, one that exists only in cells across the UK? Set up groups like terror cells, guerrilla education – if you’re going to have to pay vast fees why not come together as students and pool that money? Pay money directly to lecturers and remove the middle man, the...
Adbusters takedown. Enjoyable read! →
Coming soon! Adrian Chiles' Sunday Night Show: the...
ITV1 will continue its baffling love affair with the man Stewart Lee called a “Toby jug full of piss” by giving Adrian Chiles another outlet to look crumpled, grumpy and unfunny. That Sunday Night Show is due to start in early 2011 and the guest list does not look promising: Frank Skinner, Catherine Tate, John Prescott, Louis Walsh, Alastair Campbell, David Coulthard, Al Murray, Shaun...
#demo2010: a dispatch from your correspondent on...
There is a moment in Sarah Kane’s Blasted where the violent, drunken newspaper man Iain tells Cait, his much younger girlfriend/victim that there is a war going on outside. They are inside a beautiful hotel room with no sign of the violence that is to come. By the end of the first act the room is blown apart. I was reminded of the scene multiple times yesterday as I was kettled on Whitehall,...
WatchGuys with banned dog breeds walking into the crowd on Whitehall. Thugs and anarchists among the crowd #demo2010
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shoshkabob-deactivated20110412- asked: Alright, as much as I agree that Dennis Prager often is like this in that he can get kind of narrow-minded, I can at least always see where he's coming from, even if I disagree completely, and if he just toned it down he wouldn't be so maddening.
My parents and grandparents happen to know his family, and I can tell you that he means well and he's a very nice man. So he's...
My parents and grandparents happen to know his family, and I can tell you that he means well and he's a very nice man. So he's...
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Dennis Prager: more offensive than any Cee Lo...
Dennis Prager is a right-wing blowhard, he coughs and splutters idiocy all the time but his latest spurt of dumbness just can’t go unanswered. Prager’s target is the music industry and more specifically rap music. His big issue is with Cee Lo Green and his song Fuck You.
Fuck You enrages Prager, it’s made him so annoyed you’d think he liked dressing as a lady and once tried to date Cee Lo. In his...