It all started when I saw the Jack Wolfskin Skylight. I’d greatly enjoyed the superlative Jack Wolfskin Weather Report Umbrella while it was available, and I sometimes pop my head into the store to see if they have come back. The Skylight weighs 1200 grams and is impossibly tiny. But let’s go back further, to [...]
Read more →It started when I put up The Gupta Store (mostly Electronics and Outdoors plus a whole pile of goodies not on amazon which I simply indexed.) The Gupta Store was an idea I’d originally passed off as a gag, before Mark Charmer and Ben Vickers convinced me to think about it more seriously. I was [...]
Read more →Pretty tough to make war on the people who supply 10% of your grid power. How much harder if it was 50%. ======== Syria has faced a chorus of criticism over its eight-month crackdown on opposition protesters that has left, according to sources reporting to the U.N., at least 3,500 people dead. The regime is [...]
Read more →(crossposted from EdgeRyders) The video is compressing in the other window. White characters on a black background, the cryptic commands chained one after another feeding the files through the process. avconv -i DSCN5430.MOV -vcodec libtheora -vb 384k -acodec libvorbis -vol 512 -ab 128k DSCN5430.MOV.ogg Lots of clips of our teams at work, speeches given and [...]
Read more →I’ve just come back from a 10 day extravaganza in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. It all started with the lovely people from Pixelache invited me to do a keynote for their digital culture festival. We built a hexayurt sauna, of course! I was kindly hosted by the Helsinki Fablab folks. Then I went to [...]
Read more →An absolutely exceptional night of live music from Marmaduke Dando, The Murder Barn, and Will Miles, our host. I’ve presented the songs in running order, except for the first Murder Barn song which is just… the one for all the right (and wrong!) reasons. And there’s more! I always feel a bit bad shooting music [...]
Read more →I am thinking of going walkabout. Virgin have a round the world air ticket which gives 29,000 air miles for a bit over a thousand pounds. Enormous flexibility, you can do damn near anything their network goes, and while some serious craft is required on the booking front (so much choice) the deal is Pretty [...]
Read more →I have now spent ten years as an unpaid employee of an invisible global government: the government-in-exile of the well-intentioned survivors of the Crew of Spaceship Earth. The crew of Spaceship Earth are largely holed up in Engineering and down to the last rations, occasionally losing members to bloody, fruitless combat with passengers who believe [...]
Read more →(click the images for more info) This is Soap Guy. He makes soap. He doesn’t just make soap, he makes political soap. Soap so good it makes you question capitalism. Let me explain. Alex Fradera gave me a bar of soap he’d made with his own two hands, after going to Soap School, and it [...]
Read more →So… it’s done. The Future We Deserve, my – well, our book project, is done. You can buy a lovely copy online from PediaPress and it’ll be on Amazon soon enough. It’s a thing of beauty, if I do say so myself. So what can I tell you? As you know, a hundred people wrote [...]
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