GlueSniffers is today, February 9th 2009 in Bermondsey, London. A Tuttleish get-together for people interested in the intersection between ICT and appropriate technology, so named by the Mad Genius of Akvo – a hotly contested title – Mark Charmer being the current holder. Dougald Hine of the School of Everything – another mad genius, you [...]
Read more →Featuring Pam of Dadamac and Marcus of Ecoshelter.
Read more →Twitter and video blogging represent opposite ends of a spectrum. I follow something like 100 people on twitter. It takes about ten minutes a day, maybe a little more if I’m using the web interface. Already several very interesting things have come out of that investment of attention – a larger sense of a social [...]
Read more →Sheer brilliance – a bus powered drive goes inside, and you plug it into a computer on the outside and use it. In the event of a fire, your computer melts, but not the drive. Would be a ton more useful with half a dozen USB connectors or some facility for moving power inside too, [...]
Read more →Firstly, you have to turn on the subtitles. I didn’t know that Youtube did subtitles, but it does. When the video starts to play, press the upwards pointing arrow icon in the bottom right corner, then click the CC button in the menu that pops up and turn captioning in English on. Secondly, you don’t [...]
Read more →Savages co-stars.
Read more →MP3 of Mike’s talk here. I’m listening it right now, and he’s gone through the history of the human race – the long gap between our evolution and the start of “history” – and the history of the corporation, and that’s the first ten minutes. Recommended.
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