Reasonable tune. But GREAT video this time. (A few months ago I was pretty down on N.A.S.A but this is fantastic.)



Compare with Harry Smith :

Solve the UK deficit, easily and relatively painlessly.

Gary Younge :

A Mori poll in 2002 revealed that more than a third of the country believed there were too many immigrants. It's not difficult to see why. The public's mean estimation of the proportion of immigrants in Britain is 23%; the actual figure was around 4%. If you walked around thinking everything was six times larger than it actually was you would find most things scary.

Very nice indeed : lamp interface to touch-table. :-)

Update : More cool stuff ...

Vinay Gupta puts it succinctly.

Poverty. The result of the banking crisis may well be poverty. But it is not the first poverty to exist in the world. Think about it.

Hat-tip Mum

Tory tax-dodger looks for public spending efficiencies. :-(

Toynbee has the grim perspective.

Chris Dillow :

Big welfare states, then, are not only not a cause of high public debt, but are in fact a counterweight to them.

Huh? Do people still want a war with Iran?

Sadly

Meanwhile, arguments from deniers keep getting knocked down, to the point where one must conclude that there really are only two types of denier: those who are paid by industry to spread misinformation in attempts to confuse the public, which is criminal, and those who are unable to see the evidence staring them in the face and who still cling to arguments that one minute with Google would dispel, which is pathetic and stupid.

The latest blow to the deniers came when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency examined in detail 10 petitions challenging its 2009 finding that climate change is endangering the planet, that it is largely caused by burning fossil fuels, and that it threatens human health and the environment.

In every case, the EPA found that the petitions misinterpreted data, contained outright false claims, and included exaggerated charges.

"The endangerment finding is based on years of science from the U.S. and around the world," said EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "These petitions - based as they are on selectively edited, out-of-context data and a manufactured controversy - provide no evidence to undermine our determination. Excess greenhouse gases are a threat to our health and welfare."

Worth reading the EPA's decision here.

Genius! Entrances to Hell :-)

Lot going on in life at the moment ... big changes coming.

Keep you all posted ...

Hat-tip Justin Pickard, great story about technology and melancholy in The Guardian.

Here's a pretty terrible recording, of something I think is one of my better tracks. It's another from the vaults of about 15 years ago. Kind of dirgey (surprise surprise), but sensuously slinky too if you catch the vibe.

StripSearch by Mentufacturer

Linkfest!

Why your industrial applications should use open-source software, and how an open-source guy plans to hack together a free clone of a serious industrial piece of kit.


The Guy Who Worked For Money. A fantastic sci-fi story about the tensions between money and whuffie (attentional currency) in an attention dominated world. I'm impressed how sophisticated the understanding of this has become in some circles.

Hey! How did he get that t-shirt?




I've always wanted one of those. Was there a limited edition? Or did Channel 4 just fake it???

I succumbed to the charms of WordPress, yet again ... for my home-page.

Another count against GeekWeaver :-(