California Institute for Earth Art and Design come up wtih “Eco Domes” built of sand
California Institute for Earth Art and Design come up wtih “Eco Domes” built of sandStar Wars cosplay just got even more realistic
Potato Salad with Salsa Verde
We had a vegetarian friend coming over for dinner, so I had to quickly throw some stuff together. This is a variation of a Salsa Verde. If I was making it again (and not catering for a vegetarian), I would probably include the more traditional ingredient of a few anchovies.
* Bag of [...]
The first King Kong trailer is out!
The first King Kong trailer is out!And they kept the dinosaurs! This looks just as big, bold and incredible as I’d expected.
Who Done a Fart?
Since moving apartment, I’ve had to change my route to work. Now, I walk down the road beside the Guinness Brewery - Watling Street, which takes me onto Thomas Street.
In a city full of foul-smelling streets, I would like to nominate Watling Street as the foulest. Imagine the smell of a pub [...]
New Yorker article about Philip Glass scoring the Qatsi trilogy
New Yorker article about Philip Glass scoring the Qatsi trilogyKoyaanisqatsi is the most amazing movie I’ve ever seen, a perfect marriage of visuals and sound. It’s single-handedly responsible for the Philip Glass wing of my CD collection
Boring3D
Boring3DBeautiful, simple 3D images. Like a high-tech explodingdog
I wonder what Freud would say
Over the weekend, I dreamt I met Steve Jobs.
I crossed a humped bridge and came into an abandoned carnival which was being dismantled. As I wandered around checking everything out, I came across a second-hand book stall and sitting there, selling books by some guy called Eugene Stanford1 (who looked remarkably like Jerry [...]
The Cult of the Hipster PDA
There’s an old saying in software development that says that “*Every application expands to the point where it can read mail*” - even if the software started as a way to get away from reading mail.
When it was first introduced by [Merlin Mann](http://www.merlinmann.com/), the [Hipster PDA](http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/introducing_the.html) was a bit of an anomoly. Its [...]
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | To cut a long story short
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | To cut a long story shortThe art of the movie trailer
jwz - that was, in fact, the final straw.
jwz - that was, in fact, the final straw.jwz switches to a mac. Hah!
Television Without Pity » Lost Episode Recaps
Television Without Pity » Lost Episode Recaps“I imagine someone told the writers that they needed to give us some of Boone, God’s Friggin’ Gift to Humanity’s backstory, so they used a random number generator to determine the moment in the show where’d they’d throw that information in.”
Retrospective: Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads were the first band I was can remember being ‘aware’ of.
I mean, I understood music in a general sense. I understood “songs”. I understood that there were songs that scared the crap out of me (I used to challenge myself to listen to Ray Parker Jnr’s theme from “Ghostbusters” in the dark, alone. I don’t think I’ve managed to do it yet) and I understood that there songs whose videos made me laugh (Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life”). But I really didn’t understand the concept of “bands” until quite late.
When I was about four or five, my sister - ten years older than me and a die-hard Prince/Adam Ant fan - challenged me to name the bands I liked. So I named “Talking Heads”, the only band I was aware of.
“Arty wanker.”
(I was **five**)
The state of Irish Open Source
Reading an article about how [Europe is falling behind on open-source](http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B3785019-0E71-44C3-93E7-5014648CE313), I can’t help but think of the recent ICT Expo, which took it on itself to dish out “Industry Excellence” awards. Except it got so much wrong, it wasn’t even funny. It looked more like a bunch of old boys meeting [...]
blender3d.org :: Blender 2.37
blender3d.org :: Blender 2.37Soft bodies and force fields and widgets? Oh my!
Minor update
I’m still waiting for Irish Broadband to contact me about an installation date, so I’ve had four days away from a computer. And so much has happened.
[Apple to use Intel Microprocessors beginning in 2006](http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html)
Christ.
This had been rumoured for a couple of weeks now (and a couple of years before then), but still… wow. [...]
