[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …
Jodorowsky and his Dune
I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to …
heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us
It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …
You want me to WHAT my phone?
So while our Microsoft Exchange Server has always been a tad pissy with my Android phone, my employer has reconfigured it recently to up the ante: …
Equipment for off-grid homes
It takes quite a bit of doing, all this off-grid home stuff! Worst of all, the only thing I could remember from high school electronics …
TEDx talk on telling the African Story
Good journalism on Africa on journalism mashup talk: Bit of a sprig off the ‘ole HTWAA meme…. Update / sad post-scriptum: Komla Dumor is… dead. …
By extension of the earth plus plastic paradigm…
In a not-quite-recent discussion about macro scale structures (mostly corporations, governments, skewed economies, social / digital media spaces etc) and how they might be screwing …
The Impossible House
From scribblings on my Note: behold, the impossible house! What makes it impossible? Several things: Scaling issues, non-ergonomic nooks, nonsensically-placed windows, undefined roofing, questionable use …
Krishna visits.
Led I had tumbled out of the movie theater far too soon, leading to a rather strong inclination to just eff it and head home. I don’t …
Prometheus: over-promise much?
It is with great regret that I inform anyone who gives a toss about my opinion on anything (let alone movies)… that Prometheus, the movie I …