one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
July 03 2009
If you’ve read Halting State by Charles Stross, this news item might seem a little familiar.
June 30 2009
Uranium found on the moon. Get ready for the space mining outposts we were promised in movies as kids.
June 28 2009
New energy-saving transistor to eliminate the need for AC adapters in laptops
Today in The Zombieconomy. The articles linked to from that post are well worth a read too.
June 24 2009
Banksy Show – Bristol City Museum
June 21 2009
Marc Weber Tobias can pick, crack, or bump any lock. Now he wants to teach the world how to break into military facilities and corporate headquarters.
June 19 2009
Sounding off: One planet, one million DJs.
June 11 2009
Filesharing isn't music's biggest foe. (The comments are worth reading too.)
June 09 2009
Festo Bionic learning network
The Rise and Fall of the earliest “dot-com”. I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.
June 04 2009
The EFF’s Terms-Of-Service Tracker keeps an eye on multiple websites’ policies.
Philip Glass on Sesame Street in 1979
May 28 2009
No idea if standards are any different in Europe but this article about frozen foods doesn’t sound too good.
May 27 2009
1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo
May 26 2009
The Floating Water Bridge – Startup & Expansion (real time)
May 24 2009
Repurpose
May 21 2009
The view from Copenhagen“Right off the bat, I'll say that I dubbed Brussels Velo-Shitty. What a crap city to cycle in. Dismal. I've rarely seen a Northern[ish] European city so overrun by cars”
May 20 2009
Matthew Crawford finished his doctorate in political philosophy, took a job at a think tank, and then decided to quit it all and start repairing motorcycles.
May 17 2009
Inverkip Power Station
I've been having similar thoughts“ I see my kids now, and they are so clearly getting the finished products of so much, not the products in the process of invention”
May 14 2009
Life without cars in a German suburb“70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here”
The city of Ghent goes vegetarian.
May 12 2009
Steve Schofield’s photos are quite entertaining. Take cosplayers, put them in day to day situations and you get Land of the Free
Kids mod plush toys with arduinos
May 09 2009
CRT/Monitor Recycling
May 05 2009
Nerd music. Just what it says on the label.
April 27 2009
A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It’s a 12 part video so I’m not embedding it, just start with the link and you’ll see the rest.
April 25 2009
Could the current economic downturn be attributed to the recent oil shock?
April 23 2009
ASIMO is learning
April 22 2009
Looks like the zippies are still around. Terrence McKenna, Ralph Metzner, ... and friends. in a film about enlightenment in the digital age: The cognition factor. Music by Steve Hillage, etc. It’s like a Mondo 2000 flashback.