one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
February 04 2010
Me and my homeopathic overdose
February 02 2010
evidence points to the contrary“Heavy multitaskers are often extremely confident in their abilities”
January 29 2010
How to report the news
Before Martyrdom, Breakfast.
January 27 2010
The drugstore where time stands still.
January 21 2010
How modern devices have become obscure black boxes and a story of KGB eavesdropping through analog phone ringers.
Incomprehensible jargon in business“I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandwich”
The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry.
January 19 2010
Guilt is the cost for being civilized“Let us save the planet, by all means. But let's also admit to ourselves that we have a natural propensity toward guilt and indignation, and let that fact temper our fervor to more reasonable levels.”
Three Swedish men have established a line of jeans made in North Korea and sold in Stockholm. But they weren’t prepared for the criticism their pants have produced.
In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise.
January 04 2010
Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.
December 31 2009
The ruins of Detroit
December 23 2009
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
December 18 2009
Blu Dot Real Good Experiment
December 13 2009
The Space Invaders: Americas Underground Arcades
Happy Birthday to this
I just realised this weblog is 10 years old (the site/domain is a bit older).
I made my first post in December 1999 after procrastinating close to 2 years on how to build the thing. Finally opting for a home-made system based on the code running the more like this weblog. It even got noticed at the time because it was coded in XHTML, quite unusual back then. How things change.
So, even though posting frequency has seriously dropped, it’s still here. Which is an achievement in itself considering the number of others that have come and gone in the meantime.
So, here’s to another 10 years.
December 01 2009
Today’s obituary: His Tremendousness Giorgio Carbone.
November 22 2009
Special When Lit trailer
November 21 2009
Abu Dhabi: Pillars of Wisdom
November 18 2009
Chairman Mao’s underground city
November 17 2009
hopefully this will limit the emails I keep getting: no I can’t give you my theme because this site doesn’t run on tumblr, it’s a self-hosted rails app, thank you for reading
November 16 2009
Why boys are turning into girls.
November 11 2009
Global oil supply far worse than admitted.
November 10 2009
Why does Hollywood keep making the same films?
November 06 2009
Werner Herzog“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot”
November 03 2009
Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations
Periodic table
October 28 2009
McDonald's leaves Iceland.“What the company actually said was that it can no longer compete with Icelandic fast-food joints that rely on local produce”
October 26 2009
Is Happiness Still That New Car Smell?