one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
September 02 2010
William Gibson on Google.
September 01 2010
Pier pressure by Banksy
August 30 2010
Over 50s get a self-esteem boost“When given a choice, older people prefer to read negative news, rather than positive news, about young adults”
August 25 2010
That innocuous white van may be scanning you.
Minority Report: closer than you think.
August 14 2010
Journalism Warning Labels
August 12 2010
Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?
August 02 2010
Tomorrowful on wikileaks“It's a plot device in a near-future thriller novel ... semi-stateless man with an unusual appearance uses an army of anonymous allies to expose governments' secrets”
July 31 2010
Japan’s forbidden battleship island
July 18 2010
Numbers stations: mysterious counting voices over the airwaves. Audio can be found on soundcloud.
July 13 2010
A surprising threat to democracy: our brains.
July 12 2010
Highway propaganda vs reality
July 11 2010
Why night owls might be smarter than others.
July 09 2010
BP. The board game.
July 08 2010
A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areas.
July 07 2010
Thoughtful essay from Andy Grove, which doesn’t only apply to the US: How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late
July 05 2010
Cannonball
June 30 2010
Fake Bird Twitters At Real People
June 29 2010
No sex please, we're middle-class.“visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as shown by the bulky T-shirts, loose shorts and sneakers they wear from preschool through midlife. The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane”
June 25 2010
Putting the future back in the room“1970 is the same distance in time away from us now as 2050: that's how close the future is”
June 17 2010
The world’s only immortal animal.
June 09 2010
Rango – The story of a chameleon with an identity crisis
May 16 2010
Electronic devices: sending a message that you don’t care.
Expert on the Gulf oil leaks“We don't have any idea how to stop this,”
May 15 2010
Henry Chalfant is looking to get his seminal street art documentary Style Wars restored. If you have a little extra cash floating around, give him a hand.
May 03 2010
Green faith in the technology saviour“Just because there is an economic incentive to invent something, doesn't mean that inventing it is technically or physically possible”
April 24 2010
The commercial airliner repossession business. A whole new world to me, quite exciting really.
Partisan Memorials in former Yugoslavia. Impressive modernist architecture.
April 18 2010
A world without planes.“In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies”
April 17 2010
Bolivia has come up with a fizzy beverage it says is the real thing: Coca Colla.
