one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

Pier pressure by Banksy

When given a choice, older people prefer to read negative news, rather than positive news, about young adults

Over 50s get a self-esteem boost

Journalism Warning Labels

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

Tomorrowful on wikileaks

Japan’s forbidden battleship island

Numbers stations: mysterious counting voices over the airwaves. Audio can be found on soundcloud.

A surprising threat to democracy: our brains.

Highway propaganda vs reality

BP. The board game.

A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areas.

Thoughtful essay from Andy Grove, which doesn’t only apply to the US: How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late

Cannonball

Fake Bird Twitters At Real People

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

No sex please, we're middle-class.

1970 is the same distance in time away from us now as 2050: that's how close the future is

Putting the future back in the room

Rango – The story of a chameleon with an identity crisis

We don't have any idea how to stop this,

Expert on the Gulf oil leaks

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.

Just because there is an economic incentive to invent something, doesn't mean that inventing it is technically or physically possible

Green faith in the technology saviour

Partisan Memorials in former Yugoslavia. Impressive modernist architecture.

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

A world without planes.

Bolivia has come up with a fizzy beverage it says is the real thing: Coca Colla.