one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
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?
Did you see that unicycling clown? Mobile phone users didn’t.
October 22 2009
On your bike: What the world can learn about cycling from Copenhagen.
October 18 2009
Plastic-eating albatross chicks
October 09 2009
health as currency“Since [poor people] don't have as much money to spend on happiness, they "spend" their health instead. ”
October 05 2009
Richard Dawkins on evidence.“Of course you can hold views that are contrary to evidence if you want, but don't expect anybody to respect you for it.”
September 29 2009
Using data from social networks, it might be possible to find out much more than you think you’re making public. Like if you’re gay.
September 28 2009
How our trash illegally exits Europe.“When they can't get it out in Rotterdam, they go to Antwerp or Hamburg”
September 25 2009
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy
US police spark outrage by using wartime acoustic weapon to disperse G20 protesters in Pittsburgh.
September 23 2009
Banksy: Some Assembly Required
Banksy: no ball games
