TED is a profound, horizon expanding experience — and I’ve only ever watched the videos. One day I’d love to go to the event. Here’s five of my most recent favorites. There’s no common theme, and there’s no single reason why I liked them. Some of them moved me, others encouraged me or educated me
High Five!
We hired a new guy at work a couple of years back (how time flies!) who started trying to give everyone a ‘high five‘. It was rather strange an uncomfortable — after all we’d never had deliberate physical contact with each other before — but the intention was pure so I joined in and high-fived
What do I, Barack Obama and Darth Vadar have in common?
I’m a big fan of Penny Arcade, a comic strip about gaming — even though I’m not into gaming that much. Gabe, the artist, is just fantastic. They recently released a game that features the characters from their comic strip called “On the rain slick precipice of darkness” which I’ve never played, but when I
Jack tries chewing solids
Yesterday, we tried something new. We cut up some pear into small chunks to see how Jack would go with it. Watch the video. A big thanks to the guys in #mplayer on freenode for helping me work out how to rotate, reduce, reencode this vid
Sorry Ranga!
Today, August 10 2008, is Sorry Ranga Day. It’s time that we apologised, individually and collectively for the indignity and degradation inflicted on a red headed people and moved to a future based on mutual respect. The Ginger Generation, Blood-Nut, Ginger Megs, Bluey, Carrot Top, Ginga, Freckly Arms…and Ranga. The hatred has to stop! So,
In language you’ll understand…
From the I-hate-subeditors department I read a headline on the ABC today: “Study paves way for 500,000-song MP3 player“. It caught my eye: was this some amazing new technology that was only good for storing compressed music files? No, they’re just dumbing-down a technology article so that ‘the masses’ understand it. What’s worse is that
Stay of execution at the Legallows
I’d never seen the Truck Bearing Kibble webcomic before, but the latest comic just cracked me up and it’s a while since I said anything so here it is:
