I love the concept of a male ironing contest. (Curious mental thing: I typed mail first time round).
Archive for November, 2006
Time Out list. Too many appear to be “apply goo to self” in one form or another, but otherwise there’s some fun stuff in there.
Super speech from Judge Judge. I kid you not. Worth a read when you see more Daily Turd headlines.
Using sound to levitate creatures. I can’t tell from the text whether they were harmed or not. Genius.
Thanks to my prompting and Mark’s luck - we’re going to El Bulli in June next year!
And it’s just after my birthday. Fanbloodytastic.
Got to buy Jake one of these when he’s older. Manufactum looks like a fun site as well.
So I never knew it was called the Kübler-Ross grief cycle / model - now I do. Interesting to see it applied to Iraq - no reason why it shouldn’t work. Further good stuff on the wider Changing Minds site.
I like the idea of the uncyclopedia – the content free encyclopedia. I like its article on London. The Critique of Pure Reason is even better. I *heart* the word dumbtard.
Shame that this Socitm report comes down to “a lengthy procurement process” for shared services. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Excellent Joel on why there cannot be any sensible reasons for having 15 different ways of almost-but-not-quite leave Windows Vista.
Some useful things around the e-Gov space:
- Tom Steinberg has hit the No.10 website with a petitioning system. Excellent stuff - I’ve signed a few of them. Good to see No.10 experimenting with this sort of approach - let’s see how the feedback on the petitions from No.10 works.
- Lyons has summarised some of the public consultation meetings. Quite how people who don’t know which tier is responsible for what or how council tax works can have a view on “place shaping” is a mystery to me. Bad questionnaire design? I like the idea of minimum standards - this worked quite well for the PSOs in the local e-gov era.
- Shared services looks good for ICT functions in local authorities according to Socitm Insight.
Interesting article from Simon Baron-Cohen on whether assoicative mating (where people with similar traits are more likely to mate) plays a role. My grandpa was a meticulous film developer and mini thing manufacturer. My father hoards wood. So I think I’m probably OK there. And the AQ test tells me I’m in the control sample range. Caroline disagrees.
Nielsen makes a compelling argument that the digital divide is a) real and b) comprised of many sub-issues. The things that leapt out at me here: i) write simply (for low literacy) and ii) write large (for older people). Empowerment? I don’t think there’s an easy route to this save by word-of-mouth (you should be using package X, it’s much better).
I’ve tried a number of ways of getting IE6 and IE7 to run simultaneously. Most of the options appear not to work. However, the multiple IE installer seems to have worked perfectly.
Cats Eye Nebula
M51 eating something tasty
Lots of things that I don’t have time to write up.
- Individuals can lend through Grameen Bank-style institutions. Far better than many charities, I think, as they are nearer to the people you are trying to help.
- cFares looks like a good idea to buy cheaper air fares. I should see if Wexas can use it?
- Collaborative rating of conferences / access to papers. Nice idea. We should start putting some of ours through it, I think.
- Powwownow keeps improving.
- Marks and Spencer loves RFID - 100% stock accuracy sounds incredible.
- Climate change debunking debunked.
- NHS NPfIT details.
- Facilitator?
A nice summary of what’s going on in SR04 from the man who kicked it all off. A play to rejoin the public sector?
Apparently 96% of addictions are caused by ghosts. Genius. I particularly like the black energy attacks.
Interesting comparison between the BBC home page stories and what we’re reading. Sadly, it looks like we’re more Hello than Harvard.
