Tony Wilson and Eva Pascoe on the Internet
Awesome footage. Eva Pascoe (founder of Cyberia and member of the digerati) tells Tony Wilson all about the internet. [Update: Thanks to Steve for the link to the newer better version of the video – nice one mate]
This Busker is Well Good
Saw him in North Laine on Saturday. This epic psychedelic trance improv was just part of his set. A proper one-man-band with mad skills. Again sorry for the video quality. I think I might have to invest in some kind of camera that can do…
Twitter / cookbook
And for anyone who doubted the usefulness of Twitter, the Internet brings you… Twitter / cookbook – 140 character recipes. via: kottke.org
Oh My God!
Like any good Mac Geek I upgraded to the new version of OS X (Leopard) at the weekend. And its very nice. A painless experience and there’s literally zero learning curve. But at the same time I keep finding new little things that are…
This Made Me Feel Jolly
5 Years Later by Noah and the Whale.
Mini – Lunchbreak Moonwalking
Yesterday I blogged about theotherlunchbreak.com – Mini’s really nice lunchtime learning sessions. I managed to get along to the ‘Learn to Moonwalk’ session and it was great! Sorry about the rubbish quality – my phone video camera just…
Sony’s RecYou
There’s been mutterings of recyou.jp around for a few days. It’s a very slick Japanese flash site for Sony Walkman. It’s quite hard to navigate your way through it, I managed by trial and error rather than a knowledge of Japanese…
Web 3.0 Doesn’t Sound Like Much Fun
I wasn’t going to post this as it’s not all that enlightening. It’s from a few months ago and is Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) talking about web 3.0 as a bunch of lightweight free distributable micro applications / services. Which is all very…
This Brought A Tear To My Eye
The Great Escape by Patrick Watson. I was listening to the stunning To Build a Home by Cinematic Orchestra and thought I should find out more about Mr Watson (who guests on the track) and it led me to this clip. Simply beautiful.
Mini – Learn in Your Lunchbreak
I love this a lot. Mini are putting on a bunch of lunchbreak experiences. Where you can learn something new in a lunchtime. The list of things that are up there at the moment are: Bruce Lee for beginners Beat a lie detector Be a spy Deal…
Investing in Content
Jib Jab – US peddlers of funny animations and stuff (my description not theirs) have just raised another $3m in funding from VCs – in total they’re reported to have raised $6m. Read/Write Web have more on the story. I found myself nodding…
Urban Youth Past and Present
Back in the day urban culture used to look so much more friendly… These days it’s so much more serious and less fun: The first lot are still hanging round in a little gang. But they look like nice boys, maybe even a little camp. They’ve…