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Monthly Archives: May 2004

The Way We Eat Now by Craig Lambert

“Ancient bodies collide with modern technology to produce a flabby, disease-ridden populace.”
Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald’s for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast, lunch, dinner, even his bottled water—came from McDonald’s. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his film Super Size Me, which [...]

Excellent new translation of Dostoevsky’s “Notes from [the] Undergroud” [Salon]

“Forget Constance Garnett — the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation makes the most cryptic of existential cult classics stranger, funnier and more alive than ever.”

Mass Intelligence, collective decision making and The Wisdom of Crowds

This came in on the Metafilter feed a few days ago:
“The wisdom of crowds and the miracle of aggregation, arguably, are the reasons why markets and democracy work as well as they do. As New Yorker James Surowiecki explains in his new book, “consider the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. When a contestant [...]

How to find lectures in the UK [Lecturelist]

I love attending lectures. Between the Policy Exchange, The Royal Institution, mailing lists from institutions like the South Bank Centre and Time Out, I can usually keep abreast of who is speaking in London. Now a fine new tool has been added to my armoury: Lecturelist.org.
This website has extensive and searchable lists of lectures [...]

Latest Toys being developed by the US Navy [Wired]

Spray on armour, remote control rifles, bouyancy powered drones and point-and-click instant translations.

One of my favorite pundits…

…has rewarded me with a mention on his page! Spengler speaks.

An impressive flying model B52 [Geek Fun]


Casio Exilim Z4 Digital Camera [Amazon]

Recently acquired this little beauty. It is extremely fast (mere 2 seconds from hitting on button to taking photo). It is tiny. It is also less than £250.

Mini versus Pickup Truck [Bridger.us]

“Both of these vehicles hit the exact same off-set barrier at 40mph. Now there’s no question what would win in a head-on collesion between the two but then again the majority of accidents involve only a single car. All you have to do is look at the dummy’s legs and you can [...]

Stunning Photo of Private Spacecraft

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[Via Abelard]