I'm heading down to Portland this week for the 4th year in a row, but this year is going to be slightly different. The last three years I've been working the OSCON trade...
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Jeff Griffiths: FossCoach
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DIY Timeless Watch
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If you have plenty of spare time and some recycled computer parts lying around, why not check out this DIY project known as the Timeless watch? The strap itself is made...
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AK Geneve HMS Automatic Warp Watch - the Details
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A couple days ago we briefly reported about the AK Geneve HMS Automatic Warp Watch. Now got access to the full press-kit and can bring you more details about this unique...
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Introducing Opera Web Standards Curriculum
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. Opera launch the Web Standards Curriculum; a set of tutorials and articles promoting web standards. At Opera, we've heard lots of anecdotes about the poor...
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Flying Close To The Sun
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(I've written the "Business Europe" column for today's Wall Street Journal Europe. The article is on the WSJ website and below. I've added the first picture to this...
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Bongwater - 13th April 1991
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Bongwater were the brainchild of New York producer/Shimmy Disc record label owner Mark Kramer. Their first release "Breaking No New Ground EP" in 1987 did exactly what it...
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Crap Idea
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Introducing, the Shit Box, this year’s ‘Festival Essential’… Yes, it’s a cardboard box, but not just any cardboard box. This one has a picture...
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Let's Get Rid of Darwinism
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I agree with Olivia Judson; it’s long past time to get rid of Darwinism. I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They...
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EcoDance
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Daily Mail: Britain's first eco-nightclub is opening tonight in London. Cyclists and walkers get free admission and the dance floor is so high-tech it generates its...
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Blank Canvas brings big designers
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Botanist by Orange 22, the brainchild of Dario Antonioni and Brandon Lynne, combines modern technology and the simplicity of nature to create sustainable furniture. ...
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Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
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The “One Laptop Per Child” project (OLPC), the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where...
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Study: Young Kids Online
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Just wanted to point briefly to a new ethnographic study on young kids in online social environments that was released this week by Consumer Reports Web Watch and the...
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Pink for October
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No, we haven’t been taken over by an army of Barbie dolls. Rather, the change you see on Aelon today is for a cause. While pink isn’t exactly my favourite...
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Hello World!
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Hey everyone, With the Fourth of July recently passed I know what you’re all thinking: what the hell is with the price of gas??! However, a few of you might also be...
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Pownce: IM for web 2.0 era
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Pownce is the new brainchild of Kevin Rose and a few others. I recently got invited to try it out and I did. When I first read about Kevin's cryptic defintion of pownce...
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JET PACK
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with roboticist Daniel Wilson about his new book "Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction...