Doctorow on Facebook
Cory Doctorow has a really good rant on Facebook over at Information Week:
Facebook is no paragon of virtue. It bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: “So-and-so has [...]
Geek Behaviour
Stumbled over this great post about nerd behaviour in my feed reader the other day and it instantly resonated with me…
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
And that’s just the opening lines…if [...]
Rediscovering Billy Bragg
Actually I never really stopped listening to Billy Bragg, it’s just the rotation that varies.
It’s the lyrics mostly, and I am a bit partial to his lo-fi production too…makes feel like I could knock out a song like that, indeed one of my goals this year is to be able to belt out a decent [...]
Pistol Pete’s Gun Powder
I must be reading too much Springwise, or bored, or losing my mind…whatevs, here’s a brand idea that I reckon is just crazy enough to work and take the body building world by storm, Pistol Pete’s Gun Powder.
Now, to be clear I don’t know anything about body building (I know, I know, who’d have thought?) [...]
Secrets of top Poker players
Botox bottle in DIY macro studio
Originally uploaded by fpsurgeon.
I think I might be on to something here…Botox as a performance enhancing drug for poker players…you know to hide any facial tells.
What would you market it as?