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On my way to posting the fact that Laurence Lessig is appearing at THe Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 at 7.30pm on the 27th May to discuss “Creative Commons in a Connected World” tickets available here for £10.75. Google kindly offered me a gmail email account, goodness knows what I will do with it maybe […]
Fascinating article from a great site on how many bowel ailments are caused by western style toilets and how much better squatting is for you. Sounds sensible even at a simple mechanical level. “The rectum has a built-in “kink” designed to maintain continence. It only straightens out when squatting” PoopReport.com: Your Source for Poop. Certainly […]
Here is an alternative to bluetooth called zigbee that looks very promising for home automation. Low power with a very fast wake up time. Time to get into the home automation business me thinks FAQs
Here is a wiki on how to make money from blogging, although personally I do it for fun
Amazing store of a new motor that can generate more power than you put in, so there will be no need for nuclear power stations soon? It will be interesting to follow this story.Japan.com – Technology – Magnetic Fan in Japan – Japanese Magnetic Fan
Thanks to Chris Rand for this linkSurveyMonkey.com – Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy! Pretty useful software for generating surveys. Maybe we should send one out to Cortex customers.
Who says IKEA doesnt have a sense of humour. The new FartyG bathroom light IKEA Furniture Stores Australia
Oh boy this beats building speakers into concrete pipes like my brother did or building sand filled corner enclosures like Stan and I did. This guy is SERIOUS about speakers he excavated a hole 1 metre deep and made a horn 9.5 metres long custom3 That some audio system! Pity the neighbours
Just had an email from this guy:- Good day , This is Mr Raphael smith from olivestores and i will like to place an order from your store and i want to let you know that am whole saler in my country so i want you to give me a best price and here are […]
Spoken English – FreeCultureGreat WIKI of Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture book including MP3’s . The nbook is very very good especially the stories about FM radio and the Phonograph with a really good bit about how photography would never have taken off if you had to get the permission of the person who owned the […]