Category: Twitters

Simply amazing thatthe Greeks were cutting gears in 80BC and making complicated machinery such as this. A device for demonstrating the motion of planets. I wonder what else they built.

Really great bit of Linux kit here that allows you to plug in any old USB drive to your network. Only $99, although doesnt seem available in the UK. Contains all software for incremental archives etc etc Just the thing to hide away in your thief and fireproof box at home.

GMail’s spam filters are getting much better. Its now correctly identifying 97% of incoming spam messages. At this rate my old geoff@cortexcontrollers.com email address will be usable again.

Another aggregator here apparently it learns what you are interested in. First glance doesnt seem so clean as www.bloglines.com

Interesting new way of sharing music legally. Create your own internet radio station. Its also a social network tool.mercora Link thanks to Jenny The Shifted Librarian

Just back from voting in the local elections and the European Elections. Was unable to find out if any of the parties in the UK have active support for the Euro, which I’m in favour off. Plenty of parties against the Euro including one that uses a £ symbol on the voting form. Tried searching […]

Oh boy. How I would love to go to a party where the hosts rolled these Eden Rooms out! Ocean – Style for the Modern Home

A colourful map os USA defining which area uses pop and soda for fizzy drinks. Of cause in the UK when I was a kid it was always pop. So its surprising that pop doesnt pop up on the Eastern seabosrd.

A joyous article indeed Smart Mobs: 5th Free Software International Forum in Brazil On how Brazil is vitalizing its software through Lessigs Creative Commons Licence and using Linux. Very interesting on how they equate this with sovereignty.

What an incredible idea here and so well implemented. Create’s an RSS feed of what your mp says in parliment. Can now track what Anne Campbell gets up to. Seems like not a lot! Many thanks to Simon Willison’s blog for link here Today June 15th discovered that Anne does have a blog, maintained in […]