Lighting the Fuse

Take an inspiring and inspired trip around the world from the comfort of your own lounge with this extremely well stitched together and edited film. In their words: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious […]

I’ve recently started ‘using’ a macbook pro. I say ‘using’ in inverted commas, because I would not call it that at all. For one thing, I simply cannot cure myself of the need to have my left index finger resting on the trackpad (is that what its called?) while I move the mouse around with […]

What happens when you take a photo of the same thing every day for three years? You could turn yourself into an internet sensation with over 7 million hits by taking a photo of yourself in exactly (scarily actually) the same position every day for three years. The result is pretty cool. Actually reminds me […]

I say this with caution, as I have said it before, only for the site to crash again, but….. After what seems like ages of absence for unknown reasons, the awesome Uniqlo calendar is back! The link below  comes with two major health warnings. Health Warning 1. If you are anything like me, you will […]

A while ago, I promised regular wordle updates, to see what this great blogging experiment was turning up. What am I writing about. Why. All big questions. So, dear reader(s – if there are more than one of you out there), here it is, accurate as of the 6 August. … and here is a […]

I remember back to my first economics class where I learned about the theory of comparative advantage, and how the fact that you only have to be relatively better at something (rather than absolutely better at something) drives the world’s trade models. So we know that every country in the world must be number 1 […]

Stuff happens so fast these days, but its amazing to see how much beauty there is hidden within simple everyday occurances. Take for example this super slow motion photography of a balloon exploding while you are blowing it up. Or what if we fill the balloon with water? Well this one had to hurt, but […]

There are lots of ways to organise the information on the web. Google “organise” the world’s information based on revealed and stated (either through search or consumption of content)  preference, interest or need. Facebook gets people to “like” things, and thereby organises the internet’s content via a big “word of mouth” engine (after all, who do you trust more […]

So today my blog turned 1 week old! To mark the occasion, I have decided to use a brilliant little app called wordle, to explore exactly what it is I have been blogging about. Not just some made up word cloud like the one on the right of screen, but the word’s I have actually […]