July 2009
111 posts
on a day off from work, playing with rose and our mir:ror, and sneakily watching a spurs/westham friendly on sky. spurs 1-0, since you asked
Teaching my daughters how to close a cardboard jigsaw box so it makes a farting noise. Essential life skill, that.
Now teaching my daughters thumb-wrestling. Rose (5) is surprisingly good. I like days off…
The Digital Generation Project | Edutopia →
Brilliant set of resources on dgital education from Edutopia
I said to @pepier I wouldn’t tweet this, but hell- finally reached inbox zero today after months of email lag. <smug>
New Tron Trailer! http://3.ly/tr0n - watching this made me realise that half the impact of Tron is genius sound design, not CGI…
Best thing about the 3GS is the compass. look at AR app pUniverse - hold the iphone to the sky, and it shows you the constellations…
Just upgraded to 32gb 3GS in black. Lovely afternoon of geeky tweaking ahead…
Went to see spurs v Barcelona last night. It was the young ‘uns who impressed- Livermore’s goal, Danny Rose’s running and Kyle Naughton.
ooh- just got a limited edition newspaper through the post of Eoin Colfer’s new HItchhiker’s Guide novel. From @newspaperclub, i presume?
also - the new HHGTG novel/newspaper is a limited edition of, naturally, 42….
RT @louby Love http://www.theauteurs.com - excellent film archive incl. fb/twitter integration [+1 looks like a fantastic service!]
On train home after lovely dinner with @bnglaser and @chrislunch, talking about neuroscience, politics, terrible jokes and ok magic.
Spending on UK children's shows 'down 70%' at ITV,... →
of course, all the money should be spent online, not on more TV shows, as we’re doing in C4 Education…
Workshop this morning with lots of smart people about how we can make Battlefront bigger + better. Looking forward to the relaunch already!
I once swam in Pat Jennings’ swimming pool #lameclaimtofame
RT @Ruby_Pseudo Dear Morgan Stanley… Our retort. Not a report. Whole world of difference… http://tinyurl.com/ncl5gc [fantastic!]
Watching a video of Mazzy Star singing Fade Into You on rough trade doc. Hope Sandival was *such* an indie boy crush <swoon>
OMG - @tweetminster’s livewire (http://wire.tweetminster.co.uk/) is fricking incredible. good work!
Here’s my pictures from #rebootbritain. Not too happy with these - lighting too harsh, but like this one of @CMcArdle http://3.ly/JvS
Also, pictures of @jobsworth, @tonyageh, @ruskin147, @wethink, @euan, @stevemoore4good and @surrealthing - http://3.ly/jmc #rebootbritain
yay! just managed to grab an intereting09 ticket!
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Not an Upgrade — an... →
Fantastic work by Mr Shirky, as always…
Near Future Laboratory » Flavonoid →
very interesting arduino-esque tool for measuring physical data
nice @cshirky - ism: “self-assembling publics”. I’m really interested in new ideas about ‘public’ and ‘value’ at the moment: http://3.ly/2j4
Just finished Rolando 2. Fantastic game- thanks @handcircus! Now, hurry up and write Rolando 3!
here’s some photos I took at #mfc09, including @balf, @hondanhon, @maxgadney and @sambrook http://3.ly/JRv
At BBC TV Centre for a meeting. First time I’ve been back since I left for C4. I don’t miss that commute…
Watch this fantastic video: Nick Griffin: Not in my name http://bit.ly/4Chcl4 #stopthebnp #hopenothate