When I was six I got my first (and only) Filofax. While it was kinda nice to have somewhere to store all your information, I wouldn’t recommend giving it to a six year old for their entertainment as it soon got discarded along with all the other “educational” toys. It seems like everyone else soon… [Read more…]
August 18, 2011
(said the woman in John Lewis to her husband). We’re post royal wedding (post-Wimbledon, even) and there’s still a mass of britishness out there. How? Why? For how much longer, and how many more “Keep _blank_ and carry on” variations will I have to see before this madness comes to an end? I don’t have… [Read more…]
August 5, 2011
Friday 24th April was exciting. Huge crowds gathered outside Apple stores around the world for the release of the iPad 2. In Covent Garden, London, people queued well into the night hoping to get their hands on it. The iPad’s been hailed as both the saviour of the publishing industry and the future of computing,… [Read more…]
June 9, 2011
2001 a space odyssey starts with the imagined birth of man. We see a troop of apes huddling in caves, the kind we’re used to seeing on nature documentaries. Aside from some fantastic acting, there’s nothing particularly special about this. Then there’s a sudden, but subtle change – the apes make the shift from fighting with… [Read more…]
May 28, 2011
“We’ve made a world we can’t control” read the headline. For 3 full pages a journalist was lamenting our inability to control 21st Century society, economics and the planet. It was starting to sound like a disaster movie. But when have we ever been able to control the world? We certainly can’t control nature, and… [Read more…]
April 12, 2011
Read the background to this (below) or get stuck into the argument: Background America is famous for its entrepreneurial society and this (as well as sheer size) has helped the US foster some of the world’s largest companies. With the hope of resurrecting the UK economy, David Cameron’s conservative government are trying to foster that… [Read more…]
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