Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
LinklogHey, aren’t people in cities recently affected by acts of terrorism supposed to be super-nice to each other in the following days? Based on the interactions I witnessed on the way in to work, London appears to have skipped that. Outside of the immediate areas effected, the only effect seems to have been security alerts [...]
The Northern Line was slightly more hellish than usual this morning. I’ve opted to spend the day at home.
Ah. One of the joys of tracking Debian unstable is that, because upgrading is trivially easy, it’s genuinely surprising when your software noticeably changes. Take today for example – I fire up Sound Juicer and begin the process of ripping a CD. When it’s done I plug in my iPod, launch gtkpod and try to import the new [...]
I brought a copy of The Sun on Saturday to get the Star Wars episode III promo DVD. My flatmate was flicking through the paper and found an advert for those Star Wars branded lottery scratchcards – with the slogan “What would you do with £40k?”. The ad features a photo of R2-D2 in a jacuzzi-type whirlpool flanked by [...]
Updated: see end of entry. One thing that has impressed me with Gnome over the past year or so has been the improvement in the ease of setup of random peripherals. The fruits of “Project Utopia” (udev/Hal/DBUS) mean that plugging in most bits of hardware seems to do something very close to an approximation of “the right thing”. Now, [...]
Something from Grant Morrison’s Pop Magic! popped into my head when I was in the newsagent today. The first person to create and launch a mass-market glossy magic magazine for young women will become as rich in the first decade of 21c, as the creators of Loaded magazine became in the last decade of 20c. [...]
I just walked into the flat, and my flatmate was watching University Challenge. One of the starter questions was to name the fashion designer who designed Dredd’s costume in the movie version of Judge Dredd. “Gianni Versace”, I say with confidence. “Jean-Paul Gaultier” claims Paxman.”No! Not Gaultier, Versace!” I shout… at the television. To the [...]
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