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Movember Me

You read right – I’m growing a mustache for Movember.
Its a fundraiser for a prostate cancer charity.  Okay, so I’m 5 days behind, but I’m sure I can catch up – I have plenty of hairs on my chest (and ears and nose) which could probably be transplanted.  Eww, uck!
If you want to join my [...]

Back to the (Oblong) Future

The TED conference is coming back to Oxford this July. I doubt I’ll go – I’d rather spend the $4500 (about same in UK pounds) on a holiday with my family! And the talks will be podcast in the autumn anyway. I keep a few of the interesting TED talks in [...]

Relief for Swine Flu?

I received this in my email inbox today.  If anyone knows the artist who made this, then let me know so I can give them proper credit.  Better still, if some company ends up making this for real, then I’ll gladly link to them!
Brings new meaning to ‘viral’ advertising.
Many people think wearing a mask helps [...]

Its Physics, Jim!

Ah how I love Star Trekkin’ by The Firm – Its a catchy tune from the late 80s with this line from Scotty, the chief engineer: “You cannot change the laws of physics.”. And then later, “Its physics, Jim!”
Many, many years ago, I was a student at the OSCSS and just loved the physics [...]

VHS tapes, Nortel, Woolworths, and Ricardo Montalban

In the spirit of Jeopardy: “What is buried but once treasured?”
I read an article over the New Year holidays which stated that the last remaining distributor of VHS* tapes packed things in at the end of 2008. Gone forever now are the days of tapes getting tangled in the machine, or kids fitting the [...]