Archive for July, 2008

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti Control is a slippery thing. It’s important to our lives; we need it to rationalise and justify our decisions, but sometimes it’s simply beyond our influence. The well-known fundamental attribution error is a clear example of how we overstate human involvement [...]

Some mashups are unlikelier than others. However, none as unlikely as the collision of Flickr and id’s classic shoot-em up Wolfenstein in Wolfenflickr 3D. The Web truly is a mysterious place.

At last I have broadband. Too many stories to relate, but there’s one I’d particularly like to share. While setting up my bedroom basics (alarm clock, airbed – thankfully now usurped by a real bed) I chanced upon a French radio station playing some very listenable French hip-hop. I stuck with it, and over the [...]