Dropsafe

OK! Here’s a competition! How long will it be before you see this referenced in a corporate slideware presentation, as a piece of earth-shattering news, a paradigm shift, or some equal piece of hyperbole? I reckon I’ll survive about a 10 days, max, but I have a travel schedule coming up. Others will “die” sooner.

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You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook? – New York Times For any vegetable you would parboil or steam, the microwave works as well or better, and is faster. … Asparagus: two minutes; artichokes (a revelation): six; cauliflower (try my cauliflower with tomatoes and pimentón): five; potatoes or beets: four; sp

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Cynics are only idealists with awkwardly high standards. - Alain de Botton in “Status Anxiety“ 

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Open Tech 2008 – 5th July in London. Cool? (tags: opentech geek technology) Steppe By Steppe, Side By Side – A Journey On Four Wheels A 4-wheel side-by-side recumbent tandem. And no, it is not a April Fool. Check the gallery… (tags: bike Travel cycle cycling recumbent)

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Light cone “In general relativity, the future light cone is the boundary of the causal future of a point and the past light cone is the boundary of its causal past.” [Wikipedia] Nothing can travel at the speed of light, therefore nothing can travel faster than light[1], therefore your impact on the universe at large

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20 years ago this would have required Esther Rantzen and be limited tot he UK; or Nader and the US; and it would be too geeky to get coverage. This is what happens when people can speak for themselves, to each other. Backlash: Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer Imagine

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Good food I’ve not had “roti prata” (yet), but the Hainanese chicken rice, the Chinese dumplings (at Din Tai Fung), the noodle soup (from some place in Food Republic) and the sushi (at Sushi Tei in Ngee Ann City) as well as pretty much any other meal (from nameless places in food courts near the office or hotel) were

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One of the other big issues I have with “surprise” parties is that the list of attendees reflects the views of whom it is who is organising it, rather than the list of whom is important to [oneself]. It’s ironic that I spend a lot of my life either railing against systems which take autonomy

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Peter cites me in the following video interview he did with Shel Israel: Sun Micro’s Peter Reiser Talks Communities | FastCompany.TV As the chief architect of Sun’s Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a

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Human security failures, simply demonstrated: How to beat tight security? Just be the DJ…

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Well, it’s coming up – about a month away and I am torn; I don’t know how to describe the sensation, but I don’t really care about “the big 4.0.” and all that jazz, but I also care enough about not caring about it that… I dunno, it’s kind of a nuisance. For my 30th

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