Shapejam

Trying to follow Buckminster Fuller's example in life, one step at a time to bring you brain scrapings for a new millennium.

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Antikythera Mechanism Article at the Smithsonian

I loved reading about the Antikythera Mechanism years ago in the flawed but interesting Fingerprints Of The Gods written by Graham Hancock. A recent post from the Smithsonian piqued my interest...

Battle Of Ideas 2014

Back in October I went down to the Battle Of Ideas for the most excellent Loose Lips pop-culture review site. This is what fell out of my smudgy grey brain-pump as a result..

World War Z and the CDC

Just watched World War Z, so it was nice to see the CDC explain how to survive a zombie apocalypse...

The Cruel Tutelage of Ido Portal

Liking this from Ido Portal. Just started Jiu Jitsu properly recently and looking at my movement and range.

Deep Level Shelters in London

I love the fact that we still have the Deep Level Shelters in London.

Breen Academy Basics EP1

The Breen Academy is putting up some of the basic material on Youtube at the moment. .

Skateboarding from Gou Miyagi

Loving the amazing boarding skills of Gou Miyagi...

2012 Surprise

Only a couple of weeks or so to go before the end of the year, 2012 has been an odd one for me...

Who did Rupert Murdoch annoy?

Looks like Rupert Murdoch may actually be on the way out...

Matt the cat and the rat

Some random poetry about a rat and a Matt...

FutureEverthing...

Like the look of this, FutureEverything is an art/technology/music conference held in Manchester this coming May...

The importance of data backup...

I've been pretty aggressive about backing up data, labelling things and having off-site backup etc. Unfortunately it looks like I lost a load of work...

You appear to be liquidating your stock, perhaps you would like to...

After attending post-mortems for various projects and raking over the grist of tasks complete and not so complete, it was easy to see that seemingly obvious problems in hindsight were missed when in the thick of things.

Any home as long as it's borked

Our current ConLib government appears to have been smoking ju-ju grass again...