May 2007
18 posts
David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous →
interview with David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous on the importance of metadata.
How to remove melted cheese from a saucepan
Melted cheese on the base of a saucepan is a nightmare to remove. Worse, the removed cheese sticks to your scourer becoming a ‘breeding ground’ for germs.
Watching a BBC Horizon programme on ‘how to commit the perfect murder gave me the perfect solution to this problem.
Acid bath murderers had in the passed been foiled due to the fact that the acids of choice (e.g. sulfuric...
Cultural Software by JM Balkin →
Unread. “Cultural Software explains ideology as a result of the cultural evolution of bits of cultural knowhow, or memes. It is the first book to apply theories of cultural evolution to the problem of ideology and justice.” Interesting concept, that ideol
Dormouse Hunting Museum, Slovenia
The fact that a Dormouse Hunting Museum exists at all is reason enough to buy a plane ticket to Slovenia. It isn’t easy to get to, but then that should be part of the quest to get to such an obscure and probably mythical place. First you must leave the main road and drive across the Disappearing Lake of Cernica, which for six months of the year is meadow, then, suddenly becomes a ten by five...
