I love Aston Martin’s. Call it boyish influence in my younger years when I watched Sean Connery’s James Bond carting about in his DB5 across to Daniel Craig flipping with reckless abandon a DBS – the DB9’s race focused big brother – they represent to me in a quintessentially snooty British way, the ultimate fashion [...]
So I joined my first MMORTS – Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy – www.evony.com. This was for a number of reasons, including:
I’m a geek at heart. I used to play alot of Age of Empires and the appeal of playing a Real Time Strategy that was free, no less, was a powerful lure.
I was [...]
So here, I am reading this article on The Age, The new wave is brewing thinking to myself, well hey, yes, I really like coffee. But describing the styles in waves? Really, like the article cites, that is just being a pretentious twat. By that definition alone, I must be a 2nd wave advocate.
I do, [...]
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris or more famously known as Le Corbusier, pioneered the machine aesthetic of building architecture. He was born in 1887 with his work immortalised in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Stunning.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/10/1006lecorbusier-born
Back in January of this year, Clive Thompson wrote a particularly interesting and – albeit short – informative commentary around the phenomenon of micro manufacturing and the rise of the popularity of bespoke, small run, tailored material goods.
This viewpoint around material goods explains in one sense why I refuse to get an iPhone – aside [...]
This interview by JD Lasica of www.socialmedia.biz is with the co-founder of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg, the erstwhile creator of this blog’s – The Culture Mind - authoring platform, which uses Wordpress 2.8.4. It popped up on Vimeo a few days ago.
Matt Mullenweg on the state of WordPress from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
At the recent WordCamp [...]
Way back in the early 90’s, I was an absolutely huge fan of Formula 1 (zeolot is the more accurate term, but I’ve grown up a bit since then), religiously staying up until the early hours of the morning to watch the entire F1 race season broadcast live from its respective country. The fascination went [...]
www.target155.vic.gov.au is the State of Victoria’s campaign to communicate environmentally responsible and sustainable practices around water consumption and usage in the community. The goal is for each Victorian to use no more than 155 litres of water each day, whether it be cooking, showers (4 minute goal), flushing the toilet (dual flush systems are Australian [...]
Over the years I have collected a bunch of useful open source tools which have helped tremendously in building and maintaining websites. Most important – they are FREE! If you really want to go to town and have the funds get yourself Adobe Web Premium (Illustrator, Photoshop, Contribute, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Soundbooth) and start looking [...]
A month back, I wrote about Google maps influenza tracker following the H1N1 Swine Flu and its course across the world. With the continual focus on the spread of this virus, it was refreshing tonight to hear that Canada is treating the spread of the disease like it would any other seasonal flu outbreak, choosing [...]
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