Category: Random

“Dance for me disco monster! Dance!”

So tonight I said goodbye to Davo for the third time in three days, and it was just as difficult this time as it was all the others. I can’t imagine anything I want less than for him to leave the country. He will be terribly terribly missed.

Oooh. Aaaah. I’ve got a new toy at work.

So I finished reading Emergence about a week ago, and it’s fall of all this conversation about ants and the ways in which they collaborate with one another in order to form huge functioning units, without any of the individual ants ‘planning’ anything or being ‘in charge’. And this morning, what do we see but the largest collaborative venture every created in the history of the world – and it’s been made by ants. [Plus: Really cool animated gif from CNN]

Today on Barbelith: Shamanism in a nutshell (2): “Shamanistic practice has an incredibly vast range of applications including, business, warfare, prosperity, employment, children, love and friendship, all designed maximise the health of the spirit. JanFreya investigates. “

Blutac is smurf-poo. You heard it here first.

He’s the god who coding my crap ideas up and called it Barbelith and the god behind many of today’s leading web projects (some secretly – some not so secretly). And now he’s been interviewed. I present Cal Henderson.

Of course it was all my idea. There we were on the interhighweb – chatting (as is our wont) about his plans to make something truly wonderful using nothing but green paint, tin foil and the leaves of a banana tree. But I said, “No! Why do you waste your time with these things? They are as flotsam. Make me instead an AIMbot that can search Google.” And he did.

Trailer campaign: What is Blogroots? [Left-to-right: Hourihan | Bausch | Haughey]

Are you feeling adequate today? Not too many crushing self-doubts? Able to look at yourself in the mirror without collapsing? Then what you need is Things Other People Accomplished
When They Were Your Age. Guaranteed to make you realise how bloody pointless you are. Meanwhile, if you want to know what the Queen Mum accomplished in her long, rich and incredibly privileged life then go see this particularly fine flash tribute to her. Guaranteed to make you realise how bloody pointless she was.