This guy is an absolute legend.

Here’s an article about the ‘long tail’ of creative works. Business works on the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule. For a record company for example, you’d say 80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your releases for the year. Anyone who has ever tried to find a genuine Wall of Voodoo [...]

It’s common knowledge that things get bigger when they are heated, and shrink when they are cooled. But like any good scientific principle, there’s always exceptions. For example, water shrinks as it cools, but suddenly expands when it freezes, as anyone who has ever had to scrape forgotten soft drinks out of a freezer [...]

These days, the word Luddite is used to refer to people who oppose or simply feel unable to comprehend technology. Some people who struggle with technology refer to themselves as Luddites. The original Luddites though, were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested against the changes produced by the [...]

I had this great idea roughed out for a design change for Neuromesh, involving in part the brain from above, sitting in a nice realistic looking electric chair. In looking around at electric chairs, I discovered interesting facts, such as, the electric chair was developed as a more humane (?!) execution method, as hanging [...]

Mobile phones. Every year, millions of mobile phones are discarded as waste, millions more sit around houses and offices in perfect working order, because they are replaced by newer models when people switch plans.

Mark loves the gadget phones, with integrated Palm, camera, mp3, and whatever. As for me, I just want to make [...]

WA Premier Geoff Gallop resigned this week, after being diagnosed with depression. As is often the case, most people around him were taken completely unawares. He was in his political prime, the most popular state leader in the country, leading a strong state and generally seen as successful. But he took the step [...]

You may remember a while back we voted on the free parking house rule in Monopoly. Most people who voted play the rule where money paid to chance and community chest go in the middle to be won by anyone who lands on free parking.
You may know of or play some other house rules [...]

According to this Yahoo News article, mobile phones can have a negative effect on family life.
The round-the-clock availability that cell phones and pagers have brought to people’s lives may be taking a toll on family life, a new study suggests.The study…found that those who consistently used a mobile phone or pager throughout the study period [...]

You know those cars that have the stereo controls on the steering wheel? How cool is that?
Do you reckon families that get one of those cars spend the next month saying “For goodness sake Dad, can we just listen to the music without you fiddling with those buttons?!”