May 2010
8 posts
May 26th
“We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no...”
– Steve Jobs
May 22nd
May 21st
What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites... →
A fantastically enjoyable article, looking into the work of several specialist professionals from various fields and how it is uncovering the mysterious realm of female sexual desire. 
May 17th
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I want Facebook to be useful again
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I have recently become increasingly disillusioned with Facebook. Why Facebook is becoming useless for me There are two key factors behind the decreasing value which I can find in Facebook. Firstly - and much more easily solved - is the seemingly endless barrage of pointless information from various applications on the Facebook ‘platform’. These...
May 17th
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May 17th
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“The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not...”
– Sam Harris, ‘The End of Faith’ - The Nature of Belief, p67
May 17th
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“We must finally realise the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of...”
– Sam Harris, ‘The End Of Faith’.
May 9th
April 2010
6 posts
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Reflecting on my own impact
Over the past few days, I’ve become increasingly upset with things which I’ve seen on the internet, and particularly on Facebook. I very much dislike some of the ways in which I perceive some people to be acting, or representing themselves online. Reflecting on this, however, brought me to consider my own impact. Whilst I try very hard (and often succeed) at being measured,...
Apr 21st
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To all those who say "fuck the police"
I honestly do not know or understand why people would ever say “fuck the police”. I don’t pretend that my ignorance of this fact alone means that people who say this are ‘wrong’, nor that everyone ought to adopt my personal view of the [British] police. Personally? I have a great deal of respect for the police, and I think that they are all too often limited in what...
Apr 20th
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Apple is doing the right thing with the...
Like many other people living outside of the United States who have been hoping to get their hands on an iPad, I was disappointed when Apple quietly changed their UK website to reflect a month’s delay (and issued this press release) to the iPad’s international launch. The obvious question, which Scoble tackled here, is; how did Apple get their estimates so wrong? They had sold over 500,000 units...
Apr 19th