Ed Dowding

Category: Asides

I Love Charts

Two excellent charts, one hilarious, the other depressingly obvious: I Love Charts – Bohemian Rhapsody. Also from I Love Charts via Mr Robert Loch.

Bamboo water bottle

Nice design. Bamboo Bottle Company.

Mottainai

Mottainai  is a Japanese term meaning “a sense of regret concerning waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized.” The expression “Mottainai!” can be uttered alone as an exclamation when something useful, such as food or time, is wasted. In addition to its primary sense of “wasteful,” the word ...

More of the most amazing thing you might see this week

Well it seems I spoke slightly too soon, since Babs has sent me some videos from The Darkroom Start with the  Darkroom event reel, and be sure, too, to check out their Projections at Kimberley.

Don't do anything that isn't play

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had ...

Probably the most awesome thing you will see this week

We were fortunate enough to welcome Nell and Robin to stay with us for a few days whilst they were down in the Pyrenees a few weeks back. Robin creates some of the most awesome visual I’ve ever seen. Check these out, and then if you have the means, hire them. Epic. Battle of Branchage ...

Happy Monkeys

Pretty much everyone wise who has picked up a pen for the topic of happiness seems to agree that it lies in the simplest of pleasures, mostly coalescing around the contentment of our animal selves.

Dunning Kruger effect

I fully expect to be demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect sometime in the next 10 months.

iPad = Tom Cruise

The iPad is the Tom Cruise of technology. It looks good, does some things well, but is overpriced, unnecessary, and tries to lock you in to an unbelievably crass belief system.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010

How fast is Google Chrome? (Includes explosions)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0

Entrepreneurs

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6MhAwQ64c0

Farm life

I’ve just applied to go on a programme called “Farm Life”. I figured the answers were quite interesting (especially if contrasted with Ali’s). EXPLAIN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CO-APPLICANT. Ali and I have been going out for about a year now. She’s lovely. Such a great friend and ally to have in this adventure. We compliment ...

Temporary Autonomous Zone

A TAZ is the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control – the best way to create a non-hierarchical system of social relationships is to concentrate on the present and on releasing one’s own mind from the controlling mechanisms that have been imposed on it. Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim ...

Travel Forever and Live Rent Free

http://www.camelotproperty.com http://www.guardianangelservices.co.uk http://www.mindmyhouse.com http://www.vagabondish.com/8-tools-travel-long-term-live-rent-free/

Clear skies

Ah, summer!

Shel Silverstein

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlE

How Different Groups Spend Their Day

How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. Source: http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/08/10/an-average-day/

You have such freedoms! Exercise them!

Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

If only… As news of the nation’s collectively held delusion spread, the economy ground to a halt, with dumbfounded citizens everywhere walking out on their jobs as they contemplated the little green drawings of buildings and dead white men they once used to measure their adequacy and importance as human beings. Care of The Onion