Ed Dowding

Category: Asides

Hydrate the world

“A solution to world dehydration? http://tinyurl.com/apr7” (via Hermione Way) I’d have made it inflatable with a drain hole myself. Brilliant idea though.

Best playlists eva!

I’m trying to compile the best playlists on Spotify (www.spotify.com). Can you help? Sitting around talking: Dancy party: Dinner party: @Hglass.co.uk – this is especially directed at you. @Anyone – if you don’t have spotity and need an invite, let me know.

Knitting night

Tonight is the first knitting night. I never knew knitting was so cool! http://www.threadbanger.com/

Relationships, made code

START; $SELF = ~1; $PARTNER = ~1; FIND PARTNER; IF ( $SELF + $PARTNER < 2 ) {GO TO START} ELSE {END};

LoveNinjas

From last.fm: Loveninjas are four or five Swedish boys in their mid 20’s with dirty hair and black clothes. They are determined to make love with Japanese girls and then write songs about it. Loveninjas’ songs sound like classic schlagers that have been forced through a dirty indie filter and then had its lyrics replaced ...

Recession

I’ve said for a while now that a lot of graphs have been going exponential for the last 50 years, and we ignore these slow trends at our peril. http://jenslapinski.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/being-a-tech-start-up-in-2009/ is a dramatically well illustrated example of how messy things have become.

Damn their twitchy noses!

http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/

Peace breaks out

I watched a very good Horizon from 1986 a few nights ago which, whilst not saying anything particularly new (not least because it’s 22 years old..), was a good reminder and layered on one or two details, about cooperation and its biological imperatives. I knew, for example, that tit-for-tat is always the best strategy for ...

If Adam Buxton had written Obama's acceptance speech

2 mins. Funny.

Happy people dont watch TV

“We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and for each one, the people who did the activities more — visiting others, going to church, all those things — were more happy,” Dr. Robinson said. “TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and ...

Left, right, and centering

We have two hemispheres to our brain, and they seem to be quite independent people. Your right brain is a parallel processing device which deals in imagery, the here and now, and the connectedness with all things. The left hemisphere is serial and concerned with the creation of and preservation of identity, placing us within ...

Make/Shift Shelving System

Via MoreInspiration comes this rather brilliant shelving system: The shelving system is ideal for awkward sized spaces where you want to add shelves without doing custom work. The Make/Shift Shelving system is made of a flexible foam-like material, that you wedge together and squeeze into place. Nice.

Abandoned towns

Hmmm maybe we should go claim one? http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/19/ghost-town-abandoned-city-examples-images/

London is Free

http://www.londonisfree.com/

If only…

Here’s a spoof NY Times that was distributed around NYC today… http://www.nytimes-se.com/2009/07/04/todays-paper/ A) Fantastic B) If only!

This is Now

http://now.sprint.com/widget/

Vicarious fame

http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/06112008

Let's work together for change

A great video from Avaaz about helping America be mindful of its unique and hard-won position in the world: http://www.avaaz.org/en/for_all_of_us/?cl=139960524&v=2321

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Driving abroad

Did you know that many insurers will automatically downgrade your insurance if you take your car over to Europe? If you didn’t, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Recent research from moneysupermarket.com found that 39% of drivers weren’t aware of this. Regulations state that insurers must provide the minimum level of third party cover in all ...