Reasonable community model for an idea I've had.

I'm not entirely sure who this Michael Buble character is – I think he's some kind of pop star of the sort I probably won't enjoy very much – but he has sailed so completely under my radar that I suspect I am even more out of touch then previously thought. However, here he is being staked a velociraptor. Velociraptors make everything better.

Met one of the founders of this outfit at the weekend. Potentially very interesting stuff in here. One to play with later.

Jesus shitcocking Christ! If this is in the next release, then we're about 2 generations of photoshop away from a single "just sort this image out, would you" button, and then professional photographers and stock photo libraries are going to be obsolete. And as one commenter points out, this bit of technology is going to effectively make watermarking images impossible – it'll be trivial to heal the watermark off the pic.

In brief: the geographic long tail. 15% of most peoples time is spent in places that they are in less than 1% of their time. People sometimes ask me why I want to start logging my GPS data, even if only privately – it's for this sort of stuff – to work out whether or not I can better optimise my personal possibility jelly. (And if I lost you there, then I suggest you google the term.) I'd like to better track what I'm doing with this 15%, and see if I can't grab some hours back.

You know how over the last ten years, I've occasionally mentioned home-made machinima in a "one day, you'll all want to watch this" kind of way, and most've you have looked at me funny? Yeah. That.

I know it's not funny. I know it will have been horrible for the person this happened to. But how can you not laugh at a litany of damages that reads "they [… ]invaded her home […] stopped utility services, cut water pipes and electrical wiring, damaged flooring and finishings, poured antifreeze into sinks and toilets and [stole] her parrot"?

Bill Drummond on Belfast. Available on iPlayer for the next 7 days, well worth a listen.

Am going to try and get a ticket for this, and if I do, I guess I should sit and throw some notes together based on some LARP related stuff I've been thinking about/testing out, just to run it by some fresh minds…

Really bloody good post. Of course everyone knows that the media is perpetrating a set of damaging stereotypes, yet we don't *do* anything about it.

A response piece to Clay Shirky's article the other month about women not self-promoting, and the reasons why it happens. Unrelated: I really like the design of this site.

I'm sure we didn't get stories about things like this 15 years ago. One might almost think that there was some kind of shift in the weather going on.

Are you a climate change sceptic? I suggest reading this. It may not change your mind, but it might help you realise just how large the lobbying body against climate change is. You're not taking a sceptical position against the orthodox body of science, you're falling in with the mainstream being duped by a group that is massively more organised, and more delibarately deceptive than any bunch of scientists ever could be, because it is in their financial interests to lie to you.

Massive collection of random-thing generators, handy set of tools.

This is kinda saddening. Women beats all the men in the male dominated sport, press indifferent. OK, so it's bowling, and that's hardly a sport that gets lots of coverage. But still: Woman beats men at the ultimate man-sport, it being the one normally done with beer and crisps and so on. Maybe it should get a lot of sports coverage, but I would have though it would have got lots of human interest/chat-show coverage. Sad, like I say.

I've got a system prefs thing set up to do this, but it's unrelaible, and I wonder if this would work better…