Listening to: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police

As a medium I really like styrofoam and readers will be well aware of my interest
in robots so…
Robots + Styrofoam… almost a perfect combo, especially when you reach this sort
of scale:

src: we make money
not art

Listening to: Rock Steady - Sting

Now that I am using Safari for over 90% of my web work it is starting to exhibit some
annoying behaviors. It seems to have a memory leak somewhere… because it slowly
chews up my free memory. It also seems to go a little spastic on the CPU if you leave
it alone too long (like longer than 48 hours). I have Firefox… but it doesn’t feel
as slick. Not too sure what I’m going to do yet.

Listening to: Englishman in New York - Sting

I’m really only posting this for
nostalgic reasons (being an ex-RISC OS user):

RISC OS can be seen running on a PocketPC PDA, with no Microsoft software
in sight. The Pocket Loox computer even uses a 520MHz ARM-compatible XScale processor.

It will be faster than the Acorn boxes you used to be to buy.

Listening to: Tea In The Sahara - The Police

Cool and very crazy - the Flirtbunnies:

The bunnies are a matched pair (a boy and a girl) [of hats]. When one
user holds both ears on the bunny they are wearing, a wireless signal is sent to the
other bunny and on to aknowledge that wireless flirt, the receiving bunny will play
a sound, sort of a “mmmm..ooooo..ahhhh”. The other bunny-wearer can then press their
bunny ears in the same way and the flirt signal is sent back.

Listening to: Straight to My Heart - Sting

New World Notes has a
fascinating interview with Laukosargas Svarog the creator of an entire
eco-system in Second Life. It’s one of those ‘jaw-agape-holy-crap’ kind of a achievements…
but done simply and pragmatically:

Even this early into its creation, she’s noticed some limited forms
of emergence (the holy grail of artificial life developers) particularly in the development
of her plant life.

“It’s very sensitive to very small
changes,” she says, “like if a gene emerges which gives a plant an extra seed in its
lifetime, that can cause huge growth in its locale. And the opposite of course, one
less causes thinning growth. I’ve also seen the same color become a dominant gene
so all the meadow cup plants became blue once. Simple things like that emerge quite
often.”

All this sounds like an invaluable experiment
in artificial life or testing theories on evolutionary development, so I ask if she’s
interested in finding out anything from Svarga.

While an amazing story in and of itself… it’s a real credit to the platform that
Linden Labs has created.

src: Boing Boing

Listening to: Rock Steady - Sting

The Fool has some very
interesting thoughts about MS and where to from here:

Now may be just the time for Microsoft’s comeback. The impetus for
this comeback is coming from a rather unexpected person — not Bill Gates or Steve
Ballmer. Many analysts in the wake of the company’s last-quarter report remarked that
Bill Gates was resuming leadership of the company. Well, I have to disagree and say
that he is not — at least not in the capacity that many expect him to. Instead, a
remarkable programmer named Ray Ozzie — the famed developer of Lotus Notes — will
be Microsoft’s new point man for the Web.

Listening to: King Of Pain - The Police

• The Rewritten Rules of Management
  
  In this hard-charging manifesto, Tom Ehrenfeld directs our attention to Bill Swanson’s
  act of plagiarism and asserts that by letting Swanson get by with a slap on the wrist
  is like letting the Enron folks off with a small fine and a few hours of community
  service.
• Owner’s Guide to Difficulties
  
  When you feel the tension building in that space between your shoulder blades,
  or you lay in bed at night unable to stop that film replaying all the days stresses,
  use Peter Albert’s techniques for handling all life’s difficulties.
• The Eyeball Artisan
  
  Sports Illustrated columnist Chris Ballard offers an inspiring story of an unusual
  man who loves an unusual job. This excerpt from Ballard’s book, The Butterfly Hunter,
  is certain to ignite your search to find your true calling.
• Management Advice: Which 90%
  is Crap?
  
  The way business advice is sold today makes it difficult to cull the good from
  the bad. With refreshing candidness, Bob Sutton shows how to divine diamonds from
  dust with these guidelines.
• Crafter’s Manifesto
  
  Ulla-Maaria Mutanen explores the increasing popularity of crafting in this celebratory
  call-to-arms to everyone who enjoys getting their hands dirty once in awhile.
• Killer Instinct
  
  Best selling thriller novelist, Joseph Finder, introduces us to a dynamic (though
  fictional) sales expert, Jason Steadman, to illustrate key techniques for selling
  with killer instinct.

Listening to: King Of Pain - The Police

This made me grin with dumb delight… Super
Heros photoshopped into classic art:

src: BoingBoing

Listening to: Little Wing - Sting

Dell are offering
the Mac OSX drivers for their laptops… select, say, a Latitude X1 as the product…

Michael

src: TUAW

Listening to: The Lazarus Heart - Sting

This dropped into my in box a few days ago - the registration to the Apple
WWDC preview event here in Wellington. I went to the last one… well worth the
few hours it takes out of your day. Having been to both Apple and MS events I can
say that MS has better swag and Apple has better food.