He’s Just Had Coffee

In ‘Father, can’t you see I’m burning?’ The death drive in X-Men: The Last Stand, k-punk exposes himself as, not only one of the few people of the planet who enjoyed X-Men 3 but also (correctly in my view) spots a shift from the realistic psychodrama of the previous two to the subtlety of myth. His […]

To quote Bruce Sterling, “When Lanier cares enough to write it, you oughta care enough to read it”. Jaron Lanier has a decent contrarian essay up on Edge about the stupidity of crowds, the decontextualising mess of Wikipedia and naivety of Google. Despite the fact that I have been spotted publicly raving about Wikipedia on a […]

I’ve been experimenting with online organic grocers the last few weeks and I’ve been really surprised by how fresh the fruits and vegetables have been. Whenever I’ve tried shopping for organics at one of the larger supermarkets the organic stuff has always been fairly drab-looking. It occurs to me that the length of the supply chains […]

Years ago, I listened to a radio interview with some of the guys who created the professional surfing circuit. One interview in particular stuck with me. I have no idea what the guy’s name was, but he said something along the lines of: The thing is, we all understood that we’d managed something pretty […]

Airtunes is Apple’s technology that lets you stream music from iTunes to an Airport Express, which in turn connects to your stereo. Net effect: I press play on my Powerbook, music comes out of my stereo downstairs. It’s dead cool. But… some obvious things that seem easy-ish to do, yet aren’t there. Why does no-one sell […]

I spent Easter weekend in Brisbane. It’s terribly unfashionable to admit to having fun in your hometown, but I did. So There. Things I like about Brisbane: It’s relaxed within a day of getting off the plane I’ve lost all the stress in my shoulders - which is un-shiftable in Sydney. It’s pretty lots of river bends and […]