Raspberry Pi

This is what's inside the Raspberry Pi, the tiny $25 computer that could transform education: http://on.mash.to/VXpEkE

 

So far i've just seen people looking cool with it like by owning it they get some kind of halo coolness......sorry but what did you use it for after the first 2 weeks other  than stuffing it in your drawer as a forgotten bauble......

Thoughts?


Cheers,
Dean

Fuck the ebay-paypal stazi system!!

Had a dispute with a purchaser who bought something from me last week and wanted a refund but refused to ship the item back.

Once they opened a claim with ebay - Paypal took the $145 from my account even though the item has NOT been returned and ebay has said i'm in the wrong.

Fuck this duopoly i will actively be using every alternative app out there in competition with them wherever possible.

Burke’s Backyard goes out with a bang

Burke’s Backyard has published its final edition – and is going out with a bang.
The 15-year-old magazine, co-published by Bauer Media (formerly ACP Magazines) and CTC Productions - http://www.bandt.com.au/news/media/burke-s-backyard-goes-out-with-a-bang?

And yet the editor of the FT today was commenting on how their paid subscription number (both print and paid online) have never been higher in its 125 years. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/feb/10/financial-times-editor-lionel-barber

Its all protein folks

I find it really funny about how and where people choose to consume their atoms for energy
eg.

Horsemeat scandal: David Cameron says offenders will feel full force of law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/13/horsemeat-scandal-david-cameron-food
and

U.K. officials raid slaughterhouse, meat processing company in horsemeat probe
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57569124/u.k-officials-raid-slaughterhouse-meat-processing-company-in-horsemeat-probe

Its all protein folks, if it tastes good and you didnt notice while eating....why make a big fuss.

As Zaphod would say..."cool"

Love when people see something like this and they still want to insist that we are the only ones here.......

What do you have planned for next Friday....make sure you are 15 mins late.

Bill Nye was just on CNN freaking out the host by explaining next weeks asteroid would decimate 2000 square miles if it hit and is flying closer than the cnn satellites at 17,000 miles.

Lol when he explained we are missing it by 15 minutes (eg if the earth was faster by 15 minutes it would be a direct hit she backtracked and stressed yes it could but for our viewers at home please understand this isnt going to happen and is very very unlikely to happen.....Bill Nye then explained actually its more common over 100 years than being hit by lightning......lol she cut the interview short.

More on the DA14 asteroid here - http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/us/asteroid-approach-earth/index.html

Ram trucks Farmers commercial

I dont care what comes after that "Farmers" commerical for Ram trucks.

Pivotal commercial of the SuperBowl with all the pathos that $4m commercials should carry.



BTW if you are still watching the game come and join in the Live Fan Chat at http://www.LiveFootballChat.com/go/19522

Travel crush

lol talk about "holiday travel crush" 3.4b people in the same weekend!!

 

 

 

Public transportation is expected to accommodate about 3.41 billion travelers nationwide during the holiday, including 225 million railway passengers.
- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/8115291.html

Are you evolved?

i read this article a few days ago;

- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html?
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga. Thus it was in the remote south of the forest in the summer of 1978. A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border.....
Very interesting to see which parts of their lives broke down and couldnt be replaced.

I've been thinking about these issues a lot over the last few months.

Dont know if you saw the documentary Guns Germs and Steel but reading the book and theres a comment in there that struck me about how some tribes were not able to evolve into metallurgy...made me think...throw 100 Americans into a jungle today....how many of us could develop a metal spear or fishing hook or pot to make dinner in.

Very few i think.

But feel free to continue thinking you are evolved as you read this article on your iPad in your pajamas, but look around the room, if you had to-what if anything in that room could you build yourself.


Cheers,
Dean

Random

"Will you stop that scratching and give me a beat....... "

lol been way way way too long since i listened to Neneh Cherry. I love when my pc starts playing something so random that i haven't heard in forever.

"i give you love baby not romance".... - http://bit.ly/nenehcherry