Sto(ut)opia

[Slightly belated post] Too excited to sleep so I get up and take a stroll about. Inevitably there are people still in the casino – some sta...

How the media helps the world get hold of the wrong end of the stick and give it a damn good tug... phd051809s.gif (GIF Image, 600�667 pixel...

An article I wrote about grading the BBC's Top Gear for High Definition magazine. Not often I get to quote AA Gill twice in the same pie...

Interesting presentation to say the least... Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: Time to end the failed experiment of ad...

Written for a New Scientist competition to write a short story about the future in 350 words or under. Border Point The border point was alo...

One from Strange Maps- "It matters where we are, for it helps determine who we are. Or, as the quote often attributed to Napoleon state...

This is quite simply brilliant: a cheat sheet for mad scientists to hang in their time machines so that they can fundamentally rebuild civil...

Interesting piece in The Economist: Newspapers and technology: Network effects | The Economist : "The internet may kill newspapers; but...

[via sfx] "According to New Zealand’s Dominion Post Peter Jackson is secretly developing a sci-fi film based on the Mortal Engines book...

This is the point where the world actually turns into a Bruce Sterling-written satire. Somali pirates have set up a stock exchange to attrac...

Because there are flowcharts and there are flowcharts The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart - HDTV - Gizmodo

Chris Forrester on trouble at t'mill. BBC cuts HDTV bit-rate - Rapid TV News : "Now we know why the BBC’s HDTV images are suffering...

A potentially useful infographic to be deployed and referred to at any point over the next three years when Some Idiot in the Pub starts ban...

Feel really quite torn by this. On one hand, being someone of a fairly geographic and map-oriented persuasion, being able to geographically ...

The short version: I asked Kate to marry me. She said yes. The long version: Galaxidi was perfect. I’d been waiting to ask Kate to marry me ...

We did a lot of it, about 2100km in total, and everywhere we went we saw little roadside shrines by the road marking the point where some un...

If you’ve ever watched The Shining, you’ll have some idea of what our hotel in Meteora was like. It was a giant, five-star place perched on ...