Month: April 2008
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Singles Night at the Library
Not your usual venue for a singles’ night, but I do like this idea. Anyone hoping to spot a potential partner can pick up a pink badge signalling their romantic intentions at reception. Then they can stroll the aisles looking for a book, DVD, or something – or someone – else that takes their fancy.…
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Online Lectures from Around the World
I’m a huge fan of the MIT Open Courseware site. Full of great material and insightful lectures, it helped me immeasurably when I decided to brush up on my Spanish. Thanks to the hive mind over at MetaFilter, a great list has now been produced linking to similar collections around the world. Check out the…
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Remove Tourists from Your Photos
Holidaying soon? Avid photographer? Get annoyed by ‘tourists’ ruining your otherwise perfect pictures? Thanks to a Google Reader glitch this morning that has set the last two years worth of Lifehacker posts as unread, I’ve just spotted a wonderful post from dsphotographic on removing those pesky humans from your otherwise great photos. Every notable landmark…
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The “iPod Tax” and the Desperate UK Music Industry
How did this one sneak in under the radar? The UK’s Music Business Group is requesting that a tax be levied on technologies that allow ‘format shifting’. To you and me that means that if you can transfer or copy your music from it, to it, or using it, it should be taxed. The reasoning…
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Travelling on a Shoestring
I’m pretty sure we’re all agreed that travelling the world is a great thing to do. And when you can do it on a frugal budget (not a cheap one), it’s even better! That makes Plonkee’s latest post, 21 Resources for Budget Travel great in every respect – links galore! take the train, not the…
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Unsubscribe from Human Rights Abuse
Unsubscribe is an Amnesty International campaign asking you to ‘unsubscribe’ from the human rights abuses undertaken around the world in your name. Illegal detention and torture are just two of the acts that are common place in the so-called ‘War on Terror’, and guilty or not, people deserve better treatment than what they currently get…
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The $1m Test-Tube Chicken (Meat)
The X Prize Foundation is a non-profit institute that awards rather large prizes to non-governmental organisations who achieve a number of milestones, classed as beneficial to mankind. The most famous of these was the Ansari X Prize awarded to the first NGO to send a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice in two weeks –…
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Photographer’s Rights in the UK
This morning I read an interesting BBC News article titled Innocent photographer or terrorist? that tackles the issue of illegal stop and searches of photographers and the growing incidence of this in the UK. A good accompaniment to my previous post, The Photo Police. It reminded me of this handy little booklet on Photographers’ Rights…
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Oxfam: Reshaping the World
Remember that great visual that accompanied Alisa Miller’s 2008 TED Talk? Oxfam in Action have produced a similar graphic covering the topics of world poverty, education, HIV infection rates, hunger, population, and trade. Ever wondered what extreme poverty on a global scale looks like? It’s not a pretty sight – as you can see on…