The Geek Atlas – 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming is by far my favourite non-fiction book to be published last year. As the title suggests, it’s full of geeky places to visit and it offers great insight into the science behind different concepts. This is a prime example of [...]
End of last week Amazon pulled all of Macmillans books off their website and the Kindle store to try and bully the book publisher to let them sell ebooks at a lower price of $9.99. Moments later, they caved and all the books were back, some with higher prices. Macmillan’s argument was that they should [...]
…a study that finds BitTorrent users actually spend more money on movies than the general Internet population… (ArsTechnica) I always knew there was something suspicious about the free loading, I-don’t-fucking-wanna-know-about-your-blockbuster, culture hating non-movie goers.
It doesn’t really matter that digital is – not the future but – the present of photography. I don’t think any of my photographer friends use film in their professional practice but probably all of them use it once in a while for other, ‘personal’ stuff. Photographing on film, especially with medium and large format [...]
… That Microsoft doesn’t excel at making adverts for their products, watch this ad. Something to notice is that Songsmith – the product it advertices – doesn’t run on a Mac. They also haven’t realized that when other companies use real people as actors they’re actually ‘real’ people – actors. Maybe MS should send their [...]