Friday, February 25, 2011

Economics is flakier than a moulting corn flake.

Possibly.

This is a really interesting resource, if you happen to have done Economics at A-level or something.

"Recently it’s been said that it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Crisis, normalized to the point that it appears proper for extinction events to be assuaged through market-based incentives and the atmosphere pimped out to the highest corporate bidder, is the currency by which the world now turns. But what if, for the sake of experiment, we were to press our thoughts just beyond the thin, strangling curtain of capitalist maximization? "

http://kickitover.org/

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Forget looking down the back of the sofa

... and don't sneeze, or you'll never see it again.

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/article/31740/Researchers-unveil-first-millimetre-scale-computing-system.aspx

I like the idea of an 'extreme sleep mode'. I need one of those.