Did you ever get drunk and buy something really, really stupid?
Ok. Haven't we all?
Yes, but... Did it cost you $520,000,000?
Sounds like a movie.
Wednesday
Friday
Suck it up, Electrolux... We love you.
Electrolux want to make vacuum-cleaners from 100% recycled plastic.
Problem: they can't get enough recycled plastic.
Solution: mine the waste plastic that's building up in the sea...
Sounds like a whole new industry: the world is short of it and it's free in the sea. And if you want to hoover pollutants out of the sea, who better than a vacuum cleaner manufacturer to start with? More about this from the Electrolux site.
Electrolux want to make vacuum-cleaners from 100% recycled plastic.
Problem: they can't get enough recycled plastic.
Solution: mine the waste plastic that's building up in the sea...
Sounds like a whole new industry: the world is short of it and it's free in the sea. And if you want to hoover pollutants out of the sea, who better than a vacuum cleaner manufacturer to start with? More about this from the Electrolux site.
Monday
How much are you paid by the minute? Is it worth more than reading an email?
This article on mastering email looks at that question. Good ideas on keeping that brimming inbox under control. Most articles of this nature though seem to assume that everyone is a contractor and that most of the email is disposable stuff about cheap pizza and frozen Nigerian bank accounts. Maybe much of this content is written by contractors looking for work. Few articles deal with mountains of corporate email that you can't just file as spam. There's a big market for a magic bullet for corporate email and I'm in the queue.
The big question in the article above is whether you're paid too much by the minute to waste it reading email. Divide your yearly salary by 120,000 and you'll know what you earn per minute. Do it now. It's quite intriguing.
Inbox Zero. While on the subject of email, Merlin Mann's writing a book about email, based on the famous Inbox Zero articles (famous to email ranters like me, anyway). Meanwhile, you can hear Merlin (one of the afore-mentioned contractors) expound on the subject below.
Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero. Presented to Google Staff at Mountain View in 2007. One hour long, so put time aide...
This article on mastering email looks at that question. Good ideas on keeping that brimming inbox under control. Most articles of this nature though seem to assume that everyone is a contractor and that most of the email is disposable stuff about cheap pizza and frozen Nigerian bank accounts. Maybe much of this content is written by contractors looking for work. Few articles deal with mountains of corporate email that you can't just file as spam. There's a big market for a magic bullet for corporate email and I'm in the queue.
The big question in the article above is whether you're paid too much by the minute to waste it reading email. Divide your yearly salary by 120,000 and you'll know what you earn per minute. Do it now. It's quite intriguing.
Inbox Zero. While on the subject of email, Merlin Mann's writing a book about email, based on the famous Inbox Zero articles (famous to email ranters like me, anyway). Meanwhile, you can hear Merlin (one of the afore-mentioned contractors) expound on the subject below.
Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero. Presented to Google Staff at Mountain View in 2007. One hour long, so put time aide...
Traffic. Is it random? Does it have patterns? Can you measure it? Predict it? What does it cost? Meet the man who can.
This is just an example of how everything is more and more connected. How do you tie it all together? Twitter won't tell you everything. You do research. And how do you do that? Like this. It's research in a connected world.
This is just an example of how everything is more and more connected. How do you tie it all together? Twitter won't tell you everything. You do research. And how do you do that? Like this. It's research in a connected world.
Friday
Go tribal in Sierra Leone (a Metro story - well done). It's a "taste of paradise".
And no, I haven't been taking bribes from the in-laws to say this.
And no, I haven't been taking bribes from the in-laws to say this.
Thursday
Just when you think something is dead and unusable, you discover it's alive and rocking somewhere. "In Praise Of Super 8" explains why Super 8 is still popular. You can still buy Super 8 from Kodak (that was a surprise, after the death of so many other films). There are lots of other resources on various sites. Lots of them are here. if you're really into it all, Raindance have a Super 8 course. Just for you.
If you can't be bothered with all that, just listen to the experts.
If you can't be bothered with all that, just listen to the experts.
Tuesday
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