designer of the year

I’m sat in my living room typing as I watch the Designer of the Year awards (hooray for wi-fi!). I’m going to make some notes and record some links while I watch. The program is examining the four finalists, first up is Paul Cocksedge. A very good start. First reaction? Breathtakingly beautiful light designs born …

PDAlfie

ooh, I just checked out palmpixels.com, veerrry interesting. Downloadable content and links for your PDA, I’m off to dig deeper…

Vanity project

The name of this blog is born of the recognition that all blogs are to some extent a vanity project (and the fact that I need somewhere to store ideas and links); No, too self / Note to self. Palmpixel over at MoblogUK agrees, adding; Vanity project or abjectly yet self referentially depressed goth pointing …

You’ll have had your tea

My boss has just returned from a weekend in his home country, bringing with him a national delicacy – the Scottish Buttery. He brought a pack into the office this morning and we had them lightly toasted with marmalade. They were absolutely delicious. Especially when washed down with my new tipple – white tea. So …

light concrete

When I get to the office later this morning, I’m going to look for this months copy of icon magazine. I think it has an article about LiTraCon, an amazing new product that just got flagged by z+blog. It’s a concrete block with lots of fiber optic cable laid into it so that it transmits …

Bollywood breaks

I’ve snaffled a copy of the fantastic Bollywooded mash-up of Micheal Jackson’s Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough. You can find the link over at boingboing.net. Get it quick before the server dies from too much traffic (boingboing is rapidly heading towards a million hits a day). Further comments on the post in question unearthed …

Poetics électronique

At the suggestion of my father-in-law, I’ve just been listening to Radio 3’s Late Junction. It’s fantastic. Some beautiful stuff. The most beautiful of which, from Monday’s show, was a piece called Poem électronique by Edgard Varèse. Unknown to me until now, it turns out he was the Father of electronic music. Poem électronique sounds …

More tea Mr.Bond?

More stuff to give away. Sending a couple of books to biroco.com has spurred me on to further acts of altruism. Buried beneath some Connect 4 pieces, inside a pen holder I made from clay when I was eleven, I found the key that opens doors at MI5. I’ve been looking for it for months. …