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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Technolotics #32 – Pathological Scrupulosity
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/32_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 32 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Digg hits a gas main Social bookmarking phenomena Digg is in trouble this week, after being accused of the blogosphere’s greatest sin – censorship Slashdot have posted a story – in Taco’s mangled grammer ‘submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post’ – accusing dig of… Read more
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Aught6
On the 13th of April some sort of centenary chuffed sun agog at children scheming Beckett in squares and beatnik woods a starlet in black stockings and god nude below a tutu we’re all jogging to happenings rampant tropes of actors on a trail full up with vitamins and mislaid candelabras where up on his… Read more
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Open educational models
Someone needs to build a decent open source 3d brain model in shockwave, VRML or a stand alone OpenGL application (not pseudo 3d quicktime). As far as I can see, none exists. Believe me, when you’re trying to understand functional neuroanatomy, such a thing could not be more useful. This is the sort of thing… Read more
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Down the Tube
Didn’t notice this till now, and apparently Michael Arrington hadn’t noticed it either in his recent coverage of video sharing sites. YouTube has (presumably under pressure from copyright paranoid’s in hollywood limited videos to ten minutes in length. Way to kill the future of your site guys. Seriously, this is a moronic move – they… Read more
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Technolotics #31 – Ringing Up Osama
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/31_technolotics_dialup.mp3] Listen: Episode 31 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Mac BootCamp Intel macs now officially run Windows http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Macs get mainstream – All silicon valley geeks must have PowerBooks (except me) How will OSX cope with the competition – Who will reboot? The hardcore will stay for the unix backend But Mac enthusiasts already talking about a no-windows-booting… Read more
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Reading List
I’m suffer from chronic insomnia, it’s pretty bad at the moment as I fail to complete two essays due today. Sometimes it’s manically productive however. Last night I watched a documentary on the modern novel, and got to thinking about the books that have influenced me. They’re not my favourite books, though many would make… Read more
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