Den Tod erlebt man nicht.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark... 
                     near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time....
......Like tears in rain. Time to die"

Roy Batty in Blade Runner

Did Roy Batty know the moment of his death?

A new shorthand for blip.fm

A new shorthand has emerged at blip.fm

When a user re-blips another (say user Fred112233) then a user can add the following: de @Fred112233 where the "de" means from that user. It also means thanks!

Numbers, in Fives and a one-time pad.

Just been listening to a few minutes of recordings from The Conet Project....

The groups of five numbers are messages to spies in the field, transmitted on short wave frequencies. The message could only be revealed using the agent's one-time pad.

And hence are now meaningless....

Russell Brand

Russell
Originally uploaded by Russell Brand on BBC Radio 2.

A former Radio 2 presenter....

Tags for a new generation.

Been this thinking about tags again. Hashtags are beginning, like other tag aggregation tools, to show trends. A tag language may evolve, along the lines of Dynamically defined tags for annotation at the description level

Fifteen minutes of fame

"In the future, everyone will edit Wikipedia for 15 minutes."

Guerrilla bonsai

Guerrilla bonsai
Originally uploaded by LoopZilla.

Guerrilla bonsai is a new form that I hope will develop. After finding a tree that has been chopped down almost to the base, train the tree to a new size and shape... in the wild!