one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
March 12 2010
Erasing David
March 09 2010
New Tron Legacy trailer, looking forward to this.
March 08 2010
Due to unprecedented drought, the small town of Uribante in Colombia has emerged from the waters of the reservoir it was sunk into back in 1985.
March 07 2010
The Ten Commandments were set in stone, but Christopher Hitchens thinks it may be time for a re-chisel.
February 27 2010
How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control. Anthony Burgess eat you heart out.
February 24 2010
Listening in on a pay phone in Queens
February 23 2010
On his 81st birthday, Bob Moore gave his $24 million business to his employees.
February 21 2010
Remember the band OK GO and that treadmill video that went viral a while back? They can’t do that for their new tracks, EMI, their record label, doesn’t like free distribution.
Wall Street’s bailout hustle: re-creating the conditions for another crash
February 17 2010
Over-sharing your life online“any benefits to the user from a complete abandonment of privacy are minor compared to the benefits they bring to corporations - the social networks themselves and their advertisers”
February 16 2010
Les Oiseaux de Celeste
February 13 2010
Why are you so terribly disappointing?
Post-judgement day atheist animal care.“If the Rapture happens in that time, the pets left behind will have homes - with atheists”
February 04 2010
Me and my homeopathic overdose
February 02 2010
evidence points to the contrary“Heavy multitaskers are often extremely confident in their abilities”
January 29 2010
How to report the news
Before Martyrdom, Breakfast.
January 27 2010
The drugstore where time stands still.
January 21 2010
How modern devices have become obscure black boxes and a story of KGB eavesdropping through analog phone ringers.
Incomprehensible jargon in business“I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandwich”
The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry.
January 19 2010
Guilt is the cost for being civilized“Let us save the planet, by all means. But let's also admit to ourselves that we have a natural propensity toward guilt and indignation, and let that fact temper our fervor to more reasonable levels.”
Three Swedish men have established a line of jeans made in North Korea and sold in Stockholm. But they weren’t prepared for the criticism their pants have produced.
In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise.
January 04 2010
Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.
December 31 2009
The ruins of Detroit
December 23 2009
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
December 18 2009
Blu Dot Real Good Experiment
December 13 2009
The Space Invaders: Americas Underground Arcades
Happy Birthday to this
I just realised this weblog is 10 years old (the site/domain is a bit older).
I made my first post in December 1999 after procrastinating close to 2 years on how to build the thing. Finally opting for a home-made system based on the code running the more like this weblog. It even got noticed at the time because it was coded in XHTML, quite unusual back then. How things change.
So, even though posting frequency has seriously dropped, it’s still here. Which is an achievement in itself considering the number of others that have come and gone in the meantime.
So, here’s to another 10 years.