Tag Archive: tubed


Grow Your Home

A great idea from Mitchell Joachim. Not sure meat houses are ready for the pub­lic, but grow­ing wooden houses from veget­a­tion is a rad­ical and bril­liant solu­tion to ecologically-friendly communities.

The Golden Age of Video

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Tactile Computing

Every now and then someone at TED presents a tech­no­logy or an idea that’s so utterly amaz­ing, or ridicu­lously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT pro­ject called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been mess­ing around with com­put­ing for 25 years my jaw is still drag­ging along the floor. Check it out.

Thinking About Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fant­astic talk on the nature of cre­at­ive genius. In a room full of sci­ent­ists, this talk on being pos­sessed by a cre­at­ive muse, a spirit of genius, raised a stand­ing ova­tion. This utterly enthralling talk is an inter­est­ing per­spect­ive on creativity.

If you only have 20 minutes to save the world…

Don’t save the world, just learn to listen. Starting with John Francis, who didn’t use any form of motor­ised trans­port for 30 years, and didn’t speak for 17 of them.

Das Rad (The Rock)

I’m work­ing on a short story about dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives over a long period of time at the moment, as was boun­cing around the inter­webs for inspir­a­tion when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nomination.

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There’s a higher res­ol­u­tion ver­sion (def­in­itely recom­men­ded for some of the details in the anim­a­tion) avail­able too.

My Chilly Snowman Mate Says He Would Like Some Too

It’s freez­ing out­side, though unfor­tu­nately snow’s not men­tioned in the fore­cast. Still, for those of use who remem­ber Aled Jones wail­ing about through the film of The Snowman, this advert for Irn Bru should warm the heart:

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iPlayer Flash — Embedded (with a little work)

The BBC has just released Flash stream­ing for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up fea­ture. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwill­ing or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki cli­ent it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC programming.

Unfortunately, the BBC only makes the streams avail­able on their site. I checked the iPlayer terms and con­di­tions, and there’s noth­ing stop­ping remote embed­ding, it’s just a tech­nical hurdle.

Fortunately, the inter­net eats tech­nical hurdles for breakfast.

So, in the half hour before I go out to the pub, I’ve knocked together a little WordPress plu­gin that will take an iPlayer URI, and embed the stream­ing video into your page for you.

Like so:

Streaming full-screen Doctor Who on my web­site. Excuse me whilst I geek-out a moment, this is the coolest thing I’ve played with all week!

I’ll tidy up the code and release it to the com­munity as soon as I get back from a night of drink­ing and dancing!

The End of the World?

Not as we know it, this cover comes from some­body who has their fin­ger on the button.

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The Front Fell Off

Have loved this clip since I first saw it ages ago. The dead­pan deliv­ery has me rolling around in laughter every time I see it.

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