DIY magnetic spice rack
I love this idea [via lifehacker].
Shake a shake a shake a tail feather
You haven’t experienced true joy until you’ve watched this cockatoo dancing to Ray Charles [via nicolas].
Alan Dix on “Language and Action: sequential associative parsing”
Alan Dix on the difference between how humans parse language, and how machines do so — and associated impacts on interaction. Interesting stuff, as ever.
Eastside Roots
Heading to Cornwall on a train last Friday, I spotted something interesting as we neared Bristol Temple Meads: Eastside Roots, a community gardening project — look out for it by Stapleton Road station.
The evolution of the eye
Anti-evolutionists sometimes use the human eye as an argument for a creator; here’s David Attenborough explaining why that’s tosh [via frosty].
If Philosophers Were Programmers
If Philosophers Were Programmers [brunns].
Nice to see that Wittgenstein (or at least, one of the Wittgensteins) is also a Haskell man…
Best gimboland blog comment yet
Um… what? Thanks for that, Ravi.
