In good company
There has been fantastic innovations in type design in recent years. You’ve heard of the font that saves you ink called ecofont or the font that mimics your face type – called Typeface. But now there’s [...]
Online Checkout
Online shopping is supposed to be easy, but how many times have you filled up your virtual cart and headed to the virtual checkout only to run into problem after problem. Most people you know have [...]
Who decides?
On BBC Newsnight last night there was a report on the elections in Russia. There was a short video shown of a Russian official counting the votes - on hidden camera he was also caught [...]
The Secret of life
Once you learn that – you will never be the same again… When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to [...]
Can’t say no?
Are you the girl who can’t say no? Margaret Tatcher was well able to say No and No and No again. You’re not like her so here is some good advice from Elizabeth Grace Saunders [...]
The Immortal Henrietta Lacks
“When Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951), an African-American mother of five who migrated from the tobacco farms of Virginia to poorest neighborhoods of Baltimore, died at the tragic age of 31 from cervical cancer, she didn’t realise [...]
The Beginning of the End?
The iPhone 4S’s Siri is an incremental upgrade in terms of hardware, full of fat new tech specs – an A5 processor, a souped-up camera, iOS 5 – jammed into a package that looks exactly [...]
“Slutty – Possibly Headless”
For somebody who doesn’t like Facebook, but has a profile, I have posted blogs on everything vaguely interesting about Facebook, even though I hate it. Facebook Suicide was one worth posting – it deals with [...]
How to build a Toaster
Thomas Thwaites wondered if he landed on a planet populated by less advanced people than us would he be able to show them how to make the wonderful technological advances we had made on earth [...]
Hacking a Bank
In 1969, BBC reporter Derek Cooper examined the future of computing that could revolutionize banking. I’m looking forward to time travel… it looks totally hackable – even for someone like me! “Imagine credit card machines [...]
