June 2008

Amazon Kindle: would you really want to read something that ugly?

  • June 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm
  • Categories: Cool stuff, Ramblings, Rant!

  • Amazon’s UK website is currently plugging its wireless reading device, the Kindle. I won’t be buying one.
    Firstly, as I won’t even spend £15 on a memory stick because I keep losing them (losing a few kilobytes of data wouldn’t be so bad, but a few gigs is another matter), there’s no way I’d pay £175 [...]

Money As Debt

  • June 23, 2008 at 4:28 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings, Sheep Dip

  • This animated film is an engaging and understandable explanation of where our money comes from; and of how only 5% of all money actually exists, the rest being invented by banks, based on debt. It’s 47 minutes long, but is well worth watching.

The Serpentine, upside-down

  • June 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • Matt fooling around on a boat, summer 2007. We were rowing on the Serpentine in Hyde Park; if you listen really carefully you can hear Ibti in the background telling him to be careful. Bless.

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