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I’m a great believer in learning something new. I got a private pilots licence and then a commercial licence between 2000 and 2010 and I’ve been learning Dutch for the last five years. But now, Wired has given me a good reason for it: it helps me make more rational decisions. The article reports: A [...]
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Do you think anyone would notice if I just had a go? What is about these cranes that turns me into a schoolboy? Fire trucks and planes also have the same effect. As Freud said the mind is a great rationaliser of childish emotions.
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I used to run a computer games company, called Intelligent Games, and occasionally I get emails from people who played our games. That’s always a pleasure and I had one today from an Australian architect (and SimIsle fan) who is just starting out in his new practice. He made the flattering mistake of asking if [...]
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Deil DeGrasse Tyson cements his position as the Carl Sagan of our times in this moving answer, illustrated by Max Schlickenmeyer’s beautiful video.
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Ed Diment, Annie Diment and their colleagues, OptimalControl and Euphonica, built this 1:37 scale model of Space Shuttle Discovery for display at the National Space Centre in Leicester, U.K. The model shows the shuttle’s external tank and two solid rocket boosters. Hat tip: Wired where there are more awesome LEGO science models.
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Someone from Sky just rang me about my subscription. They mispronounced my name and then asked me if I wanted to talk about some special offers on TV packages. I didn’t and suggested that they should take me off their calling list. They said “we need to ask you some security questions before we do [...]
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I was very sad to read on the BBC that Harry Morgan the actor who played Colonel Potter in the TV show MASH has died. For me, the Colonel Potter character was a kind of role model. I have always admired his gentle, avuncular style and the way that he could act firmly and wisely [...]
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A wise man once said, “It ain’t bragging if you done it.” Well, it isn’t advertising if you built it yourself. On that basis, you may have noticed the big advert for Turbine on my blog. I’ve been working on this project for more than a year and it launched a couple of months ago. [...]
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A few years ago, I had a bad experience with OB10 but they’ve been making a lot of effort to improve their service and customers support and I have to say that since my original rant, the whole thing has worked very well. In my original post, I invited OB10 to comment. Their new CEO, [...]
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Yes, another guest post from my Turbine blog. It’s still me, though! When it comes to productivity, a lot of people think a lot of crazy things. Some of these crazy people are managers in big companies. Others are, well, you and me. In many cases these foolish ideas have been comprehensively debunked by research. [...]
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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He edits Golf Hotel Whiskey and writes the Forbes Aviator column.
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