http://robotperson.com I am not a robot person, I am Robert Pearson Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:26:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Muvi Micro DV clip-on camcorder. 2GB micro-sd card = 2 hours of VGA. So a 16GB card can record pretty much your every waking moment. Hmmm, lifecording anyone? Oh, battery life is 2-3hrs. Maybe not just yet then. Robert X Cringely’s latest column has some interesting thoughts on the shift to ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/11/19/lunch-links-3/ …No one’s been like Gaston A king pin like Gaston No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston… Brainworm alert: Gaston’s song from Beauty and the Beast: Oliver Sachs discusses the concept: Excellent. http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/11/11/gaston-3/ Taun-taun sleeping bag. And I thought they smelt bad on the outside… The chartered institute of marketing have the worst logo I have ever seen. It’s a car crash: stomach churning but compelling. I can’t look away. Album sleeves reimagined as classic Penguin book covers. There’s been a few these sorts of ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/07/19/lunch-links-2/ Straight from the robotperson RSS roster Lovely timelapsed videos of Tokyo sunsets. Turn your sound off though. Easy to see where Chiho Aoshima finds inspiration. static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. Prezi, a mindblowing alternative to Powerpoint. Check an example. I’ve also started using Free mind recently, and open source mind-mapping ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/06/10/lunch-links/ Why is it that I really, really hate Windows Vista Explorer? The question has been niggling away at me since I started using Vista at work recently. I’ve noticed numerous little problems, those famous ‘thousand cuts’ to usability that kill websites, but today I think I’ve understood the big picture. First, ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/05/14/vista-explorer-how-i-hate-thee/ Google’s April fool today describing the launch of a “global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster” got a good chuckle out of me. It’s a play on Kurzweil’s singularity, and I *love* the idea that the world’s first conscious machine would be, like, rly in2 pandas OMG so cute! Here’s how they describe ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/04/01/april-fool-round-up/ Last week I bought an xbox 360. My justification, and believe me, I had to have one, was that we needed a bridge between our home network and the main TV. This has been an obvious gap in our otherwise comprehensively digital lifestyle (CDL™), and of all the options the ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/03/31/xbox360/ Word on the street is that Google Streetview is coming to Brighton, at least if these spyshots in Saltdene are to be believed. Oh how I would have loved to have seen it up my street: surely an opportunity to moon too good to resist. Here’s where I am right ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/03/27/streetview/ Every so often something comes along on the web that opens it up a little for me. Today that happened with Alibaba, a site I hadn’t heard of until last week. Alibaba is a China based B2B directory that basically puts suppliers in touch with businesses that need things supplying. It’s pretty simple. Traditionally ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/03/13/alibaba/ Lara asked me a couple of weeks ago what I wanted for Valentines day. “How about some peace?” I flippantly replied, not directed towards her but at the children, who were variously runny-nosed and petulant, runny bottomed and teething. Today I find myself alone in an empty, quiet house. Lara ... http://robotperson.com/archives/2009/02/12/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/