24 March 2007

wired to connect

Science & the City | Webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences: "Wired to Connect - Daniel Goleman
In Social Intelligence, psychologist and science writer Daniel Goleman, known for his 1995 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, introduces new concepts in neuroscience that reveal how human brains are designed to connect."

listen to the interview directly here, or download the mp3 from here. hes got some good ideas in there.
Science And The City has an good store of articles and podcasts - most of those i've listened to so far have been worth the effort.

13 March 2007

Gimmie, a new panel replacement for Gnome, and how to install it in Ubuntu

Gimmie looks like it has some interesting user interface innovation - checkout this blog for how to install it.

will update this post after i've tested it properly.

UPDATE:20070620: still havent tried this -fuck it- and probably wont anytime soon

11 March 2007

The Ape That Got Lucky

bbc Radio4-Comedy- The Ape That Got Lucky: "Chris Addison - the thinking idiot's pretend anthropologist - takes us on a journey through the vast and rich subject of human evolution in four comic lectures"

damn funny