A post over at ReadWriteWeb describes what the author calls a Personal API. The description of the API in the post something similar to what Google has put on it’s Nexus 4, a bit of software that learns where you are, your relationships, your likes/dislikes, mashes them together and learns Read more…
Something I had been meaning to do for a long time was write a quick script to scrape Reddit comments. A chap has beaten me to it and you can find the code here: https://github.com/ctaggart878/redditscraper. During lunch today I had a little play with it the script (and I mean quick!). Read more…
I had toyed with the idea that the UK wide porn filter might lead to a Civ style golden age leading to new forms of governance. My thinking behind this was that the everyday man might find themselves less distracted and lead them to do great things. However, an article Read more…
I’m pretty excited about the Oculus Rift. Incase you’ve missed it, the Oculus Rift is a Virtual Reality headset that was initially a kickstarter project that while successful on kickstarter has since found even more big money backers. Playing on it goes something like this: We’ve seen VR headsets before, Read more…
El Presidente Willets established a dictatorship in 2010. It proved very unpopular but an attempt to establish economic stability within the cities of knowledge was declared successful (by El Presidente himself) in 2015. During the period of economic reform the city-states of Oxfordonus, Cambrigion and Ruslustratid Groupus were allowed to stay Read more…
