Category Archives: Cool

The Fastest Man in Kashmir

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Nev

A few of my friends recently travelled to the Indian resort of Gulmarg to ski with local powder guide Mushtaq Mir. What followed was some fantastic looking tree skiing and footage of the Kashmir Freeride Championships. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6N1ZfeDXjo

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A new reality

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Nev

I’m very excited at the moment. It’s only a couple of weeks until WWDC in San Francisco and I’m expecting some big announcements from Apple. The new Snow Leopard and iPhone 3.0 operating systems should be ready and a new … Continue reading →

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That’s just rubbish!

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Nev

In and among the carnage of a weekend that involved both a stag party and a wedding (sensibly the they weren’t both part of the same celebration) I met up with some friends to go and have a gander at … Continue reading →

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Changing times

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Nev

A colleague put me on to this presentation on SlideShare a little while ago. Indulge yourself in some amazing projections and statistics on population, education, work, language, information and technology.

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2008: The wonderful

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Nev

I’ll leave my review of my drinkings from the Internet firehose with some wonderfully quirky and inspiring stories: Adam Shepard had nothing but $25 in his pocket and the shirt on his back when he set himself the target of … Continue reading →

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2008: The weird

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Nev

Next up are some of the more bizarre things I stumbled upon this year: PETA killed 97% of animals that they took in for adoption in 2006. Voytek, the Polish soldier bear that fought in the Second World War, is … Continue reading →

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2008: Best meme

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Nev

The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less but execute perfectly. Tom Loosemore, BBC web principle #2 These websites are just a handful of single serving sites I noticed cropping up this year. The fail blog … Continue reading →

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Blast from the past

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Nev

I passed a few hours this afternoon at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where the Game On exhibition is currently underway. I missed this in Edinburgh last year so it was a pleasant surprise to stumble upon it. … Continue reading →

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Where’s my pen?

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Nev

The notebook of choice in the geek community is undoubtedly the Moleskine – favoured by Hemingway, Matisse and Van Gogh. Instead of fishing around in your bag for a pen when inspiration hits you, somehow tethering your pen to your … Continue reading →

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Final awards of 2007

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Nev

“Final” in every sense of the word for the nominees and eventual winner of the Darwin Awards 2007 (ironically announced in the same week as 12 school districts in Florida effectively banned the teaching of evolution). For the uninitiated among … Continue reading →

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