the ‘fontanel’ crew popped round for lunch on friday, to catch up on gossip and to share some exciting new plans underway for their online brainchild (to which i am an occasional contributor)
me news
the good browser
another pretty convincing demo of the post-flash world; although it performs much better on chrome than firefox, maybe time to switch? (via ‘uwe’)
glass, but it crumples
…”what amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package. ‘Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!'”…
utterly bizarre and fascinating story about a russian family discovered in the wilderness in the late 70’s who had not had contact with the outside world for 40 years 40 years
…though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.”…
…tThe Lykov children knew there were places called cities where humans lived crammed together in tall buildings. They had heard there were countries other than Russia. But such concepts were no more than abstractions to them…