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Home Fabbers a step closer
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11 Nov 2009A recent tweet from Bruce Stirling pointed me in the direction of the kit for a new home fabber unit, the Cupcake CNC machine.
Makerbot Industries – Cupcake CNC from MakerBot Industries on Vimeo.
Fabbers (Fabrication Units) are essentially 3D printers, which can cut or form an object out of materials, normally plastic. In the case of [...]
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- Tags: bruce stirling, fabber, printer
Isolating and treating the Slacker gene
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5 Nov 2009Here at Flotsky Inc we take great pride in our research into many areas, not least in the world of genetics. After many years of research we feel ready to announce our discovery of the Slacker gene. There are a few characteristics in the human gene code that seem to stem from it, and understanding [...]
1) BBC4 to become BBC1. It should be on 24 hours a day, and just be more of the same. All the daytime stuff and indeed the night-time stuff is pointless, it just drags us down. I blame The One Show for the current economic climate, banking and big business was doing fine before it, [...]
Regal to reopen?
25 Jan 2009A quick follow-up to my previous post What’s going on at the Regal?. The Oxford Times is reporting that it is due to reopen this week, as it has heard from a couple of sources that events have been confirmed as going ahead now.
I’m going to check for myself later in the week to [...]
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- Tags: hospitality, music, oxford, the regal
CCTV on the Cowley Road
19 Jan 2009And so we are now “protected” on the Cowley Road. I’m not keen personally. I don’t think they protect us that much. However if we’re going to have them, the feed for the cameras should be online for all to see. We should know what can be seen, and we should be able to benefit [...]
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- Tags: cctv, cowley road, open source, oxford, pubs
I happen to believe that Evan Bourne is one of the top new prospects on WWE Raw at the moment. I love a good high-flyer, and he is about as spectacular as you are going to get in the WWE at the moment. He’s had a good mini-feud with Kane to get him known to [...]
How do we stop the Starbucksification of the Cowley Road?
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22 Aug 2007The Cowley Road in Oxford is starting to change shape at the moment. Not in terms of it being dug up and rerouted, as seems to happen every few months, but instead the start of its Starbucksification. There is always a churn of shops on such roads, but it does seem to be the start [...]
Magdalen Bridge Roadwork Blues
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17 Jul 2007Magdalen Bridge, at the base of the High Street in Oxford, is one of the main routes into the centre of the city. Cut that off, and you create massive problems for public transport. So why is it being dug up for the second time in a year? Fun? Insanity? Sadistic pleasure?
Also, why are cars [...]
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- Tags: congestion, high street, magdalen bridge, oxford, roadworks, traffic, transport
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- graemehunter: There are, that was working as one before, but I think google changed something a while back, and I [...]
- Pierre Marshall: I tried getting to that wave ID through this: [...]
- flotsky: True, actually getting my hands on one may make me more interested. However I'm prepared to try [...]
- anthonyhibbert: I'm the same though I dare say I'll cave in before you. I have a feeling playing with one wi [...]
- daveyboy98: Received a mailing from Mr Little today 25/01/10 Neatly folded , stapled letters to Tony Blair, Hous [...]
Why I won’t buy an iPad yet
In: comment| tech
10 Feb 2010Thought I’d ponder this a little while, give the product and the chatter a little chance to sink in. The iPad looks gorgeous. Pretty much a few weeks after I’d bought my iPhone, I knew I wanted the same thing, but somewhat bigger. I’m not a genius on this front, I know many people felt [...]