NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, [...]

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Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo. Props to DannyGuk for this one. Short and sweet.

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These maps created by Eric Fischer combine data from the photo-sharing website Flickr and the micro-blogging network Twitter. The orange dots represent pictures uploaded to Flickr, while the blue dots are tweets, and the white dots represent locations that have been both tweeted and uploaded to Flickr.

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No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208

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People still very often struggle to explain social media especially in marketing circles. Analogies are very often the best way. The best analogy I have read for Social Media so far is from the great Marketing Week columnist Mark Ritson.

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Good to see these two legends of 80′s synth pop releasing or re-releasing their work. I had a huge soft spot for both of them growing up through my teens in the 80s. It was a heady time of understanding what a quality sound system was (thanks to my friend Simon Cranshaw), what live music [...]

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John Martin & Chris Foss eat your heart out! This amazing looking coffee table book – Halo The Art of Building Worlds - is right up there with the best of off-worldly, sci fi, end of the world hyper-reality art work. Check out these amazing images. You can buy the book from Amazon. (click on the [...]

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