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Lego: Dads don’t play with toddlers?
Let me start be saying I love Lego and our 2-year old loves his Duplo (the bigger Lego blocks aimed at toddlers). I was excited to hear Lego had created and released an online Duplo space, with games and interactions. Sounds like a perfect safe space to share with Mr2. However, I was incredibly disappointed when I turned up, only to discover that someone at Lego seems to have entirely forgotten that Dad’s exist “¦
“Hello Moms!” really? This is very disappointing for a dad. And for equality in general.
Lego, please lift your game: I want to be able to enjoy this space with my son, and enjoying many, many hours of Lego and Duplo together.
For Christchurch.
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The Pangalactic Interwebs Podcast
After minimal deliberation and driven entirely by our own folly, my colleague and I have started a new podcast that we’re rather geekily calling The Pangalactic Interwebs. We’re trying to mix a few thoughts about online culture with some other thoughts and opinions about science fiction and pretty much anything else that takes our fancy. We’re cautiously calling our schedule irregular, but we’re hoping to do a new podcast every two or three weeks. The first episode of the Pangalactic Interwebs has just been posted, so if you’re interested, please have a listen. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing!
[Image by Colleen AF Venable; CC BY SA]
How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet
Here’s the first paragraph of my new column ‘How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet’ for Flow TV:
Genetic scientists love the humble Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) because it has such a short life-cycle; several generations can live, reproduce, pass on genetic material, and die within a month. In this column, I’d like to suggest that Chatroulette is the current fruit fly of the internet, by which I mean, Chatroulette, its users, and the responses to it, evoke many of the big issues facing internet users today, and do so in a far faster and more immediate way than on the internet at large. On the off chance you’re unfamiliar, Chatroulette does exactly what the name implies: the website randomly connects two users with webcams and chat functionality; there are no log-ins, no registration pages and very few rules, none of which appear to be enforced.1 Notably, Chatroulette was created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17 year old Russian student who, legally, would be considered a child himself in many countries. With that context in mind, I want to address Chatroulette in terms of search, ‘Sex!’, privacy, copyright and creativity.
If I’ve sparked your interest, please head over to Flow TV to read the rest.
Evolution of Storage Infographic
Sometimes a good infographic tells you a lot:
What’s most amazing to me is that this entire data evolution has taken place in my lifetime – I still remember using 5.25 floppy disks at high school! The full graphic includes a comparison of photographic and audio storage devices, too.
[Source: Geekologie] [Via BBoing]
The Pig of Happiness
Having one of those days? Perhaps the Pig of Happiness can help?
Yes, I think Edward Monkton is quite clever.
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