Here's John Dvorak arguing that the taxpayer should pay to keep Microsoft Windows free of malware. This would be an indirect subsidy of Microsoft, when really the solution is for users to switch to a more secure operating system such as Ubuntu. This switch is more likely to happen if …

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I've decided to actually design Polifesto. I'm looking for inspiration at the moment. I took some photos and made some drawings from a café in Oxford. This is the window. Curves are hard to do on web sites. Is that true?

This is the core of the idea.

Table leg …

Here's Matt on a bridge in Oxford:

The reason I took it is that the bridge is exactly the same design as the new bridge that's been put up in Linear Park near to me in Bath. I find the design uninspiring. After seeing Victoria Bridge in Bath and the …

This was from a box marked, 'fragile: ornaments from piano'. This is a pentagon section box I made. My Dad a bought a job lot of laminated strips of wood. There were hundreds of them. It was perfect for me to make stuff with.

It was hinged in the middle …

This is a book that my aunt gave me. The author describes her experience of being confined to her bed for years with an autoimmune disease. She is inspired by watching a snail in a terrarium next to her bed. She muses on the similarities between the life of the …

Here's one of the CDT projects I blogged about earlier:

The jaws of the device:

The jaws opened by pushing this forward with one's thumb:

The holes in the barrel are to make the device lighter:

This was one of the first things I did in CDT and I'm still …

We were standing around the fire-pit, and the conversation turned to Alan Moore. I'd heard a lot about him. I'd watched V For Vendetta, but I'd never read anything of his. Jonathan went and got VfV and From Hell.

It's a brilliantly written and drawn story. I'd recommend it without …

I'm running out of space on Picassa (the photo sharing website that Blogger used) so I've started to use Shutterfly to store my photos. Here are batches 2012-09-03 and 2012-09-04.

Told in the first person by a 30 year old recounting the experiences of her 12 year old self, Light On Snow skilfully manages to evoke deep emotions and maintain a narrative tension, using simple language and and everyday thoughts and activities.

Perhaps all the characters were 'good people'. It …