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Clay Shirky made a great presentation on gin, TV, and the cognitive surplus that answers the “where do people find the time” question non-net people ask us about (say) Wikipedia – America spends on the order of 100 million person-hours a weekend just watching the ads alone. Put even a fraction of that towards participatory projects, and you get a lot of stuff.

• Whole libraries
• Perfumeries
• Persons described as “the most incompetent soldier who ever became general”.

(Citations needed.)

The military history of the USA... in hamburgers and hash browns.

Looks like I’m not the only one who needs to chain the Selenium RC proxy to another HTTP proxy. The docs are misleading, here’s how to do it.

Check out this awesome Goldberg contraption, complete with music, multi-ball action, and creme eggs.

So, last weekend we had the event I’d gone to Melbourne to see – the 2008 Australian Grand Prix.