Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

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Over at the excellent Ironic Sans, as part of his Remaindered Ideas Part III, David has put forth his idea for “a sitcom about a ghost and a zombie… of the same guy”.

In the pilot episode, Joe’s roommate Ted has a terrible accident and dies. He’s buried in the old cemetery by the town’s nuclear plant. A few days later Ted’s ghost comes home, much to Joe’s surprise. Later that day, Ted’s zombie corpse shows up to.

I believe this has to be made.

Reminds me somewhat of one of my favourite shorts ever… A Nina Pays Half My Rent

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Interesting article over at Wired about an element named Thorium that has the potential to become a favourable alternative to uranium powered nuclear reactors.

We’re pretty vehemently opposed to anything nuclear in New Zealand, but as we look at alternatives to our gas or coal burning sources I wonder if we will ever take a rational, considered look into modern nuclear options?

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Loving this beautiful stop motion animation for New Zealand Book Council (via Daring Fireball)

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The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.

This quote from John C. Dvorak’s 1984 review of the original Mactinosh, as pointed out by Philip Elmer-DeWitt back in January, is pretty laughable nowadays, especially considering that the keyboard and mouse combo has been the dominant form of human interface with a computer for 25 years.

But despite the dominance of the keyboard and mouse, it’s hard to ignore the increasing use of Multi-touch devices, as they slowly creep into our hands.

Which brings me to Clayton Miller’s concept for a Mutli-touch interface named 10/GUI, that proposes some really nice ideas that combine the power of the Multi-touch hardware with some of the OS concepts which are already gaining traction in Mutli-touch devices such as the iPhone, Palm Pre etc.