Last year I presented the iPatch™ (complete with ironic trademarking) as a satire on the way we look to technology to solve problems often caused by technology. In this case the vast amount of information we recieve via a growing number of technological media. At the same time the iPatch™ is a recognition that the pace of technological change and the increased reliance on large complex information systems is an inescapable reality. The latest issue of New Scientist has an article entitled “The dangers of a high-information diet”, wherein the …

I’ve added 2 Picasa albums:
1. The Making of iPatch™
2. Thrombolites at Lake Clifton. (Easter, 2007) There is a video at the end (I made it by accident). Note the weird floating mud stuff.

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The last few days I’ve been suffering from a sinus infection that’s making it really hard to concentrate or give my full attention to anything because of the constant painful pressure in my head. Perhaps the glut of information we are subjected to in our media-junkie culture is similarly putting dangerous pressure on our mental capacity.  TV, radio, magazines, social networking, gaming, texting, tumblogs and tweets are filling our brains with larger and larger volumes of data at an accellerating rate.  It is unlikely we will attempt to reduce the …