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Week #1192

We’ve spent a large chunk of this week writing proposals.  Two for unsolicited work and one for a big tender thingy. The proposal for the big tender thingy was tortuous, mainly because the thing had a language all of its own and because the requirements for the tender weren’t obvious – which was perhaps a [...]

Playful with Words

We’ve been focused on words in the last few months, nouns mainly. We have two approaches to words: top down and bottom up, Muddy and Wordr. Our top down version is Muddy. Muddy extracts entities (known words) from any document / site and says which of those entities are ‘notable’ [...]

Rattle’s books, naked

Fancy a peek at the Rattle bookshelves? Well, here’s our collection of hardbacks:

See ditching the dust jackets for an explanation of why they’re missing their glossy covers.

A crisp taste test challenge

We like crisps here at Rattle. So when we spotted the new Walkers crisp flavours – which were nominated by members of the public in a competition – we thought we should try them out.
Rather than just taste them though, we thought we’d see if we could identify all the flavours in a blind taste [...]

Arduino workshop roundup

I’m just on the train back from the two day Arduino Wireless Workshop run by tinker.it.
It was a terrific two days with lots of hands-on wireless hacking. We covered using the Bluetooth Arduino board and the XBee Arduino Shields allowing us to create wireless sensor mesh networks.
I concentrated on getting a wireless Bluetooth [...]

Head Food Time

We’re [James and Rob] in Copenhagen at Reboot which is excellent. Tom Armitage gave a great talk yesterday on behavourial norms, manners and interaction design. I do hope he puts the slides up to go over again. And Matt Webb is speaking todat on materiality and why we need to take into account [...]