Jason Bradbury

Congratulations to an undead @beckykingston, the winner of #ZombiePhone - Becky wins my spankly new HD Samsung handset for her ever-so-slightly insane trip to her local graveyard. Thanks to all you zombies for entering - you were all hilarious!

To find out what #ZombiePhone is check my previous post.

It all started when I was sent a snazzy HD phone to review (Samsung i8910 HD). The kind people that sent me it didn’t want it back (madness!) so I crowdsourced an idea on Twitter to give it away! The idea we came up with was #ZombiePhone. I tweeted ‘Win my new phone by snapping an undead u and ur old dead phone’. The reaction was mind blowing! Hundreds of zombies tweeted in - far too many for me to reply to. I’ll post the winning pick.. er.. when I’ve picked it! (think I’ll add some copies of Dot Robot for the runners up!)

Image care of @lrv94

Tomorrow’s Web - a conference about our Internet future run by young people, for young people. I met some really cool folks including web legend Charlie McDonnell (aka CharlieIsSoCoolLike) and chucked a bunch of copies of Dot Robot into the audience!!! A big shout to all who attended and Grant the organiser.

Pics care of adamcharnock

We Make Stories is a fun idea for the little people in your life. Create your own comics and tales with a number of simple Flash-based tools which offer the chance to remix the classics and even create your own printable pop-up story!

You just have to check out Hobnox Audiotool. It’s a browser-based electronic music production tool - a bit like Reason - and it’s free! Read the pop-up instructions. Create yo’ funky vibe. Upload it to the web. Genius! Follow hobnox on Twitter @Hobnox.

Uber British mathematician and physicist Stephen Wolfram’s latest creation has been revealed to the world. You’ve gotta give WolframAlpha.com a try. It might look like a search engine, but it’s very different. It’s a computational logic engine - the beginning of a huge project designed to make all systematic knowledge, instantly computable. What does that mean? Well, try this: my electric bike is reputed to go 20 miles on one charge. I can travel at 25mph on it and I want to know how long my battery will last me in time. If I enter ‘20 miles at 25 mph’ into Google, I get a list of rather irrelevant pages from other people’s sites. If I put ‘20 miles at 25 mph’ into WolframAlpha I get the time in seconds and minutes (2880 secs or 48 mins). The computers behind the site work out, from my plain English, what I’m after and boom, I have my answer - along with a bunch of other mathematically related info. It’s like an real life version of Skynet (the fictional computer system that gives rise to the robots in Terminator). Indeed, & this is really cool, I asked WolframAlpha ‘Are you Skynet’ and the image above is the answer he gave! (yep, it’s a joke based on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with HAL’s iconic red eye in the middle of the logo. Genius.)