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• Colonization of the Mercury is not so obscure idea as you might think. Yep, there is a scientific article on Wikipedia on this topic.

Unlike the Moon however, Mercury has the additional advantage of a magnetic field protecting it from cosmic rays and solar storms, and a larger surface gravity of about 0.38 g, nearly equal to that of Mars.

• The dark side of the .io domain
• Long read on the history and origins of Tesla Motors. The story by BI on pre-Elon era.
• Meet the people with keys to the Internet

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• Trailer of a fresh new time-travel sci-fi thing titled Predestination

####Listen

• New episode of the Radio Badger is out in the wild. Stories on extreme UX research in Kenya, pondering on the topic of AdBlock and morality, with usual extras on space, SpaceX and Tesla.

####Personal notes

• I'm in the middle of this book titled Hackers - Heroes of the computer revolution. There is a chapter on hacker's ethics, which mostly revolves around the idea that information should be free to access and build upon. Information is a short word to call all the software, music, films, books, and basically any content humanity has or will create. It just feels right. The usual argument is - you have to pay so that creators would get paid. We often forget that the world where you must get paid to survive mostly exists just because things always been like that. This can easily change.
• When you are not restricted by artificial boundaries of business strategies and bureaucracy, things can advance and improve pretty fast.
• Did a Silicon Milkroundabout day last weekend. Being on the other side of the recruiting barricades was a refreshing experience. It's interesting to see that most people doesn't have a good clue why they got into the area of software engineering. Some other people had a career doing something very different and then decided to pivot. The nice thing was that we didn't had to chase people - they came to us. Badgers are cool.

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• Story by TheGuardian on Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, currently serving in Swedish prison. He is vegan too.
• David Graeber is pondering the phenomenon of bullshit jobs. It seems that people could legitimately work less in the year 2014, but for some reason this doesn't happen.

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• John Cleese - How to inspire creativity within yourselves. This lecture is dated 1991, but still as brilliant as it was 25 years ago.
• Timelapse from a space station
• John Lewis Christmas special

####Play

• Internet Archive and their collection of arcade games
• Spin Tires - simulation of getting your car stuck in the mud of Russian roads, and then getting the car out of the mud

####Personal notes

• First batch of the stereoscopic pictures from our trip to Scotland is now available for those, who possess red-cyan 3D glasses (or prefer other means of watching 3D content).
• Going to participate in the upcoming Silicon Milkroundabout on Sunday 16.11. If you are around, come to say hi. We are the badgers.
• New feature is implemented and released to this blog. Now all posts are paginated, and you'll find links to navigate to the older and newer pages at the bottom of each page.

####Read

• Reasons behind Facebook launching its Dark Web site. In other words - Facebook is now available via Tor
• Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook
• Subversion of business strategies has nothing to do with being illegal

####Watch

• Jason Scott: Confessions of the Angriest Archivist. Story of the archive.org project, which goal is to download and archive all of the internet

####Listen

• Fresh episode of our Radio Badger podcast is available, offering blabber on new perks at Google, Gaia hypothesis, multidimensional spaces and WebVR coding experience with Oculus Rift. Full shownotes and download links available here.

####Tweet of the week

• Elon Musk on Antares rockets two years ago

####Personal notes

It's getting chilly in London.

Our official Scotland road trip video is now rendered and uploaded to YouTube. Featuring views from the train window on the way to Edinburgh, rainy Inverness, then bus to Loch Ness, boat trip at Fort William, a bit of trekking at Ben Nevis, and discovering third oldest subway at Glasgow.

Lots of hyperlapses included in the video. Half way though our journey I've discovered hidden dev settings of the Hyperlapse app, and that was the moment when resolution of those lapses got bumped to a full HD (from a decent 720p which you get by default).

One accessory that was tried during this trip is a retractable selfie stick. It comes bundled with a remote shutter button which simply triggers volume down button on the iPhone. Not only this allows taking decent selfies during the trip, but also the stick acts like a natural stabilizer while walking and filming (as opposed to holding phone in your hands). And yes, the whole video is indeed shot with iPhone 5S. I think it's very much comparable to what you'd get with GoPro, except you don't get the benefit of gyroscope sensors and Hyperlapse on GoPro. Something tells me that sensors will be present in future generations of action cameras.

Enjoy the video!

I'm back from 10 days trip to Scotland. Highlands are amazingly beautiful and unlike anything I've seen before. The closest could be Norway, but it has completely different feel to it, with all those spiky mountains and arctic chilly weather. Highlands were chilly too in October, but not freezing chilly.

In the foreseeable future I'll be processing and releasing stereoscopic pictures from Edinburgh, Inverness, Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle, Fort William, Ben Nevis track, and finally - Glasgow.

Meanwhile, London 3D short film is progressing slowly, with more filming scheduled around the city. The plan is to get a teaser trailer and a website at some point. Trailer will be released also in 4K, and those lucky to get new iMac with Retina 5K display will be able to enjoy it in full glory. I'll probably render another version for retina MBP resolution, since that's something I'll be able to enjoy myself.

Filmed quire a few hyperlapses during our Scotland journey, expect a short film any time soon.

Now back in cozy London, where we get to enjoy Finnish summer weather in the middle of October. London is awesome, but, as usual, there are far too many interesting things to do, and far too little time for everything.

Don't forget about the latest episode of the Radio Badger. It is released and very much available for listening.

Yours truly, @karismafilms