The Webcycle

It's a handy way for internet addicts to get fit: the faster you pedal, the faster your internet goes. The fitness possibilities are wonderful.

It's an exercise bike, with sensors on the pedals, connected to an Arduino and a laptop running Ubuntu with wondershaper.

Serious kudos to Matt Gray — he did all the tough hardware hacking, I just got the software working. And provided the bike.

Tom Scott

Hello. I'm Tom. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time.

I'm on stage at events and conferences round the world talking about the web, the accelerating pace of change, and tea cozies.

Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff – b'doom, tssh.
Mob – a talk about a flashmob gone very wrong.
Breaking the News – Matt Gray and I bonehead the budget.
The Star Wars Weather Forecast – 'it's like Hoth out there'.
Robocoaster Challenge – reciting Shakespeare, attached to a giant robot arm.
Welcome to Life – the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.
I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ago – in which I rattle through the online privacy settings of fashionable web services, and leave a surprising message.
The Google Street View Race – San Francisco versus Dewsbury.
Journalism Warning Labels – making newspaper reading that much safer.

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