Made with Blender and GarageBand.
Year: 2013
Emergency kittens
Here’s a bookmarklet that replaces all the images on a page with kittens. To use, just drag it to your bookmarks bar and click when necessary. Emergency Kittens Update: I’ve edited the bookmarklet to work around an issue at placekitten.com.…
Inside Insides
Inside Insides is building a collection of animated MRI scans of foods. It doesn’t sound all that fascinating, but take a look at this: (MP4 video link) That’s a head of broccoli. You’ll never guess what this next one is:…
Tagged with: magnetic resonance imaging
Stealth monitor
Here’s a clever idea — strip the polarizing filter away from a computer monitor and turn it into a pair of polarizing sunglasses. When you look at the screen through the sunglasses, it will appear perfectly normal. Everyone else will…
Tagged with: science
Solution to GCHQ competition
Note: The domain that hosted this competition appears to have been taken over by malware pushers, and the pages hosted on other sites around the web have all been deleted. Where possible, I have replaced the links in this article…
Tagged with: GCHQ
HackerRank
Have you heard of HackerRank before? Their 20/20 Hack October programming contest launched a few hours ago. I just had a quick scan through the current leader board, and it looks like I’m the only Brit taking part in this thing so…
Tagged with: programming
GCHQ: Can you find it?
I only discovered today that GCHQ launched a new code-breaking competition last week. It turned out to be quite entertaining, and not too difficult to solve. The deadline for entries is October 21st — do have a stab at it…
World In Action / I’m As Mad As Hell
There were some bloody good TV theme tunes back in the 70s. World in Action was a particular favourite. I recently discovered a mashup of this tune with Peter Finch’s “I’m as mad as hell” rant from the film Network.…
Tagged with: music
** Insert “Uranus” joke here **
Here’s a tip: if you’re going to the Proms this year and you need to break wind, try doing it during one of the fortissimo sections so nobody will be able to hear you. So for example, in last night’s…
Tagged with: music
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