In case you don’t know, a regular expression (or “regex” for short) is a search pattern that can be used to find patterns in text documents. For example, the regular expression (?<!c)ie will match the letters “i” and “e” in…
Year: 2013
New quiz: Misperceptions
Take this online quiz first, then come back to read the rest of this post. It won’t take long, honest. All done? Don’t be too disheartened if you got a low score. If you scored more than zero, then you’re…
An American Wacko in London
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones guested with David Aaronovitch on the Politics Show last weekend. Among other batshit assertions, he claimed that the Euro is a Nazi German plan, that Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was an SS officer, and that…
Tagged with: conspiracy theories
Dandelion clock
Here’s a dandelion clock I made using SVG’s built-in animation functions. Unlike every other SVG clock I’ve seen*, this one doesn’t use any Javascript at all. Instead, the hands are rotated by using <animateTransform> tags, and their starting positions are…
Tagged with: SVG
glimmer.mp3
I made a tune. Hope you like it. glimmer.mp3 (3 MB) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Bad Toys II
If Michael Bay had directed Toy Story, it might have ended up something like this…
Tagged with: animation
World Stylophone Quartet
This video deserves more views:
PHP malware
I was recently asked to quote for some work on the website of a business that delivers education-related services (I’m not naming any names here). To get an idea of the work involved, I asked for the FTP login details…
A tribute to Margaret Thatcher
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Paper is not dead!
Le papier ne sera jamais mort.
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