Year: 2013

Regular expression crossword puzzles

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Bad Toys II

If Michael Bay had directed Toy Story, it might have ended up something like this…

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World Stylophone Quartet

This video deserves more views:

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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

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A tribute to Margaret Thatcher

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Paper is not dead!

Le papier ne sera jamais mort.

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