The Guild
Still sick. Watching The Guild. Very funny.
Topic
Geek/Tech
A collection of 242 issues
Technoslang
BBC News: Don't be 404, know the tech slang.
A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them. For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "
Addiction, thy name is Lego
Hello, my name is Ali and I'm addicted to the Lego Star Wars game on the XBox 360. The first four levels are complete and I have everyone on the Millennium Falcon en route to the wreckage of Alderaan. I'm not solving all the puzzles and
Dragon eggs
If they get enough clicks and visits, they should hatch. I like the look of the orange one.
The Brain and the Internet
There have been a few news and magazine articles recently about how the internet may be changing how we think, affecting our focus, even re-wiring our brains. I got wondering about this, and an older article about Asperger's syndrome and the Autism spectrum, and it ended up as
Trailing the crowd
I finally caved and got a Facebook account. Found a few
people I know, a herd of people from church found me, looking for a few friends from school and university. A lot of the people I knew are only on Friends Reunited, I hadn't been there in
Early Computing
BBC News: Celebrating the UK's computer pioneers
"The layman when asked about the introduction of steam power will usually reel off Newcomen, Watt and Trevithick," said Chris Burton, of the Computer Conservation Society.
"But when it comes to computer pioneers they are absolutely baffled,"
Sounds of Doctor Who
BBC News: Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer.
A hidden hoard of recordings made by the electronic music pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme has been revealed - including a dance track 20 years ahead of its time. Delia Derbyshire was working in the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Adipose
In the first episode of season 4 of Doctor Who, there's a creature called an Adipose, made from living fat cells. The Adipose isn't a bad guy as such, and they're cute little blobs. Mazzmatazz wrote a pattern for a knitted Adipose and posted
Snapshot - State of the Onion
Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts. Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others).
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