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Me and Belle de Jour – ‘Could it be Brooke?’ 16 Nov 2009
Me and Belle de Jour – ‘Could it be Brooke?’ Let’s break out of this self-imposed link blogging format for just one post… it’s not everyday the biggest secret you’ve ever kept gets revea. […]
How Grandmas May Give Kids an Evolutionary Edge 16 Nov 2009
How Grandmas May Give Kids an Evolutionary Edge. Absolutely fascinating: XY v.s. XX chromosomes mean that paternal grandmothers have a 50% chance of sharing an X with their son’s daughters, but a 0%. […]
Drench - the world's simplest flash game 15 Nov 2009
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer 13 Nov 2009
Scripts 10 Nov 2009
People often ask me what comics scripts look like — or, at least, what my comics scripts look like, as there is no industry standard for comics scriptwriting. I have a few scripts up here on the sit. […]
A review 10 Nov 2009
Here's my review of James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's The Secret History of Science Fiction from the latest issue of Locus -- with thanks as always to the Locus folks for permission to excerpt a. […]
Torturted Soul – The Music Of Grant Morrison #1 6 Nov 2009
[music] The Music Of Grant Morrison: Torturted Soul / October … Grant Morrison on vocals with The Fauves … ‘There was talk of some sort of CD of GM related stuff being collected a few years back. […]
Rehovot Perl Mongers - First meeting - Matlab and PDL 5 Nov 2009
While trying to restart the meetings of the Israeli Perl Mongers I got an offer from Dr Jaime Prilusky, the Head of Bioinformatics in the Weizmann Institute of Science to hold the meetings in one of. […]
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable 5 Nov 2009
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable (via). Amazingly, both services had wide open holes in their crossdomain.xml files. Facebook were serving allow-acce. […]
Witches' Brews | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History 3 Nov 2009
an excerpt from Paul Devereux's The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist 1 Nov 2009
Adobe is Bad for Open Government 1 Nov 2009
Adobe is Bad for Open Government. The problem isn’t just that PDFs are a bad way of sharing data, it’s that Adobe have been actively lobbying the US government to use their PDF and Flash formats f. […]
עין הדג: גירסת הסושי
31 Oct 2009
יש הרבה סיבות לכך שאנשים נוסעים ליפן. גם כדי להתנסות במיני טכנולוגיות חדשות וחדשניות, גם כי זה הכי לא דומה לארץ. […]
gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library 30 Oct 2009
Javascript charts with SVG / VML
Splunk | IT Search for Log Management, Operations, Security and Compliance 30 Oct 2009
Log analyzer
How habitable is the Earth? 29 Oct 2009
(Pay attention at the back: this is a trick question.) We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral populatio. […]
I demand the blattarian anti-urination gene-mod. STAT. 28 Oct 2009
Cockroach Superpower No. 42: They Don't Need to Pee To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches 140 million. […]
Playing On A Wave 27 Oct 2009
Wave interacts with Google Maps in a way that could be great for play.If you’re not careful, Google Wave becomes just another play-by-chat option. Everyone’s typing at once, filing their character. […]
Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed 27 Oct 2009
a walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu.
The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See 23 Oct 2009
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to look at things differently.We all know that a tree doesn’t always have green leaves, water is not blue and clouds are certainly not al. […]