Archive for the 'Oddities' Category

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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