Why try something dangerous?

Around 20th September the (Large) Hadron Collider started its first circles, there was speculation in the media, particularly Radio One with Scott Mills (Chris Moyles is off) were they would say that the first signs would be television and radio signals stopping and then cutting all sound! Why? The hype was that a black hole would be formed, suck in the …read more »


Free Multimedia Software

Free software is a great thing. However because it’s free the people that labour over the code don’t have any extra cash to spend on advertising it, you only really get to know about it through word of mouth. A old friend, Hazel, has put together …read more »


WALL·E – We have the technology

Light dispersed through a Prism by refeia @ flickr

Another amazing feat from production teams at Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, California, …read more »


A shape by any other name

For recent design project I spent the better part of a day trying to find out the name of a 72 faced shape. Finding the schema for naming a 2 dimensional shape, also known as a polygon, by its number of faces was easy; wikipedia had a brief naming table. Finding a similar table for a 3 dimensional shape, or polyhedron, was a lot harder (I actually had to use a book!) but very obvious when I found it. …read more »


It’s raining

Raining on the Island Sub-camp
Photo by zzBuckley

It’s raining, quite heavily infact. I wonder if Rob McKenna is visiting the campsite?

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