For my reference, keep meaning to gather each year's RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch observations in one place but that's a job for later ( Read more... )

I'm fascinated by the way that when you start noticing something particularly, you spot loads of examples. It seems like that thing is really prevalent, when in fact it isn't really any more prevalent than it used to be, it's just that you're noticing and remembering every occurrence. (Although sometimes it can be an age/cohort effect as well - ( Read more... )

Negative results: despite several attempts to engage them, my cats are entirely unmoved by either Music for Cats or the rotating snakes illusion.

This entry crossposted to http://doug.dreamwidth.org/313149.html, where there are
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There are kittens in my house ( Read more... )

I was in a conversation recently in Another Place on what it means for a process to be irreversible. Whether God can create a rock so heavy he can't lift it is unclear, undecidable or incoherent. That it is easy to create a cipher that one cannot oneself see how to crack is a cryptographic commonplace ( Read more... )

I really like wine. And if you really like wine and have my turn of mind, you quickly run up against two things. The first is the really up-themselves pretentious show-off wine buff, who intimidates you with a combination of an encyclopaedic knowledge of viticulture and French microgeography and an apparent ability to discriminate tastes and smells ( Read more... )

The estimable andrewducker posted yesterday with a picture of a claw hammer suspended in an improbable-looking way, and asked if anyone could replicate it and post a video to YouTube.


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Sometimes, when you put good things together, the result is actually much worse ( Read more... )

Ages ago, I asked what colour you think blood is when it's inside your bodyUntil shortly before posting that, I didn't think anyone would be likely to come up with a particularly different answer to the one I have in my head ( Read more... )

People did warn me about how addictive Minecraft was, including some of you lot ( Read more... )