Must pack my heavy duty earplugs for tomorrow; I'm off to see Mogwai.

A year I wrote "2009! You'll forever cry yourself to sleep at night at how awesome 2010 is!". And it most definitely came true. This year I've made many new friends, become borderline broke, learnt new things, fell in love, became gainfully employed again, discovered so much new music and an amazing music festival. Plus I discovered just how ( Read more... )

Gee, thanks laptop.

A week hasn't past since I repaired your overheating issue, and you decide that you miss me angsting over you so much you'll just pack up and die. A considerate laptop would actually make it to the BIOS before refusing to go any further, but not you, oh no...

Oh hell yes ( Read more... )

The Guardian bad sex awards 2009 - I think I agree with Neil Gaiman in regards to Nick Cave's nomination; that last line is sensational.

Colour perception made us naked - Scientist argues that the human eyes skin tone reading capabilities led us to our current naked state.

John Walker on the Christmas Doctor Who episode - A tearing apart of the ( Read more... )

Insect evolution in underground railway systems - An interesting, if overtly snarky look at the arising of new insect species in underground railway systems.

An analysis on patterns found in Choose your own adventure novels - A look into the patterns of the paths found in choose your own adventure style novels. The author makes good use of ( Read more... )

My browser has become rather filled with tabs of sites I've been meaning to distribute to you fine people, so it's probably time I got on with it...

3D Mandelbrot set - An attempt to create a 3D visualisation of the mandelbrot set. Also includes an intro to the set if you're interested.
Hyperrealistic sculptures - Modern techniques used to create ( Read more... )

My month so far in rapid summary; visited Italy, went to the MCM (massive anime, comics and computer game expo here in London, played L4D2, Bayonetta and Borderlands), saw F*ck Buttons live and just got back from the stackoverflow convention Devdays.

Will post actual summaries and thoughts and many awesome links to random things soon.

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Installation went perfectly... until I forgot the wireless password.