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5 February, 2010

It’s always about corsets

I'm not sure who else would try, but Jean Paul Gautier has discovered that cats can’t wear corsets.


3 February, 2010

Toying with the truth

I wouldn't normally link to the Daily Mail, but it's for purposes of ridicule, so that's okay.


29 January, 2010

Good rover

Oh dear.  Each time I think my life is returning to stability, something random makes me all emotional again.

No ads, you twit

I've mentioned before that one of my responsibilities is to monitor who's following my employer's Twitter feed, eliminating sp*ammers.


28 January, 2010

This metapost serves no purpose but to mildly entertain

This is a perfunctory decontextualised (and respelled) reposting of a BoingBoing link to a typical incendiary blog post.

27 January, 2010

That sucks

It seems a book has been banned* by a US school district for containing 'sexually graphic' content.


Pride & Prejudice in Emoticons

Title says it all.

;)

26 January, 2010

Careful

That was uncomfortable.  An ex-colleague called into the office a few minutes ago, and stopped to talk whilst waiting for an appointment.  It was, in theory, a great opportunity to catch up on life events, including a little office gossip (not that I occupy a gossipy environment, very thankfully).


22 January, 2010

Does the Uncanny Valley exist?

Popular Mechanics questions the 'Uncanny Valley', the theory that humans can happily engage emotionally with simulated humans (robotic or CG) if the latter look rather false or perfectly human, but we respond with unease or outright revulsion if the simulations are nearly but not quite perfect.


12 January, 2010

New entertainment

According to a student newspaper, the installation of two 2.1 MW wind turbines would "reduce the University's energy consumption by one third, equivalent to a cut of 72,000 tonnes and £8.1 million".  How does that work, then?


11 January, 2010

I can see it in the pixels

A 'hacker' blog examines a fashion photo in detail, using surprisingly straightforward forensic techniques to establish the presence and nature of manipulations.


9 January, 2010

That time again

Visiting at ~16:45 probably didn't help, but Sainsbury's was very short of fresh produce this evening: no eggs, and only about a quarter of the normal array of vegetables.  No onions; anyone would think the ground's frozen, or something.


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