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Category Archive: Life

Reinventing Morse Code using modern theory

Revisiting the problem of how best to encode English text for transmission in messages.

October 22, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

IR image of the day: tree, cows, and the Greenhouse Effect

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The tree stands out against the sky because of the Greenhouse Effect.

October 21, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

IR image of the day: Cows

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Cows in a field of short grass, with chalk Downs behind.

October 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Spare us glib stereotypes

Why, when only too keen to point out our individuality, do we deny it of others?

October 18, 2015 General, Language, Life

Book Review: Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation, David Crystal

With three whole chapters about the comma alone, anyone interested in English should read this book.

October 17, 2015 General, Language, Life

Trees in the landscape: 1. Introduction to the new series

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A brief glance through the history of painting trees in the landscape, from Rubens and Poussin to van Gogh and Pissarro.

October 11, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Did you miss this toolset? Information and communication theory

From Text Twist and tossed coins, to Jackson Pollock and human genetics – a crucial toolset for life.

October 10, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The customer still is king

Retail and tech giants have been eroding the role of the customer. It is time to fight back.

October 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Viral volcano movie was a fabrication by the BBC

This clip from a documentary turns out to be a fake, created by digital compositing, and is physically impossible.

October 4, 2015 General, Life, Technology

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