The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

Answering a seemingly trivial question, with a lesson about research.

to amusements history research transport ... on 29 August 2023

The Endless Acid Banger

Reminds me of AlgoMusic on the Amiga...

to algorithmic amusements music sound ... on 24 April 2021

Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine - Articles

It's looking at the DNA, so this is more the binary than the source code, but neat nonetheless.

to amusements covid dna reverse-engineering vaccine ... on 31 December 2020

beggars-opera: I don’t know if I can contain...

"A Christmas Carol covers 60 years of fashion through flashbacks and they still manage to do nearly everything right."

to amusements fashion history muppets ... on 10 December 2020

Alex cartoon

As it says - all the strips back to the 1980s, and quite a bit about the history of the comic and its spinoffs. I hadn't realised it was still going!

to 1980s amusements cartoons london ... on 29 June 2020

Blockchain Graveyard

"These cryptocurrency institutions have suffered intrusions resulting in stolen financials, or shutdown of the product. Several closed down afterward."

to amusements bitcoin blockchain ... on 29 June 2020

Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL // Just a Summary

This blog as a whole is an interesting combination of cookery and geekery.

to amusements baking emacs ... on 29 June 2020

Language Log » Academic rubbish

This was doing the rounds when I was teaching in Beijing in 2019...

to amusements china language shanghai ... on 29 June 2020

gnomon-/furby-source: Transcribed source code of the "FURBY.ASM - Version 25" PDF from http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf

The source code for the (original 1998) Furby. Apparently nobody's written a MAME implementation yet!

to amusements electronics embedded furby retrocomputing ... on 29 June 2020

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