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424 Blog articles in total, showing 141 to 150
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July 2014 Reading
Certainly an antidote to the Entertainment Economy, this is a story of McMillan’s experience of the run up to and events of the occupy period of politics a few years back. She muses on stratgey, movement building and su …
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Online morse code translator. With sound. Using the web audio API.
Today’s project is this tool, which translates to and from morse code. In my version of morse code I introduce the _ to stand for a space between words. Characters are separated by a space. Try typing something in alphanumerics first._H_Web Audio API is not supported in this browser. S …
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Trickle down totalitarianism: why everyone will be listening in soon
It has been just over a year since the Snowden revelations first confirmed what many of us had suspected for some time — the NSA and GCHQ were in the personal data collection market in a big way. And it wasn’t just targetted data (like of criminals or terrorists, for example) they …
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Pulley Logic Gates
What, you might wonder, is a logic gate and why, you might further wonder, should I care? Logic gates in their various forms make up a fair amount of the circuitry that enables modern computers to work. Like your phone or your computer. Logic gates work a bit like one of those truth tables you …
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Finding Twitter follower count with YQL instead of the Twitter API
Earlier today, a TwitRSS.me user, @pur_wie asked me if there was a way to get follower counts from Twitter.@ciderpunx Thanks for twitRSS.me. It works great in getting tweet texts.Is it possible to get the count,num of followers/followees?— Pur (@pur_wie) June 7, 2014Depending on your …
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Magento tip: Set number of new products shown in CMS block
I am currently doing a redesign of the New Internationalist ethical shop’s home page. I just spent about 20 minutes trying to work out how to set the number of products that are displayed in the new products block when it is called from within a CMS page in Magento.If you’re in the …
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June 2014 Reading
A patient, detailed and sometimes dryly witty deconstruction of some of the nonsense that is sometimes talked by paleo-fantasists. Zuk looks at the emerging and extant knowledge in the field of evolutionary biology (and sometimes anthropology too). She pos …
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Happy 30th Birthday Tetris!
Can it really be 30 years since the screen of an Elektronkia 60 in Moscow first lit up with a series of tetrominoes dropping incessantly towards the Earth? Since tinny speakers first tinkled to the highly catchy eight bit faux soviet music of Tetris? Indeed it can. In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov unleas …
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Morse code again — translating audio back to morse
Today is the final installment in my Haskell morse code odyssey, in which I translate some audio of morse code back into dots and dahs and even strings on the screen. The idea of translating audio back into something more human-friendly was suggested by @russellbanned when I put up my Let’s ma …
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Demonstrating the APL programming language (1975)
The other day on hackernews, this video was posted of Imperial college’s Bob Spence demonstrating the APL computer language. Some of what is being shown is all too familiar, though the analogue nature of the computer interaction is decidedly steampunk. Despite the steampunkiness of …
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