Fun & Games
28 Fun & Games articles in total, showing 11 to 20
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N shades of #XXXXXX: An HTML5 book-cover maker
E L James’s lightweight pornographic novel Fifty Shades of Grey was a publishing sensation a few years back. I am told there will even be a film soon. It has spawned many imitators. Hence this tool which allows you to make your own homage to Fifty Shades. With any colour available in the …
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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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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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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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The home office of the future (1967)
Snarkasm, aka @wendy_ferguson on Twitter suggested this telling video, which is a 1967 glimpse of the home office of the future.Cheesy lounge jazz and anachronistic gender politics aside —the husband will arrange the financing of the wife’s purchases — the content is rather …
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The Kids Guide to the Internet (1997)
My new favourite video is this historical document, circa 1997. An almost unbelievably straight, white bourgeois American family espouse the virtues of cyber surfing in virtual reality.Whilst the outfits and the tech are certainly amusingly anachronistic, what the film really reminded me …
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Conspire-o-matic: A twitter conspiracy theory generating thing
I was having a conversation the other day with oxguin and nor, the gist of which was that it would funny to invent a conspiracy theory generator. Regular readers will know that I have been playing around with Haskell for a while, so I figured I would bosh one up in that. At some point. Well, it i …
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Visualizing sorts with Hungarian dancing, animated robots and cards!
Here is a collection of my favourite videos visualising sort algorithims in different ways. They range from the possibly quite useful, to the slightly trippy to the hilarious. Enjoy.Everything makes sense now, right?_H_Bubble Sort vs Quicksort with a …
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Why not name climate change disasters after climate change deniers?
I am not usually one for petitions, but I like the video that 350.org have made for their Climate Name Change campaign. It makes the point and takes the piss at the same time. Sure, it is a little US-centric, but replace Michelle Bachman with Nigel Lawson and … well, you get the idea. …
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Fuck Off As A Service — FOAAS
My colleague Becky pointed me towards perhaps the most useful REST API on the interwebs. Fuck Off As A Service describes itself thusFOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service) provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of telling people to fuck off.Of course once you have a web servi …
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