I came across a very amusing image the other day, dealing with the questions that various popular programming languages seek to answer. There is a nice thread on reddit with some extra suggestions to include in the list too.Here is a transcription.Python: What if everything was a dict?Java: …

Micropuzzles is a charming book from the early 1980s by a chap called J.J. Clessa. It is a sort of forerunner of Project Euler, containing little puzzles aimed at computer hobbyists who have acquired those newfangled micros and are looking for something challenging to do with their machines.The …

Today it rained most of the day. That, I suppose, is part of the joy of a British summer. The rainy weather conditions coupled with a rare non-work day allowed me to work on a couple of slightly silly websites that were rather fun to make and helped bring good cheer to my day._H_nineties.website_/ …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I very much enjoyed this comic, posted by Steve Hanov. He has a great blog that you should check out too. …

The New Internationalist recently published a great issue, about the Feral Rich. Given the rivers of bile that the likes of the Daily Mail seem to enjoy spewing forth at the poor, it is rather nice to see the shoe on the other foot for once. This cartoon follows the rich on a fiscal safari. Great …

TwitterHaiku lets you find a haiku-like tweet. That is to say that it finds 17 syllable tweets from the Twitter search API …

I’ve wanted to make some code to turn MP3s back into the ones and zeros from which they are made ever since reading Eben Moglen’s Anarchism Triumphant. In that Moglen says: A CD player is a good example[of a digital device]. Its primary input is a bitstream read from an optical …

Following on from Pong, I had a crack at the arcade classic Space Invaders. This is a work in progress, so it may be volatile.

You can download the source, classes and resources(tar.bzip2) under the terms of the …