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Month: June, 2009

Mystery Science Image #3

young

This is probably

the easiest one so far if you’ve done a bit of physics sometime in the last decade. The experiment that resulted in the above hand sketched pattern (they didn’t have MSPaint back in those days) effectively ended the …

Plans

Beautiful Belly (II) [DSCF9720b]
Creative Commons License photo credit: portfolium

Before I start

today’s post I would like to explain how I get the lovely images like the one you can see just above these words. I use a WordPress plugin called ‘Photo Dropper’ that searches Flickr …

Mystery Science Image #2

I missed posting

this on Monday, but better late than never. This is actually five different images, all of the same instrument. Apologies for the crap quality, but you should still be able to guess what they are. You may …

Slog.

Glimpse of the Ship ['Endurance'] through Hummocks, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley
Creative Commons License photo credit: State Library of New South Wales collection

It feels like

forever since I’ve spent an appreciable amount of time on a book. Tim Winton’s ‘Dirt Music’ is sitting on my computer desk at home, and ‘The Language Instinct’ …

Top 3 Songs

Waiting
Creative Commons License photo credit: el patojo

Another attempt at

automatic content generation I’m afraid. At the end of every (working) week I propose to list the top three songs I’ve listened to for that week and explain why I have that artist …