(b)logophile

Programmers are supposed to possess the virtue of laziness: rather than doing something by hand, if they see a way to automate the process they’ll invest the time in doing that, so that the work itself can be done more quickly. This is supposed to save time in the long run, like an initial investment [...]

Clive Thompson’s blog collision detection put me onto the extremely addictive little flash game Chaos Theory. It’s pretty cool, but not in itself worth re-blogging. But Clive (whose blog is a great collection of weird research, as well as simple-but-addictive time-wasters) also mentioned that the highest score he had achieved was 121. (The game gives [...]

Amsterdam has a lot of trouble with bicycle theft. There’s a thriving black market, centred on a couple of bridges where the junkies cycle past at regular intervals asking people on foot whether they want to buy a bike. So there’s a couple of reasons you might want to paint your bike some unusual colour: [...]

Clocky is an alarm clock that hides from you while you’re sleeping, so you can’t just turn hit snooze when it goes off … you have to look for it first!