Here’s a video showing giant dominoes assembled from smaller dominoes. It’s pretty satisfying to watch them topple. This must have taken TIME.
There are probably thousands of videos like this. If you prefer, you can have Japanese people making mechanical versions of Super Mario. Or maybe BristleBots.
All around the web people are doing fun stuff, posting [...]
In a dizzying round-up, Reportr alerts us to 10 tech trends, the 11th presumably being to drop letter ‘e’s now that single-word domains are in short supply (cf. Flickr, Dopplr, Tumblr…)
The thing that caught my attention was the mention of visual search. I’ve been playing with a new search engine, TinEye, for a couple of [...]
I was reading about the history of these islands last week. It set off a whole chain of thoughts, memories and some unexpected laughs.
I’m particularly enjoying this page.
http://cym.englishriviera.co.uk
Open the link “Listen using ReadSpeaker” in a new window and marvel at the cut glass computer voice making a total hash of the Welsh. Repeat for the [...]
Recently I heard Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 refer to the town of Dolgellau in Wales (N52:44:24 W3:53:24). He pronounced it as “Dolga-l-ow” and made the last syllable rhyme with “cow”.
Why-oh-why can’t a broadcast professional do a little research before guessing this pronunciation? A little goes a long way.
(I couldn’t resist writing “why-oh-why” back [...]
Quixotic Quisling is a place for half-baked thoughts and dispatches on stuff I find curious.
The name of the blog means nothing in particular. It’s my Scrabble® pseudonym. I was imagining a world where Scrabble® players had names, like wrestlers.
Hope you like the blog!
I love you all.
Carl Morris, September 2008
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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