Starting a group blog about an interesting subject is easier than most people think. This post is an introduction to The Januarist, a new group blog at which I’m a co-founder and contributor. The Januarist is in English, but I thought I’d write this post in Welsh. You can use Google Translate to get a [...]
So when I was learning to write English, back in the eighties, I used to mix up the symbols b and d. It’s an easy mistake to make – they’re mirror images and I had 24 other squiggles to learn.
Somebody (pretty sure it was my sister or possibly a teacher) helpfully pointed out that the [...]
You should have seen the Scrabble board tonight. It was violence, pure violence. Sheer lexical brutality. Above this paragraph could be a photo to illustrate my glorious victory – either a snapshot of tonight’s board or something from Flickr maybe, with a classic edition of the board in all its distinctive colours. But I refuse [...]
By Carl Morris
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Also posted in language, milestones
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Tagged competition, cymraeg, english, facebook, games, letters, losing, qi, Scrabble, sport, welsh, winning, words, za, zen
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20 December 2008 – 7:16 PM
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations.
So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the best.
Now [...]
20 October 2008 – 2:20 AM
Mucking about with music video streams isn’t the only misuse of YouTube I’ve been enjoying lately.
Here’s a game called A Car’s Life which is based entirely in YouTube. Click the annotations to save the car, but be quick!
As to how it works, each level has a different video with an annotation linking to the next [...]
20 October 2008 – 1:58 AM
Here are two embedded videos.
They are identical.
I’ve posted them so you can play them both – simultaneously.
Have a play around with these identical videos. Experiment.
No rules, but some things to try: use the pause/play button to synchronise the videos as close as possible. To bring them closer, just delay the video that’s ahead by a [...]
By Carl Morris
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Also posted in music
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Tagged brian eno, candi staton, electra, flanging, frankie knuckles, grandmaster flash, jamie principle, mash-up, phasing, remix, remixing, steve reich, the source
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25 September 2008 – 7:31 PM
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 [...]
