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Geek Weekend (Paris Edition), Day 2: Foucault's Pendulum
November 06 2009
Not very far from The Curie Museum is the former church and now burial place for the great and good men (and one woman) of France: The Pantheon. Inside the Pantheon is the original Foucault's Pendulum.The pendulum was first mounted in the Pantheon in 1851 to demonstrate that the Earth… read moreSome real data about JavaScript tagging on web pages
November 06 2009
Since March of this year I've been running a private web spider looking at the number of web tags on web pages belonging to the Fortune 1000 and the top 1,000 web sites by traffic. Using the spider I've been able to see which products are deployed where, and how… read moreNovember 06 2009
I was a guest on Security Now this week and the podcast has now been released (as has a transcript). Steve Gibson and some other people asked me to provide the presentation in some relatively readable format.The original presentation is here, but it, ironically, requires JavaScript and Adobe Flash. So… read moreGeek Weekend (Paris Edition), Day 1: The Curie Museum
November 04 2009
So, it was off to Paris for the weekend via Eurotunnel and I managed to fit in four places from The Geek Atlas in four days. I was staying in a hotel in the Latin Quarter which is a stone's throw from... The Curie Museum.Here's Marie Curie's laboratory:The museum covers… read moreOctober 29 2009
The Geek Atlas ist jetzt auch in Deutsch.Kaufen Sie es hier.Die lebendige Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist überall um uns herum, man muss nur wissen, wo man hinschauen muss. Mit diesem einzigartigen Reiseführer kann man 128 Orte auf der Welt kennen lernen, die für bedeutsame Ereignisse in Wissenschaft und Technik stehen.… read moreAlain de Botton's Six-Part Series on Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
October 26 2009
I couldn't find a handy archive for this that listed them all in order. So here are the six videos from Google Video.01 Socrates on Self-confidence02 Epicurus on Happiness03 Seneca on Anger04 Montaigne on Self-esteem05 Schopenhauer on Love06 Nietzche on Hardship read moreOctober 22 2009
When I was writing The Geek Atlas there was a big debate about the title. My original title included the word geek, but O'Reilly quickly overruled it. By the time the final title was agreed, we went with a title that O'Reilly themselves suggested: The Geek Atlas.And then, just the… read moreDyson's overpriced fan and the Coandă Effect
October 16 2009
The news the other day was filled with the news of James Dyson's new bladeless fan which costs an arm and a leg (seriously, £199.99 for a desk fan!?!). There are a number of interesting things about this fan.First, it appears to have no blades. It's just an annulus (or… read moreOctober 15 2009
Some time ago I blogged about a new open-source project I'm involved in called jsHub. Since then there's been a little bit of confusion about what jsHub is all about.Hopefully, I can clear this up in this blog post with an example.The ProblemThe home page of World Wrestling Entertainment has… read moreThe Times' new science magazine: Eureka
October 14 2009
Hannah Devlin at The Times prodded my via email to tell me about the new science magazine they have launched called Eureka. What a wonderful idea. I'm so glad to see a major newspaper take science so seriously. So, I ran out and grabbed a copy.Oddly, the next day I… read moreOctober 13 2009
The other day a comment of mine on Hacker News received the following response:Your work, however, suggests that you are not actually human. Seeing some of the things you have produced makes me think that you are inhumanly competent, and hence Joel's remarks do not apply to you.I would have… read moreLeaving gaps on the iPhone helps a lot
October 12 2009
One of the navigation nightmares of the iPhone is that by default the apps you download are all clustered together on page after page of identical seeming pages. Each page contains 16 apps.I kept having problem where I'd start the wrong app because muscle memory would take my finger to… read moreDear PR People... Send me stuff
October 12 2009
The other day some enterprising folks sent me a DisplayLink adapter in response to a blog post. That was a good idea, but I'm not a professional reviewer, so it's only worth sending me stuff I actually need.Here's a list of problems I'd like solved, or gadgets I'd like to… read moreOctober 12 2009
I love Monopoly and have a small collection of Monopoly games from around the world. The oddest one is Monopoly .com Edition which was released in 2000.In it the streets are replaced with '30 of today's hottest web sites'. These are: Sportsline.com and FoxSports.com, Yahoo! Geocities, Oxygen and iVillage, shockwave.com,… read moreThe DisplayLink USB video adapter just works
October 09 2009
The other day I wrote a post about the hell of Apple video adapters. Out of the blue I received an email telling me about DisplayLink. The company offered to send me a review unit to see if it would help with my problem.I accepted and received one a few… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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Webcast: Around the world in 32 minutes with The Geek Atlas
June 24, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this webcast, author John Graham-Cumming presents a tour of 32 places from his book, The Geek Atlas, in 32 minutes. From Jaipur to Hawaii, via Spain, Paris, London, New York and beyond, The Geek Atlas...
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