A bit of insight into the state of science education in this world when a bright science student turns to prostitution to pay off her debts. Belle de Jour.

“The evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent”

Animation of how the LHC creates black holes and destroys the Earth. Just kidding. Good animation though.

Cork lads putting the flooding to good use. We used to use skimmer boards on Durban beach, great fun.

Digital Natives. Universities as oases, not places to learn to live with the inefficiency of the outside world.

Just unlocked and jailbreaked my old iPhone 3G with 3.1.2. using Blackra1n. Amazingly easy and straightforward bit of software that. Now have my O2 iPhone 3G working with a free Meteor SIM.

The web needs more serendipity engines, not more recommendation engines. Recommendations are creating a monoculture and reducing choice, not increasing.

Better late than never; Amazon RDS is a MySQL instance managed by Amazon. Backups, logs, tuning etc. is done transparently for you. It isn’t magic scalability, you can’t dump 50 billion rows into an RDS table and expect your badly designed SQL query to magically work.

A font-face grown with E-Coli.

Science is interesting. If you don’t agree, you can fuck off.