Ian Robinson’s Soapbox

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Priceless. Metadata found on Microsoft’s creative copy used in its ‘I’m a PC’ ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night From: AppleInsider | Microsoft’s ‘I’m a [...]

I’ve had an item in my to do list for a few days to blog about the remarks made by Professor Michael Reiss on how creationism should be handled if it comes up in classrooms. Looks like I’ll have to discuss his resignation as well when I get round to it. Professor Michael Reiss has [...]

Nature have a nice web site section on the LHC. Specials : Nature News: “The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. As the first proton beams zipped around the LHC’s massive 27-kilometre ring on 10 September 2008, it marked a new era of physics that could pin down the identity of [...]

Cool new ant species discovered. More info at Nature site: It is so new, and so bizarre, that uber-naturalist E. O. Wilson has christened it “the ant from Mars”. Martialis heureka, a native of the Brazilian Amazon, is the founding member of a new subfamily of ants. It adds a new branch to the ant [...]

Drew McCormack has just posted a 13 page PDF tutorial on regular expressions. If you’ve ever wanted to learn about regular expressions, here’s your chance, because I’m attaching to this post a chapter on regular expressions that I wrote recently for a Master’s level Python course. Although it targets the Python language, the regular expression [...]

Whilst I’m testing blog features I might as well test audio integration between Ecto. iTunes and WordPress hosted blogs. Here is a short piece of music, called Europa, that I created using GarageBand..

From the Mudflats Blog in Alaska. Heartening news of an anti Palin rally in Anchorage. Quote from the site: Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not [...]

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There is an excellent response on the BBC site to those questioning the expense of the LHC in general, and by the current head of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in particular. The LHC is a marvellous endeavour and suggesting that the money would be better spent on climate change, or medical [...]