I spent about two hours today trying to fix my PowerShot S10 so I can take a picture of my phone (don’t ask). I just kept getting the same E28 error in the viewfinder and then the lens would retract. So I reformatted the CF card and upgraded the firmware (a bit of a hair-raising […]

If you’ve spent any time, as I have over the last year or so, working with Flash as the presentation layer for Java-based webapps, keeping as much of your ActionScript as possible in text files so that you can integrate these with your version control system along with your other source files, and wishing you […]

It’s that time again: Copeland Borough Council presents The World’s Biggest Liar Competition, held annually at The Bridge Inn, Santon Bridge, Cumbria. This years contest will take place on Thursday, 20th November.
In 2000, Tim and I took part in a Festival of Lying organised around the competition by artists Anna Best, Karen Guthrie, Nina Pope […]

These guys have been working together since 1979, and in 1987 made a film called Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) the inspiration behind Honda’s recent Cog TV advert. Watch the trailer for The Way Things Go and be amazed.
(I’m reminded of Mehdi Norowzian’s film Joy which was the starting point for Guinness’s […]

Jason Salavon’s work is just sublime. Especially his visualizations of “statistical data tracking the US domestic production of shoes and slippers from 1960-1998 in 31 categories”. And the nudes (he should enter these for Miss Digital World).
Update: Inspired by Jason’s work, Flickr member brevity (Neil Kandalgaonkar) has written an app “to blend Flickr images which […]

Whilst doing some research on Food Science and on Nicholas Kurti in particular, the so-called ‘father of Molecular Gastronomy’, I discovered that Oxford’s Science Area, where Kurti worked and not far from where I live, is renowned for once having been the ‘coldest spot on Earth’: “Using demagnetisation of nuclear alignment, Professor Kurti was able […]