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Why the Moon landings couldn’t have been faked
S.G. Collins explains how the technology didn’t exist in 1969 to actually fake the Moon landings in the way most conspiracy theorists seem to believe. Even if you were Stanley Kubrick. I particularly...
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The infographics of xkcd
Most infographics on the web consist of generic graphics backed up with (lots of) poorly researched text. When done well these informational graphics use charts, diagrams and illustrations to make...
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Ideas for Minecraft
For me one of the big appeals of Minecraft is imagining what features I’d like to see added to the game. The Minecraft developers are actually surprisingly receptive to ideas from the community, often...
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Liberal
If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their...
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Updating @datahole
Datahole is a Twitter account I have been ‘maintaining’ for over four years. In practice I’ve simply been letting it run itself. It takes RSS feeds from Ars Technica, Wired, The Guardian and Bruce...
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Babylon 1999
Warning: I’ve cranked the geek up to 11 for this uber-nostalgic post. Buried Shadow (1999) Recently I was reunited with a computer-generated image I created back in 1999 of a crashed Shadow ship from...
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How to be right all the time
Apple pundit John Gruber was interviewed on The New Disruptors podcast recently about how he made Daring Fireball into a full-time job. Around the 50 minute mark he says: One of my primary obsessions...
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Commandments 2.0
For this recent Palm Sunday Erika Hall published a single-serving Tumblr blog proposing an update to the Decalogue she titled ‘The Fresh Ten Commandments’: Since the original ten commandments seem...
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New blog: Rapid Notes
Yesterday I launched a new blog: Rapid Notes. It’s just hosted on a free WordPress.com account for now, and will probably stay that way. I created this new outlet because I wanted a place to store and...
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Technological conservatism
Beneath what seems like a reasonable feature request lurks the heart of technological conservatism: what was and is always shall be. John Siracusa on technological conservatism Filed under: Technology
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted: New gameplay footage
Sir, You Are Being Hunted was the first Kickstarter campaign I backed, and I’m excited to get my hands on the game (and other goodies) in a month or so. The makers have just released a video showing...
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The apps that Apple really does not want you to use
The Telegraph’s Richard Gray has compiled a list of ten apps that Apple does not want you to use. In my view, half of these apps are dumb gimmicks that any curated app store wouldn’t want: A game where...
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Flight test
I went up for a flight yesterday in a small two-seater plane. We flew over parts of Cornwall and Devon, starting in Saltash then heading over, Millbrook, Plymouth, by Rame Head and down the coast to...
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SAEM S7: I found my ideal iPhone 5s case
The best case I found for my iPhone 4 was a simple snap case design from Incase. It had that soft rubberised plastic and left the top and the bottom of the phone almost completely exposed, which...
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LEGO timelapse: Building Curiosity
A quick timelapse of me building the Lego Cuusoo ‘Curiosity’ Rover. Or as NASA calls it, the Mars Science Laboratory. The music is, of course, Mars, the Bringer of War from Holst’s The Planets. This...
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USS Pioneer: These are the voyages of a LightWave starship model I released…
In 2007 I made my own Star Trek starship in LightWave 3D. I’d made a few others before, but this one became a labour of love. The USS Pioneer had a lot of little details, some subtle textures and a...
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Brighton Digital Festival
All next month will be my first Brighton Digital Festival. Today I’ve been looking through all of the events, and wow is there ever a lot happening! I created a list of the ones that interested me the...
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Geo-writing: ‘A Boat called Calamity’
This year as a part of the Brighton Digital Festival I was pestered encouraged to participate in the Geo-writing project. Geo-Writing invited you to grab writing prompts based on your location,...
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Whither halfblog.net?
Visitors to this blog may notice that the domain is now foomandoonian.wordpress.com and not halfblog.net as they were expecting (and as advertised in the banner above). The glory days Quite simply, I...
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