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Category Archives: A Bit Random

Measure the speed of light with a chocolate bar

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Andy
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Okay, so this experiment appeals to the home scientist in me.

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Lexar Media Press Release on Amazon

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Andy
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Hilarious! – or the comments are, anyway.

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Human Caused Earthquakes…

Posted on January 16, 2007 by Andy
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Some earthquakes are caused by humans

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Random but cool

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Andy
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The Office Supplies Trebuchet

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A real piece of computing history…

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Andy
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Although Britain takes too much credit for Engima (the Poles figured out how to break it, although they didn’t ‘industrialise’ it), the Turing Bombes are incredible, and it’s great to see one built.

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Lock picking… …well, bumping

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Andy
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Interesting and slightly worrying way of Opening a lock by ‘bumping’ it

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Swimbots.com

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Andy
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It’s a bit of a toy, but Swimbots is a quite fun A-life programme.

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Morbid

Posted on July 15, 2005 by Andy
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Yet strangely fascinating. How safe is your house from Nuclear attack. London is ‘ -0.13, 51.5 ‘. And that’s ‘Nu-clear’ for any Americans, not ‘Nuke-u-lar’…

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Cool special effect

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Andy
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I can’t think of a single use for this, but it looks cool

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Google Maps

Posted on June 7, 2005 by Andy
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Been meaning to add this for a while – the mapping programmes on the web are getting much better:

- Aircraft Graveyard – Bet the North Koreans Like that!

- Hello Dave

- Hi Luecke

Interesting Maps… …lots more interesting pictures. Cool, but also kinda scary.

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