Monthly Archives: March 2004

Electric Sheep

The collected works of professional comic artist Patric Farley. My favourites are the biblical epic Apocomon: the story of Revalations told in the Pokemon / Manga Style. You might also enjoy ‘The Spiders‘, a story of the Afghanistan war set … Continue reading

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Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions

Michelle Bach’s truly excellent site re-creates an encyclopedic range of optical illusions and bizarre visual effects. Flash, Java and Quicktime required for maximum fun. Click on the link if you wish to learn the meaning for this spikey-looking elephant.

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Switching from PHP to Zope

I had an article published on Kuro5hin recently: Switching from PHP to Zope/Python. Read, enjoy and learn from my mighty wisdom.

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My Mum’s teapot

My mother has reached new levels of computer literacy, and has broken through the Ebay threshold. Witness her teapot. I am proud, yet also scared.

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The Franklin Mint: Sharing your passion for collecting

Browsing the Franklin Mint website is an excellent form of entertainment. I would like to encourage you to take a look every few months to see what wonderful new collectables are available. The Franklin Mint is so passionate about your … Continue reading

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Why do I watch this Crap? (Stargate)

I’m slightly miffed today that Tivo failed to record Stargate SG1 – normally such a reliable machine, my Tivo has suffered recently as a result of a botched hard-disk upgrade hack. As a result of my own shoddy geeking I … Continue reading

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The Franklin Mint: Sharing your passion for collecting

Browsing the Franklin Mint website is an excellent form of entertainment. I would like to encourage you to take a look every few months to see what wonderful new collectables are available. The Franklin Mint is so passionate about your … Continue reading

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Dull Space 9

Gene Roddenberry would have us believe that exploring deep space is action all the way. This artists impression of an average day on board the Star Ship Enterprise proves him wrong once and for all. Here is a genuine 1974 … Continue reading

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Illegal Prime Number

Last centuary Alan Turing proved that any computer algorythm is a mathematical theorem. Godel proved that any theroem can be represented and manipulated as an integer. Only a few years back, substantially weaker minds invented the DMCA; America’s Digital Millenium … Continue reading

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Iron Chef: The Battles, The Dishes and the Glory

Iron Chef is a fantastic Saturday evening television show imported to Australia from Japan via the US (picking up an amusing voiceover en rout). This is competitive cookery with honour! Lloyd Grossman’s Masterchef is a chintsy, tawdry second-hand sofa of … Continue reading

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