The inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner is apparently a big fan of MC Escher. His entry in the Chelsea Flower Show has a water feature that flows upwards…
Interesting article at the the Beeb.
Manslaughter charges will soon be able to brought against negligent corporations in the UK. There is some concern that the law does not go far enough, insofar as individual directors may be able to escape prosecution when the company takes the blame.
Blockquote from William Gibson’s blog:
WASHINGTON POST STYLE has a contest in which readers submit instructions for doing various things, their choice, as written by famous authors. Jeff Brechlin of Potomac Falls recently won for the following, for wonderfully obvious reasons:
The Hokey Pokey (as written by W. Shakespeare)
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke — banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, ’tis what it’s all about.
Mac users rejoice: as my first experiment with Java, I’ve written a half-arsed port of the classic Windows game Minesweeper.
You can download the source as a zip archive here, or post a comment if you’d prefer a tarball.
It’s not an applet, so you might need a JDK to run it. Have fun.
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