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Thanks for sharing these links. Honestly, charity isn't something I think much about, but have a poor opinion of. Nice to be reminded that good applications of it exist, and that i…

This looks beautiful, but it doesn't release my mouse click on Chrome; i.e. when I click on the globe to click & drag, the rotation of the globe keeps following my mouse, and I can…

With your keyboard set to dvorak.

If I had karma enough to downvote advertising, I would. FWIW, Little Bird electronics are another Australian supplier of Arduino & associated electronics. http://littlebirdelectron…

That blog post was fascinating — I had no idea the Fan community was so mobilised (nor that they were even a community cohesive enough to have a name, nor that the name was Fans). …

Am I the only one who doesn't use bookmarks? 99% of the time, if I need to find something I've read before, I'll just search for it & find it. The exception to this is when I was w…

Thanks for that mashup link, I'm always on the lookout for web map references so that's pretty useful. Cheers.

Thanks for putting it up. I'll have a play with it!

Is this code that you can put online somewhere? This kind of thing would a) likely be really handy for lots of people and b) is the kind of thing I'd like to be able to make myself…

...any runtimes except *nix (or cygwin), that is.

From the 1983 BBC "Fun to Imagine" series. Video for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

At the risk of being pedantic, it's worth noting that some things benefit from memorisation (e.g. the alphabet) and some things benefit from "higher" learning (e.g. understanding t…

I saw Damian Conway present about this, and it was absolutely fascinating. It started as a practice of removing syntax from code position and instead encoding it in variable/functi…

I'm supposed to be teaching a class on introductory Python (students are doing their exercises now) and I want to scrap the rest of the day to talk about how phenomenally awesome t…

No source besides my discussions with techs in Australia Post, sorry.

I see these are built on the Australian Bureau of Statistics "approximate" postcodes which are matched to census districts and therefore more useful for demographic analysis; no CD…

I noticed this too. It seems advice to "pick random words" should be extended to "pick random words and leave the last letter off".

Hangul, the Korean writing system, is at once phonetic and syllabic. Each "symbol" represents a syllable, but each sub-symbol represents a particular sound in the syllable; and eac…

I can see this being applied in labels etc. for computer vision. Some kind of control/orientation character could make it similar to a QR code but actually readable by humans. Gene…