I was given the synopsis to Brave New World as follows:
Set in the 7th century AF (After Ford). Brave New World paints a grim picture of a future world in which human embryos are hatched in incubators and conditioned to collectivism and passivity. Be… more »
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You know how I love my optical illusions so here is a nice one from Mozilla. When I saw it first I just saw a mess of concentric circles. Now whenever I look at it, I can only see the 3D shape.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/hypnotic… more »
The last couple of lessons have centred around dialogue.
We had also been discussing how the descriptive text surrounding the dialogue can change everything. I tried to create the same scenario with the same characters but couldn’t quite manage… more »
This phrase was thought up by Stephen Fry. He enlisted the help of the engraver Graham Short to write it on the side of a fountain pen which would be auctioned in aid of English Pen the body that represents imprisoned writers around the world:
Waggle… more »
The Internet's content can be split into many pieces, but it can be characterised into just 2 (well 3 if you count all the porn!): what people know and what people think.
What people know is simple; it includes all the journals, academic papers, rese… more »