Mr N

Many of our (U.K.) utility companies and public services produce data feeds or mapping information. There are even publicly available real time graphs of that data. I think it's pretty fascinating and so I'll be using this blog to collect them. Elect… more »

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 »

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 it. T… 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 »