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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

A really quite amazing archive of worldwide television coverage of 9/11.

Artificial Intelligence 1984

Episode of The Computer Chronicles from 1984 – long before 99% of my undergrads were born.

The Mismeasurement of Science

A refreshingly cogent argument that the value and impact of scientific research cannot be measured without the benefit of hindsight, so contemporary science metrics (although well intentioned) could be having no useful effect, and so be wasting money.

Science as Falsification

What is Science? Sir Karl popper introduces the criterion of falsifiability as a solution to this problem of demarcation. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability; but there are degrees of testability: some theories are more testable, more exposed to refutation, than others; …

BBC Micro Programming

Programming as it should be: on a 32K ram machine, with most of the memory used for the screen (especially when double buffered). Ahhh BBC Basic we miss you.

Adequately Good – Saner HTML5 History Management

AJAX and restful apps break the browser history model. Some thoughts on how the HTML5 changes could help.

Google Portsmouth

Google has recently added some new aeriel images to the Google Earth Database, and one of the places that has received significantly better coverage is Portsmouth, UK. Portsmouth College provide some fantastic (historical and current) aeriel pictures of Portsmouth on their website, so I thought I’d try comparing them to see just how good the …