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Someone at work shared around this paper entitled “Bootstrapping Coding Agents: The Specification is the Program”.

Following on from earlier, I’ve written a list of recommended links — places you can start if you want to explore a Web created and controlled by people.

My great friend Tori Truslow of Tooth & Shore Games is making a solo fantasy mudlarking RPG called Kraldum.

I saw this image in a post on Brian Merchant’s Blood In The Machine.

In spite of everything, I still believe in the promise of the Web.

From the archives of the lovely BLDG BLOG, I found this description of how networks of streetlights can be naturally projected into the sky, tracing out the street map in which the observer stands.

A paper I co-authored[1] has recently been published in the journal of Information Processing and Management, on the topic of the gender–career implicit bias.

You may have noticed that I’ve not posted here in (*blows dust off the last post to check the date*) about three and a half years.

(For the ≤1 people who will appreciate this stupid thing I made.)

A paper I co-authored with Professor Louise Connell as just been published in the journal Behavior Research Methods.

A paper on which I am joint-first author, which I previously posted here as a preprint, has just (after a long time!)

Youtube channel Kiwami Japan has made a pure artform out of creating the same video again and again.

“Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures)” Mike Fleming, 2014.

In this very long post, I describe my process of repairing a kitchen appliance.

Telephone is a game in which participants whisper a phrase person-to-person, and see how it evolves as people guess at words they mishear.

A paper on which I am joint-first author, a preprint of which I mentioned here previously, has just been published in Cognitive Science.

Grant Sanderson aka 3blue1brown has a wonderful channel on Youtube where he creates accessible yet deep educational maths videos.

I came across this entertaining essay about NFTs (digital certificates of authenticity traded in a speculative asset bubble, aka “non-fungible tokens”), not from a financial, technological or environmental perspective, but instead from an art-criticism pe…

I turned on Radio 1 today for the first time in years.

Together with my colleague and lab PI, Louise Connell, I have developed a new measure of semantic distance between concepts.

I’ve been looking for suggestions of individual actions one can take to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Every now and then when I find something online which I want to remember or show to somebody — usually an image or a video — I save it in a text file; one per person.

Triple pendulums (pendula?)

My colleagues Briony Banks, Louise Connell and I recently submitted a paper reporting research we’ve been doing at Lancaster University over the last year.

Just look at this.

I was sad to hear of the death of Ed Brayton a few days ago.

Check out this amazing video of Bob Hoskins clowning around on a blue-screen stage to do the Toon Town scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Speaking of Mario: Thanks to Art House Politics for making me lol.

Note: video contains immediate profanity.

Geoff Manaugh’s speculative landscape and architecture blog BLDG BLOG has reopened its doors.

I invite you to watch this highly instructional film on dating from 1949.

I have recently submitted a paper based on some work I have been doing at my job at the Embodied Cognition Lab at Lancaster University.

I absolutely love this photo of space shuttle Endeavor, low over an LA city street.

Not so long ago I had a paper published in Vision Research.

I made a tool to convert a podcast’s RSS feed into a webpage on which episodes can be easily streamed.

If you’ve made a multi-scene Hype document which is hosted online as a web page, you can link directly to a named scene in that document using this handy script: function check_for_deeplinks(hypeDocument, element, event) { /* Allows "deep" linking from…

A nice surprise to read yesterday that Ed Brayton is back on the air with a relaunch of his old radio show Culture Wars Radio.

Hey!

A while ago I came across a widely-seen Youtube video about the history of the Amen breakbeat, which was a reposting of a recording of a 2004 documentary audio installation by artist Nate Harrison.

Looking through a turn-of-the-century almanac of graphic design, I came across this absolute gem:

I download a load of academic papers in as PDFs from ResearchGate, since that’s often the only place a free version of a paper is available.

I’ve just started a new job at Lancaster University, working as a postdoc in Louise Connell’s lab.

Trying to decide which slogans are best for my sinister anti-Trump/May placards.

Curtain is a short, powerful game by Llaura Dreamfeel, available on their itch.io page.

Sacramento is a lovely little game by Dziff, available on their itch.io page.

Writing this report was one requirement of the travel grant which let me attend this conference.

Everything about the subject of this article is mind-numbingly awful.

Now that I have a more professional website, I wanted to include on it a list of publications.