So, bizarrely, in two days I’ve been mentioned on the front page of two webcomics. The first is Dinosaur Comics which I wrote this mashup for, which Ryan North graciously linked. It seems to have been one of the more popular things I’ve done; I’ve enjoyed reading people’s thoughts on it over the course of [...]
Well into the summer now (half-way, if we count from the end of exams) and having a real whale of a time. It’s my last ‘long’ holiday for a long, long time, so coming in I consciously decided that I wanted to try and make the most of it. The month that I’ve been at [...]
Take one arbitrary limitation (Twitter only lets you send 140 characters). Note that Twitter allows you to use UTF-8 characters. Add a course in information theory. Roast under the heat of procrastination for several hours until juicy.
In english: I wondered just how much information you could send in a single tweet, and decided [...]