The root of all evil

State-of-the-art doodle action

"What I hate about spiders is that they won't stay still and let you kill them."

"In fact, you can read Christian iconography as a long, twilight struggle between figs and apples over which is the alpha temptation symbol."

"The apologetic plaque in Russell Square makes you ask what might be the price of keeping Bloomsbury's domestic look when domestic use has gone."

An Indian contemplates China

Perhaps the most offensive thing about this story - apart from the whole "indoctrinating children in nonsense" thing, of course - is the name of the pressure group

"That ... is how you start rethinking the newspaper business. Not only do you allow your reporters to blog; you make them the hubs of their own social networks, the maestros of their own wikis, the masters of their own many-to-many realms."

Synchronizes iTunes libraries across multiple machines

A good primer on drone

Background to Jóhann Jóhannsson's singing computer music

People who can't recognize faces: interesting for reasons of both neuroscience and telecommunications

Animations based on algorithmic music

Pioneer of computer-generated art

I am ashamed