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John Graham-Cumming

Codebreakers find evidence for hidden puzzle in GCHQ challenge

theregister.co.uk — Just when you thought it was ever, it looks like there might be a little more to the GCHQ code-breaking chalenge that had apparently been solved. View in Crawl 4

Is there another GCHQ Code Challenge?

blog.jgc.org — Just when it looked like the GCHQ Code Challenge had been solved, now comes the news that there's a whole level deeper to investigate. If you... View in Crawl 4

A nice bottle of Lorem Ipsum 2009

blog.jgc.org — What could be better than a nice bottle of French wine? I'll tell you what's better... the label and lorem ipsum filler text. View in Crawl 4

A nice bottle of Lorem Ipsum 2009

Turning GE Color Effects G-35 Christmas Lights into a 7x7 display with Arduino

blog.jgc.org — Here I take a string of programmable Christmas lights and cut them up to make a 7x7 programmable display using a picture frame, some wood, a cuttin... View in Crawl 4

Turning GE Color Effects G-35 Christmas Lights into a 7x7 display with Arduino

Plan 28: Babbage's Analytical Engine project gets underway

blog.jgc.org — It took a year but work on the project to build Charles Babbage's unrealized Analytical Engine has started. View in Crawl 4

Key slides from Winston Churchill's war time speeches

blog.jgc.org — If only Winston Churchill had had access to Microsoft PowerPoint. His speeches would have been _so_ much better :-) View in Crawl 4

Key slides from Winston Churchill's war time speeches

Choosing a bad password, the Rebekah Wade way.

blog.jgc.org — If you're the editor of, say, The Sun, then it's probably not a good idea if your password is the paper's phone number. View in Crawl 4

Choosing a bad password, the Rebekah Wade way.

To get things done, be "reasonably unreasonable"

radar.oreilly.com — In 2009, John Graham-Cumming, VP of engineering at Causata, Inc., started a campaign to get the UK to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing in... View in Crawl 4

To get things done, be "reasonably unreasonable"

The complete text of Gordon Brown's apology to Alan Turing

blog.jgc.org — Today HM The Queen visits Bletchley Park to honor those who worked there. Back in 2009 Britain issued an apology for the treatment of Alan Turing.... View in Crawl 4

The complete text of Gordon Brown's apology to Alan Turing

How to make a Ponyo boat

blog.jgc.org — If you've seen Ponyo, you've seen the little candle powered boat they travel in. Here's how to make your own from a drink can and a... View in Crawl 4

How to make a Ponyo boat

Ladybirds mating set to the Benny Hill theme song

youtube.com — Went for a walk in the woods and came across these ladybirds enjoying the springtime. Only one soundtrack came to mind. View in Crawl 4

Ladybirds mating set to the Benny Hill theme song

Amateur high altitude balloon flies to near space and photographs the moon.

blog.jgc.org — This is the final write up of my high altitude balloon project named GAGA-1 (in honour of Yuri Gagarin and timed for the 50th anniversary). Source... View in Crawl 4

Amateur high altitude balloon flies to near space and photographs the moon.

The Piral: a strangely pleasing animation of the first 400 digits of pi

blog.jgc.org — Take the first 400 digits of pi, draw little lines corresponding to each digit, change the angle between the lines, animate and voila! View in Crawl 4

A Nobel for Valor

blog.jgc.org — The workers at the Fukushima plant are fighting in dangerous conditions to prevent a global environmental disaster. There should be a Nobel Prize ... View in Crawl 4

A Nobel for Valor

A £400,000 PC downgrade: Rebooting Babbage'€™s Analytical Engine (Wired UK)

wired.co.uk — John Graham-Cumming is rebooting Babbage'€™s Analytical Engine -- with its 1.7kB of memory. View in Crawl 4

A £400,000 PC downgrade: Rebooting Babbage'€™s Analytical Engine (Wired UK)
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