Cumberbatch presents the Apple toilet
Benedict Cumberbatch was on Saturday Night Live the other day (probably on Saturday) because he seems to be contractually obliged to be absolutely everywhere at the moment. To be fair, … Read More
Category: Blog
My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.
Tech support for non-computer people
As someone who has a professed love for tech, I am often asked by non-computer people to help fix stuff or get stuff to do other stuff.
Steve Cutts does a Moby music video
I had seen some Cutts illustrations before, such as the rats on the underground (see below) but hadn’t realised it was the same guy until I wrote this post and did some research. Great art and generally making a decent point.
Borrowed Time (Pixar animators)
Borrowed Time is an animation by two of Pixar’s animators: Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats. Don’t think light-hearted cheerful Pixar though, think of one of the darkest and saddest moments of a Pixar film
Planet Earth 2 by Attenborough
A trailer has just come out for Planet Earth II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The original Planet Earth came out ten years ago and was the most expensive documentary ever commissioned by the BBC and the first to be filmed in high definition. Planet Earth II took 4 years to make, and was filmed in 64 countries and in Ultra-High Definition.
Musk to Mars, and Beyond!
Recently, Elon Musk talked about going to Mars. He wants humanity to be a multi-planetary species, so that we should survive a disaster. (Hopefully some other animals too – I want … Read More
Earth temperature timeline by xkcd
I saw this on the always awesome xkcd (www.xkcd.com) site. It is a timeline showing the average temperature of the Earth from 20,000BC to now. It is brilliantly done and … Read More
Mac King rope trick
I normally post about science. Or books. Or films. Damn it, I don’t really have a theme. So I might as well bring you magic as well. This is legendary … Read More
The reason Thor and Hulk weren’t in Civil War
The clip explains what Thor, and to a lesser extend Dr Banner (aka Hulk), have been up to and why they weren’t in Captain America Civil War. He has basically been chilling out in Australia trying to be normal.
Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on
I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.
The great monetisation of Ward!
I realised recently that a lot of people are making money out of the Internet and I am not one of them. Which sucks. I have been writing purely for pleasure, like an idiot. I live in Thailand and the place is crawling with ‘digital nomads’ and I want to join the smug bastards.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is a new documentary from Werner Herzog. Apart from having an awesome voice, Herzog generally makes a pretty decent documentary. I remember … Read More
Sherlock Series 4
So the big excitement that has prompted me to write this, is that there is a new Sherlock trailer. It doesn’t give much away about what will happen but it does show Toby Jones who is going to be a new villain.
Chris Hadfield: the making of Space Oddity video
This is a ‘behind the scenes’ on the making of Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity video. Everything about this is great.
Augmented Reality transforming medical education
Not to be left behind in sticking it to boring old reality, VR’s less popular friend Augmented Reality (AR) has been hitting the news more often of late and showing that it can do some pretty cool things too.
Robotic stingray made from rat cells
A scientist called Kevin Kit Parker went to an aquarium with his daughter and saw a stingray. Thinking, as I have often thought myself, ‘That’s pretty cool, we should have robots built from gold, silicone, and rat heart-cells that behave and act like that.’
Tribute to Voyager space program is damn inspiring
Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.
Welcome back Tim Peake
Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More
Free books!
You read that right. Free books. My three books, to be precise. I have decided to put them out to share with the interweb because I am feeling generous and … Read More
Charge your phone using the power of plants
Thanks to science, photosynthesis, soil, our lord the Sun and a clever group of people, you can now charge your phone using plant power.