I've created a webpage of basic SVG shapes and written some introductory tutorials (task 3) on the WHS xo wiki SVG page.
On the webpage, Chrome displays the stroke-array feature, which produces a dashed line, and a second conventional line, whereas Firefox does not. See my previous post for a brief discussion about SVG support
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Rogue AI Agent Scorned
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*I anticipated these developments earlier this year when I wrote a short
story entitled "The Peculiar Death of Mr. Garcia."*
*That the latest rogue AI age...
Jason Arday is dead
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This is the end of a sad story, and of a life. The BBC (click screenshot
below) announced that former Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday was
found ...
A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026
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A peaceful Wednesday night by the water.
By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of
major disruptions to my federal research f...
Digital Mind Suicide
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Greg Egan’s 1994 novel Permutation City depicts digital minds having a
right to suicide; if they push a particular internal button, they end.
Cherry-picking economic models
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from Lars Syll How would you react if a renowned physicist, say, Richard
Feynman, were telling you that sometimes force is proportional to
acceleration and...
Eclipse
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Yesterday we saw the sun set at the beach near Zandvoort. We were there
because of the 89% or so solar eclipse that peaked around eight in the
evening. Wel...
When Allies Become Assets
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The danger is no longer confined to Iran. Russia increasingly sees Ukraine
as the battlefield, NATO as the combatant and European weapons factories as
le...
Three Generations in E7
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It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons:
three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact
with...
The Odyssey and the Bronze Age Collapse
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How Hegsethian heroes destroyed themselves and their entire civilisation I
haven’t yet seen the Odyssey film[1], but reviews mention a minor obsession
of m...
Why we can’t have nice things
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Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a
depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet
nowadays. I was...
Enough with all the world-historic milestones
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Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware
of it. In particular: Anyway, about the AI stuff. I don’t know whether this
is l...
ECDO Theory Interactive Globe
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An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the
Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.
A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story
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Please indulge me in this promotion of my new book ‘A Pentridge memoir: a
political prisoner’s story’. A few readers might be interested and, as the
book i...
All Watched Over
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I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy
describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving
gra...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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