Today I Learned

Skeptical Science, John Cook, via Wikimedia Commons Words are fun! Today, let’s ask whether the words “equivalence” and “equivalency” are...

One of my all-time favourite songs is Welcome to the Machine , by Pink Floyd. While the song appeared on the 1975 album Wish You Were...

It’s been more than two years since I last posted, so I’m trying to remember which buttons to press to make this happen. Life has a...

Who’d have thought that music could be political? Or that musicians might have political views? Let’s take the song Killing in the Name ...

Some films age well. An example is the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still , which was fairly successful when it was originally...

#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...

When I write, I sometimes have a topic in mind, and look for an interesting way to introduce it. This time, I ended up going down an...

Recently, I was listening to an old episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe , (actually, episode 803, dated 28-Nov-2020 ), in which...

I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton (...

Stevie Wonder is one of those truly great artists whose music permeates our culture. I had never actually listened to the album “Songs...

The film Highlander ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_(film )) was enormously popular when it came out, as were several of the...

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets ), there is a scene...

One of the key catch-phrases of the classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_t...

The phrase “full of sound sound and fury, signifying nothing” is part of one of the most famous soliloquies in the English language. It...

Risk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28game%29 ) is one of those games that seems to endure. It’s a simple game, which is probably...

I have been spending most of my (relatively) free time working on PHP ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/it-s-been-a-long-time ), and...

Pen test? That’s when you try to identify who’s who in this photo of the famous magicians Penn & Teller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

#TIL that Kali Linux ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux ) was not named after the Hindu goddess Kali. This was actually a great...

It’s nice to look back and be satisfied with a decision you made. Decision-making is part of our lives, from literal life-and-death...

Most “technology people”, whatever they do, seem to be the de facto technology support for everyone they know. In my own case, back in...