Two things have always stuck with me about Brave. First, Merida's hair. It's an absolute triumph of CGI. It involves 1,500 curls of hair and a huge amount of physics simulation work to get it to move correctly, and took three years to get right.
Of all the headlines I didn't expect to read in the last few weeks, "Former Google engineer plans to build AI god" is right up there. I expected it to be one of those articles where the headline promises a lot but the body doesn'
It probably won't surprise you to learn that if you work at a software company with a few hundred other geeks, you soon encounter Strong Opinions on things like smartphones. However, in my own team this mostly consists of a variety of complaints about the way various manufacturers
Doc Brown: not a fan of paradoxes (Image: Universal Pictures) Occasionally at work, someone will bring a stack of books or DVDs or games into the office and leave them in the kitchen, either with a sign reading "free to a good home", or a cup and a
I've come rather late to Warhammer 40,000. A good friend of mine, our youth worker at church, has been playing it for years, and after hinting for a while that I should really start playing, he convinced me that the impending release of the 8th edition was