Identity

First, the answer to yesterday’s prequel. I asked people to point out what six named people have in common, and why one was distinctively the odd one out. The six were Bohr, Curie, Einstein, Fermi, Nobel and Rutherford. The common element was easy; I wanted more than “scientists”, what I was looking for was that...

I think I missed out last week’s question, my apologies. So here’s a simple teaser instead, while I work on the question for tomorrow. Name the odd one out as well as what they have in common. Niels Bohr. Pierre and Marie Curie. Albert Einstein. Enrico Fermi. Alfred Nobel. Ernest Rutherford. Getting the odd one...

Ah the last time we saw you/you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat, 1971     It was an itsy-bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini That she wore for the first time today Brian Hyland, Itsy-Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,...

According to the International Telecommunications Union, and as referred to in Wikipedia, this was the state of the Global Digital Divide in 2010. Digital divides come in many forms: between continents, between countries, within countries; between age groups, between genders, between professions. There are even digital divides between companies and customers, particularly if the company’s...

Life is getting more and more delicious every day. Today I learnt, via my Facebook feed, that “Apple’s Siri thinks the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever” Okay, that got my attention. I read a little more, decided to look into some of the other posts, and found this:     So someone...

I’m in the midst of writing a number of books, on a plethora of subjects. Labours of love. I haven’t quite decided the order in which I shall complete them, or for that matter when I shall complete them. For some it may even be an if rather than a when. I’ve yet to decide...

I’ve been a fan of Facebook pretty much since its inception, as soon as they let dinosaurs like me in. Continued to be a fan as Facebook grew, count a number of people there amongst my friends. [And no, I do not own any stock there]. There’s lots about Facebook I like. When some people...

Turned out that the question I set was too easy. So here’s a bonus. From which cult film is this still taken?:

It’s not that easy any more, finding questions that can’t be Googled or Tineyed or Shazammed. Getting harder by the day. How can I be sure that a photograph hadn’t been indexed yet? Well, one way to be sure is to know the provenance of the object. Who took it. When and where. And where...

Sorry, I’d been travelling, and the question I’d wanted to set for this week proved unsettable (TinEye had an answer). I therefore had to wait till I was back at home and rested before composing the next question. And here it is: What are t...

Thought I would try something out for a while. Every Friday, I will post an unGoogleable question. When it’s an image, I will make sure it’s unTineye-able. If it’s music, I will make sure it’s unShazam-able. [And yes, I understand that something that's unGoogleable today becomes Googleable tomorrow. That's the nature of the internet and...

A few days ago, I was reading Chris Skinner’s then-latest post on the Financial Services Club’s blog, headlined Never Mind The Channels, Here’s the B&**&^ks. And agreeing, of course. We are connected not channelled, as I wrote in the Kernel For This Blog seven years ago. And yet, as Chris says, there are still many...