One of Eric Archer’s recent projects has been to capture the sound of light by converting discarded 8mm cameras into what he calls optical microphones.
Although human eyes are marvelous sensors, they don’t tell us the whole story. The effect called persistence of vision limits our ability to percieve rapidly changing light sources. Thus if a [...]

This is an amazing story on two levels.
First up, the BBC almost wantonly destroys 108 archived episodes of its classic science fiction production, Doctor Who, from the 1960s.
Why? Because they wanted to create storage space for copies of newer programmes, and obviously didn’t want to find larger facilities to store all their archived productions.
However [...]

Δ Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web?
So long as any audio files you incorporate in your website are not auto-players, and there is a way to switch the sound off, sure, why not.
It was probably one of the first things you did when you first started playing with HTML, but background music, [...]