Simon Willison’s Weblog

Crossdressing, Compression, and Colliders: ’The First Photo on the Web’. TIL the first photo shared on the web was of Les Horribles Cernettes, an all-female comedy musical group at CERN who performed songs about particle physics. And Sir Tim Berners-Lee first met them when he played the dame in the CERN panto.

# 22nd October 2017, 2:05 am / cern, tim-berners-lee

YouTube: Large Hadron Rap. The first time I saw this I thought it was incredibly dorky. By the third watch I realised I was actually learning things.

# 2nd August 2008, 11:58 pm / large-hadron-collider, rap, funny, physics, cern

Large Hadron Collider nearly ready—The Big Picture. Stunningly beautiful set of photographs of the LHC. I love Big Science.

# 1st August 2008, 7:46 pm / thebigpicture, bigscience, lhc, cern, photos

LHCountdown.com. 30 days until they turn on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

# 7th June 2008, 2:49 pm / particlephysics, physics, lhc, large-hadron-collider, cern

The Athena Framework. CERN’s ATLAS particle accelerator experiment is scriptable with Python.

# 26th March 2007, 2:43 pm / python, particlephysics, cern, athena, atlas

Brian Cox at LIFT07. An accessible 20 minute explanation of particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider.

# 2nd March 2007, 11:39 am / cern, large-hadron-collider, brian-cox