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 / cern, funny, largehadroncollider, physics, rap

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 / bigscience, cern, lhc, photos, thebigpicture

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

# 7th June 2008, 2:49 pm / cern, largehadroncollider, lhc, particlephysics, physics

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

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

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

# 2nd March 2007, 11:39 am / brian-cox, cern, largehadroncollider