Do you really love music? I mean, REALLY love music? I’m not asking you to tell me. It’s not a formal inquiry – I promise. I’m asking you to be honest – with you. You have your ear candy music – the stuff that makes you sing or dance or remember a moment at a […]
SO, I think we were all a little shocked and perhaps a little weirded out by the small video which cropped up on YouTube after the Oscars. When Benedict Cumberbatch revealed his party trick – his ridiculously bendy hands… Given how far back he can pull his fingers, I would hazard a guess that our […]
Expanding your Vocabulary with Benedict – Part 1 One great aspect of being a Benedict Cumberbatch fan is that he’s always (inadvertently) inspiring us to improve and expand our vocabulary. Reading interviews every so often sends me scuttling to a dictionary to look up yet another word I’d never heard before. When he used “obfuscate” […]
ENIGMA Chapter 1 – Historical Background ENIGMA Chapter 2 – The Invention of the Enigma Machine The Enigma machine is a polyalphabetic substitution cipher machine. This post will provide a little background information on the differences between monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitution ciphers and on the specific characteristics of cipher alphabets created by an Enigma machine. […]
During his stay at OZ Comic Con in Adelaide, Australia, Benedict Cumberbatch stated quite clearly how important it is to believe in education and which impacts education can have on a society. But what influences had education on the 37-year-old, who is often admired for his intellect, himself? The London born actor started boarding at […]
A quick check of interviews with Benedict in which he’s asked to “list favorites” almost always includes his admission that the list would change if he’s asked again the next day – and that lists are, well, a bit challenging for him. In fact, in true Cumberbatch fashion, he admitted as much to the […]
Over the weekend at Oz Comic-Con in Adelaide, Australia, actor (and book aficionado) Benedict Cumberbatch was quoted as saying that “prisoners should be given books,” encouraging the audience to “send books to prisoners.” While Americans (like me) may have first thought their favourite TV detective was just being considerate of those serving time […]
Sometimes you come across something so deliciously random, you just have to share it. In 2010 Benedict Cumberbatch reviewed several books for the Richard & Judy show. This conveniently took place in the grounds of a gorgeous Greek hotel in Mykonos and, luckily for us, was captured on camera. Exhibit A, Benedict’s review of the […]
Ok, Ready? Visualise it. Slight choir noise, clouds part, blue sky, writing appears… You guessed it! The Simpsons! The story of Benedict basically squeezing himself into an episode is a brilliant one, nicely summed up in this quote from an interview with executive producer Al Jean: “Oh my God yes, he’s really funny. He came […]
Chapter 1 – Historical Background Chapter 3 – The Substitution Cipher Introduction The breaking of the Enigma coding system was not a one-time event. The Polish Cipher Bureau (which first decoded Enigma messages in late 1932/early 1933), Bletchley Park in England, and codebreakers in other countries had to deal with different versions of the Enigma […]
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