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Worth Reading
Check out this Carl Hiaasen piece from today’s Miami Herald. Jon Stewart showed that clip on his show earlier this week, but I think we in the UK have missed it (aren’t torrents wonderful?). Rumsfield was so out of his depth in that arena it was a joke – and he appeared with the ridiculous…
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Massive File Sizes
I’ve got some kind of hosting problems at the moment – it seems that this page is being recorded as somewhere in the region of up to 100MB which kinda kills my hosting. I’m looking into the problem ASAP, but in the meantime, please bear with me, and I apologise in advance for any outtages.…
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Treasure Hunt
I’ve been spending waaaay too much time chasing down elusive prizes in the Ebay treasure hunt. Complicated to play, yet strangely compulsive… Been looking in forums and chat rooms.
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Randomness
There’s a lot more to randomness that you might realise. I actually did a course in it once, but I’ve mostly forgotten it all. This is a good primer (via Boing Boing). Incidentally, it seems that coin tossing isn’t fair.
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FA Cup Ground Switching
It seems that Yealding have decided that they should try to hold their FA Cup tie against Newcastle at their home ground after all. A couple of years ago there was the farcical situation where Farnborough decided that they’d prefer to play their tie against Arssenal at Highbury instead of at home. Of course they…
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Trawler
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Olympic Fox Hunting Chaos
The sordid small-minded Countryside Alliance feel that disrupting the visit of International Olympic Committee members to London is the way to go according to a report in The Observer. Personally, if a million people break the law on February 19, then they should be prosecuted and fined. Should give the rest of us a tax…
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Need For ID Cards Not Made
According to The Observer.
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The End of Live Free to Air Test Cricket?
Could Sky be getting the lot? Financially sound in the short term, it spells disaster in the long term for the game.
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Skiving
This works far better in print than on the web. I can, however, tell you from experience that it doesn’t translate too well to the radio…
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Bhopal
The BBC aired a disturbing drama-documentary this evening just before the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal tragedy. Aside from people still suffering terribly, and the whole area being unclean, there’s still a warrant out for the arrest of Warren Anderson (There is an extradition treaty). Union Carbide never accepted responsibility. Dow Chemical claim never to…
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Our Final Century
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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